Roger Ramjet is an American animated comedy series, first aired in 1965. The main characters of the series are Roger Ramjet and his Squadron of American Eagles. The series is characterized by limited, often conditional animation , a torn rhythm of narration (with frequent and unmotivated change of plans) and numerous references to the phenomena of pop culture, which allowed it to gain popularity in different age groups.
Content
Story and characters
Roger Ramjet is an “internationally renowned good guy,” an ultra-patriotic and highly moral (albeit not too smart) superhero struggling to make this world a better place. Members of his Squadron of American Eagles (who are mostly his own children) and the Proton Pills invented by him help him in the fight. The pill gives Roger “the power of twenty atomic bombs for a period of twenty seconds,” and this, as a rule, is enough to deal with the villains.
The pilots of the American Eagles Squadron are Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee (pun, Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee - all together make up the Yankee Doodle Dandy ). Despite the fact that they are all children, each of them has his own jet plane (with the exception of Dee, the youngest), which allows them to take a direct part in the struggle of Roger Ramjet to save the world.
The villains in the series are:
- Crazy Scientist Dr. Ivan Zlodelyuk
- Gangster Noodles Romanoff, "the most inveterate of the villains"
- Red Dog, "The Filthiest, Dastest, Unprincipled and Disgusting Pirate in the World"
- Solenoid robots speaking in "inaudible" electronic voices
- and etc.
Music Theme
The main musical theme of the series is the Yankee Doodle melody performed on the organ, on which poems of the following content are put (performed by children's voices):
Option 1
- Roger Ramjet and his Eagles
- Fighting for our freedom
- Fly through in and outer space
- Not to join 'em, but to beat' em
- Fighting for our freedom
Free translation: Roger Ramjet and his Eagles fight for our freedom, they fly here and there and defeat anyone!
Option 2
- When Ramjet takes a Proton Pill
- The crooks begin to worry
- They can't escape their awful fate
- From Proton's mighty fury
- The crooks begin to worry
Free translation: When Ramjet swallows the Proton Pill, the villains get nervous! They can’t get away from their fate, they can’t get away from the Proton power!
Option 3
- So come and join us all you kids
- For lots of fun and laughter
- As roger ramjet and his men
- Get all the crooks they're after
- For lots of fun and laughter
Free translation: Join us, kids, if you want to laugh and have fun! Roger Ramget and his team will defeat all the villains!
Chorus
- Roger Ramjet, he's our man
- Hero of our nation
- For his adventures just be sure
- And stay tuned to this station
- Hero of our nation
Free translation: Roger Ramjet, our dude, the hero of our nation! Follow his adventures and do not switch!
List of episodes
- Dr. Evilkisser
- The sheik
- Bat guy
- The shaft
- Kokomo
- Baseball
- The cowboy
- Dee kidnap
- Drafted
- Tv crisis
- Miss america
- The pirates
- Revolution
- Torture
- The race
- Jack the nipper
- Ma ramjet
- The cockroaches
- Moon
- Hi noon
- Bank robbers
- Sun clouds
- Football
- Bullfighter
- Bathysphere
- Skydiving
- Monkey
- Dr. Frank N. Schwein
- The martins and the coys
- Planets
- Orbit
- Tennis
- Werewolf
- Flying saucers
- Skateboards
- Scotland yard
- Long joan silver
- Moonshot
- Treasure in sierra's mattress
- Tarzap
- Comics
- Jet boots
- Little roger
- Cycles
- Air devil
- Spy in the sky
- Hollywood
- Track meet
- Surf nuts
- Dry dock
- Machines
- Coffee
- Stolen
- Assassins
- Genie
- Airplane
- Woodsman
- KO at the Fun Fight Corral
- Mars
- Puck
- Pirate gold
- Fox
- Super mother
- Dr. What
- Party
- Large leslie
- Gamey
- Time machine
- Horse
- Pool
- Ancestors
- Hoop-dee-doo
- Big woof
- Robot plants
- Robot plot
- Turkey
- Fishing
- Purloined pinky
- Snow
- Ripley
- Monster masquerade
- Lompoc diamond
- School
- Vaudeville
- Coffee house
- Pirate games
- Horse race
- Missing
- Dentist
- Rip van ramjet
- Desert ox
- Ad game
- Lotsa pizza
- Land rush
- Show business
- The catnapper
- Opera phantom
- Pies
- Small world
- Cousin
- Doodle League
- Ark
- Sauce
- Whale
- For the birds
- Abominable snowman
- Hero training
- Lompoc cannonball
- Safari
- Tiger
- Rodeo
- Dumb waiter
- Blast off
- Twas the night before
- Portrait of roger
- Prince and the Doodle
- Water sucker
- Volcano
- Limberlost
- General kidnap
- Drought
- How's your pass?
- Rabbit man
- Pill caper
- Three faces of roger
- Private eye
- Espionage express
- Winfield of the infield
- Branch office
- Wedding bells
- Bunny
- Hynochick
- Doctor
- Jolly rancher
- Little monster
- Flying town
- Daring young man
- Crown jewels
- April fool
- Dry sea
- Pay cut
- Killer doodle
- Polar bear
- Ruggers
- Nut
- The law
- Hassenfeffer
- Manhole
- Blockbuster
- Sellout
- Scout outing
- Love
- Decorator
- Lompoc lizards
- Blunderosa
- General doodle
Broadcasts
Roger Ramget first appeared on the screen in 1965. Then he appeared on the following channels:
- NBC from 1978 to 1986
- Nickelodeon from 1988 to 1994
- Cartoon Network from 1994 to 1997.
- BBC from 1979 to 1994
- Sky Channel from 1985 to 1989
- ABC in 1966, and since then it has been periodically launched into rotation.
- selected episodes are broadcast on Crackle
Authors
- Director: Fred Crippen
- Script: Gene Moss, Jim Thurman
- Multipliers: Don Schloat, Alan Zaslove, Bill Hutton, George Nicholas, Fred Crippen
- Background Artist: Jack Heiter
- Fill Artist: Constance Crawley
- Operators: Roger Brown, Jerry Smith, Larry Hogan
- Editor: Dee Futch
- Executive Producer: Kenneth CT Snyder
DVD Release
On February 8, 2007, a 3-disc edition of Roger Ramjet: Hero Of Our Nation (Special Collector's Edition) was released , which included 119 of the released 156 episodes.
Another edition includes 2 discs on which 30 episodes are presented that were not included in the 2007 edition: Roger Ramjet: Hero Of Our Nation and Roger Ramjet: Man Of Adventure (both appeared on the Russian market under the names "Roger Ramjet - Hero of the Nation" and “Roger Ramjet in Search of Adventure” ). However, seven episodes are still not released on DVD (information for November 2007): Scotland Yard , Bunny , Jolly Rancher , Air Devil , Dry Dock , Machines , and Stolen .
Links
- Roger Ramjet on the Internet Movie Database
- RogerRamjet.com - The Official Site of Roger Ramjet
- Roger Ramjet Intro YouTube