TV series / 1983

Saturday Supercade

AnimationFamilyComedyKids

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

Saturday Supercade is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons on CBS beginning in 1983. Each episode is composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the Golden age of video arcade games.

The story

The seasons

Season 1 Donkey Kong 1983 · 19 episodes Season details

Sept. 17, 1983

Donkey Kong has escaped from the circus. He is on the loose and Mario and Pauline are chasing the ape.

Season 2 Donkey Kong Junior 1984 · 13 episodes Season details

Sept. 8, 1984

Donkey Kong Jr. is searching for his father Donkey Kong, who has run away from a circus where Mario is its ringmaster.

Season 3 Frogger 13 episodes Season details

Frogger is an ace reporter at The Swamp Gazette. He and his friends Shelly and Fanny go out in search of crazy stories to publish in the newspaper.

Season 4 Pitfall! 7 episodes Season details

Pitfall Harry, his niece Rhonda, and their cowardly pet Quickclaw the Mountain Lion explore jungles for hidden treasures, having many different adventures along the way.

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Season 5 Q*bert 19 episodes Season details

A teenage fur-covered creature named Q*bert, his girlfriend Q*Tee, his brother Q*Bit, and his friends Q*Ball, Q*Val, and Q*Mongus must deal with the resident bullies Coily, Ugg and Wrongway, and Coily's girlfriend Viper.

Season 6 Kangaroo 13 episodes Season details

Joey Kangaroo, his mother "K.O." Katy Kangaroo, and Sidney Squirrel must stop the Monkeybiz Gang, four meddlesome monkeys who are known from making trouble at the local zoo run by Mr. Friendly.

Season 7 Space Ace 13 episodes Season details

Space Ace is the always smiling self-confident champion of the "Space Command", whereas when always "wimping out" to Dexter after being hit by the Infanto-Ray, he becomes clumsy and weak. With officer Kimberly, he works for Space Marshall Vaughn to keep the peace in the universe.