1999 in animation

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Events in 1999 in animation.

Events

January

• January 21: Anime producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki is sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for a drug possession case of two years ago. [1]
• January 22: In Sweden the first episode of De tre vännerna och Jerry (The Three Friends and Jerry) premiers.
• January 29: The Japanese animation studio TNK is founded.
• January 31: The first episode of Family Guy airs. [2]

February

• February 1: Anime producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki is arrested after a handgun, 131 bullets and 20 grams of stimulant drugs were seized from his house in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. Nishizaki, voluntarily submitted two automatic rifles, 1,800 bullets, and 30 howitzer shells kept in a station wagon in his garage, police said. Police say that Nishizaki had hidden an Austrian handgun loaded with three bullets under a zaisu chair in a study. Nishizaki told them that he had bought the handgun in Hong Kong 10 years earlier.[3][4][5]
• February 14: In The Simpsons episode I'm with Cupid Elton John is special guest voice. [6]

March

• March 26: 71st Academy Awards:
  • Bunny by Chris Wedge wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [7]
  • When You Believe by Stephen Schwartz from The Prince of Egypt wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song. [7]
• March 28: The first episode of Futurama airs. It marks the debut of characters Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Leela and Bender. [8]

April

• April 4: The Simpsons episode Simpsons Bible Stories debuts. [9]
• April 30: The Walt Disney Company releases Fantasia 2000, a sequel to the 1940 classic Fantasia. [10][11]
• Specific date unknown: The first Animation Masters Summit is organized in India. [12][13]

May

• May 1: The first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants airs. [14]
• May 9: In The Simpsons episode They Saved Lisa's Brain Stephen Hawking is special guest voice. [15]
• May 16: In The Simpsons episode Thirty Minutes over Tokyo the family travels to Japan. [16]
• May 22: Aleksandr Petrov's The Old Man and the Sea premiers.
• May: Gene Fowler founds animation studio Fatkat, which will last until May 2009. [17]

June

• June 30: A film adaptation of South Park, named South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut premiers. [18]

July

• July 28: André Franquin's heirs and copyright holders win the trial against the Walt Disney Animation Studios over their animated TV series version of Franquin's comics character Marsupilami, citing breaches of its license contract: Disney had failed to produce thirteen half-hour episodes (instead producing six to eight minute shorts) or use its "best efforts" to secure a commitment from a network to air the show, and it launched its marketing campaign during a time when the show was not being broadcast. Marsu also accused Disney of fraudulent concealment; the judge noted that Disney had decided to not devote sufficient resources to the Marsupilami project, and had concealed this fact from Marsu.[19] [20] Disney pays back the damage and hands the rights to the series back to Franquin's company Marsu Productions.

August

• August 6: The Iron Giant premiers, but doesn't do well at the box office, contributing to the decline of hand drawn animated films, in favor of fully CGI animation. It will only become a cult classic later. [21]

September

• September 24: John Kricfalusi's Boo Boo Runs Wild, an extreme parody of Yogi Bear, first airs. [22]
• September 26: In The Simpsons episode Beyond Blunderdome Mel Gibson is special guest voice. [23]

November

• November 13: Toy Story 2 premiers. [24]
• November 16: Duck Amuck is added to the National Film Registry. [25][26]

Specific date unknown

• Atomic Cartoons is founded.
• Augenblick Studios is founded.
• Cartoon Saloon is founded.
• JibJab is founded.
• Mark Baker releases Jolly Roger. [27]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1999

Television series debuts

Main article: List of animated television series of 1999

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 4	Ed, Edd n Eddy	Cartoon Network	1999–2009
January 5	Mega Babies	Fox Family	1999–2000
January 10	Batman Beyond	Kids' WB	1999–2001
	The PJs	Fox
January 17	The Brothers Flub	Nickelodeon	1999–2000
January 25	Zoboomafoo	PBS	1999–2001
	Dilbert	UPN	1999–2000
January 31	Family Guy	Fox	1999–present
February 1	A Little Curious	HBO	1999–2000
	Anthony Ant		1999
February 11	Maisy	Nickelodeon	1999–2000
March 8	Station Zero	MTV	1999
March 28	Futurama	Fox, Comedy Central	1999–2013
April 1	George and Martha	HBO	1999–2000
April 26	Home Movies	UPN	1999–2004
May 1	Mickey Mouse Works	ABC	1999–2000
	SpongeBob SquarePants	Nickelodeon	1999–present
May 8	The New Woody Woodpecker Show	Fox Kids	1999–2002
August 3	Downtown	MTV	1999
August 14	Digimon: Digital Monsters	Fox Kids	1999–2001
August 16	Rocket Power	Nickelodeon	1999–2004
September 6	Dragon Tales	PBS	1999–2005
	Sabrina: The Animated Series	ABC, UPN	1999–2000
September 11	Detention	Kids' WB
September 18	Beast Machines: Transformers	Fox Kids	1999–2000
	Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot		1999–2001
	Monster Rancher
	Rescue Heroes	CBS	1999–2000
September 24	Mission Hill	The WB	1999–2002
September 25	Xyber 9: New Dawn	Fox Kids, Jetix	1999–2007
October 2	Archie's Weird Mysteries	PAX	1999–2000
	Spider-Man Unlimited	Fox Kids	1999–2001
October 9	Angela Anaconda	Fox Family
October 16	The Amanda Show	Nickelodeon	1999–2002
October 30	The Avengers: United They Stand	Fox Kids	1999–2000
November 12	Mike, Lu & Og	Cartoon Network	1999–2001
	Courage the Cowardly Dog		1999–2002
November 28	Little Bill	Nick Jr.	1999–2004

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
January 2	Birdz	CBS	1998–99	Cancelled
	Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?	Fox Kids	1994–99	Ended
January 16	The New Batman Adventures	Kids' WB	1997–99	Cancelled
January 18	Toonsylvania	Fox Kids	1998–99
January 20	Brats of the Lost Nebula	Kids' WB
February 21	The Little Lulu Show	HBO	1995–99	Ended
February 27	Mad Jack the Pirate	Fox Kids	1998–99	Cancelled
	The Mr. Potato Head Show
March 1	Hercules	ABC
March 7	Beast Wars: Transformers	Fox Kids	1996–99
March 11	Jumanji	UPN
April 6	Station Zero	MTV	1999
April 10	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Kids' WB	1998–99
April 11	Anthony Ant	HBO	1999
May 28	Todd McFarlane's Spawn		1997–99
June 26	Doug	Nickelodeon, ABC	1991–99	Ended
July 24	Cow and Chicken	Cartoon Network	1997–99	Cancelled
September 24	Timon & Pumbaa	CBS, Toon Disney	1995–99	Ended
November 8	Downtown	MTV	1999	Cancelled
December 4	Tales from the Cryptkeeper	ABC	1993–99	Ended

Deaths

January

• January 11: John McGrew, American animator, painter and musician (Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 88 or 89. [28]
• January 12: Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (narrator in Cinderella, voice of Cruella de Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), dies at age 84. [29]

March

• March 2: Hawley Pratt, American film director, lay-out artist illustrator and animator (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises), dies at age 87. [30]
• March 8: Martha Wentworth, American actress (voice of Mama Katzenjammer in The Captain and the Kids, Nanny, and the puppies Queenie and Lucy in 101 Dalmatians, Lady Squirrel and Madam Mim in The Sword in the Stone), dies at age 84. [31]

April

• April 1: Tadahito Mochinaga, Japanese animator and animation director (worked for the Manchukuo Film Association and Rankin/Bass), dies at age 80. [32]
• April 3:
  • Evelyn Lambart, Canadian animator and animated film director (co-directed Begone Dull Care and A Chairy Tale), dies at age 84. [33][34]
  • Kay Wright, American animator, TV producer and comics artist (Walt Disney Company, Cambria Productions, Filmation, Hanna-Barbera), passes away at age 79. [35]
• April 10:
  • Cliff Roberts, American photographer, cartoonist, animator and comics artist (Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng), dies at age 69. [36]
  • Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (voice of Wilma Flintstone and Pebbles Flintstone in The Flintstones, Rosie the Robot Maid in The Jetsons, Goldie, Lola Glamour, Nurse LaRue in Top Cat, Winsome Witch in The Secret Squirrel Show, Ogee in Magilla Gorilla), dies at age 79 from a lung cancer. [37]
• April 14: Vic Herman, American illustrator, designer, cartoonist, puppeteer, TV producer and comics artist (designed the title cards for the Merrie Melodies cartoons), dies at age 79. [38]
• April 16: Charles McKimson aka Chuck McKimson, American animator and comics artist (Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 84. [39]

May

• May 19: Candy Candido, American singer , musician and actor (voice of the Native American chief in Peter Pan, Awful Dynn in The Phantom Tollbooth, crocodile captain in Robin Hood, Mafia messenger in Heavy Traffic, Sal in Hey Good Lookin', Fidget the bat in The Great Mouse Detective), dies at age 85. [40]

June

• June 9: Amby Paliwoda, American animator (Walt Disney Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 89. [41]
• June 13: Douglas Seale, British actor, film producer and director (voice of Krebbs the koala in The Rescuers Down Under, the Sultan in Aladdin), dies at age 85. [42]

August

• August 9: Lou Lilly, American animator, animated film director (Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 90. [43]
• August 14: David W. Allen, American stop-motion animator (When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Laserblast, The Howling, Twilight Zone: The Movie , Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Puppet Master), dies at age 54. [44]
• August 20: Margaret Wright, American actress (voice of Casey Junior the train in Dumbo), dies of heart failure at age 82. [45]

September

• September 22: George C. Scott, American actor (voice of Smoke the villain in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and Percival McLeach in The Rescuers Down Under), dies at age 71. [46]

October

• October 18: Dallas Bower, British animated film and TV director and producer (Alice in Wonderland), passes away at age 92. [47][48]
• October 29: Greg, Belgian comics artist, writer and screenplay writer (wrote the script for the animated feature films Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks), dies at age 68. [49]

November

• November 11: Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (voice of Liane Cartman, Sheila Broflovski, Shelly Marsh, Sharon Marsh, Mrs. McCormick and Wendy Testaburger in South Park, the Bimbettes in Beauty and the Beast, Quasimodo's mother on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Banshee in Extreme Ghostbusters), commits suicide at age 38. [50][51]

December

• December 10: Al Stahl, American animator and comics artist (Terrytoons, Fleischer Brothers, Stahl's Animated Productions), dies at age 83. [52]
• December 31: Arthur Humberstone, British animator and film director (Halas & Batchelor, worked on Animal Farm, Yellow Submarine, Watership Down, The Plague Dogs and The BFG), dies at age 87.

Specific date unknown

• Reg Hill, British model-maker, animator, director and producer (worked for Gerry Anderson), dies at age 85. [53]

See also

• 1999 in anime

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