TaleSpin season 1 The Idol Rich - Metacritic

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TaleSpin

Summary In this next related spin-off to The Jungle Book. Baloo the Bear stars in an adventurous comedy of love, fights, situations and exciting adventures with his life along with a new friend named Kit Cloudkicker. The two spend so much time with each other, Kit always calls Baloo his papa bear because he loves him as his father. With that you...

Directed By: Jamie Mitchell

Written By: Carter Crocker, Libby Hinson, Bruce Talkington

TV-Y
Syndicated
Sep 20, 1990
22 m

TV-Y
Syndicated
Sep 20, 1990
22 m

S1 • Episode 9

The Idol Rich

Air Date: Sep 20, 1990

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Summary In this next related spin-off to The Jungle Book. Baloo the Bear stars in an adventurous comedy of love, fights, situations and exciting adventures with his life along with a new friend named Kit Cloudkicker. The two spend so much time with each other, Kit always calls Baloo his papa bear because he loves him as his father. With that you...

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Episode 0 • Sep 7, 1990 • 1 h 31 m

Plunder & Lightning

A young orphan cub with a valuable jewel hooks up with an daring bush pilot against Air Pirates determined to recover it.

Episode 1 • Sep 10, 1990 • 23 m

From Here to Machinery

It's bear vs machine when baloo enters a race against a robot pilot to prove that a good old fashioned pilot is better than a machine. The catch is, if he fails all of the pilots in Cape susette will be out of work.

Episode 2 • Sep 11, 1990 • 22 m

It Came from Beneath the Sea Duck

Kit is anxious to tackle his first baby-sitting job, and he promises Rebecca that her daughter Molly is safe with him. However, the little girl turns out to be a handful!

Episode 3 • Sep 12, 1990 • 22 m

Time Waits for No Bear

Baloo loses a client's cargo, incurring both Rebecca's charge that he can't follow instructions and a sightseeing tour to be run in strictest accordance to a schedule.

Episode 4 • Sep 13, 1990 • 22 m

Mommy for a Day

Rebecca's broken promises of time together have left Molly disillusioned and alienated. When Molly finds a homesick pet, she tries to be a surrogate mother for the little creature.

Episode 5 • Sep 14, 1990 • 22 m

I Only Have Ice for You

Rebecca takes over flying the Sea Duck after Baloo's license is temporarily suspended while trying to evade air pirates. The move causes havoc as Higher for Hire attempts to deliver a block of ice to a wealthy desert prince.

Episode 6 • Sep 17, 1990 • 22 m

Covington pretends to romance Rebecca to obtain a doll which Molly makes difficult to get his hands on.

Episode 7 • Sep 18, 1990 • 22 m

Polly Wants a Treasure

Episode 8 • Sep 19, 1990 • 22 m

Episode 9 • Sep 20, 1990 • 22 m

Baloo and kit search for a lost idol. Which surprisingly enough they actually find but it gets stolen by the evil little colonel Spigot. Can Baloo get it back by using the advice he gave Kit about using your brain instead of your brawn?

Episode 10 • Sep 21, 1990 • 22 m

When Baloo and Kit have a falling out over the riskiness of some of Kit's cloudsurfing stunts, Kit falls under the spell of Daring Dan and runs off to join Dan's air show.

Episode 11 • Sep 18, 1990 • 22 m

Mistaken told that he is dying, Baloo decides to take a suicidally daring expedition into the Bermuda Trapezoid.

Episode 12 • Sep 19, 1990 • 22 m

Her Chance to Dream

When Baloo and Louie race into Higher for Hire with a frantic story of a ghost at Louie's, Rebecca doesn't believe it-just another excuse.

Episode 13 • Sep 26, 1990 • 22 m

All's Whale That Ends Whale

Kit and Baloo find a whale and turn it in for the reward. Later they find out the poor conditions the whale is forced to be in and decide to set him free.

Episode 14 • Sep 27, 1990 • 22 m

The Golden Sprocket of Friendship

Baloo has a new get-rich-quick scheme: sell hot dogs at the Cape Suzette Friendship Festival, but Rebecca has another job for him: moving a piano to a house at the top of a hill.

Episode 15 • Sep 28, 1990 • 22 m

For a Fuel Dollars More

Rebecca decides to open a gas station in the air. Louie loses his customers to them and opens his own and they compete for customers.

Episode 16 • Oct 1, 1990 • 22 m

A Bad Reflection on You: Part 1

Episode 17 • Oct 2, 1990 • 22 m

A Bad Reflection on You: Part 2

Episode 18 • Sep 27, 1990 • 22 m

On a Wing and a Bear

Baloo lets his pilot's license expire but is certain he'll have no problem renewing it. Throgmorton manages to fluster Baloo again, and our easy-going bear fails his pilot's test!

Episode 19 • Oct 4, 1990 • 22 m

Baloo is hired to do a plane stunt for a movie. He becomes star struck and doesn't listen to Rebecca who is trying to save him from having an accident.

Episode 20 • Oct 5, 1990 • 22 m

A Touch of Glass

Episode 21 • Oct 8, 1990 • 22 m

The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink

Rebecca's latest money making idea is to hunt for truffles using a pig.

Episode 22 • Oct 3, 1990 • 22 m

A Spy in the Ointment

After Baloo is bawled out by Rebecca for being too trusting, Rebecca turns around and is instantly trusting a complete stranger of her own, Jack Case, a man who claims he's a spy.

Episode 23 • Oct 15, 1990 • 22 m

The Balooest of the Blue Bloods

Baloo inherits a cursed castle.

Episode 24 • Oct 5, 1990 • 22 m

A Baloo Switcheroo

Professor O'Bowens gives Baloo and Kit the idol of the Spirit Switcher with instructions to never look at it during a thunderstorm. They do just that and end up switching bodies!

Episode 25 • Oct 17, 1990 • 22 m

Whistlestop Jackson, Legend

Baloo's childhood hero comes to work for hire for hire, but is he all he was cracked up to be?

Episode 26 • Oct 9, 1990 • 22 m

Double or Nothing

Episode 27 • Oct 30, 1990 • 22 m

Frustrated with the beating his reputation is taking because he works for a woman, Baloo makes an effort to free himself and the Sea Duck by winning a famous local air race.

Episode 28 • Oct 16, 1990 • 22 m

In search of glory Baloo searches for the city beyond the last horizon. After finding it he unknowingly puts cape Suzette in grave danger.

Episode 29 • Nov 5, 1990 • 22 m

Flight of the Snow Duck

Wildcat babysits Molly, and the two find out they have a lot in common - particularly their active imaginations. After Wildcat reads Molly a story, "Flight of the Snow Duck," Molly wants to see snow.

Episode 30 • Nov 7, 1990 • 22 m

Baloo saves Kahn's life and in turn Kahn promises Baloo anything he wants. Trouble soon follows when Baloo lets his greed get the better of him!

Episode 31 • Oct 30, 1990 • 22 m

The Old Man and the Sea Duck

When Baloo loses his memory of his piloting skills, only a mysterious old flight instructor can restore them.

Episode 32 • Nov 1, 1990 • 22 m

War of the Weirds

Rebecca lines up delivery jobs galore for Baloo, but the "overworked" bear has his heart set on two weeks' vacation.

Episode 33 • Nov 15, 1990 • 22 m

Captains Outrageous

Kit's friend, the nerdish Oscar Van Der Snoot, is rejected for membership into the Jungle Aces Secret Midnight Club because he hasn't had an adventure.

Episode 34 • Nov 19, 1990 • 22 m

Plunder and Lightning: Part 1

When orphan Kit Cloudkicker steals a gem-like treasure from Don Karnage & his Air Pirates, he is chased to Louie's Island where he meets Baloo the Bear, a carefree cargo pilot.

Episode 35 • Nov 20, 1990 • 23 m

Plunder and Lightning: Part 2

Baloo misses the deadline to pay off his mortgage, so a perky young businesswoman named Rebecca Cunningham buys the tiny cargo company.

Episode 36 • Nov 21, 1990 • 22 m

Plunder and Lightning: Part 3

Kit & Baloo decide to rescue Rebecca & Molly from the Air Pirates. But while sneaking into the lair, they discover Don Karnage's plan to use the gem for a "lightning gun."

Episode 37 • Nov 22, 1990 • 22 m

Plunder and Lightning: Part 4

Still smarting from Kit's presumed betrayal, Baloo quits his job and flies away. Meanwhile, Don Karnage attacks Cape Suzette with his lightning gun, destroying all their defenses.

Episode 38 • Nov 23, 1990 • 22 m

The Time Bandit

Baloo wants to go to a big party at Louie's on Friday, but he can't afford it because he's broke and payday isn't until Saturday. Solution: convince Rebecca Friday is really Saturday.

Episode 39 • Nov 27, 1990 • 22 m

For Whom the Bell Klangs: Part 1

Vacationing Baloo and Louie swear off women and crazy treasure hunts. Then they meet Katie the archeologist in distress. They help protect her from villains as she searches for a buried lost city.

Episode 40 • Nov 28, 1990 • 22 m

For Whom the Bell Klangs: Part 2

After swearing off women and treasure hunting, Baloo and Louie are instantly caught up with Katie Dodd, archaeologist, and her hunt for the Lost City Of Khine.

Episode 41 • Dec 3, 1990 • 22 m

Caught in a speed trap over a small isolated mining town, the Sea Duck is confiscated and Baloo, Kit and Wildcat are put to work mining the rare and highly explosive mineral Yurgonium.

Episode 42 • Dec 4, 1990 • 22 m

Gruel and Unusual Punishment

In order to squeeze into his tuxedo so he can escort Rebecca to the Pilot's Ball, Baloo has to shed a few pounds. He decides to visit a famous fat farm, the Elizabeth Tapir Center.

Episode 43 • Dec 20, 1990 • 22 m

A Jolly Molly Christmas

To convince a disbelieving Molly there really is a Santa Claus, Baloo flies her to the 'North Pole' to deliver her letter to 'Santa' in person.

Episode 44 • Jan 7, 1991 • 22 m

When Rebecca can't get a date for the Cape Suzette Businessmen's Ball she is forced to take Baloo. But Baloo screws up at the ritzy party, causing Rebecca great embarrassment.

Episode 45 • Jan 9, 1991 • 22 m

Waiders of the Wost Tweasure

While delivering paper weights for princess Grace, Baloo runs into an old pilot rival plain Jane. Then it becomes a race to see who can retrieve the ruby wings first.

Episode 46 • Jan 10, 1991 • 22 m

Flight School Confidential

Kit is reprimanded by Baloo for being "too young to fly," but a Thembrian pilot informs Kit that Thembria has just lowered their flying age to 12.

Episode 47 • Jan 17, 1991 • 22 m

Bringing Down Babyface

It's misunderstandings and mix ups galore when Becky gets Baloo to transport dangerous criminal baby face from prison.

Episode 48 • Jan 21, 1991 • 22 m

Jumping the Guns

When Karnage spots Baloo flying onto the Cliff Gun Embankments to deliver sandwiches for Louie's catering business, Karnage's pirates steal the Sea Duck and use it to infiltrate.

Episode 49 • Jan 30, 1991 • 21 m

In Search of Ancient Blunders

Baloo and Wildcat come to the aid of a client, an Aridian archeologist, after she is attacked by Don Karnage. They help find her a pyramid, mysteriously buried in the ground.

Episode 50 • Jan 31, 1991 • 22 m

Louie's Last Stand

To please Shere Khan, junior executive Douglas Benson decides to take over Louie's profitable island - by force if necessary.

Episode 51 • Feb 4, 1991 • 22 m

When Baloo doesn't get invited to his grade school reunion, he heads back to school to get his diploma.

Episode 52 • Feb 5, 1991 • 22 m

Pizza Pie in the Sky

Baloo and Louie go into the pizza delivery business in hopes of making big bucks!

Episode 53 • Feb 6, 1991 • 22 m

When Baloo's friend Buzz, an inventor at Khan Industries, overhears someone plotting to steal his invention, he seizes the invention for safe keeping until he can warn his boss.

Episode 54 • Feb 7, 1991 • 22 m

Bullethead Baloo

Kit's peers at the Jungle Aces Clubhouse are enthralled with "Bullethead" - a futuristic, Commando Cody-like comic book hero.

Episode 55 • Feb 8, 1991 • 22 m

Destiny Rides Again

A fortune-teller tells Baloo he must fulfill his "destiny" to find and destroy the powerful "Idol of Doom" before arch-villain, El Gato.

Episode 56 • Feb 11, 1991 • 22 m

Mach One for the Gipper

Baloo's faces old flying rival the blowhard boaster Ace London. Ace London dupes Baloo at every turn but who when the two's cargo gets mixed up Baloo the fur flies.

Episode 57 • Feb 12, 1991 • 22 m

During a brawl in the Sea Duck's cargo hold, Baloo and Don Karnage are splashed by a vat of super glue - and much to their disgust, find themselves stuck together.

Episode 58 • Feb 13, 1991 • 22 m

The Sound and the Furry

Wildcat finds a glass tank filled with cute, furry little beasts and takes them in as his pets.

Episode 59 • Feb 20, 1991 • 22 m

Ransom of the Red Chimp

All hell breaks loose at Louie's when his aunt, Louise L'Amour comes to visit. Baloo and the gang just adore her, but Louie is driven to the brink as Aunt Louise's wild partying.

Episode 60 • Feb 21, 1991 • 22 m

The Road to Macadamia

Baloo and Louie crash-land outside the walled gates of Macadamia where they are cheated out of cash and cargo by the local Richelieu, Chancellor Trample. This means war!

Episode 61 • Feb 22, 1991 • 22 m

Your Baloo's in the Mail

Rebecca wins $100,000 in the Pazuza Super Mail Sweepstakes and she needs Baloo to mail her winning ticket by the deadline.

Episode 62 • Feb 25, 1991 • 22 m

When a safari guide tells Baloo of a lost valley of prehistoric proportions, Baloo sees dinosaur-sized profit to be made.

Episode 63 • Apr 8, 1991 • 22 m

The Incredible Shrinking Molly

While snooping around an old building, Molly falls into an eccentric scientist's lab. There she gets caught in the doctor's shrinking ray and is reduced to a quarter-inch tall.

Episode 64 • May 3, 1991 • 22 m

Baloo rescues a pilot who claims to be Rick Sky, the flying ace from the Great War. When Rick learns of his reputation, he steals the Sea Duck and sets out to clear his name.

Episode 65 • Aug 8, 1991 • 22 m

Baloo is enlisted to deliver a Housewarming Present to the Thembrian High Marshall's new Summer Home not knowing he's actually been duped into delivering a ticking bomb.

Top Cast

Ed Gilbert

Baloo, Khan Pilot, Austin Featheridge

R.J. Williams

Kit Cloudkicker

Sally Struthers

Rebecca Cunningham

Jim Cummings

Don Karnage, Louie, Trader Moe

Pat Fraley

Wildcat, Auto Aviator, Doctor

Charlie Adler

Mad Dog, Hacksaw, Bank Representative

Chuck McCann

Dumptruck, Gibber, Rhino Goon

Frank Welker

Additional Voices, Buffy Vanderschmere, Red Robe Thug #2

Tony Jay

Shere Khan

Janna Michaels

Molly Cunningham

Jack Angel

High Marshal, Additional Voices, Barney O'Turret, Chauffer, Detective, Dock Manager, Finance Minister Lafong, Pig Salesman, The High Marshal, Usher, Wally

Alan Roberts

Kit Cloudkicker

Michael Gough

Colonel Ivanod Spigot

Lorenzo Music

Sgt. Dunder, Sergeant Dunder

Michael Bell

Colonel Grogg, High Marshal's Wife, Mr. Perry, Herman Grapple

S. Scott Bullock

Ignatius (Ignatz), Jacques Tojoure, Robert Service, Thembrian Pilot

Danny Mann

Additional Voices, Fred, Gertalin, Sergeant Grumpy, Thembrian Pilot

Hal Rayle

Ice Cream Man, Otter Firstmate, Pilot #1, Radio Host

Kenneth Mars

Buzz, Heimlich Menudo

Ron Feinberg

Arnold, Cool Hands Luke, Coolhands Luke

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