Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

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"Rescue Rangers" redirects here; for the 70's TV show featuring Lassie, see Lassie's Rescue Rangers.

Template:Infobox television Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers was an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It featured the classic Disney chipmunk characters Chip 'n Dale, with three new friends, as detectives.

The concept began life as a two hour standalone television special, Rescue Rangers: To the Rescue. The series itself began airing on March 5, 1989, often paired in an hour-long show with DuckTales. The last episode aired on November 19, 1990, by which time the series was a part of the then-fledgling Disney Afternoon and continued to air for some time thereafter in its lineup until 1993.

65 episodes were created in total; the opening special To the Rescue was broken up into five half-hour segments and rebroadcast as episodes 14-18.

On November 8, 2005, Disney made their first DVD release of 27 Rescue Rangers episodes (see below).

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Characters

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Heroes

Image:Rescue rangers.gif Chip, the leader of the Rescue Rangers, wears a fedora and a flight jacket, much like Indiana Jones. He spends his free time reading detective fiction, his favorite character being Sureluck Jones, whose name is apparently a play on the names of Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones. He is presented as very dedicated to his duty, and usually tries to act very serious and responsible, sometimes to the point of being humorless.

Dale wears a red and yellow Hawaiian shirt. Though also dedicated to duty, he is presented as a fun-loving, mischievous prankster and somewhat irresponsible. He spends his free time reading comic books, playing video games, watching Sci-fi and horror movies, and eating candy.

Monterey Jack or "Monty" is an Australian muscle mouse who has a constant craving for cheese and a pesky fear of cats. Monty first met Chip and Dale on their first case as Rescue Rangers. He joined them along with his companion Zipper and Gadget Hackwrench. Monty is protective over Gadget, having somewhat of a father-daughter relationship with the younger mouse. In early episodes Monty was voiced by Peter Cullen and in later episodes by Jim Cummings.

Gadget Hackwrench is a young female mouse and the mechanic and inventor of the team. She is the daughter of deceased inventor and aviator Geegaw Hackwrench, an old friend of Monterey Jack. She first met Chip and Dale on their first case as Rescue Rangers and has joined them along with Monterey Jack and his companion Zipper, since she had nowhere else to go after her father's death. Both Chip and Dale are very attracted to Gadget, but she usually does not notice because she is working on her inventions most of the time. The character is arguably the most popular introduced in the series and has a steady fanbase in the Internet.

Zipper the Fly appears as Monterey Jack's sidekick and the mascot of the Rescue Rangers. Using his ability to fly, Zipper often handles the little jobs that the rest of the Rescue Rangers cannot do. He speaks in an unintelligble buzzing that only Monty (and, presumably, other insects) can understand. He is occaisionally shown as extremely strong for his size.

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Villains

Fat Cat, a felonious grey tabby who plays the role of a crime boss. He has four sidekicks: an alley cat named Mepps, a lizard named Wart, a mole named Mole, and a rat named Snout.

Professor Norton Nimnul is a mad scientist and also one of the Rescue Rangers' most frequent enemies. He is identifiable by his oddly-shaped skull, his receding red hair, and very thick glasses, as well as his high-pitched laugh. Sometimes Professor Nimnul has "help" from his obnoxious nephew Normie.

Jim Cummings voiced both the Rangers' primary foes; however, they appeared together only in the pilot episode, as the faithful pet and the science officer of a megalomaniacal crime boss.

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Episode list

Episode # Prod. Order Airdate Title Notes
Season 1
1 4 March 5 1989 Piratsy Under the Seas Wordplay on rats and piracy
2 1 March 6 1989 Catteries Not Included Wordplay on the movie title *batteries not included
3 12 March 12 1989 Dale Beside Himself
4 6 March 19 1989 Flash the Wonder Dog
5 11 March 26 1989 Out to Launch Wordplay on the phrase Out to Lunch
6 13 April 2 1989 Kiwi's Big Adventure Wordplay on the movie title Pee-wee's Big Adventure
7 5 April 9 1989 Adventures in Squirrelsitting Wordplay on the movie title Adventures in Babysitting
8 7 April 16 1989 Pound of the Baskervilles Wordplay on the book title Hound of the Baskervilles
9 9 April 23 1989 Risky Beesness Wordplay on the movie title Risky Business
10 2 April 30 1989 Three Men and a Booby Wordplay on the movie title Three Men and a Baby
11 3 May 7 1989 The Carpetsnaggers Wordplay on the movie title The Carpetbaggers
12 10 May 14 1989 Bearing Up Baby Wordplay on the movie title Bringing Up Baby
13 8 May 21 1989 Parental Discretion Retired Wordplay on the phrase Parental discretion required
Season 2
14 41 September 15 1989 To the Rescue (1) All five parts of To the Rescue were first shown together as a two hour special.
15 42 To the Rescue (2)
16 43 To the Rescue (3)
17 44 To the Rescue (4)
18 45 To the Rescue (5)
19 14 October 3 1989 A Lad in a Lamp Wordplay on the legend of Aladdin's lamp
20 20 October 6 1989 The Luck Stops Here Wordplay on the phrase The buck stops here
21 15 October 9 1989 Battle of the Bulge Wordplay on the World War II Battle of the Bulge
22 17 October 10 1989 Ghost of a Chance
23 18 October 11 1989 An Elephant Never Suspects Wordplay on the saying An elephant never forgets
24 21 October 12 1989 Fake Me to Your Leader Wordplay on the phrase Take me to your leader
25 22 October 13 1989 Last Train to Cashville Wordplay on the song title Last Train to Clarksville
26 19 October 16 1989 A Case of Stage Blight Wordplay on Stage fright
27 23 October 17 1989 The Case of the Cola cult
28 24 October 18 1989 Throw Mummy From the Train Wordplay on the movie title Throw Momma from the Train
29 25 October 19 1989 A Wolf in Cheap Clothing Wordplay on the fable The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
30 27 October 20 1989 Robocat Wordplay on the movie title Robocop
31 28 November 2 1989 Does Pavlov Ring a Bell?
32 26 November 3 1989 Prehysterical Pet Wordplay on Prehistorical
33 29 November 13 1989 A Creep in the Deep
34 16 November 14 1989 Normie's Science Project
35 30 November 15 1989 Seer No Evil Wordplay on the phrase See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
36 33 November 16 1989 Chipwrecked Shipmunks Wordplay on Shipwrecked chipmunks
37 48 November 17 1989 When Mice Were Men Wordplay on the book title Of Mice and Men
38 31 November 20 1989 Chocolate Chips
39 34 November 21 1989 The Last Leprechaun Possible wordplay on the book title The Last Unicorn
40 38 November 22 1989 Weather or Not Wordplay on the saying Whether or not
41 51 November 23 1989 One Upsman-Chip Wordplay on One-upmanship
42 53 November 24 1989 Shell Shocked Wordplay on Shell Shock
43 37 December 18 1989 Love Is A Many Splintered Thing Wordplay on the song Love is a Many Splendored Thing
44 36 December 19 1989 Song of the Night 'n Dale Reference to the fairy tale Song of the Nightingale
45 35 December 20 1989 Double O'Chipmunk Reference to 007 films
46 40 December 21 1989 Gadget Goes Hawaiian Wordplay on the movie title Gidget Goes Hawaiian
47 49 December 22 1989 It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale! Wordplay on the phrase It's a bird... It's a plane... It's Superman!
48 47 February 5 1990 Short Order Crooks Wordplay on Short Order Cooks
49 57 February 6 1990 Mind Your Cheese and Q's Wordplay on the phrase Mind your p's and q's
50 39 February 8 1990 Out of Scale Out of Scale was also the title of a 1951 Chip 'N Dale short.
51 56 February 19 1990 Dirty Rotten Diapers Wordplay on the movie title Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
52 46 February 21 1990 Good Times, Bat Times Wordplay on the song title Good Times, Bad Times
53 58 February 22 1990 Pie in the Sky
54 60 March 19 1990 Le Purrfect Crime Wordplay; The perfect crime
55 61 March 21 1990 When You Fish Upon a Star Wordplay on the song title When You Wish Upon a Star
56 63 March 22 1990 Rest Home Rangers
57 62 April 16 1990 A Lean on the Property Wordplay on the legal term lien
58 64 April 23 1990 The Pied Piper Power Play
59 65 May 1 1990 Gorilla My Dreams Wordplay on the phrase Girl of my dreams
60 32 May 2 1990 The S.S. Drainpipe
Season 3
61 52 September 10 1990 Zipper Come Home Wordplay on the movie title Lassie Come Home
62 54 September 18 1990 Puffed Rangers
63 55 September 26 1990 A Fly in the Ointment Translation of the French movie title Un fil à la patte
64 59 November 5 1990 A Chorus Crime Wordplay on the Broadway musical title A Chorus Line
65 50 November 19 1990 They Shoot Dogs, Don't They? Wordplay on the movie title They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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DVD Sets

These are the official box sets that have been released by Disney. So far, only one volume has been released in Region 1 (North America).

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Volume 1

The first set was released on November 8 2005. It consists of twenty-seven episodes on three discs.

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Episodes

Disc 1

  • Catteries Not Included
  • Three Men and a Booby
  • The Carpetsnaggers
  • Piratsy Under the Seas
  • Adventures in Squirrelsitting
  • Flash the Wonder Dog
  • Pound of the Baskervilles
  • Parental Discretion Retired
  • Risky Beesness

Disc 2

  • Bearing Up Baby
  • Out to Launch
  • Dale Beside Himself
  • Kiwi's Big Adventure
  • A Lad in a Lamp
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • Ghost of a Chance
  • An Elephant Never Suspects
  • A Case of Stage Blight

Disc 3

  • The Luck Stops Here
  • Fake Me to Your Leader
  • Last Train to Cashville
  • The Case of the Cola Cult
  • Throw Mummy From the Train
  • A Wolf in Cheap Clothing
  • Prehysterical Pet
  • Robocat
  • Does Pavlov Ring a Bell?
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Title in other languages

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Fandom/Controversy

While the show was removed from the 1993 Disney Afternoon lineup in order to make room for Bonkers, its fandom remains strong and loyal, if not as numerically large as more popular franchises. Starting with the creation of the Disney Afternoon mailing list in 1991 and the inception of the D.A.F.T. (Disney Afternoon File Time) zine in 1992, the Rescue Ranger fandom has been noted for its high level of devotion to the series, despite what many "Rangerphiles" (as Ranger fans like to call themselves) perceive as Disney's neglect of the series. All 65 episodes have found their way onto the Internet as high quality video files ensuring fans never lose their favorite show.

While the Ranger fandom has produced fan work of virtually every sort, one of the most noticeable has been the area of fan fiction. As of 1999, there were at least 128 Rescue Ranger fan-written stories on the Internet and that number has grown to at least one thousand, if not many more. While these works have ranged from crossover and parody to encompass virtually all possibilities of fan fiction, more recent Rescue Ranger fanfiction has sought to achieve a level of depth and maturity beyond what the show's writers had originally provided. Starting with Michael "Questy" DeMicio's Rhyme and Reason, Rangerphiles have sought to address the areas they believe the official Rescue Ranger canon "left hanging," such as: the unresolved love triangle between Chip, Gadget, and Dale; Gadget's relationship with her father Geegaw (who is mentioned only once in canon, as she apparently mourns his death); the relationships of "one-shot" characters Foxglove, Tammy and Lawhinie to the Rangers; and the like. While there are obviously too many stories to link to even a small percentage here, the reader could do worse than to start with works such as Steve "Indy" Hamrick's "The Untold Ranger Tales," Meghan Brunner's Final Curtain, "Jareth"'s The Return of Winifred, and "The J.A.M."'s Death of a Comedian (itself a sequel to an offshoot of a fanfiction story, namely Roy Neal Grissom's Consummation, a Dale+Foxglove work).

Other forms of fan fiction have emerged as well. In 2003, Chris Fischer released the graphic novel Of Mice and Mayhem, which gained widespread notice in the series fan community, as well as the furry fandom base, for its artistic quality, story depth, and length.

Fischer's work bridges the gap to the other major form of fan expression: artwork. Pictures by the thousands can be found online with a simple search, or at some of the fan sites linked above. Many of them are of fan favorite Gadget (see for example The Internet Gadget Archive), but all save the most minor characters seem to be celebrated in their own body of work.

Gadget's popularity is actually a source of some controversy in the fandom. Some of this work is decidedly adult in nature. Due to the G-rated nature of the original show, some fans strongly object to such representations as inappropriate; but they remain among the most common forms of Gadget art, and thus of Ranger art in general.

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Foxglove

On February 21 1990, a female bat named Foxglove made her debut in the episode "Good Times, Bat Times". Although she fell in love with Dale during the episode, after the end of the episode she simply disappeared, never to be mentioned again on the show. Her disappearance was keenly missed by the fans of the series, and she reappeared in many Rescue Ranger fan fiction stories and websites. The voice behind Foxglove, Lahwhinie and several other occasional characters of the series was actress Deborah Walley. Deborah was the only cast member of the Rescue Rangers known to have had contact with her fans, and her loss was keenly felt by many of them when she died in May 2001.

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Spin-offs

A popular Rescue Rangers platform video game was produced for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Capcom, followed by a less successful sequel. A third game was made for the PC. The video games featured a unique gameplay that was rather similar to that of Super Mario Bros. 2. Although they did not strictly follow the premise of the TV series, some of the game missions did match episode plots, and included recurring appearances of minor series characters such as a mechanical dog and a robot.

A monthly comic book based on the show was published by Disney Comics in 1990, running for 19 issues. Subsequent comic stories were printed in Disney Adventures from 1990 to 1995, as well as in the Disney Afternoon comic book published by Marvel Comics.

There were plans for a theatrical feature film based on the series (a 1990 issue of Comics Scene gave information on a planned release in 1991), but it never came to fruition, possibly because DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp underperformed at the box office.

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See also

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External links

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