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Rascal the Raccoon (TV)

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[ part of [World Masterpiece Theater] ]

Alternative title:
Araiguma Rascal (Japanese)
Rascal (Spanish)
Rascal der Waschbär (German)
Rascal, el mapache (Spanish)
Rascal, il mio amico orsetto (Italian)
الراكون راسكال (Arabic)
あらいぐまラスカル (Japanese)
小浣熊 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama
Themes: historical
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: The 11 year old Robby North and his friend Oscar live in Wisconsin. During fishing they hear a shoot. A racoon-mother was shot. Robby takes the baby of this racoon with him and cares for it. The boy names the racoon Rascal.
User Ratings: 13 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 1 vote (Spa.dub:1)
 Very good: 1 vote (Spa.dub:1)
 Good: 3 votes (Ger.dub:2, Ita.dub:1)
 Decent: 4 votes (Ita.dub:3, Ara.edit.dub:1)
 So-so: 2 votes (Tag.dub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Not really good: 1 vote (raw:1)
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Seen in part or in whole by 30 users, rank: #3247
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.615 (Good-.38), std. dev.: 1.5951, rank: #2305
Weighted mean: 6.274 (Decent+.27), rank: #2707 (seen all: 6.12 / seen some: 6.72)
Bayesian estimate: 6.810 (Good-.19), rank: #1643
Number of episodes: 52
Episode titles: We have 52
Vintage: 1977-01-02 to 1977-12-25
Releases: We have 15
Opening Theme:
"Rock River e" by Kumiko Oosugi
Ending Theme:
"Oide Rascal" by Kumiko Oosugi
Links: We have 1
In the news 2 times:
Comment:
Based on the novel "Rascal, A Memoir of a Better Era" by Sterling North
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Hiroshi Saitô (eps 1-29)
Seiji Endô (eps 1-29)
Shigeo Koshi (eps 30-52)

Script:
Akira Miyazaki
Kasuke Sato
Mei Kato
Shogo Ota

Storyboard:
Fumio Ikeno
Hiroshi Saitô
Kyosuke Mikuriya
Seiji Okuda
Shûji Yamazaki
Yoshiyuki Tomino

Music: Takeo Watanabe

Character Design: Seiji Endô

Art director: Masahiro Ioka

Animation director: Michiyo Sakurai

Sound director: Yasuo Uragami

Executive producer: Kôichi Motohashi

Producer:
Junzô Nakajima
Yoshio Kato

Assistant director:
Kazuyoshi Yokota
Ken'ichi Baba

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Key Animation: Hayao Miyazaki (20 episodes

eps 4-6, 10, 12-22, 24-28
)

Theme Song Performance: Kumiko Ohsugi (OP + ED)

 

Masako Nozawa as Rascal

Toshihiko Utsumi as Sterling North

Akiko Tsuboi as Narrator

Akio Nojima as Carl

Eken Mine as Federiko

Hisako Kyouda as Clarissa

Ichirô Nagai as Thurman

Kazuko Sugiyama as Sensei

Masahiko Murase as Conway

Masato Yamanouchi as Willard North

Masaya Taki as Slammy

Miina Tominaga as Alice

Tohru Furuya as Tom (ep 12-)

Toshiya Ueda as Futon

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Nippon Animation

Backgrounds:
Mukuo Studio
Studio Aqua

Broadcaster: Fuji TV

Development: Imagica

Paint: Studio Robin

Photography: Trans Arts Co.

Production: Nippon Animation

Recording Studio: AVACO Creative Studios

Sound Effects: Ishida Sound Group (now Fizz Sound)

Sound Production:
Audio Planning U
Omnibus Promotion

English staff 
English cast 

Original story: Sterling North

 (none)
English companies 

Broadcaster: JET TV

Spanish staff 
(none)
Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
Antena 3 (Spain)
Telecinco (Spain)

Distributor: Planeta Junior (Spain)

DVD Distribution: Planeta Junior (Spain)

Spanish cast 

Asunción Díaz as
Abuela Clarissa (Spain dub)
Sra. Hackett (Spain dub)

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Theme Song Performance: Cristina D'Avena

 

Alessandro Quarta as Oscar

Corrado Conforti as Slammy

Gilberta Crispino as Sterling

Julian Olivieri Orioles as Mortan

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: Italia 1 (from 1985)

Distributor: SAS Società Attori Sincronizzatori

Dubbing: SAS Società Attori Sincronizzatori

German staff 
German companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: ZDF

German cast 
(none)
Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 
(none)
 

STEVEN BONTOGON as Sterling North

Gwen Masilongan as Alice

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: QTV Channel 11

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Power International Multimedia Inc.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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