Jungle Cubs
| Jungle Cubs | |
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| Created by | Mark S. Bernthal |
| Based on | The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book by Larry Clemmons Ralph Wright Ken Anderson Vance Gerry Bill Peet |
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| Theme music composer | Lou Rawls |
| Opening theme | "The Bare Necessities" |
| Ending theme | "The Bare Necessities" (instrumental) |
| Composer | Stephen James Taylor |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 21 (34 segments) |
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| Running time | 22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) |
| Production company | Walt Disney Television Animation |
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| Network | ABC |
| Release | October 5, 1996 – January 10, 1998 |
Jungle Cubs is an American animated series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation for ABC in 1996, serving as the prequel to the 1967 film The Jungle Book as it's set in the youth of the animal characters years before the events of the film. A critical success, the show ran for two seasons on ABC from 1996 to 1998 before its syndication in re-runs on the Disney Channel. The show was broadcast on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in 2001. Re-runs aired on Disney Jr. in the US from 2012 to 2013. The show also aired in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America.
The show's theme song is a hip hop version of the song, "The Bare Necessities" performed by Lou Rawls. Jungle Cubs was animated by Walt Disney Television Animation (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Thai Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Toon City Animation, Inc., and Sunmin Image Pictures Co., Ltd., with Studio B Productions, as the animation pre-production studio of the series.