Talespin - Intro Theme
Length: 1:10
Description: Intro to the 1990 Disney Afternoon animated TV series Talespin.
Layabout Baloo has always had an easygoing attitude to life, which is turned upside down when he befriends a young kid called Kit Cloudkicker and finds that his transport business -- along with his airplane, the Sea Duck -- is now owned by recently graduated business woman Rebecca Cunningham. Dodging air-pirates and trading jives with his new boss, Baloo and Kit are the intrepid crew for Higher-for-Hire.
Taking characters of the Jungle Book and putting them in a 1930-ish world of airplanes and intrigue may not have sounded like the most obvious of things to do at the time, but Disney arguably pulled it off. Although on the most impressive side of things may lie in a TV series that predominately featured large machines -- airplanes -- flying in non-linear fashion without the use of computers.
The series ran for 65 episodes and two volumes of 27 episodes -- including the 4 part pilot -- have been released on DVD.
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Author: starlac
Source: YouTube