Saturday, January 18, 2014

Trollkins

Trollkins is a 1981 animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera that aired for one season on CBS. The show was inspired from The Dukes of Hazard and the Troll Dolls. Essentially a cross between The Smurfs, which incidentally premiered the same day on September 12, 1981, in the same slot and The Dukes of Hazard, it followed the adventures and misadventures of Blitz, Pixlee, and Flooky. The Trollkins are a race of trolls that had green, blue, and purple faces and lived in an underground, or rather in a tree, community called Trolltown. The episode plots follows the adventures of Blitz, Pixlee, and their pet companion Flooky. Blitz's father Mayor Lumpkin was somewhat of a short, incompetent, hot-headed, fumble-mouth of a mayor, whose talk is similar to Revs from Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch. Pixlee's father Sheriff Trollsom, who was more mild-mannered than Mayor Lumpkin, and his two deputies Dotty and Flake were just as incompetent and fumble minded in maintaining order in Trolltown. Nevertheless, there was no complete love amongst the citizens of Trolltown, despite the escapades, including a renegade motorcycle gang known as the Troll Choppers who terrorized the citizens of Trolltown from time to time, but was merely a nuisance, rather than a threat to everyone.

The cartoon show features the voices of Steve J. Spears as Blitz Lumpkin. Jennifer Darling as Pixlee Trollsom and Deputroll Dotty. Frank Welker as Flooky. Alan Oppenheimer as Sheriff Pudge Trollsom. Marshall Efron as Deputroll Flake. And Paul Winchell as Mayor Lumpkin.

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