The show introduced The Chipettes, three female chipmunks with their own human caretaker, Miss Beatrice Miller. In 1987, during the show's 5th season, the Chipmunks' first animated feature film, The Chipmunk Adventure, was released to theaters by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. The film was directed by Janice Karman and featured the Chipmunks and Chipettes in a contest traveling around the world. In the year of 1990, the Chipmunks also teamed up with other well-known cartoon characters for the drug abuse-prevention special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. There is also a 2007 live action/animated version of Alvin and the Chipmunks, along with Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel in 2009, and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked in 2011, starring Jason Lee as Dave Seville, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney as the voices of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, and the Chipettes: Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor are played by Christina Applegate, Anna Faris, and Amy Poehler.
The cartoon show features the voices of Ross Bagdasarian as Alvin and Simon. Janice Karman as Theodore and the Chipettes Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor.
