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Cro
Opening title to Cro
Based on	The Way Things Work past David Macaulay
Developed past	Marking Zaslove
Starring	Max Casella every bit Cro
Voices of	Charlie Adler Ruth Buzzi Jim Cummings Tress MacNeille Candi Milo Laurie O'Brien April Ortiz Jane Singer Jussie Smollett Frank Welker
Composer	Stacy Widelistz
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	20 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Phil Roman Jeffrey Nelson Franklin Getchell Marjorie Kalins Joan Ganz Cooney Mark Zaslove
Producer	Bob Richardson
Running fourth dimension	approx. 23 mins
Production companies	Children's Television Workshop Film Roman
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September xviii, 1993 (1993-09-18) – October 22, 1994 (1994-10-22)

Cro is an American animated television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Film Roman. It debuted on September 18, 1993, as function of the Sat morning line-upwardly for autumn 1993 on ABC.^[1] Cro lasted 2 seasons and ran in reruns through summer 1995. The testify had an educational theme (this was before federal educational/informational mandates took effect in 1996), introducing basic concepts of physics, mechanical engineering science, and technology.

The premise of using woolly mammoths equally a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by David Macaulay's The Way Things Work; Macaulay is credited as writer on the testify.^[ii] The series finale, "They Movement Mammoths, Don't They?" aired on Oct 22, 1994. The show was released on video (VHS) in a total of nine volumes.

Premise [edit]

A scientist named Dr. C and her banana Mike travel to the Arctic to report artifacts and discover a frozen woolly mammoth named Phil. They thaw him out and are surprised to find that he can speak. Whenever a situation in modern times involves physics principles, Phil remembers when a similar event occurred long ago in the prehistoric valley of Woollyville with his fellow mammoths and his Cro-Magnon friend Cro, who lived with a family of Neanderthals. Each episode features Phil narrating how a problem was resolved through uncomplicated engineering science.

The show's (and lead graphic symbol'due south) proper noun is an Occitan word for "cavern"; it alludes to Cro-Magnon, the location in France where the earliest anatomically modern humans were first discovered.

Characters [edit]

"Dr. C" redirects here. Not to be confused with Mr. C.

Cavepeople [edit]

• Cro (voiced by Max Casella) – A fully evolved, 11-twelvemonth-onetime Cro-Magnon boy who was adopted by a tribe of Neanderthals. He was a somewhat scrawny and yet still rather muscular immature Cro-Magnon male child with long, shaggy, scarlet hair and wore a yellow armband on one arm. Most of the Neanderthals that he lives with are jealous of his intelligence. Unlike the remainder of the tribe, Cro speaks in complete sentences.
• Ogg (voiced by Jim Cummings) – The selfish, snobby leader of Cro'southward adoptive Neanderthal tribe. He is difficult to get along with but easily frightened past danger.
• Gogg (voiced by Frank Welker) – A sensitive Neanderthal who sticks upward for Bobb and mostly translates for him, fifty-fifty though Nandy and Ogg do occasionally.
• Bobb (voiced by Frank Welker) – Some other adopted fellow member of the Neanderthal tribe and the least evolved of the tribe, resembling a homo habilis. He does not speak similar the residuum of the Neanderthals, but makes ape-like noises which Gogg usually translates. When Bobb was younger, he was in a different tribe made up of similar homo habilis. The tribe took a nap and Bobb woke up to notice the whole tribe had vanished without a trace, creating a fearfulness of loneliness until the Neanderthals found him.
• Nandy (voiced by Ruth Buzzi) – The matriarch of the Neanderthal tribe who is noted for her urban legends. Some of her legends include the legend of "Big Thing" and a monster called "Big Skinny Matter with Many, Many Legs." She gets into arguments with Ogg and usually wins as she is fully aware of Ogg's own fears. Nandy is very overprotective of Cro and motherly around everyone else.

Woolly Mammoths [edit]

• Phil (voiced past Jim Cummings) – A smart only goofy woolly mammoth with orange and reddish fur who is kind to humans and mammoths alike. During the terminate of the Ice Historic period, Phil fell into a glacier while saving Cro from Selene and was thawed out past Mike and Dr. C 45,000 years later. He narrates stories of his life in Woollyville in every episode.
• Ivanna (voiced by Laurie O'Brien) – Ivanna is a southern belle woolly mammoth with yellow fur and chocolate-brown skin with a mole who is Phil'due south dear interest. She is the second oldest female mammoth in Phil's herd next to Esmeralda. She commonly uses Phil for her experiments.
• Pakka (voiced by Candi Milo) – A young woolly mammoth with low-cal orange fur and yellow peel and a shut friend of Cro's. She and Cro meet after Cro confronts Selene the Smilodon. She is the tertiary oldest female mammoth side by side to Ivanna and Esmeralda. She sometimes tells Cro interesting facts about mammoths.
• Steamer (voiced by Charlie Adler) – The youngest woolly mammoth in Phil's herd with maroon fur and lite purple skin, whose hyperactivity and love of making mischief often country him in hot h2o.
• Esmeralda (voiced past Tress MacNeille) – The oldest female person woolly mammoth and matriarch of Phil's herd with light yellow fur and greyness peel. She makes sure that everything goes to society and that those who have wronged the mammoth society be punished. She has strongly mixed feelings about the presence of Cro's tribe in Woollyville.
• Earle (voiced by Frank Welker) – An elderly woolly mammoth with gray fur with dark gray-bluish pare and a bald spot due to not having longer fur on his head. He hates humans and prefer traditions over new ways of life.
• Mojo (voiced by Charlie Adler) – A woolly mammoth who is Earle's younger blood brother with gray fur and lite greyness peel. Similar Earle, Mojo hates humans and prefer traditions over new means of life.

Villains [edit]

• Large Ruby (voiced by Charlie Adler) – The conniving leader of a menacing pack of bumbling dire wolves. He uses threats to scare his minions into doing a good chore. The wolves are one of two antagonists on the bear witness as they would often endeavor to eat Cro's tribe or the younger woolly mammoths.
  • Murray (voiced past Jim Cummings) – The minions of Large Carmine. Because he threatens them, the dire wolves fear him. Murray thinks stupid things, which Large Red doesn't similar, as shown in Things That Eat Mung in the Night. ^[3]
• Selene (voiced past Jane Vocalist) – A seductive, purple, xanthous-eyed Smilodon. She starting time appears in "Lever in a Million Years" and has a monstrous ambition for anything that moves, including the cavepeople. According to the show's opening theme song, she and Phil were fighting on a cliff and savage when function of the cliff gave way. She landed on a lower cliff, while Phil fell into a glacier and was frozen in suspended blitheness for thousands of years.

Other characters [edit]

• Dr. Cecilia (voiced by Apr Ortiz) – A female scientist in mod times. She and Mike thawed out Phil, so he tells them his stories. Dr. C speaks with a distinct Hispanic accent and speaks a few Spanish words in some episodes. She bears a resemblance to Cro and may in fact be his descendant.
• Mike (voiced by Jussie Smollett) – A young friend of Dr. C. who wears large glasses. He likes to play basketball and lives with Dr. C for reasons not specified. He and Dr. C were the 2 people that thawed out Phil and therefore, he tells them his stories.
• Teddy (voiced by Beak Daber) – Teddy is a friend of Cro's. He is just featured in i episode (with the Talent Evidence), simply is important nonetheless. He invented the first ever Rap music!
• Sooli (voiced by Cree Summer) – Sooli is another Cro-Magnon who got separated from her tribe and Cro and Pakka help her find her favorite horse. Sooli just appeared in one episode.

Episodes [edit]

Season 1 (1993) [edit]

Flavor 2 (1994) [edit]

Home media [edit]

Three VHS tapes were released past Democracy Habitation Video in the United States:

• Have Mammoths, Will Travel – Episodes: "No Way Up" and "Escape from Mung Island"
• Adventures in Woollyville – Episodes: "Pulley to Yous" and "A Bridge Too Short"
• It's a Woolly, Woolly World – Episodes: "Lever in a Million Years" and "Play Information technology Again, Cro...Non!"

References [edit]

1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Blithe Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 140–141. ISBN978-1538103739.
2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 222–224. ISBN978-1476665993.
3. ^ "Things That Eat Mung in the Dark". Cro. Episode 14. 26 February 1994. ABC. Murray: "But it is very, very dank out in that location in the common cold, cold snow, boss. Mayhap we'd improve wait 'til the mornin'?" Big Red: [growls] "Are you thinking again, Murray?" Murray: "Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, boss. See, I but thought that- Whoop!" [yelps every bit he is kicked out of the cave] "We was just leavin', Big Carmine."
4. ^ "Kids Television gets a toon upwardly". San Francisco Examiner. August 31, 1993. p. 25. Retrieved September 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

External links [edit]

• Cro at IMDb
• Cro at Big Cartoon DataBase
• Cro at Toontrackers or Download the Cro Theme Vocal (requires RealPlayer)
• Cro at Blast from the Past
• Cro – ABC Kids Tv set Guide (Australia)
• Have Mammoths, Will Travel at Rotten Tomatoes
• Adventures in Woolyville at Rotten Tomatoes
• It's a Woolly, Woolly Globe at Rotten Tomatoes

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro_%28TV_series%29

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