| LC control no. | n 2008080754 |
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| Uniform title heading | Alvin and the Chipmunks (Television program) |
| Variant(s) | Alvin & the Chipmunks (Television program) |
| See also | Alvin show (Television program) |
| Found in | Alvin and the chipmunks, 1998: CIP galley (as a result of the success of The chipmunk song and succeeding albums (Alvin's harmonica, Alvin's orchestra), an animated television series debuted on CBS in Oct. 1961 featuring the chipmunk characters and associated music created by David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian); Seville also supplied the voices of the characters) Wikipedia, Dec. 2, 2008 (The Alvin Show; the first American animated television series to feature the singing characters Alvin and the Chipmunks (note however that they were not known by this exact name until more than two decades later); it lasted for just one season in prime time (October 4, 1961-September 12, 1962); CBS reran the series on Saturday mornings for a few years after the show's prime time run ended, and segments from the show were syndicated in the late 1960s under the package title Alvin and the Chipmunks (this first syndicated package consisted of the individual show segments only, including the Alvin and Clyde Crashcup cartoons, and Chipmunk musical segments, not in the form of half-hour shows); the series later was revived on NBC-TV, again promoted under the title Alvin and the Chipmunks Saturday mornings between March 10, 1979 and September 1, 1979; in fall 1983, coinciding with the launch of Ruby-Spears' newly-produced Alvin and the Chipmunks series on NBC, The Alvin Show was again syndicated, airing on WGN-TV in Chicago and WTBS in Atlanta; as a result, both the Ruby-Spears-produced Alvin and The Chipmunks (1983-1991) as well as the original Alvin Show could be seen at any given time throughout the 1980s; The Alvin Show was last seen in the United States on Nickelodeon around 1994, and aired there until 1995); Alvin and the Chipmunks (TV series) (American animated television series to feature the singing characters The Chipmunks, produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with Ruby-Spears Productions; aired from 1983 to 1990 on NBC and was based on 1961-62's The Alvin Show) [also lists Alvin and the Chipmunks (video game), Alvin and the Chipmunks as a musical group, and Alvin and the Chipmunks (film)]) IMDb, Dec. 2, 2008 (Alvin & the Chipmunks; TV series 1983-1991) |
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