C Bear and Jamal

C-Bear and Jamal
C-Bear and Jamal Title Card
Created by	Earl Richey Jones Todd R. Jones
Voices of	Tone Lōc Arthur Reggie III
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	25 mins.
Production company(s)	Film Roman
Release
Original network	Fox Kids
Original release	February 3, 1996 – February 22, 1997

C Bear and Jamal is an animated children's television show that premiered on the Fox Kids programming block in 1996. It features an elementary-aged school kid named Jamal, whose constant companion was "C Bear", a hip hop teddy bear who sings. Film Roman co-produced the show.^[1]

Characters

• C-Bear - (Tone Lōc) - C-Bear is a wise teddy bear with a hip hop look. He comes to life when Jamal is around and is always ready to give him advice. He has the power to take Jamal and himself on wild adventures. C-Bear is based partly on Tone Loc's childhood teddy bear with which he would go on fantasy adventures.
• Jamal Harrison Wingo - (Arthur Reggie III) - Jamal is a gullible 9 year old who always seems to be in a jam, but has C-bear to help him when he's in trouble.
• Hawthorne Wingo - (George L. Wallace) - Hawthorne is the father of Jamal, who is always hungry and often questions Jamal on why he still keeps C-bear.
• Grandma - (Dawnn Lewis) - Jamal's grandmother, who cooks the food for her family and is very nice to everybody.
• Grandpa - (Darryl Sivad) - Jamal's grandfather, who is bald and almost never leaves his chair.
• Maya - (Kim Fields Freeman) - Jamal's friend, who is very loud but hates it when she that. She is also very smart.
• Big Chill - (Aries Spears) - Jamal's chubby friend, who is always hungry and sounds like he has a cold. Whenever he's entering a room he'll say "the b-i-g c-h-i double l is in the hizouse".
• Kwame - (Aries Spears) Jamal's Afrocentric friend, who is dressed in African clothes every day and believes in "power to the people" and often calls things "conspiracies by 'The Man'" when he is displeased.
• Chipster - (Jeannie Elias) - Jamal's odd friend, who likes to make his friends laugh and never thinks of himself as weird.
• Kim - (Margaret Cho) - Jamal's Korean friend, who is always on Maya's side and hates to see her friends being picked on.
• Javier - (Paul Rodríguez) - Jamal's Hispanic friend, who doesn't tend to say mean things.

List of episodes

Season 1 (1996)

Ep#	Title	Airdate	Song
1	Rap Van Winkle	February 3, 1996	The Rap Song
2	Emperor's New Gear	February 10, 1996	New Clothes
3	Big	February 17, 1996	Jamal's Blues

Season 2 (1996–1997)

Ep#	Title	Airdate	Song
4	Teeing Off	September 21, 1996	Ode to Duckie Jordan
5	The Prince and the Po' Boy	September 28, 1996	If I Were A Rich Boy
6	Raging Bully	October 12, 1996	Little Red Ragamuffin
7	Hanging with Mr. Wingo	November 2, 1996	No Worry Free J.O.B
8	Big Head Jamal	November 9, 1996	Benocchio's Lament
9	Sleepless in South Central	November 16, 1996	Ain't Got No Life
10	Dumbing Down	November 23, 1996	The Thinker
11	The Truth and Nothing But the Truth	February 1, 1997	Jamal Can't Handle The Truth
12	Puppy Love	February 15, 1997	Here Comes Jamal
13	Most Valuable Grandpa	February 22, 1997	Tortoise And The Hare

Credits

• Executive Producers: Tone Loc, Phil Roman, Margaret Loesch
• Producer: Bob Richardson
• Story Editors: L. Rice, Al Sonya
• Voice Director: Debbie Allen
• Executives in Charge of Production: Bill Schultz, Anne Luiting
• Studio Production Manager: Lolee Aries
• Manager of Foreign Production: Kenneth T. Ito
• Casting: Eileen Mack Knight
• Director of Creative Development: Guy Vasilovich
• Directors: David Brain, Vincent Davis, Brian Hogan, Emory Myrick
• Music by: Kurt Farquhar
• Main Title Song Written and Performed by: Tone Loc
• Character Design: Bruce W. Smith
• Layout Design: Charles Payne, Cliff Vorhees
• Prop Design: Gary Hoffman, Jim Schumann
• Painting: Deborah Mark, Belle Norman, Elizabeth Reed, Cookie Tricarico
• Art Director: Brad Landreth
• Backgrounds: Nathan Chew
• Layouts: Nathan Chew
• Color Key Supervisor: Phyllis Craig
• Storyboards: Robert Boyle, Sandra Frame, Gary Hoffman, Brian Hogan, Chris Hubbard, Jay Lender, Scott Shaw!
• Picture Editors: Don Barrozo, Lee Harting
• Post Production Sound Services: Advantage Audio, Inc.
• Sound Recording Mixers: Melissa Gentry-Ellis, Ray Leonard, Jim Hodson
• Sound Effects Design: Michael Warner
• Music Editor: Fil Brown
• Track Department: Peter Aries
• Creative Producer: Swinton O. Scott III
• Creative Consultants: Earl Richey Jones, Todd R. Jones, Bruce W. Smith
• Creative Concepts: Frankyln Ajaye, Barry Douglas
• Executive in Charge of Production for Fox Kids: Barney Gilmore
• Production Accountant: Kyle C. Hammans
• Production Managers: Barbara Cordova, Stephanie Elliott
• Assistant Film Editor: Kurtis Kunsak
• Negative Cutting: D and A Negative Cutting, Inc., Tim Heyen
• Telecine: Editel, Complete Post, Inc., Sunset Post
• Operator: Larry Field
• Post Production Director: Barbara Beck
• Post Production Supervisor: Noel Quinn-Roman
• Overseas Supervisor: Russell Crispin

VHS releases

Xenon Entertainment Group released several episodes of the show on VHS in 2000.

References

1. "Tone Loc to Debut Cartoon Series on Fox". The Los Angeles Times. 1996-01-30. Retrieved 2010-08-24.

External links

• C-Bear and Jamal at the Wayback Machine (archived November 4, 1996) - Fox Kids
• C Bear and Jamal at the Internet Movie Database
• C Bear and Jamal at the Big Cartoon DataBase