List of Bonkers episodes
The following is an episode list of Bonkers, an American animated television series that first aired from September 4, 1993, to February 23, 1994, and then continued airing as reruns until 1995 on The Disney Afternoon. The series was set in a Roger Rabbit-like world where "toons" and humans co-exist.
The premise of the series was that Bonkers D. Bobcat, an anthropomorphic bobcat who was a popular cartoon star had washed out of show business and became a cop. He was made the junior partner of Detective Lucky Piquel, a grim and ill-tempered human who hates toons. Throughout the series, the pair work together to solve crimes in the Hollywood, Los Angeles, California region. Bonkers repeatedly tried to win Piquel's praise, but usually just ended up ruining missions with his antics.
After some years of working with Bonkers, Piquel was given an FBI job in Washington, D.C., and with great glee was finally able to leave Bonkers, but finally realized that after all the time spent hating working with Bonkers, he had grown to love him. At the end of the "Lucky" episodes, Bonkers was given a new partner, the attractive Sergeant Miranda Wright. Although also human, she was far more patient and tolerant of his antics than was Piquel. With Miranda, Bonkers was more the brunt of the slapstick.
Broadcast chronology
Bonkers' 65 episodes all aired on The Disney Afternoon during the 1993–94 television season. Nine episodes aired in The Disney Channel from February to June 1993 as a preview for the series and they aired in October 1993 in the original syndication. However, the series can be broken up into multiple groups or subseasons of episodes, based on when they originally aired and from which set of episodes they came.The syndicated run of the show began with a special hour-long airing of the Lucky Piquel pilot story, that aired the weekend before the series' Disney Afternoon premiere. This first episode was later split into two parts, which are treated as separate episodes. Nineteen more Lucky episodes subsequently premiered in September and October 1993. These 21 episodes are referred to here as "Group 1".
In October 1993, the 19 Miranda Wright episodes aired on The Disney Afternoon, preceded by a special crossover episode, "New Partners on the Block," which tied the previously produced Miranda episodes into the continuity of the Lucky Piquel episodes. Along with the 9 Miranda episodes previously shown on The Disney Channel, 10 more Miranda episodes made their debut. The 19 Miranda episodes, along with "New Partners on the Block," are referred to here as "Group 2".
In November 1993, 20 more Lucky Piquel episodes began airing on The Disney Afternoon. They were proceeded by a TV promo which states that they are new episodes that were never seen before even though actually they were produced in the same time with the first 22 "Lucky" episodes. Fifteen of them premiered in November, with the last 5 being held over until February 1994. The last 20 Lucky episodes are included in the "Group 1".
In addition, four extra special compilation episodes, featuring the Bonkers shorts from He's Bonkers and 4 new segments were interspersed among the other episodes. 9 of the 12 old shorts received new titlecards while the other 3 kept their original intros. The Rubber Room Song segment originally belongs to the previously produced and the later aired episode "CasaBonkers". These compilation episodes are listed separately.
When the series went into reruns, the Lucky Piquel and Miranda Wright episodes were usually rerun separately, even if the episodes were rerun out of order.
Each episode was given a production code by Walt Disney Television Animation. These codes are in the format "4311-xxx"; the Miranda episodes are numbered "4311-0xx", while the Lucky episodes are numbered "4311-1xx." The Miranda episodes' production numbers are not consecutive; several numbers are skipped over. The production codes have been sourced from the individual episode registration records in the U.S. Copyright Office catalog.
In addition, Disney's distribution arm Buena Vista Television used a different numbering system, with all of the Lucky Piquel episodes in production code order, followed by "New Partners on the Block", then all of the Miranda Wright episodes in production code order, with the four compilation episodes randomly interspersed among the Lucky episodes. BVTV's episode codes carry the prefix "BK-xx". This numbering was also the order generally used when the series was broadcast outside of North America, except with "Going Bonkers" and "Gone Bonkers" moved to the beginning of the order. The resultant "international" order perhaps most closely reflects the series' in-universe chronology.