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Ruby-Spears Productions (also known as Ruby-Spears Enterprises) was an American entertainment production company that specialized in animation based in Burbank, California, with another branch in Rome, Italy. The company was founded in 1977 by veteran writers and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears .
This is a list of Ruby-Spears productions, including television series in animation and live-action . Most of the pre-1991 library of Ruby-Spears is currently owned by Warner Bros. Television Studios through Warner Bros. Animation .
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The series was the second animated Superman television series (after the Filmation-produced The New Adventures of Superman). While its characterization was in keeping with previous licensed incarnations of Superman characters (e.g. Superman had powers from infancy, Superman had an indestructible cape, and Lex Luthor referred to himself as a "crimin...
Beau Weaver – Kal-El / Clark Kent / SupermanGinny McSwain – Lois Lane, Ursa (in "The Hunter"), Faora(in "The Hunter")Michael Bell – Lex Luthor, Patron (in "Superman and Wonder Woman vs. the Sorceress of Time")Tress MacNeille – Martha KentLynne Batchelor – Talent CoordinatorDuring the approach of Superman's 50th anniversary, CBS teamed with Ruby-Spears hoping to tap into the zeitgeist. Marv Wolfman was hired as story editor for the series as CBS had responded favorably to a Superman parody he'd written for the Garbage Pail Kids animated series and were unaware that Wolfman had written for the actual Superman comics. W...
The series is also of note due to its use of re-orchestrated versions of John Williams' classic themes from 1978's Superman: The Movie, as well as an opening sequence that delivered the same narration as the 1950s Adventures of Superman television series (but by the narrator from Super Friends).
Warner Home Video, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Family Entertainmentreleased the series as a 2-disc set on November 3, 2009.
Superman at IMDbSuperman Homepage – episode guide and screenshotsRuby-Spears Productions (also known as Ruby-Spears Enterprises) was a Burbank, California-based entertainment production company that specialized in animation; with another branch in Rome, Italy. The firm was founded in 1977 by veteran writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Both Ruby and Spears...
Ruby-Spears Productions was a studio founded by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, who created Scooby Doo and other classic cartoons. Learn about their shows that were cancelled too soon, such as Fangface, Goldie Gold and Action Jack, and Thundarr the Barbarian.
Ruby-Spears was an American animation house that was one of the more prolific animation studios of the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Studio founders Joe Ruby and Ken Spears started out as sound editors at Hanna-Barbera in the 1960s, eventually moving up the studio ladder into writing positions.
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Nov 19, 2020 · Joe Ruby, “Scooby-Doo’s” co-creator and Mr. Spears’s longtime business partner, died in August. Mr. Spears was just out of the Navy when a friend’s father, William Hanna, offered him a job...
