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Mother Goose and Grimm (TV series)

The story

Mother Goose and Grimm, also known as Grimmy for the second season, is an American animated television series that premiered September 14, 1991, on CBS. The show is an adaptation of Mike Peters's comic strip of the same name. The Saturday morning cartoon was produced by Bob Curtis, and written by Mark Evanier. The second season contains reruns of previous season episodes.

Cast

Charlie Brill – Grimmy
Greg Burson – Attila
Eddie Deezen – Ham, Sam, Cam, and Pam
Mitzi McCall – Mother Goose

Additional voices

Pete Barbutti
Gregg Berger
Jack Burns
Steve DeVorkin
Harlan Ellison
June Foray
Stan Freberg
Tress MacNeille
Howard Morris
Hal Rayle
Neil Ross

Reception

Charles Solomon of the Los Angeles Times praised the series for "preserving the look" of the comic strip, and for "[having] a good sense of the characters' personalities", but was disappointed with the "flat timing and pedestrian direction" of the program.