Super Mario World

Super Mario World is an animated television series based on the video game of the same name by Nintendo. It is the third animated series based on the Mario video game series. Thirteen episodes of the show were aired as part of a block with Captain N: The Game Master, called Captain N and the New Super Mario World, on NBC. The animation was provided by Pacific Rim Productions. Synopsis The animated series featured the same voice actors who had performed in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. Unlike its two predecessors, Toad is completely absent in this series (as he was in the Super Mario World game). An exclusive character not featured in the games called Oogtar, a clumsy caveboy, appears in his place (both characters voiced by John Stocker) and Yoshi appears as one of the main characters in the show. Episodes mainly focused on the Mario Bros. dealing with schemes by King Koopa, and made use of new elements introduced by the video game within the story, though involvement of the "real world" was reduced to mere references for this series. Due to copyright restrictions, no licensed music was required for this show, leaving it completely untouched for syndication and home media releases. Certain episodes of the series were created to meet the newly implemented guidelines set forth by the Children's Television Act. Notably, Super Mario World is the only installment in the Mario cartoon trilogy that has been released on home media without any edits to the soundtrack. Throughout each of the three series, various episodes feature brief, dialogue-free action sequences that have a song playing over them. In the original broadcast versions of the first two series, these were in-house covers of actual popular songs from artists such as Michael Jackson and Milli Vanilli. Due to copyright issues, these songs were later replaced with generic background music in reruns and home video releases.