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1975 American TV special

Yankee Doodle Cricket
Written by	Chuck Jones George Selden
Directed by	Chuck Jones
Starring	Les Tremayne Mel Blanc June Foray
Music by	Dean Elliott
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Running time	24 minutes
Original release
Release	January 16, 1975 (1975-01-16)

Yankee Doodle Cricket is a 1975 American television animated special directed by American animator Chuck Jones. June Foray was the voice of Queen Bee. It originally aired on ABC on January 16, 1975. The special was released on VHS and LaserDisc by Family Home Entertainment, and it was released on VHS again in 1999 and on DVD in 2002 and 2007 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Plot

The War of Independence has begun, and Tucker the Mouse, Harry the Cat and Chester C. Cricket are indispensable to the American colonies' effort to free themselves from the rule of the despotic English king. Harry and Tucker help Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence. Chester creates the tune for "Yankee Doodle Dandy". And all the animals—including John and Marsha, the lightning bugs—help Paul Revere spread the message that The British are coming.

Cast

Les Tremayne as Chester C. Cricket / Harry the Cat / John the Lightning Bug
Mel Blanc as Tucker the Mouse / Rattlesnake / Bald Eagle
June Foray as Marsha the Lightning Bug / Queen Bee

References

Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 349. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 460–461. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved March 27, 2020.

External links

Yankee Doodle Cricket at IMDb

Chuck Jones

Short subjects

1930s	The Night Watchman (1938) Dog Gone Modern (1939) Robin Hood Makes Good (1939) Prest-O Change-O (1939) Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939) Naughty but Mice (1939) Old Glory (1939) Snowman's Land (1939) Little Brother Rat (1939) The Little Lion Hunter (1939) The Good Egg (1939) Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939) The Curious Puppy (1939)
1940s	Mighty Hunters (1940) Elmer's Candid Camera (1940) Sniffles Takes a Trip (1940) Tom Thumb in Trouble (1940) The Egg Collector (1940) Ghost Wanted (1940) Stage Fright (1940) Good Night Elmer (1940) Bedtime for Sniffles (1940) Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941) Sniffles Bells the Cat (1941) Joe Glow, the Firefly (1941) Porky's Ant (1941) Toy Trouble (1941) Porky's Prize Pony (1941) Inki and the Lion (1941) Snow Time for Comedy (1941) The Brave Little Bat (1941) Saddle Silly (1941) Porky's Midnight Matinee (1941) The Bird Came C.O.D. (1942) Porky's Cafe (1942) Conrad the Sailor (1942) Dog Tired (1942) The Draft Horse (1942) Hold the Lion, Please (1942) The Squawkin' Hawk (1942) Fox Pop (1942) The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942) My Favorite Duck (1942) Case of the Missing Hare (1942) To Duck or Not to Duck (1943) Flop Goes the Weasel (1943) Super-Rabbit (1943) The Unbearable Bear (1943) The Aristo-Cat (1943) Coming!! Snafu (1943) Wackiki Wabbit (1943) Spies (1943) The Infantry Blues (1943) Fin'n Catty (1943) Inki and the Minah Bird (1943) Point Rationing of Foods (1943) Tom Turk and Daffy (1944) Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944) Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike (1944) The Weakly Reporter (1944) A Lecture on Camouflage (1944) Going Home (1944, unreleased) Gas (1944) Angel Puss (1944) Outpost (1944) From Hand to Mouse (1944) Lost and Foundling (1944) Hell-Bent for Election (1944) Odor-able Kitty (1945) Private Snafu in The Aleutians—Isles of Enchantment (Oh Brother!) (1945) Trap Happy Porky (1945) It's Murder She Says (1945) Hare Conditioned (1945) Fresh Airedale (1945) No Buddy Atoll (1945) Hare Tonic (1945) Secrets of the Caribbean (1945) Quentin Quail (1946) Hush My Mouse (1946) Hair-Raising Hare (1946) Fair and Worm-er (1946) Roughly Squeaking (1946) Scent-imental Over You (1947) Inki at the Circus (1947) A Pest in the House (1947) House Hunting Mice (1947) Little Orphan Airedale (1947) A Feather in His Hare (1948) What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948) Rabbit Punch (1948) Haredevil Hare (1948) You Were Never Duckier (1948) Daffy Dilly (1948) My Bunny Lies over the Sea (1948) Scaredy Cat (1948) So Much for So Little (1949) Awful Orphan (1949) Mississippi Hare (1949) Mouse Wreckers (1949) The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949) Long-Haired Hare (1949) Often an Orphan (1949) Fast and Furry-ous (1949) Frigid Hare (1949) For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) Bear Feat (1949) Rabbit Hood (1949)
1950s	The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) The Ducksters (1950) Dog Gone South (1950) 8 Ball Bunny (1950) The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (1950) Homeless Hare (1950) Caveman Inki (1950) Rabbit of Seville (1950) Two's A Crowd (1950) Bunny Hugged (1951) Scent-imental Romeo (1951) A Hound for Trouble (1951) Rabbit Fire (1951) Chow Hound (1951) The Wearing of the Grin (1951) Cheese Chasers (1951) A Bear for Punishment (1951) Drip-Along Daffy (1951) Operation: Rabbit (1952) Feed the Kitty (1952) Little Beau Pepé (1952) Water, Water Every Hare (1952) Beep, Beep (1952) The Hasty Hare (1952) Going! Going! Gosh! (1952) Mouse-Warming (1952) Rabbit Seasoning (1952) Terrier Stricken (1952) Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952) Don't Give Up the Sheep (1953) Forward March Hare (1953) Kiss Me Cat (1953) Duck Amuck (1953) Much Ado About Nutting (1953) Wild Over You (1953) Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953) Bully for Bugs (1953) Zipping Along (1953) Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953) Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953) Punch Trunk (1953) Feline Frame-Up (1954) No Barking (1954) The Cat's Bah (1954) Claws for Alarm (1954) Bewitched Bunny (1954) Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954) From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1954) My Little Duckaroo (1954) Sheep Ahoy (1954) Baby Buggy Bunny (1954) Beanstalk Bunny (1955) Ready, Set, Zoom! (1955) Past Perfumance (1955) Rabbit Rampage (1955) Double or Mutton (1955) Jumpin' Jupiter (1955) Knight-mare Hare (1955) Two Scent's Worth (1955) Guided Muscle (1955) One Froggy Evening (1955) 90 Day Wondering (1956) Bugs' Bonnets (1956) Broom-Stick Bunny (1956) Rocket Squad (1956) Heaven Scent (1956) Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956) Barbary Coast Bunny (1956) Rocket-Bye Baby (1956) Deduce, You Say! (1956) There They Go-Go-Go! (1956) To Hare Is Human (1956) Scrambled Aches (1957) Ali Baba Bunny (1957) Go Fly a Kit (1957) Boyhood Daze (1957) Steal Wool (1957) What's Opera, Doc? (1957) Zoom and Bored (1957) Touché and Go (1957) Drafty, Isn't It? (1957) Robin Hood Daffy (1958) Hare-Way to the Stars (1958) Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958) To Itch His Own (1958) Hook, Line and Stinker (1958) Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958) Cat Feud (1958) Baton Bunny (1959) Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959) Wild About Hurry (1959)
1960s	Fastest with the Mostest (1960) Who Scent You? (1960) Rabbit's Feat (1960) Ready, Woolen and Able (1960) Hopalong Casualty (1960) High Note (1960) Zip 'N Snort (1961) The Mouse on 57th Street (1961) The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961) Lickety-Splat (1961) A Scent of the Matterhorn (1961) Compressed Hare (1961) Beep Prepared (1961) Nelly's Folly (1961) A Sheep in the Deep (1962) Zoom at the Top (1962) Louvre Come Back to Me! (1962) Martian Through Georgia (1962) I Was a Teenage Thumb (1963) Now Hear This (1963) Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963) Mad as a Mars Hare (1963) Transylvania 6-5000 (1963) To Beep or Not to Beep (1963) Tom and Jerry (cartoon shorts, 1963–1967) War and Pieces (1964) The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) The Bear That Wasn't (1967)
1980s	Spaced Out Bunny (1980) Soup or Sonic (1980)
1990s	Chariots of Fur (1994) Another Froggy Evening (1995) Superior Duck (1996) Pullet Surprise (1997) From Hare to Eternity (1997) Father of the Bird (1997)

Television
specials

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
The Pogo Special Birthday Special (1969)
Horton Hears a Who! (1970)
The Cat in the Hat (1971)
The Cricket in Times Square (1973)
A Very Merry Cricket (1973)
Yankee Doodle Cricket (1975)
The White Seal (1975)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)
Mowgli's Brothers (1976)
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (1976)
Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court (1978)
Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper (1978)
Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979)
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980)
Daffy Duck’s Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)
Peter and the Wolf (1995)

Feature films

Gay Purr-ee (1962, screenplay)
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, animation consultant)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, animation sequences)
Stay Tuned (1992, animation sequence)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993, animation supervisor)

Television series

The Bugs Bunny Show (1960-1962, new animated sequences)
Off to See the Wizard (1967-1968, animated sequences)
Curiosity Shop (1971-1972)

Books

Daffy Duck for President (1997)

Characters

Other works

v t e Works by George Selden
Chester Cricket and His Friends books	The Cricket in Times Square (1960) Tucker's Countryside (1969) Harry Cat's Pet Puppy (1974) Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride (1981) Chester Cricket's New Home (1983) Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse (1986) The Old Meadow (1987)
Other books	The Genie of Sutton Place (1973)
Adaptations	A Very Merry Cricket (1973) Yankee Doodle Cricket (1975)

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