Aladdin
Aladdin is a 1992 film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based off the story from the Middle Eastern collection of folktales, One Thousand and One Nights.
It was followed by the 1994 Direct-To-Video movie The Return of Jafar. A Disney Afternoon series, following the adventures of Aladdin and friends in and out of Agrabah, was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series first premiered on February 6, 1994 and finished on November 25, 1995, with another Direct-To-Video, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, closing the television and film series on August 13, 1996. A PlayStation video game, Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge was released on December 1, 2000 and featured much of the television series' voice cast.
The property also had a series by Marvel Comics.
Cast Members
The following Gargoyles cast members appeared in the Aladdin animated series. They are listed in alphabetical order.
- James Avery - Haroud Hazi Bin
- Jeff Bennett - Amin Damoola
- Michael Bell - Aziz
- Val Bettin - Sultan of Agrabah
- Cam Clarke - Man seeking a village patsy
- Jim Cummings - Razoul
- Tim Curry - Caliph Kapok and Amok Mon-Ra
- Elizabeth Daily - Bud
- J.D. Daniels - Wahid
- Keith David - Minos and King Zahbar
- Michael Dorn - Brisbane
- Héctor Elizondo - Malcho
- Pat Fraley - Cake Vendor
- Matt Frewer - Chaos
- Ed Gilbert - Fasir
- Dorian Harewood - Captain Mirk
- Charity James - Fatima
- Tony Jay - Khartoum
- Clyde Kusatsu - Additional voices
- Tress MacNeille - Pharabu and Queen Deluca
- Rob Paulsen - Omar
- CCH Pounder - The Oracle
- Peter Renaday - Merchant and Village Leader
- John Rhys-Davies - Cassim
- Kath Soucie - Ethereal
- B.J. Ward - Street Mother
- Frank Welker - Abu and Xerxes
- April Winchell - Woman delivering map
Additionally Tad Stones was the producer and executive producer of the series.
Jamie Thomason was the voice director for the series, as well as The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves.
Carl Johnson was the composer for episodes 10, 32, 36, 45, 59, 66, 70, 75, 78, 80-81, 84-86 and Aladdin and the King of Thieves. He also did additional music for The Return of Jafar.
Marc Perlman was the music editor for episodes 3, 6-7, 10-11, 13, 21-23, 30-31, 43, 45, 47-49, 51, 57-59, 62, 65-66 and 71-73.
Julie Morgavi was talent coordinator for episodes 37, 44, 46, 49-50, 55, 58, 61-62, 65, 70-71, 73, 75, 77, 82-83, 85-86 and Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Vic Cook did the storyboard for episodes 1, 12, 59, 61 and The Return of Jafar. He was also the storyboard artist for episodes 9, 13, 24, 39, 42, 49, 57 and Aladdin and the King of Thieves.
Greg Guler did the prop design for episodes 13, 24 and The Return of Jafar. He was also the prop designer for episodes 1, 3, 6, 10, 12, 15-17, and "Raiders of the Lost Shark" which he was also the character designer of.
Laura Perrotta was the production assistant for episodes 15-16, 24, 30, 35 and 56.
Kazuo Terada was the unit director for "Love at First Sprite", "Vocal Hero", "The Return of Malcho" and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, as well as an animation director for "The Return of Jafar".
Saburo Hashimoto was an animation director of episodes 11, 39, 41, 43, The Return of Jafar and "Fowl Weather" which he directed. Hashimoto also directed "That Stinking Feeling" and was unit director for episodes 1-2, 18, 31 and 48.
Takamitsu Kawamura was a unit director for "Getting the Bugs Out", "Mudder's Day", "Witch Way Did She Go" and "Vocal Hero". He was also an animation director for The Return of Jafar.
Kazuyoshi Takeuchi was the animation director for "Mudder's Day", "Love at First Sprite", "The Return of Malcho" as well as the movies The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves.
Jan Strnad was the writer of episodes 2, 4, 11-12, 28, 41 and 71.
Roy Sato was the animator for The Return of Jafar and the animated series episode "Vocal Hero".
Greg Weisman was the director of series development. [1]
References to Aladdin in Gargoyles
In "The Mirror" when Demona tells Puck to get rid of humanity, the trickster tells her it's not Aladdin's lamp to demonstrate his limits. Though more accurate to other tellings of Aladdin, the line was made to reference the Disney Afternoon series as it aired during the same time as Gargoyles. [2]
In the SLG comic series stories "Masque and Bash, Elisa Maza dressed up as Princess Jasmine for the 1996 Halloween party at the Eyrie Building.
Tidbits
The Aladdin episode "The Animal Kingdom" is similar to "The New Olympians" as both deal with a human character (Aladdin and Elisa) happening upon an area inhabitant by another race of sentient beings, only to be kept prisoner for fear of said human to prevent them from informing others of their existence. Both end with the human characters proving themselves, albeit in the case of Gargoyles, Elisa is seen as an exception to some of New Olympus while others (according to The New Olympians spin-off) remain fully prejudiced towards humanity. Additionally, both episodes included Michael Dorn voicing characters (Brisbane and Taurus) that are slow to trust any humans.
The Goliath Chronicles episode "Seeing Isn't Believing" had a noticeably different animation design, which included Elisa coincidentally looking more like Jasmine.
