Chip 'N Dale's Rescure Rangers Volume One DVD Review
Posted by Neil Borenstein on 01.17.2006
Twenty-seven action-packed episodes of this great Disney classic!
Twenty-seven action-packed episodes of this great Disney classic!
Sometimes, some crimes
Go slipping through the cracks.
But these two, gumshoes
Are picking up the slack.
There's no case too big
No case too small.
When you need help
Just call …
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale's
Rescue Rangers
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale
When there's danger.
No, no, it never fails.
Once their involved,
Somehow whatever's wrong,
Gets solved.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale's
Rescue Rangers
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale
When there's danger.
No, no, it never fails.
They'll take the clues,
And find the wheres,
Why, and whos.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale's
Rescue Rangers
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale
When there's danger.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale!
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One of the great Disney cartoons from 1989 has come to DVD with 27 fun-filled episodes.
Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers started off as a television special called Rescue Rangers: To The Rescue. It began as a half hour program on Disney on March 5, 1989 and ran its last episode on November 19, 1990, compiling a total of 65 episodes.
Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers is a cartoon I remember watching as child, and I can honestly attest to the fact that is was one of my favorites. The crew in Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers included the following characters:
Chip
Chip is the Indiana Jones figure of the group. He is very much into the idea of the detective, and is the more responsible of the two chipmunks.
Dale
Dale is the goof-off chipmunk of the group. He is into comic books and television, especially when it involves monsters or other fantasy creatures of some sort.
Gadget
Gadget is the female inventor mouse in the Rescue Rangers. She is constantly creating gadgets, as per her name, for use by the Rescue Rangers, including modes of transportation. She is also the object of desire for both Chip and Dale.
Monterey Jacks
Monterey Jack is the real adventurer of the group. He is a wily veteran, and has been in his fair share of challenging predicaments in his life. He has an amazing desire for cheese, a food that instantly hypnotizes him until he can wrap his mouse mouth around it.
Zipper
Zipper is the small fly of the Rescue Rangers. Where he is short in stature, he is big in ability, and is the Rescue Ranger looked at instantly when the rest of the crew is in a tight bind.
In this review of the Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers Volume One DVD, I have given very long and detailed description of the first eleven episodes, and then briefly go over the technical aspects of the DVD itself.
Disc One
Episode One-Catteries Not Included Original Airdate- March 6, 1989
We begin at a police department, with our fine collection of friends sitting atop a ceiling of Sergeant Spinelli. Monterey Jack the mouse, Zipper the fly, and our main duo of case cracking chipmunks – Chip and Dale. As they sit on the fan, they are looking down at the station hoping to stumble upon some cases. At least Chip is, while the rest of the gang fools around and studies the wonders of making static electricity. Monterey Jack smells cheese from within the sandwich of Spinelli, something that obsesses Monterey Jack, and mostly all mice on this planet – real or cartoon. He manages to slip the slice of Swiss out of the sandwich after he and the rest come off the ceiling fan to the floor beneath. After Monterey Jacks gets the cheese out, a little girl walks in searching for her lost cat, Spunky. Spinelli says that it's out of their jurisdiction, but that he would tell the officers to keep an eye out for the little kitty after the girl began to cry. In other words, they weren't going to be able to help her. That's where Chip ‘N' Dale come to the rescue. The group slingshots themselves off of mousetraps to their home base, Rescue Rangers Headquarters, on top of a tree, and meet up with Gadget Hackwrench, the female character of the bunch who is a mouse that both Chip and Dale have a strong attraction to. Gadget was working on the Ranger Plane that the group flies around in to perform their rescuing. The group splits up, with Chip, Zipper, and Gadget heading over to the house of the little girl to look for some clues on the missing cat while Monterey Jack and Dale go off on their own in a different direction. Upon arriving at the girl's home, Chip, Gadget, and Zipper find claw marks and foot prints that are way too large to be that of a cat, but definitely gives a little insight into what occurred. Elsewhere, Dale and Monterey Jack are on the case, attempting to look for clues, and they run into a hoard of mice partying it up in a street alley that is normally occupied by cats. When asked about the lack of cats, the mice speak up and say that they ran away a few days back. Dale and Monterey Jack build a wooden cat that they can go inside and control, and they end up encountering a robotic dog, eyes beaming with light, ready to attack. The robotic dog chases after the wooden cat, and Dale and Monterey Jack flee in the other direction to try and escape the robotic dog. Just then, the other set of rescuers are flying above, and Zipper notices the wooden cat and robotic dog fight. Dale and Monterey Jack fly out of the wooden cat right near the Ranger Plane, and come crashing back down, where Dale ends up falling into the mouth of the robotic dog. Zipper, Chip, and Gadget come down as Monterey Jack shocks the robotic dog into submission, and the rest of the crew unscrews the back latch of the robotic dog to slide Dale out of it. They realize that the robotic dog is being used to capture cats! They decide to fix up the robotic dog, with Gadget doing most of the work, and ride inside of it to find out just where it came from. They end up at the main lair where the robotic dogs meet up, and inside they find a swarm of cats being held inside cages. The chipmunks and co. exit the robotic dog they were riding via the rear, and Professor Norton Nimnul, who masterminds the whole operation of cat-nabbing, comes out to see what his robotic dogs have brought for him. He starts up mechanical arms, which grabs the cats out of the robotic dogs, and places them straight into cages. Zipper flies down to the rest of the crew to tell them that he found Spunky, the little girl's missing cat. They release Spunky from the cage he is being held in, and just when Chip thinks it's a good idea to jet, Gadget wants to rescue the rest of the cats being held hostage, as they are the "Rescue Rangers." Women! Zipper drags out the remote that the professor was using to start the mechanical arms, and before Chip could get out the words to warn against it, Dale starts pushing buttons randomly, which activated the machine, and lifts up Spunky, Chip, and Dale, and begins to rub them with pads to spark static electricity. The professor comes out and throws the cats into a pit because he wants to use that method to start static electricity from the cat's fur to induce a lightning bolt. Spunky jabs his teeth into the backend of the professor before he can do any damage, but with the arms already flailing, the crew has to run around to escape the arms. Eventually, the arms end up grabbing one of the robotic dogs still on attack by mistake, squishes it into a basketball, and nails a shot into a waste receptacle that's a fair distance away. The professor isn't done, and with remote in hand, has one of the arms lift a hammer above the head of the Rescue Rangers, but before he can push the button to shift the hammer down on top of them, Spunky comes to the rescue again and attaches to the butt of the professor. The other robotic dogs follow, and attacks the professor by mistake while in the process of trying to go after the cat. The robotic dogs ends up eating the professor, and that's all she wrote. The group, along with Spunky, escape from the lair, and head back to the girl's house to return Spunky, and bring a happy ending to a closed case.
Episode Two-Three Men and a Booby Original Airdate- April 30, 1989
At the grocery store, the crew is doing a little shopping. Dale is looking at the shopping list, with Monterey Jack right behind him, pushing a wheel barrel. Chip is at another part of the grocery story trying to lasso up some peanuts with a rope, when Dale interrupts him, and an entire stack of peanuts falls from the bin onto the chipmunks. The grocer scoops up the peanuts, while Chip and Dale run to hide inside of an egg carton. A large purple bird happens to be inside of the grocery store looking for her egg, and opens up the carton with Chip and Dale sitting inside. She tells them about her missing booby egg, and the grocer notices she's in there and runs after Mrs. Booby with a broom. Chip and Dale go to rescue her from the wrath of the grocer, with the assistance of Monterey Jack, and the three of them, along with Mrs. Booby, manage to escape the grocery store and fly back to the Rescue Rangers Headquarters. She tells the crew, now joined by Gadget and Zipper, about the eggnapping of her egg, and the Rescue Rangers agree to help her out. They manage to find the aircraft that Mrs. Booby recalled snatching her egg in the middle of a large estate owned by Mr. Dumpty, and guarded by two hawks named Bruiser and Cruiser. Mr. Dumpty arrives at his estate in a nice looking car, and the Rescue Rangers sneak in under his car while letting off the balloon atop the Ranger Plane to act as a diversion for Bruiser and Cruiser. Mr. Dumpty is met by his butler at the front of his house, and when he enters, he is eager to find the newest addition to his egg collection – a booby egg. He finds it, admires it, and then puts it on display in the room where he keeps all of the eggs within his collection. The boob that Mrs. Booby is grabs the egg off of the display stand after Mr. Dumpty had pushed a button to set the security alarm, and the buzzer went off, which sent Mr. Dumpty into a mass hysteria to get the Rescue Rangers and Mrs. Booby off of his newest possession. Mrs. Booby sacrifices herself, and sends the Rescue Rangers off with her egg, while she deals with Mr. Dumpty and the butler. The Rescue Rangers come under attack from Bruiser and Cruiser, but manage to get passed them as the two hawks drive themselves head first into the ground while attempting to stop the chipmunks and co. Mrs. Booby ends up being caught back at the estate in the meantime. Back at Rescue Rangers Headquarters, they need to figure out a way to elude the hawks again so they can return for Mrs. Booby. While Gadget figures out a way for them to do so, Chip, Dale, Monterey Jack, and Zipper watch over the egg. They do a fine job, until one day, legs sprout out from the egg, and it maneuvers away from the crew and they now have to rescue it as it walks the limbs of the trees surrounding the Headquarters. The egg manages to walk itself inside the funnel that attached to a slide traveling into Rescue Rangers Headquarter, and it bangs into a wall after the conclusion of the slide, thus prompting its hatching. After a failed attempt to find worms to feed the baby booby, Zipper comes back with a bunch of seeds, a resourceful move after the baby bird just tried to eat Zipper. Back at the estate, Mr. Dumpty is trying to force Mrs. Booby to hatch eggs, but she is holding out. The Rescue Rangers, along with the baby booby, cleverly sneak back into the estate while hiding out in an Easter basket, meant to be a gift for Mr. Dumpty. After Mr. Dumpty and his butler leave the room for some breakfast, the baby and mother reunite, and the Rescue Rangers free Mrs. Booby from the cage she is being held in. Mr. Dumty and the butler come back into the room to see this occur, and he freaks out and has his butler go after them. They toss jelly beans at the two, and Mr. Dumpty calls for backup – Bruiser and Cruiser. The Rescue Rangers are chased into a room filled with eggs, but manage to get out of there, and with the help of a vacuum cleaner, take care of the two hawks. Mr. Dumpty and the butler are still in the way, but the Rescue Rangers turn up the heat in the room with all of the eggs, and they all begin to hatch, sending Mr. Dumpty bonkers. The Rescue Rangers and the mother and son booby birds escape from the estate, and put a happy ending on another Rescue Rangers' case.
Episode Three-The Carpetsnaggers Original Airdate- May 7, 1989
We start with a boy installing some carpet into the doghouse of his pet, Elmer. As the boy heads inside of his house, and Elmer is lying inside of his newly carpeted domain, the doghouse lifts off the ground and flies away. We cut to Officers Kirby and Muldoon as they patrol the streets looking for action, with the Rescue Rangers sitting stop their police vehicle trying to do the same thing. Both parties notice the flying doghouse above, and a car chase ensues between the police vehicle and the flying doghouse. The car crashed into a fire hydrant, leaving the Rescue Rangers to go after the doghouse. They hop onto the back of birds so they can fly after the doghouse, and eventually the doghouse crashed and got stuck on a tall building. The flying carpet tries to escape, and the dog snatched onto it with its teeth. The carpet is able to get free from Elmer's grasp, however, and the Rescue Rangers make it a top priority to get Elmer out of the doghouse, and onto ground level. They manage to get him free, and walk back to Rescue Rangers Headquarters, where Elmer thanks them, and heads back to his home. The Rescue Rangers are now on the case of the flying carpet. They learn more about the case at the police station where Sergeant Spinelli tells Kirby and Muldoon about a case of rug problems occurring. The Rescue Rangers figure they have to look at the files at the station, and Gadget finds out from the files that all of the rugs came from Ali Bimbo's Carpet Emporium. They watch as the owner loads rugs into the back of a van. One of the rugs flies into the back of the van, and then he drives away, startling the Rescue Rangers, who now realize where they need to direct their attention. After a brief scene at the Headquarters where they pack up some stuff, including Monterey Jack's magnet, the Rescue Rangers are watching as the owner piles up the belongings of a rich man on top of a carpet in his own home. As the owner and rich man quarrel in another room, the Rescue Rangers take a look at the rug where the belongings are being piled, and Gadget notices circuits within the fibers of the carpet. The carpet begins to take off and closes with Dale and Gadget inside. It opens while flying outside, and Chip and Monterey Jack follow in the plane with Zipper flying on his own. While Dale, Gadget, and Zipper (who caught up) search the carpet they are on, Dale falls off, but lands on another carpet flying beneath. Zipper and Gadget follow him down, and the other two Rescue Rangers catch up to the carpet, just in time to notice a hoard of rugs stealing items from various location. Gadget labeled them as "Criminal Carpets." They head to the backroom of Ali Bimbo's Carpet Emporium, and notice that all of the flying carpets are there, with a bunch of stolen goodies on top of all of them. The owner walks in, and takes off his disguise, only to reveal that he is Professor Nimnul. Nimnul sets down the carpets, which had been levitating slightly above the ground, and he surveyed his new treasures. Just then, a rich customer named Vonda Clutchcoin walked in, and the Rescue Rangers watch as Nimnul agrees to carpet the woman's entire house that night for a party she is having. Clutchcoin notices the task is a demanding one, and claims that money is of no object, something that excites Nimnul. Nimnul goes to the backroom, and begins to plan his rip-off of Clutchcoin by making more rugs. The Rescue Rangers end up getting caught inside of the rug as they are on the machine when Nimnul puts it together – only Zipper doesn't become part of the rug. At Clutchcoin's mansion, the Rescue Rangers manage to get themselves out of the rug, and plan to nail the rug down while Gadget works on a machine to disable the rugs. Nimnul ventures out to the mansion to see his work in action, and notices the Rescue Rangers nailing down his flying carpets. He orders one of his rugs to go after them, and the rug ends up catching them inside itself. The rug is ordered to fly up, and it does, but Gadget uses her machine to disable the rug, and the rug falls to the ground. The Rescue Rangers fall into a chimney, and land back inside Clutchcoin's mansion. Nimnul, sitting in his vehicle with the controls to activate his carpets, calls the carpets, but they are nailed down to the ground. He increases the power, and the rugs end up lifting the entire mansion off the ground. Nimnul starts his car, and tries to drive away from the entire situation as he sees it getting out of hand, but the house follows him. The Rescue Rangers try to shift the weight inside the house by having Monterey Jack scare the people into moving around, and as this is occurring, the house and Nimnul's vehicle end up passing by Officers Kirby and Muldoon. The house eventually lands, and as the guests inside leave in displeasure, the two officers enter the house to find Nimnul and all of the stolen belongings inside. This was one more successful case for the Rescue Rangers.
Episode Four-Piratsy Under The Seas Original Airdate- March 5, 1989
Chip wakes up inside Rescue Rangers Headquarters and finds the place to be a complete mess. He scrapes through a pile of peanut shells to find Dale asleep underneath them. Chip fights with Dale over making the mess, but they stop temporarily when Gadget walks into the room. Dale ends up being forced to remove the trash, and subsequently falls into the waste receptacle, while very little of the garbage actually goes in there with him. Chip begins to laugh, until he notices the garbage man emptying the receptacle into the back of a garbage truck, and the Rescue Rangers go on the mission to rescue Dale as the truck drives away with him in the back. As they go on the chase to rescue Dale, they end up riding a ramp that flies them into the back of the truck, joining Dale in the ride. They end up on a platform filled with a mound of garbage; the platform attached to a ship traveling across the water. Dale is screwing around atop the mound of garbage, and gets part of his body stuck in a clear bottle. While trying to gets himself out of the bottle, he hops around on the mound of trash, and soon falls on top of Chip, getting both of the chipmunks completely stuck inside the bottle. Soon thereafter, a barrel comes to the surface, and when the top pops open, an upside-down pirate flag is put up. A net shoots out from the barrel, and catches a large amount of garbage from the pile on the platform, and mixed in with the garbage that is caught is the clear bottle with Chip and Dale inside. The net pulls them underneath the water, and they notice an upside-down ship with an opening, seemingly where the net is headed. They paddle their legs to direct the bottle upward, and break through the top of the net as an escape. Unfortunately, an octopus is waiting in the wings, and he grabs the bottle with one of his tentacles. They manage to break free from the clutch of the octopus, and float inside of the opening to the ship. From a higher surface, a bunch of rats notice the chipmunks inside of the bottle, and toss down a rope to get them up to the surface with them. Once Chip and Dale reach the surface, they are greeted by the Pirats (pronounced Pie-Rats); led by Jolly Roger. The Pirats ask Chip and Dale to join them in a feast, which turns out to be the garbage they had previously caught in their net. The chipmunks do end up joining the feast, mostly because of Dale. The Pirats clear the table simply by tossing everything to the floor, much to the delight of Dale, who had been chastised by Chip previously in the episode for making such a mess back at Rescue Rangers Headquarters. The Pirats head off on a treasure hunt, which they ask Dale to lead for them, and he kindly accepts the mission. He is given a compass and a treasure map, and they are led to a room with treasure inside – surprise, surprise. It turns out that the treasure inside this room is the same treasure they have found every week for the past 200 years. Chip wants to leave, as he wanted to do since they entered the ship, but the Pirats won't let them now that they have seen the treasure. The Pirats are going to force the chipmunks to remain with them on the ship for the rest of their lives. Back to the other half of the Rescue Rangers crew, Gadget has finished building a submarine type device to get herself, Monterey Jack, and Zipper under water. They head under water, and end up in the Pirats' ship, but soon encounter the same octopus that Chip and Dale were having problems with. They evacuate the submarine by getting out of the bottle that was attached to it, and float up inside of a different part of the ship – the treasure room. They still have to fend off the octopus who is still on the attack, but Gadget eventually pokes him with a staff lying in the pile of treasure, and he finally goes away. Gadget tells Monterey Jack and Zipper to go look for Chip and Dale while she works on putting together another submarine for the Rescue Rangers to get out on. Monterey Jack and Zipper find some of the Pirats swimming, and then they enter the room where Jolly Roger and the other Pirats are talking to Chip and Dale, who are locked in a bird cage. Jolly Roger tells them that their captain told the Pirats to protect his treasure until he returns to the ship. Monterey Jack cleverly dresses up like a pirate, along with Zipper dressing like a parrot on his shoulder, and he claims to be the captain of the ship, returning like he said he would. The Pirats go to get Young Ned, who is the only one who could properly identify the captain. Young Ned turns out to be an old and senile rat, who verifies Monterey Jack as the captain even after it is clear as day that he is not. The Pirats free Chip and Dale from the cage, and after getting Gadget, the Rescue Rangers are prepared to leave. Monterey Jack, still dressed as the captain, tells Jolly Roger to continuing guarding his treasure. Young Ned brings out a large hunk of cheese, asking if the captain wants it after he had guarded it for all these years, and Monterey Jack's cheese fixation send him into a craze. He shakes, and in the process, all of the pirate clothes fall off his body, and the Pirats come to the realization that he is not the captain. They capture the Rescue Rangers, and send them to walk the plank (which is a sword as opposed to a board). The plank is above water, and Jolly Roger calls for Billy the Squid, which just so happens to be the octopus the Rescue Rangers were having problems with prior. Zipper manages to get free from the rope that was holding the crew together, and the rest of them end up getting rattled off the plank when Jolly Roger taps it with his sword. Monterey Jack's tail gets caught on the plank sword, however, and they are all hanging from it, with Billy the Squid grabbing onto them as well. Zipper flies in front of Billy the Squid, causing him to sneeze, and the Rescue Rangers are sent flying in the air, along with the sword that cuts the rope and gets them free. They grab onto a rope attached to a latch above the head of Billy the Squid, and pull down, which releases the garbage that was collected before onto the head of the octopus. They then climb up the latch, and figure out a way to get out of this predicament before the Pirats can come get them again. Gadget comes up with the idea to unload the treasure off of the ship so that it will rise to the surface. They figure they can do this by using one of the cannons to blast the treasure off, and Monterey Jack and Zipper are in charge of fending the pirates off while Gadget, Chip, and Dale perform that task. Once they shoot the cannon off, the ship rises to the top, and turns itself right-side up above the water. The Rescue Rangers are let off the ship, and the Pirats go on their merry way to cruising the waters for their next adventure.
Episode Five-Adventures in Squirrelsitting Original Airdate- April 9, 1989
The Rescue Rangers are chasing Fat Cat down a sidewalk as he has possession of the Maltese Mouse – a golden statue of a mouse with large diamonds in it. The Rescue Rangers are trying to catch up to him in order to get it back. He tries to lose the crew in traffic, but to no avail. Gadget uses a plunger gun to clasp onto the Maltese Mouse in Fat Cat's arms, and reels it in to the barrel of the Rescue Rangers. Both parties hit a ramp in the sidewalk, and the Rescue Rangers go flying and crashing down into the house of a squirrel family; causing the house to become a mess. Outside of the house, sitting atop a limb of the tree is Fat Cat, and he has the two child squirrels, Tammy and Bink. He uses them as ransom for the Rescue Rangers to hand over the Maltese Mouse. They do, and Fat Cat drops Tammy and Bink, leaving Chip and Dale to save them on the way down. Fat Cat escapes with the Maltese Mouse as this occurs. The Rescue Rangers and the squirrels go back inside the house, and Mrs. Squirrel panics since she is having company later on and the place is a disaster. The Rescue Rangers, led by Gadget, offer to baby-sit the child squirrels while Mrs. Squirrel cleans the place up. She accepts, and Tammy agrees to go along with it because she has a crush on Chip, and calls him Chipper. They bring the girls back to Rescue Rangers Headquarters to watch them. Chip, Gadget, and Tammy go off on their own to look at Gadget's room, and Tammy grows jealous of Gadget since she wants to get the attention of Chip. Meanwhile, Monterey Jack, Dale, and Zipper feed Bink, who is the baby of the two girls, who eats like she's never been fed in her life. After eating, Bink walks away while the Rescue Rangers aren't paying very close attention to her, and she climbs into the Ranger Plane. Tammy points out that Bink is flying around in the aircraft, which prompts the Rescue Rangers to go after her. Zipper tries to stop the aircraft, but without knowing what the buttons do, he ends up making the matter worse, and gets Monterey Jack and Dale attached to the bottom of it with the plungers. Bink ended up flying out of the aircraft, and Chip jumped to go save her. Gadget shot off the plunger gun, which allowed Chip, who had caught Bink, to grab onto the rope, and get back onto the branch of the tree. Chip commends Gadget for her shooting, and Tammy claims that Chip is the real hero as her jealousy grows bigger. Chip gets upset with her since she thinks she is a Rescue Rangers and keeps calling him Chipper, and he yells at her, which causes her to cry. After the Rescue Rangers confront him about it, he goes to try and make it up to Tammy, but she had left with Bink to try and get the Maltese Mouse back from Fat Cat so she could prove she was just as good as Gadget. The Rescue Rangers head over to Fat Cat's Casino, with Chip and Dale dressed like women and Monterey Jack dragging in a piano to act as the night's entertainment. Gadget and Zipper get in as well, as they were hiding inside of the piano. Gadget and Zipper go to look for the kids. Fat Cat comes out, and Chip and Dale begins to sing and dance while Monterey Jack plays the piano to act as a diversion for Gadget since she needs cover. Gadget rides an elevator, and finds Tammy on one of the floors. Tammy gets upset that Gadget came for her since she wanted to prove she was as good as Gadget, but Gadget gives her wonderful lesson in life and tells her to just be herself. They embrace, and go back down to the main part of the casino. Gadget gets Tammy into the piano, and the task turns to finding Bink so they can get out. Monterey Jack notices Bink eating ice cream at Fat Cat's table, and Chip and Dale drag Fat Cat to the dance floor, where he sings and dances with his goons. Chip and Dale grab Bink off the table, and load her into the piano. They go to leave the casino, but Fat Cat catches them, and drags the piano back inside. He smashed the keys on the piano, and out comes Tammy, Bink, Gadget, and Zipper. He brings the Rescue Rangers and the squirrel kids to his cat food factory, and hangs the Rescue Rangers over the machine that would package them inside a cat food tin can. He turns on the machine, but Tammy and Bink bite the goon holding onto them and manage to get the machine turned off. Unfortunately, in celebration, Bink jumps on the green "on" button, and turns the machine back on. Before they can turn it off again, Fat Cat grabs them, and the Rescue Rangers are dropped into the machinery. They land on the conveyer belt, and manage to avoid being hacked up in the axe portion of the assembly line. Fat Cat has Tammy and Bink tossed into the machine as well, and they end up at the same part of the conveyer belt as the Rescue Rangers. They come up to a pounding portion of the assembly line, and run in the opposite direction of the conveyer belt to try and avoid it. Tammy comes up with an idea to get out of the mess by tying together pieces of the dressed being worn by Chip and Dale to make a rope. They lasso the rope and hook it onto a piece of machine that lifts the crew off of the conveyer belt. Zipper flies up to get the machine turned off, and while he does so, the "rope" breaks, and the Rescue Rangers, along with the squirrel kids, land back down on the conveyer belt. Zipper ends up causing Fat Cat to drop the Maltese Mouse statue into the machine, and Fat Cat has the machine turned off. Chip and Dale come out of the machine with the Maltese Mouse in hand. They drop it to bait Fat Cat, and he takes that bait by jumping into the machine. Monterey Jack had caught the statue, but it was too late for Fat Cat as he and his goons were packaged into tin cans of cat food. The Rescue Rangers made it out and brought Tammy and Bink back to their mother. Tammy admitted that she might not be ready to be a Rescue Ranger quite yet, but she still thought Chip was cute, and gave him a kiss on the cheek, thus ending this episode with a blushing Chip.
Episode Six-Flash The Wonder Dog Original Airdate- March 19, 1989
Dale is watching a television program with a large-breasted woman being strapped onto a chair with dynamite attached by a group of mobsters. Flash The Wonder Dog appears to the rescue, along with his sidekick, Conrad Cockatoo. Chip comes in and sees Dale enthralled in the episode, and turns off the TV. Then the two chipmunks begin to fight over whether or not Flash is fake. Fat Cat is also watching that same episode at his lair, and he is upset at the dog being used as a hero. He calls for his goons and wants to set up for them to perform tasks that will hurt the reputation of Flash. At the TV studio, it turns out that Flash has a stunt double and is actually afraid of heights. Fat Cat's goons sneak into the dressing room of Flash, and kidnap him once he enters, prompting the news to report his disappearance, a report seen by Dale back at Rescue Rangers Headquarters. Fat Cat and his goons go through with their plan and dress up like Flash in order to do things that will hurt his reputation as a hero. They do things such as pouring cement into a man's car, breaking open crates of apples while men are trying to unload the crates, drink and break a baby's bottle right in front of the mother, and vandalize a billboard being painted on by a worker. While the Rescue Rangers are out searching for Flash, Dale performs Flash's signature howl, which brings on a reply from Flash, who is inside a condemned building. Inside of the building, the Rescue Rangers sneak past one of Fat Cat's goons who is fast asleep, but Monterey Jack catches a whiff of a slice of cheese in the goon's sandwich, and he darts back after it. Chip pulls Monterey Jack away from the cheese before he is able to pull it out, but Monterey Jack does end up heading back towards the sandwich and eats the cheese, prompting the goon to awaken and notice the Rescue Rangers. The Rescue Rangers notice Flash in a room, and open up a door in order to get him out. The goon is standing on the other side of the door, however, and tries to stop them from leaving. The Rescue Rangers and Flash are able to get past him, though, and run towards their aircraft to get away. The Rescue Rangers manage to make it, but Flash gets caught when the floor gives out and he is forced to hang from a ledge from the broken floor, thus inciting his fear of heights. The goon comes running out, causing Flash to fall from the ledge, but he ends up landing on a pipe hanging out of the building. The Rescue Rangers take a sheet hanging over the shop from beneath, and stretch it out, which comes into use when the pipe gives and Flash falls, landing on the sheet. Dale becomes disappointed that his hero turned out to be just a TV actor, and doesn't even say goodbye when Flash leaves. At Rescue Rangers Headquarters, the crew tries to cheer up Dale, but it's no use. Chip turns on the TV, and a report comes on that Flash is running amok across town, while showing the results of what Fat Cat and his goons had done while dressed up as Flash. Dale gets upset because while he is disappointed in Flash not being his hero, he knows Flash isn't a bad guy and the Rescue Rangers head out to catch up with Flash before anybody else can. Conrad was picked to replace Flash as the hero of the showing following the news of Flash's horrible deeds. This too disgusts Fat Cat, especially after he finds out that the Rescue Rangers helped Flash escape. He plans to have Flash, or himself dressed as Flash, attack his former co-star, Conrad. Flash ends up at the TV studio, unaware of the TV report, and people see him coming and run after him. Flash ends up running into the studio, and the Rescue Rangers noticing this, run in after him. Flash runs to Conrad looking for help, but Conrad yells "Mad Dog" and the director yells for the show to go in standby and have Flash taken out as he feels Flash is looking for revenge on Conrad for taking over his show. The production crew runs after Flash all around the studio, but he is able to lose them after a little running and climbing of a ladder onto a scaffold. While this occurs, Fat Cat puts on his Flash disguise. Chip and Dale find Flash atop the scaffold, and go up after him. Fat Cat, dressed like Flash, goes into the studio and grabs Conrad. The TV crew comes in and sees this, and believes that it's really flash who has Conrad in his clutches. Chip and Dale know it's not Flash, as does the rest of the Rescue Rangers crew. Gadget sets up for the cameras to be turned back on with the help of Monterey Jack and Zipper, and Flash notices the imposter and, with the urging of Chip and Dale, Flash tries to save Conrad. The Rescue Rangers get the camera on just as Flash attacks Fat Cat, and he pulls off Fat Cat's mask, revealing Fat Cat's real face to the TV crew, who now notice is wasn't Flash who grabbed Conrad. Fat Cat grabs Conrad again, and threatens to pluck him. Chip and Dale turn on a hose, and aim the water in the direction of Fat Cat and his goons, and the water is flowing so hard that it nails Fat Cat and his crew right out of the studio. Conrad goes free, and the TV crew applauds Flash and asks for his forgiveness. Flash is once again a hero. The Rescue Rangers leave the studio to head home, but not before Flash can thank them. The Rescue Rangers name Flash an honorary member of the Rescue Rangers and give him a pin to signify it. In return, after a hug, Chip and Dale are made honorary Wonder Dogs.
Episode Seven-The Pound Of The Baskervilles Original Airdate- April 16, 1989
The Rescue Rangers are flying through the woods during a storm while Chip is reading through a story of the Sureluck Jones series. Due to the wind from the storm, the Rescue Rangers crash through a window of a mansion. As they retain control of themselves, they hear the howling of a dog. There is a banging at the door inside the house, and the Rescue Rangers go to hide. Out from the door comes a yelping dog named McDuff. He is being chased by the owner of the manor, Lord Howey, who is carrying a gun. He continues to search for McDuff throughout the house, but McDuff sneaks up behind the Rescue Rangers as they collect themselves. McDuff tells the Rescue Rangers that they need to get out of there because Lord Howey hates animals. The only reason McDuff is in the manor is because he is looking for a will. The Rescue Rangers hop onto the back of McDuff, and they get outside of the manor and head to the home of the owner of McDuff, Roger. Roger is the brother of Lord Howey, and McDuff was searching for the will inside of the manor so Roger could claim ownership of the home. Lord Howey comes knocking on Roger's door, and he brought a sheriff along with him. Lord Howey wants McDuff taken away, and the sheriff, not having any other choice, tells Roger that he will be back for the dog in the morning. McDuff goes back to talking to the Rescue Rangers, and he still wants to get the will out of the manor. The problem is, Lord Howey is always there. The Rescue Rangers decide they want to help; plus they need to get back into the manor so they can retrieve the Ranger Plane. In the middle of the night, Lord Howey is awoken in his sleep by rattling noises as well as strange things happening in his bedroom. A picture frame starts moving around, dresser drawers open and close, and the window shade begins to blow. Also among those things is a howling noise that frightens Lord Howey. All of these things were measures to scare Lord Howey, as the Rescue Rangers were behind all of these happenings. The Rescue Rangers leave the bedroom to plan for their next big scare. They paint two pencils with white paint, and place them in McDuff's mouth to act as large fangs. Then they pour flour over him to make McDuff completely white – to look just like a ghost. McDuff, white all over and growling like a vicious beast, busts back into the bedroom and goes after Lord Howey. Lord Howey sneezes, and a little bit of the flour covering McDuff's body blows off. Just then, Lord Hower wonders how a ghost could make him sneeze, and, as noticed at the beginning when we were first in the manor, Lord Howey has an allergic reaction towards dogs. McDuff hops around in place, and ends up shaking the rest of the white off of him. Lord Howey sees this, and grabs a sword off a wall, which cause McDuff to whimper and cower. The Rescue Rangers are there for a save, as just when Lord Howey goes to take a swipe at McDuff, they roll a shield that had fallen off the wall between Lord Howey's legs, causing the sword to hit the rolling shield on its way down. The sword rattles off the shield, and in turn, rattles Lord Howey. McDuff is able to get away, and joins the Rescue Rangers as they run from Lord Howey. The Rescue Rangers end up hitting a dead end in the manor, but Chip remembers something that he had read from one of his Sureluck Jones books about moving a frame and opening up a secret passage. Chip ends up pushing a button at the bottom of a mirror frame, and the mirror slides open to give entrance to a secret passage. They enter, and end up losing Lord Howey, who thinks the Rescue Rangers and McDuff had disappeared like ghosts. The Rescue Rangers can see out, and notice that Lord Howey is still on the search for them, but he is unable to see them. Now the Rescue Rangers and McDuff continue to follow Chip, who is looking for clues in the secret passage. Zipper manages to find a message writing in symbols on the wall, and he deciphers that the message says, "Bring light to the darkness." The Rescue Rangers find a candleholder on the wall, and they pull it down to open a secret door. Unfortunately, that also opens a trap door on the floor that sucks down everybody except Chip, who continues to recite numerous clues he remembers from the books he has read. Luckily, McDuff and the Rescue Rangers who fell into the trap door were hanging from the ledge, and were able to pull themselves up. They head into the newly opened room, and it turns out to be the workroom of Howard Bask, the writer of Sureluck Jones. Chip thinks he knows where the will is, and points to a picture frame. Monterey Jack checks, but there is no will. It turns out that Chip was sitting on top of the will. The will reads that the manor should be left to Roger. Now that they have possession of the will, the Rescue Rangers and McDuff need to figure out a way to get out of the manor. They end up being caught by Lord Howey, who grabs the will. He places it by a lit candle, and sets it on fire, but the Rescue Rangers get a window open, allowing the wind to blow the fire out before it could do much damage. McDuff runs after Lord Howey and attacks him, which starts off his allergies. The Rescue Rangers are able to grab the will, but Lord Howey grabs it back. As the back and forth pattern continues, the Rescue Rangers are able to get the will back again. McDuff leaves to go get Roger, and the Rescue Rangers run off to a room to get away from Lord Howey. They hide in animal heads that had been mounted on the wall when Lord Howey gets into the room to go look for them. Lord Howey sees Dale slipping out of the Moose head on its tongue, and goes after it. All of the heads fall off the wall, and Lord Howey grabs his gun. Meanwhile, McDuff gets to Roger and they hear gunshots, forcing them to leave and head to the house. Lord Howey keeps shooting in various directions, unable to hit any of the Rescue Rangers. He finds Gadget with the will, and shakes her off the rolled up paper. While holding the will in his hand, Roger walks into the room with McDuff. McDuff grabs the will from Lord Howey, and ends up outside, but the sheriff nets the dog, who ends up dropping the will. Roger goes outside and picks up the will just as the sheriff drives away with McDuff locked up in the back of his van, and Lord Howey fight over the will with Roger. The Rescue Rangers end up snatching the will, and Dale, like a slingshot, is flown forward towards the sheriff's van, with the will in hand. The sheriff sees the will and stops. He gives McDuff back to Roger, and declares that Roger is the owner of the Baskerville Hall manor, as per the orders of the will. Before the Rescue Rangers can leave, Gadget fixes the Ranger plane. McDuff has a surprise for chip before they head out as well. McDuff gives Chip the last unpublished Sureluck Jones story.
Episode Eight-Parental Discretion Retired Original Airdate- May 21, 1989
At Rescue Rangers Headquarters, Monterey Jack finds is father's scrapbook. His father, Cheddarhead Charlie, is coming to visit Monterey Jack, and the Rescue Rangers are eager to meet him. He is scheduled to come in that night at Pier 12, and Monterey Jack is supposed to meet him there. When the Rescue Rangers arrive, they go into a restaurant – almost bar like – and they see a clam that sounded and acted very weird; like a chicken. The waitress who was taking an order from the Rescue Rangers said the clam was acting that way because of an encounter he had with a cat. The Rescue Rangers try to leave, but two lobsters, who were enjoying a fish (minus the meat) as the Rescue Rangers walked in, prevented them from leaving. There was also a crab that was nailed with a clam shell thrown by Chip. Monterey Jack went to fight with the crab, but the Rescue Rangers went to stop him. Just then, Cheddarhead Charlie comes barging in, knocking out the two lobsters hanging by the door in the process. He goes to fight with the crab, and gets thrown in a sponge. He then picks up the sponge and tosses it at the crab, which allows Cheddarhead Charlie to move in and finish off the crab by tying his eyes together. The lobsters then get caught in a net. The Rescue Rangers then head off to solve the mystery of somebody "turning clams into chickens" as Dale put it, and Cheddar Charlie joined them. They go on the search atop the docks, and Meps, one of Fat Cat's goons, emerges through one of the planks after hearing a racket caused by the Rescue Rangers, but he does not see anything. The Rescue Rangers, minus Chip, and Cheddarhead Charlie dive off the dock and into the water in order to go after Fat Cat's goons, and they end up landing and being carried by a sturgeon (a type of fish). Chip is still on the dock, trying to figure out a way to save his friends, thinking that they are drowning. The Rescue Rangers and Cheddarhead Charlie notice some of Fat Cat's goons ahead, and realize that Chip is not on the sturgeon with them. Chip drops part of a fishing reel down and Cheddarhead Charlie sees it. He yanks on it, which sends Chip flying in the air, and he falls in a bucket located on the goons' boat. Meps puts the bucket on his head, and tosses it off when he notices something in it. The goons see Chip in the bucket, and he seems to be unconscious. Cheddarhead Charlie dives into the water and swims towards the boat to try and save Chip. While Cheddarhead Charlie is on the boat unsuccessfully trying to rescue Chip, the Rescue Rangers spring into action to make a real attempt at saving their fellow member. Zipper takes the hook from the fishing lure, and flies over to the boat with it. He hooks it onto the vest of Meps. The sturgeon carrying the Rescue Rangers grabs the rod and swims with it, dragging the lure with Meps attached, and Cheddarhead Charlie hanging on his tail with Chip, now conscious, on his head. The rest of the goons notice that the sturgeon is just the kind of fish Fat Cat wanted. The Rescue Rangers go under the boat of the goons, and Meps crashed right into it, while Cheddarhead Charlie, who had been water-skiing while hanging onto Meps' tail, and Chip landed in the water. The goons grab Meps and get him back into the boat. They turn their attention towards nabbing the sturgeon. As the fish turned itself around, it swam back towards the boat, and went so aggressively that it swam right through a net being held by the goons on the boat. Gadget, now in the water along with the rest of the Rescue Rangers, pulls out an inflatable raft and they hop on it. Fat Cat's gang continues to go after the sturgeon under water. Meps goes under the water with a device that hypnotizes the fish. On the device, there is a chicken stencil in front of a spiraling hypnotic background, and the sturgeon begins to cluck, thinking it were a chicken. The sturgeon follows Meps back up to the boat. The Rescue Rangers and Cheddarhead Charlie go after the boat to try and save the sturgeon. They end up at Fat Cat's hideout, and Chip and Dale go in to see what's inside. They notice a bunch of sturgeons in a large tank, all of them clucking like chickens. The fish are laying eggs in a tin can, and it is all scam from Fat Cat to market caviar, which is fish eggs. Fat Cat has the sturgeon hypnotized to act as chickens, and has chicken noises playing on a record player in the background of the hideout, because chickens lay eggs every day, while sturgeons only lay eggs once a year. Cheddarhead Charlie becomes impatient while hanging outside, and rushes into the hideout figuring the three minutes they had waited for Chip and Dale was too long. Upon entering, Cheddarhead Charlie goes right after Fat Cat, but Fat Cat grabs him before he can do any kind of damage, and he, along with the Rescue Rangers, minus Chip and Dale, are caught, tied up, and held above a grinder. Chip and Dale see this while watching from a pipe, and head in for the rescue. They go to the record player, and put on sounds from a racetrack. The sturgeon become hypnotized to believe they are horses, and jump out of the tank. They roll right through Fat Cat and his goons, and escape from the hideout. Chip and Dale cut down their tied up friends, but Cheddarhead Charlie heads the wrong way. Gadget and Monterey Jack run after him, and all three of them end up landing in the tank. Fat Cat takes a look at his newest victims, but he notices Chip and Dale doing something with the hypnotizing device. They turn on dog noises, and Fat Cat ducks to get out of the way of the ray, but it still nails his goons. They growl and chase Fat Cat out of the hideout. Back at Rescue Rangers Headquarters, the Rescue Rangers are exhausted. They talk amongst themselves about Cheddarhead Charlie being too "take-charge" for them. Cheddarhead Charlie overhears them while he was in the bathroom, and he walks out and gets ready to leave. Monterey Jack goes after his father, saying that he thought Cheddarhead Charlie wanted to be a Rescue Ranger. Cheddarhead Charlie said that the Rescue Rangers are all about teamwork, and that's just not his style. As he leaves, he talks to Chip. Chip says he knows where Monterey Jack gets his behavior from, but Cheddarhead Charlie tells Chip that Monterey Jack gets it from his mother. Just then, Monterey Jacks' mother, Camembert Katie, comes barging in. Her ship is in for repairs, and she figures she would stay with her son for a few weeks, and maybe join in on an adventure or two. Chip just sits on the floor, slaps his hand to his head, and says, "Oh no."
Episode Nine-Risky Beesness Original Airdate- April 23, 1989
A swarm of worker bees fly around in their hive, while the queen bee, Queenie, waves her wand around. She feels tired from doing such a straining activity, and some servant bees come to her side. Music starts to play out of nowhere, and it irritates Queenie. Along with that, it hypnotizes the four servant bees around her, as well as the rest of the swarm within the hive. Those hypnotized bees fly away, and Queenie's attempts to command them to come back fail. Somebody was stealing her swarm. Queenie flies around outside of the hive and faints. She lands on top of Zipper who is lying out in the sun. Zipper is instantly attracted to her, and he fans her with a leaf to help her regain consciousness. He takes her to Rescue Rangers Headquarters, and she tells the Rescue Rangers about the beenapping. She falls onto a chair as she describes the incident, and tells Zipper to buzz off and get her a drink. He happily brings her back a thimble of water, which she spits out what she considers to be such a common drink. Zipper, upset at her disapproval of his action, flies away, which causes Monterey Jack to follow him. He tells Zipper to get her a gift, and to go get some flowers since they are free due to Zipper's lack of finances. While Zipper flies off to get flowers for Queenie, she and the Rescue Rangers hop into the Ranger Plane. Queenie becomes unhappy with the seating arrangement. Gadget asks where Zipper is, and Monterey Jack says that he had something urgent to do and he will be right back, causing Queenie to once again panic about her swarm and propose that they leave without Zipper. Chip figures Zipper can catch up and it wouldn't hurt to leave, so they head off. Zipper notices them leaving, and flies after them while holding onto some flowers. He ends up crashing into the Ranger Plane, which sends the flowers flying all over the aircraft. Queenie sneezes, and says that she is allergic to common wildflowers, such as the ragweed Zipper had pulled for her. Monterey Jack apologized to Zipper for proposing the idea, who is once again upset at his failed showing of affection. Zipper sits on the balloon atop the Ranger Plane, and hears a buzzing noise. He flies down to Gadget, who is flying the aircraft, and the Rescue Rangers see a swarm, which Queenie identifies as hers. They go after the bees and manage to get in front of them. Queenie says she will forget this ever happened if they just turn around and go back to the hive. Instead, the swarm keeps moving forward and end up dismantling the Ranger Plane in front of them in the process. The Rescue Rangers are sent crashing down to the ground. The swarm heads into a music shop, and picks up a bunch of instruments that they leave the store with. They drop the instruments into the back of a truck, force the driver out of the vehicle, and drive the truck away. The Rescue Rangers follow by hopping onto the back of the truck. Queenie gets tired while trying to reach the truck, and Zipper helps by pushing her over to it. She scolds Zipper for being rough, saying that he could have bruised her. Zipper seems to be getting agitated. They end up stopping at a building, Bug Out Exterminators, which is playing the same music that hypnotized the bees in the first place. The swarm carries the instruments into the building where a woman named Irweena is standing there and checking off the instruments on a list. Irweena turns off the music and has the bees hide in a lab coat as she hears Mr. Snead coming to her lab to complain about the racket. He scolds her as he thinks she is working on her music instead of doing her actual job, and he storms out. Irweena then reveals that for most of her life people wanted her for her brains, but now she wants to be a Rock ‘N Roll star. She then turns the droning music back up. Queenie demands that the Rescue Rangers stop the music, but Gadget thinks it's better to wait for the bees to leave and Monterey Jack agrees because of the sting power of the swarm, somebody would have to be crazy to go stop it. Zipper then flies off to try and stop the music, but Irweena catches him in action and flicks him off. Zipper tries again, and Irweena goes to swat him. The Rescue Rangers turn the water on her, and she directs the swarm to go after them. They try to run from the swarm, and jump down a drain. Irweena tells the swarm to forget about them as they have to rehearse. The Rescue Rangers figure out that she is planning to do something at the Iron Goose rock concert that night. Backstage at the concert in the Iron Goose dressing room, the band members get a delivery of flowers. The droning music starts playing, and the bees come flying out of the flowers. Iron Goose runs into the closet where the bees trap them in. Irweena, dressed as a queen bee, comes in and says that it is her night. The Rescue Rangers are in the vent, and they swing down and close the door on Irweena after she directed the swarm out of the dressing room. She calls the bees back, and they drill right through the door back into the room. Chip and Dale pull the plug on the device playing the droning music, and Gadget and Monterey Jack tie Irweena up with the wings of her costume. Queenie sings, which breaks the swarm from their trance. Irweena then counters with her music, and the two keep going back and forth, as does the loyalty of the bees. Irweena ends up trapping Queenie inside of a trumpet with a cork, and tells the bees to further trap her in. Irweena and the bees go out to perform in front of the disappointed crowd that wanted to see Iron Goose. An audience member even goes to leave after hearing Irweena sing, but the bees drag him back to his seat. The Rescue Rangers, meanwhile, ended up being trapped inside of a drum, which Irweena's bees are playing. Zipper gets Queenie out of the trumpet; a move she calls clever. Zipper drags her out as she gets embarrassed at the sight of her hair in the mirror. Zipper kisses her hand as they reach the stage, and then darts off into action. Queenie calls him brave for such a little fellow. Irweena sends the bees after Zipper as he gets in her face, and he stays right in front of the drum with the Rescue Rangers trapped inside. He moves out of the way just in time for the bees to slam right through the drum, which allows the dizzy Rescue Rangers to escape from the instrument. Zipper is getting fatigued, but is still being chased by the swarm, causing Queenie to grow more concerned. The Rescue Rangers once again unplug the device playing the droning music, and plug in an electric guitar, which rattles Irweena when Monterey Jack plays it. Queenie commands the bees to attack Irweena, calling her an imposter, and the swarms breaks out of their trance and attacks Irweena. Queenie admits she was wrong about Zipper, and just when it seems like the two are about to hit it off, the swarm comes to Queenie asking for her forgiveness. Zipper slowly walks away as his moment was interrupted. The bees pull Queenie away, and Zipper waves goodbye as he is still upset. At the Rescue Rangers Headquarters, the Rescue Rangers try to comfort Zipper, and they say that is just wasn't meant to be. There is a knock on the door, and it's for Zipper, as a bunch of the worker bees flew around in the shape of a heart.
Disc Two
Episode Ten-Bearing Up Baby Original Airdate- May 14, 1989
The Rescue Rangers are getting set for a hike, when a little kid named Jeremy picks up Dale. Jeremy's mother freaks out, and scolds her husband for not carefully looking after Jeremy. She talks about a wild beast with fangs, and Dale overhears. He chooses to stay at camp and guard, while the Rescue Rangers scoff at Dale and continue on the trail for their vacation. Jeremy ends up back with Dale and sits on a log that floats away with him on it. When Dale is unable to catch him, Jeremy floats upstream, and a bear, Humphrey eventually rescues him. Dale sees the bear with Jeremy, and misunderstands Humphrey's intentions. Dale tries to rescue Jeremy and ends up running into the Rescue Rangers, and tells them a bear is after the kid. They go for the rescue, and notice Humphrey looking for Jeremy, as the two were just playing a game, but the Rescue Rangers do not know that part. They run after to try and help Jeremy, and knock over the bear, but a wild cat appears atop a cliff, and the Rescue Rangers notice Humphrey climbing a tree with Jeremy, trying to save him. They bite the tail of the wild cat that is chasing the two, and the cat runs off after running into a skunk. The Rescue Rangers run into a problem when they try to take Jeremy home as Humphrey tries to keep him, thinking he's his. Gadget lays a guilt trip on Humphrey about Jeremy's mother worrying, and they get Jeremy. Meanwhile, back at camp, Jeremy's father has brought together a group of hunters to go find Jeremy. The Rescue Rangers are able to get the crying bear to let go of Jeremy, but Jeremy runs back. Humphrey brings Jeremy back to his parents, with the crowd of hunters still there, proving to be a dumb idea, as the parents accept Jeremy back, but send the shooters after Humphrey. With the help of the Rescue Rangers, Humphrey, who has Dale hanging on his neck, is able to escape, even after the group of men continue to pursue him with their guns. Jeremy, who was placed into an RV by his mother, ends up driving the vehicle around, which is seen by his father and the Rescue Rangers with Humphrey, turning both parties attention to stopping the RV and saving Jeremy. The father shoots at Humphrey, who is trying to grab the RV as it hangs off a cliff. The bullets shoots the RV over, but it managed to hang on by the pipes from the toilet and shower. Jeremy reunites with his parents, and Humphrey is allowed to play with the kids since they notice he won't do any harm to them.
Episode Eleven-Out To Launch Original Airdate- March 26, 1989
A spacecraft, the Space Plane, is about to take off when they notice an aircraft on the radar. It's the Rescue Rangers in the Ranger Plane going to watch the launch. The Rescue Rangers fall out of the Ranger Plane and land in the astronaut training area. They use the equipment to train to be astronauts. They notice it's almost time for the Space Plane to launch, and look to head out of the building so they can watch. They stumble upon an astronaut suit, and Dale ends up falling in. Chip goes to save him inside of the suit, and then a man and woman walk in to take the suit as a replacement for one that had something wrong with it on the Space Plane. Chip and Dale cannot get out, and they are on the spacecraft as it launches, while the rest of the Rescue Rangers are unable to prevent the liftoff. Chip and Dale travel into space with the astronauts on the Space Plane. The astronauts deploy a satellite, and as the top opens, a space suit, with Chip and Dale once again trapped inside it, ends up leaving the Space Plane as well. The astronauts leave, and strand Chip and Dale drifting in space. The report gets back to the space Headquarters about the stranded suit, and the Rescue Rangers hear that the astronauts will go back at the end of their mission – in two weeks! Gadget, Monterey Jack, and Zipper realize they have to save their friends. Led by Gadget, they launch their own spacecraft, and travel into space. In space, they are able to catch the suit with Chip and Dale, and go to head back to Earth. Since Monterey Jack tossed off the parachute for landing in the ocean, they have to find the Space Plane and land with the astronauts in order to get back home. Gadget is able to get the hatch on the Space Plane open, and the rest of the Rescue Rangers follow behind onto the spacecraft. As the Rescue Rangers hide out with all of the food, the Space Plane gets hit by a meteor. There is an oxygen leak, and they must land immediately, but the astronauts are knocked out. The Rescue Rangers are forced to land the Space Plane themselves, and Gadget notes that it's good that Chip and Dale had astronaut training. The Space Plane comes crashing back down to Earth, and manage to avoid the control tower, which they were heading for, and land on the ground with only a minor impact as the Space Plane ran lightly into rocks. The astronauts arise, and are celebrated as heroes, but the true heroes are the Rescue Rangers.
Important DVD Information
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Region: Region 1 (US and Canada Only) Studio: Walt Disney Video Run Time: 614 minutes Technical Specs: Full Screen – 1:33:1, Dolby Digital Mono Sound
Video Quality
If you saw the cartoon in 1989-1990, this looks the exact same way. It notes Digitally Mastered on the back of the box, but I'm not entirely too sure how much they actually did. The good thing is, it should not be the quality of modern cartoons. A lot of the appeal is the look of the cartoon – a little bit dusty and not quite as vivid, but still full of color. I can't knock them for keeping it real.
Score: 8.5 out of 10
Audio Quality
This is basically the same deal as Video Quality, as it still sounds like the cartoon shown in 1989-1990. That's okay though, since it sounds great regardless.
Score: 8.5 out of 10
Extras
[ ] – What's in between those brackets? Nothing. That's the amount of extras there are – Nothing!
Score: 0 out of 10
*Information from Wikipedia.org was used in this review*
The 411: As a kid growing up, I loved this cartoon. I probably didn’t see very much of it during it’s original run as I was 4-5 years old then, but I still recall sitting in front of the TV set and enjoying Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers. The DVD may not have had a lot of work done to it to enhance it on modern technology, but that’s okay considering it’s a good idea to leave it with its original feel. The one problem I have with the cartoon itself is that themes tend to repeat, and while there are different character and different scenarios in episodes, the same basic premise is apparent in a lot of them. Another issue is that, if you notice the original airdates, the episodes are not in order of their showing, which means it is not a true “season-type” DVD. It would have been better to include all episodes in their proper order. And I cannot stress enough how empty it feels to not have extras on these discs. The 27 episodes are great, but to include original artwork or interviews would not have been too difficult a task. Overall, though, I did enjoy getting a chance to look back on something I liked during my childhood, and anybody who watched it during it’s run on Cartoon Disney, as well as children today, should enjoy this DVD as well.
