Super Mario World (TV series)


Super Mario World is an animated comedy television series loosely based on the Super NES video game of the same name. It is the third and most recent animated series based on the Mario video game series, with the other two being The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. Thirteen episodes of the show were aired, as part of a block with called Captain N & The New Super Mario World on NBC. Just like The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the show is produced by DIC Animation City, Nintendo of America, Inc. and Reteitalia, S.p.A., in association with Spanish network Telecinco, who licensed the characters and game to DIC.
The animated series featured the same voice actors who had performed in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. However, unlike its two predecessors, to keep in line with the game its based on, Toad is completely absent in this series, and Yoshi appears in his place, alongside an exclusive character not featured in the games called Oogtar, a clumsy caveboy. The character designs from the last two cartoons are retained, but with minor details. 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 with involvement of the "real world" reduced to mere references for the series. Due to copyright restrictions, no licensed music were required for this show, leaving the show completely untouched for syndication and home media releases.

Voice cast

Home media

In 1994, Buena Vista Home Video released a VHS tape under their DIC Toon-Time Video label, titled Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures!, which contained the episode The Night Before Cave Christmas.
On November 13, 2007, Shout! Factory and Vivendi Entertainment released a Complete Series DVD set of Captain N and the New Super Mario World in Region 1, featuring all 13 original, uncut broadcast episodes. The series has also been released in Australia by Roadshow Entertainment.
NCircle Entertainment has also released the series in two volumes. They later released the complete series in one set.
Release nameEp #DistributorRelease dateAdditional information
Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures!2Buena Vista Home Video 1994
Captain N and the New Super Mario World - The Complete Series13Shout! FactoryNovember 13, 2007
  • Select Episode Previews
  • Storyboard-to-Screen: Opening Title Sequence
  • Original Concept Art: Yoshi
Super Mario World - Yoshi the Superstar6NCircle EntertainmentSeptember 29, 2009
Super Mario World - Koopa's Stone Age Quests6NCircle EntertainmentSeptember 29, 2009
Super Mario World: The Complete Series: Collector's Edition13NCircle EntertainmentOctober 8, 2013
  • Storyboard-to-Screen: Opening Title Sequence
  • Original Concept Art: Yoshi

    • Legacy

    A collaborative scene-for-scene recreation of the episode "Mama Luigi", organized and directed by professional animation and storyboard artist Andrew Dickman, was released on YouTube on August 29, 2017. With 227 animators and artists contributing and participating in the project, the goal was to "re-animate" the episode by giving each animator a scene from the episode which was then animated in any direction the animator chose, so long as it followed the basic formula of the original scene. The project was announced on July 10, 2016 and was roughly completed a year later with an annotated version available on Newgrounds. The video was praised for not only recapturing the nostalgic moments of the classic episode but for also having the involvement of several artists who worked on the original series. Phil Harnage, the writer for the original episode, praised the video as well. The project was dedicated to the memories of Tony Rosato and Harvey Atkin, who died during the production of the project.