All These Years"), 1940s characters Gandy Goose and Sourpuss and 1960s character Deputy Dawg are revived (Gandy and Dawg frozen in time in blocks of ice) in "The Ice Goose Cometh", "Gaston Le Crayon" has a cameo ("Still Oily After All These Years") and Bakshi's own 1960s creations the Mighty Heroes appear, aged, in the episode "Heroes and Zeroes". Fellow Terrytoons characters Heckle and Jeckle also appear in "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy". Cast Patrick Pinney as Mighty Mouse (Mike Mouse) / Gandy Goose / Petey Pate Maggie Roswell as Pearl Pureheart / Additional Voices Dana Hill as Scrappy Mouse Charlie Adler as Bat-Bat (Bruce Vein) / Additional Voices Joe Alaskey as Sourpuss / Additional Voices Michael Pataki as The Cow / Additional Voices Beau Weaver as Fractured Narrator / Additional Voices Crew Producer/Supervising Director/Story Direction: Ralph Bakshi Executive Producer: John Hyde Executive in charge of production: Tom Klein Senior Director: John Kricfalusi (season 1), Kent Butterworth (season 2) Directors: John Kricfalusi, John Sparey, Bruce Woodside, Bob Jaques, Kent Butterworth Writers (Season 1): Tom Minton, Doug Moench, Nate Kanfer, Jim Reardon, Eddie Fitzgerald, Rich Moore, Andrew Stanton Writers (Season 2): Jim Reardon, Tom Minton Layout artists: Ken Boyer, Mike Kazaleh, Kathleen Castillo, William Recinos, Jim Gomez, Lynne Naylor, Dave Concepcion, Bruce Timm Development Origin and production In April 1987, Bakshi set up a meeting with Judy Price, the head of CBS's Saturday morning block. Price rejected Bakshi's prepared pitches, including one featuring John Kricfalusi's Ren & Stimpy characters, but asked what else he had. He told her that he had the rights to Mighty Mouse and she agreed to purchase the series. However, Bakshi did not own the rights and did not know who did. While researching the rights, he learned that CBS had acquired the entire Terrytoons library in 1955 and forgotten about it. According to Bakshi, "I sold them a show they already owned, so they just gave me the rights for nothin'!" Kricfalusi's team wrote story outlines for 13 episodes in a week and pitched them to Price. By the next week, Kricfalusi had hired animators he knew who had been working at other studios. They ended up hiring Jeff Pidgeon, Rich Moore, Carole Holiday, Andrew Stanton and Nate Kanfer. Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures went into production in the month it was greenlighted; it was scheduled to premiere on September 19, 1987. This haste required the crew to