ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE: BALD COURAGE (TV)
Summary
One in this animated series based on the “Ace Ventura” films, about a detective who aids missing or threatened animals.
The Miami Art Museum is broken into and a valuable painting stolen. Ace intervenes and, with the help of his animal friends, foils the robbery. He is then approached by a pair of Secret Service agents who explain that a mysterious party has been targeting and stealing American bald eagles for some unknown purpose. They ask him to investigate the matter and he agrees, costuming the two agents as bald eagle decoys as a means of drawing out the perpetrator. The thief turns out be a black-robed figure piloting a blimp, and Ace latches on to the craft via a catapult. He is thrown from the blimp and crashes to the ground, but not before getting a glimpse of the thief’s true identity. He informs the Secret Service agents that the thief looked exactly like Benjamin Franklin, although they are skeptical of this claim. While they argue, the last two bald eagles in the United States are stolen.
The agents become frustrated with Ace and take him off the case. Ace discovers a turkey feather near the eagle cage and traces it back to a particular turkey farm. He questions the owner and discovers that one of his turkeys was recently sold to a buyer in Philadelphia; meanwhile Spike orchestrates an escape for the other turkeys. At a museum in Philadelphia, Ace finds a secret passageway populated by men dressed as Franklin for an upcoming Independence Day parade. He disguises himself in a Franklin costume and unlocks a room where the stolen bald eagles are being held. Before he can free them he is called into a meeting with the other costumed men. The organization, known as the “Franklinite Extremist Front,” is led by “Frank Benjamin,” a man who has been surgically altered to appear identical to Benjamin Franklin. Frank explains that his plan is to change the official bird of the United States from eagles to turkeys, supposedly in accordance with the will of the real Benjamin Franklin. At this point Ace reveals himself and vows to stop them, but he is surrounded and captured.
Ace soon frees himself with Spike’s help and goes to free the eagles, but finds them already being released without his interference. He soon figures out that the eagles have been fed bird laxatives with a one-hour time-release, ensuring that they will simultaneously defecate on the heads of the parade and ruin their reputation in the eyes of the public. Ace attempts to warn the President, who is part of the parade motorcade, but is intercepted by the Secret Service agents and taken into their custody. Ace manages to elude them and concocts a plan to divert the eagles by dressing Spike as an eagle, strapping him to a kite, and hurling him into the air. This plan fails, but at the last moment Ace manages to ram a float shaped like a turkey occupied by the Franklinites into the path of the eagles, suffering the consequences instead of the President. Ace is subsequently chased off by the Secret Service when the President mistakes his acts for an assassination attempt. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: 10:00 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:23:38
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:83523
- GENRE: Animation
- SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Animation
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1995-1997; Nickelodeon, 1999-2000
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- James G. Robinson … Executive Producer
- Gary Barber … Executive Producer
- Michael Hirsh … Co-Executive Producer
- Patrick Loubert … Co-Executive Producer
- Patricia R. Burns … Coordinating Producer
- Stephen Hodgins … Supervising Producer
- Dave Beatty … Line Producer
- Dave Pemberton … Director
- Dan Hennessey … Voice Direction
- Enzo Avolio … Animation
- Sonia Baik … Animation
- Woong Chan Jeng … Animation
- John DiMartile … Animation
- Joe Giampapa … Animation
- Denise Korsman … Animation
- Christian Larocue … Animation
- John Mahovlich … Animation
- Daniel Payette … Animation
- Jason Groh … Animation
- Duane Capizzi … Developed by
- Ralph Soll … Writer
- Ray Parker … Music by
- Tom Szczesniak … Music by
- Ralph Cole … Music by
- Joe Curiale … Theme Music by
- Tom Torrance … Theme Music by
- Michael Hall (See also: Michael Daingerfield) … Voice, Ace Ventura
- Richard Binsley … Voice, Spike
- Vince Corrazza … Voice, Shickadance
- D.G. Beatty … Voice, Woodstock
- Al Waxman … Voice, Aguado
- Bruce Tubbe … Voice, Emilio