Fish Police is the name of a comic book series by cartoonist Steven Moncuse, and its six episode cartoon adaptation, both works centering around law and crime in a fictional underwater metropolis with the protagonist, Inspector Gill, trying to solve various, often mafia-related crimes and avoid seduction by the extremely well-endowed Angel. The comic and the television show featured several sorts of marine species as its characters, while the plots and dialogue were reminiscent of film noir. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... A book series is a sequence of books with common characteristics, typically written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. ... Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations with varied meanings that evolved from its original meaning. ... A biological adaptation is an anatomical structure, physiological process or behavioral trait of an organism that has evolved over a period of time by the process of natural selection such that it increases the expected long-term reproductive success of the organism. ... The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra), is an Italian criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ...

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Animated television series

The world of Fish Police was adapted to the cartoon format in 1992 as one of the attempts of the time to repeat the success of The Simpsons by creating cartoons for the prime time evening slot with a broader, and generally older target audience. Six episodes were produced for CBS television, and starting with February 1992, three of the episodes aired, after which the show was taken off air because it wasn't successful in the ratings. The remaining three episodes have never aired in the United States, but they did air in syndication, for example the European programming of Cartoon Network and Boomerang. This is a list of television-related events in 1992. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... This is a list of television-related events in 1992. ... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are often referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... Cartoon Network (commonly referred to as CN) is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. ... Boomerang is the name of at least four television networks owned by Cartoon Network. ...

Episode List

1. The Shell Game
2. A Fish Out Of Water
3. Beauty Is Only Fin Deep
4. The Godfather
5. The 2 Gils
6. No Way To Treat A Fillet-dy

Voice cast

• John Ritter as Inspector Gill
• Hector Elizondo as Don Calamari
• Edward Asner as Chief Abalone
• Jonathan Winters as Mayor Cod
• Tim Curry as The Sharkster
• Robert Guillaume as Detective Catfish
• Buddy Hacket as Crabby
• Megan Mullally as Pearl
• JoBeth Williams as Angel
• Frank Welker as Mussels Marinara/Doc Croaker
• Georgia Brown as Goldie
• Charlie Schlatter as Tadpole

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Images

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Fish Police, issue #2 Image File history File linksMetadata Fishpolicecomic. ...

External links

• Fish Police at the Internet Movie Database
• Delta House at TV.com
• The Fish Police comic and television show at Toonopedia