The Penguins of Madagascar

The Penguins of Madagascar
Genre	Comedy Action Adventure
Based on	Characters by Tom McGrath Eric Darnell
Developed by	Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley
Directed by	Bret Haaland Nick Filippi
Voices of	Tom McGrath John DiMaggio Jeff Bennett James Patrick Stuart Danny Jacobs Kevin Michael Richardson Andy Richter Conrad Vernon Tara Strong Nicole Sullivan Mary Scheer
Composer(s)	Adam Berry
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	149 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley
Producer(s)	Dina Buteyn (S2) Dean Hoff (S2) Andrew Hubner (S3)
Running time	11 minutes 22 minutes (long-length specials: episodes 48, 55, 79, 98, 110, 122, 146 and 147) 44 minutes ("The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole", episode 99)
Production company(s)	DreamWorks Animation Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Distributor	Viacom Media Networks
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon (2008–12) Nicktoons (2013–15)
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Original release	November 28, 2008 (2008-11-28) – December 19, 2015 (2015-12-19)
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The Penguins of Madagascar is an American computer-animated television series. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from DreamWorks' animated movie Madagascar. The characters include the penguins Skipper (voiced by Tom McGrath), Rico (John DiMaggio), Kowalski (Jeff Bennett) and Private (James Patrick Stuart), the lemurs King Julien (Danny Jacobs), Maurice (Kevin Michael Richardson) and Mort (Andy Richter) as well as Mason (Conrad Vernon) and Phil the chimpanzees. Characters new to the series include Marlene the otter (Nicole Sullivan) and a zookeeper named Alice (Mary Scheer).

This is the first Nicktoon produced with DreamWorks Animation. The series was executive-produced by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle. They were the creators of the animated series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Disney Channel's Kim Possible.

Voice cast

Some of the original movie actors were not available to play their roles again. Chris Miller, who had voiced Kowalski, is replaced by Jeff Bennett, Christopher Knights is replaced by James Patrick Stuart as the voice of Private, Danny Jacobs takes over from Sacha Baron Cohen as the voice of King Julien, and Cedric the Entertainer's character, Maurice, is replaced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

• Tom McGrath (Returning) as Skipper / Zombie Skipper
• Jeff Bennett (New) as Kowalski / Rat 1 / Pidgeon / Spell
• John DiMaggio (Returning) as Rico / Bada / Burt / Rattlesnake / Bitsy Wildcat
• James Patrick Stuart (New) as Private / Joey / Delivery Man
• Danny Jacobs (New) as King Julien XIII / Roy
• Kevin Michael Richardson (New) as Maurice / Rat 2 / Bing
• Andy Richter (Returning) as Mort
• Nicole Sullivan (New) as Marlene
• Neil Patrick Harris (Guest Star) as Dr. Blowhole