Rock Odyssey

Rock Odyssey (1987)

The story of a mysterious woman named Laura, who embarks on a journey to find her true love. The movie's soundtrack is set to four decades of classic rock. Scatman Crothers provides the voice of a living jukebox who narrates the story.

Date of release
1987-07-13
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Animation, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Robert Taylor

Casting

Interesting facts

Rock Odyssey is an animated jukebox musical feature film produced by Hanna-Barbera for a Worldvision Enterprises release in 1987. Directed by Robert Taylor, with storyboards by Pete Alvarado, it features Scatman Crothers in his final film appearance, and was released following his death. The film was dedicated to his memory.

Production notes

Production of Rock Odyssey began in 1981 at Hanna-Barbera's short-lived feature animation unit, as a follow-up project to Heidi's Song. It was intended as a prime-time TV special for ABC, and was mentioned in a fall 1981 H-B trade ad as being slated to air in the spring of 1982, but the project was shelved after executives at H-B and corporate parent Taft Entertainment saw the film's graphic imagery, particularly relating to the 1960s and the Vie…

The program was shelved by Hanna-Barbera, who intended to retool the program; at a March 1983 Congressional hearing on children's television, ABC children's programming VP Squire Rushnell mentioned that it was slated to air that year. The film, however, remained on the shelf until the mid-80s, at which time a new sequence was added, featuring classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon clips set to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".

Rock Odyssey has never been released on VHS and LaserDisc, and has not yet been aired on TV, or released on DVD or Blu-ray in the United States by Warner Home Video, but it was screened at the second Los Angeles International Animation Celebration in July 1987. It has also aired on TV in Spain and several Latin American countries, with the narration dubbed into Spanish.

Despite all this, clips from the film were used for HBTV and a poster of Rock Odyssey can be seen in The Flintstones TV film Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby.

The film was aired (in English) on Boomerang Southeast Asia on April 1, 2010.

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