Catscratch
Doug signed a deal with Nick-Nick-Niiick-Nick-Nick-N-Nick-Nick-Nickelodeon to do a cartoon show based loosely on the GEAR comic!
The TV show premise focuses on the antics of Mr. Blick, Gordon and Waffle..
You can find out more at the Catscratch Wiki!
Earthworm Jim
Doug finally got one of his own creations on TV and America hasn't been the same. (Really.)
Doug was an executive Producer for the show. Douglas Langdale wrote many of the episodes. Other writers included John Behnke, Thomas Hart, Rob Humphrey, Jim Peterson and Steve Roberts.
More information about the Earthworm Jim TV show can be found on these sites:
Earthworm Jim began as a video game by Shiny Entertainment in 1994.
For more information on the Earthworm Jim video games, see the video games section.
VeggieTales
Doug TenNapel worked on VeggieTales In The House and VeggieTales In The City as an executive producer.
Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and all their veggie friends venture off the countertop and into a bigger world for the very first time in VeggieTales In the House, which brings the beloved faith-based brand to their first ever Netflix original series. With important life lessons and inspirational messages built into each story, every episode also features a brand-new song, ensuring that the veggies are always fresh ... and always fun!
Project Geeker
Project G.e.e.K.e.R. was an animated television series that premiered on CBS on September 14, 1996. It was created by Douglas TenNapel and Doug Langdale the developer of Earthworm Jim the animated series, and was a production of Columbia TriStar Television under Adelaide Productions.
It had original music by Shawn Patterson (main title theme by Terry Scott Taylor). TenNapel and Taylor also collaborated on the video games The Neverhood, Boombots and Skullmonkeys, and in 2005, re-united for the Nickelodeon cartoon Catscratch.
Cast
- Billy West as G.e.e.K.e.R., Additional Voices
- Cree Summer as Lady MacBeth, Nanny, Sonny, Additional Voices
- Charles Adler as Dr. Maston, Jake Dragonn, Gene Damage, Additional Voices
- Jim Cummings as Mister Moloch, Will Dragonn, Cosmotto, Additional Voices
- Brad Garrett as Noah, Captain Wormhole
Additional voices
- Danny Mann as Redjack
- Ed Gilbert as Dinosaur Leader
- Jeff Bennett as Larry the Virus
- Charity James
- Kath Soucie
- Dee Dee Rescher as Female Junker
- Joe Alaskey
- Jason Marsden as Kid Dinosaur
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Stonebender/"Mr. Smiley", Additional Voices
- Joe Lala
- Michael Bell as Toxic Moose
- Lisa Kaplan
Everything you wanted to know about Project Geeker and were afraid to ask (and you should be afraid to ask) can be found on ProjectGeeker.org - it's the only Geeker site in existence!
Push, Nevada
Doug was a consulting producer on the ABC prime time muder mystery Push, Nevada. It got cancelled so Doug moved his family into a cardboard box on Hollywood and Vine.
Push Exec. producer Ben Affleck was an avid Neverhood player so he got Doug to do the puzzle work for the TV show! Push, Nevada's $1,045,000 prize was won by Mark Nakamoto, 24, of West New York, New Jersey!
The Attack of The Killer Tomatoes
Doug's first professional animation gig was for the Fox Saturday morning cartoon Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.