7.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Alvin Show (1961)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.6
Overview
The Alvin Show is an American animated television series. It was the first to feature the singing characters Alvin and the Chipmunks, although a series with a similar concept The Nutty Squirrels Present had aired a year earlier. It lasted for one season in prime time on CBS, originally sponsored by General Foods, and initially telecast in black and white. The series rode the momentum of creator Ross Bagdasarian's original hit musical gimmick and developed the singing Chipmunk trio as rambunctious kids–particularly the show's namesake star–whose mischief contrasted to his tall, brainy brother Simon and his chubby, gluttonous brother Theodore, as well as their long-suffering, perpetually put-upon manager-father figure, David Seville. The animation was produced by Herbert Klynn's Format Films.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
The Alvin Show is an American animated television series. It was the first to feature the singing characters Alvin and the Chipmunks, although a series with a similar concept The Nutty Squirrels Present had aired a year earlier. It lasted for one season in prime time on CBS, originally sponsored by General Foods, and initially telecast in black and white. The series rode the momentum of creator Ross Bagdasarian's original hit musical gimmick and developed the singing Chipmunk trio as rambunctious kids–particularly the show's namesake star–whose mischief contrasted to his tall, brainy brother Simon and his chubby, gluttonous brother Theodore, as well as their long-suffering, perpetually put-upon manager-father figure, David Seville. The animation was produced by Herbert Klynn's Format Films.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The show's central focus on lighthearted children's entertainment, character-driven comedy, and music, combined with its apolitical themes of family dynamics and personal responsibility, results in a neutral rating. It does not explicitly promote any specific political ideology.
The Alvin Show, an animated series from the 1960s, features traditional casting with its human characters depicted as white, and does not include explicit race or gender swaps. The narrative focuses on comedic situations without critiquing traditional identities or incorporating DEI themes.
Secondary
The Alvin Show, an animated series from the early 1960s, does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on the adventures of Alvin and the Chipmunks, with no content related to queer identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Alvin Show features characters like Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and David Seville, all of whom maintain their established male genders from their original novelty record appearances. No characters were portrayed with a different gender than their canonical or historical baseline.
The Alvin Show features anthropomorphic chipmunks and human characters. There is no evidence of any character, human or animal, being portrayed as a different race than originally established in this 1961 animated series.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
8.3
Critic Ratings
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