History Creator / RubySpears

* ''It's Series/PunkyBrewster'' (the "It's" was never actually shown onscreen)

* AnimatedAdaptation: Ruby-Spears was responsible for ''The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour'', which was the final season of a series of shows adapting these franchises. They also handled ''PunkyBrewster''. This doesn't even get into the animated versions of Plastic Man and Superman.

* ''Film/PoliceAcademy: The Series''

The history of the studio is a turbulent one. After their founding in 1977, they were purchased in 1978 by Creator/{{Filmways}}. Filmways sold the company to Taft Broadcasting in 1981, making it a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. Eventually their entire library prior to 1991 was sold, along with Hanna-Barbera, to Turner Broadcasting (later Time Warner), and legeally consolidating the two libraries into one. (Hence why all Ruby Spears dvd's have fine print saying they are owned by Hanna-Barbera) After the sale, the company restructured into RS Holdings. This led to them working on projects such as ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa'', ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' and the American ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon. The rights to many of these later shows have scattered as their partners absorbed them.

While Ruby-Spears did turn out a few original properties, during their heyday they became particularly well known for churning out a great deal of licensed properties. These ranged from animated adaptations of live-action sitcoms, to action shows centered on then-popular film and television celebrities (most notably, Creator/MrT and Creator/ChuckNorris), to the wildly successful 1980s update of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', to a great deal of collaboration with Creator/WarnerBros to adapt several Creator/DCComics mainstays for Saturday Morning. This even extended to toys (such as [[RubikTheAmazingCube Rubik's Cube]]) and video games.

The history of the studio is a turbulent one. After their founding in 1977, they were purchased in 1978 by Creator/{{Filmways}}. Filmways sold the company to Taft Broadcasting in 1981, making it a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. Eventually their entire library prior to 1991 was sold, along with Hanna-Barbera, to Turner Broadcasting (later Time Warner), and legeally consolidating the two libraries into one. (Hence why all Ruby Spears dvd's have fine print saying they are owned by Hanna-Barbera) After the sale, the company restructured into RS Holdings. This led to them working on projects such as ''WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa'', ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' and the American ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon. The rights to many of these later shows have scattered as their partners absorbed them.

While Ruby-Spears did turn out a few original properties, during their heyday they became particularly well known for churning out a great deal of licensed properties. These ranged from animated adaptations of live-action sitcoms, to action shows centered on then-popular film and television celebrities (most notably, Creator/MrT and ChuckNorris), to the wildly successful 1980s update of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', to a great deal of collaboration with Creator/WarnerBros to adapt several Creator/DCComics mainstays for Saturday Morning. This even extended to toys (such as [[RubikTheAmazingCube Rubik's Cube]]) and video games.

* {{Animesque}}: ''Centurions'', ''Mega Man'', Skysurfer Strike Force'', ''Rambo'' and the 1988 ''Superman'' series. All of which, appropriately, were animated in Japan.

* ''It's PunkyBrewster'' (the "It's" was never actually shown onscreen)

* ''WesternAnimation/LazerTagAcademy'' (rights were later transferred to SabanEntertainment, who later re-released the show as "Laser Patrol")

* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' (1980s version, first five seasons; rights transferred to Creator/DiCEntertainment)

* ''Piggsburg Pigs!''

* ''The Puppy's Great Adventures'' (first a series of specials, then a regular series that aired as part of ''The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour''; co-production with HannaBarbera)

* AnAesop: Since many of these shows were based on either [[MerchandiseDriven toys]] or [[CelebrityToons celebrities, a number of them were wrapped around morals to try and make them appear more respectable.

** You can consider it a full on adoption now that Warner Brothers just considers the Ruby Spears library a part of Creator/HannaBarbera. both legally and in marketing.[[note]]This has gotten better, however: later Warner Archive releases have stopped using the Hanna-Barbera name for shows that clearly weren't made by them.[[/note]]

While Ruby-Spears did turn out a few original properties, during their heyday they became particularly well known for churning out a great deal of licensed properties. These ranged from animated adaptations of live-action sitcoms, to action shows centered on then-popular film and television celebrities (most notoriously, Creator/MrT and ChuckNorris), to the wildly successful 1980s update of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', to a great deal of collaboration with Creator/WarnerBros to adapt several Creator/DCComics mainstays for Saturday Morning. This even extended to toys (such as [[RubikTheAmazingCube Rubik's Cube]]) and video games.

* AnAesop: Since so many of these shows were [[MerchandiseDriven blatant advertisements]], most of them were wrapped around morals to try and make them appear more respectable.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Both the ''WesternAnimation/MisterT'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChuckNorrisKarateKommandos'' cartoons used live-action segments to drive home a moral.

* EpisodeTitleCard: Most of their series use them.

* FollowTheLeader: ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' was a particularly obvious example of this, with the catch that it was created by the same people who created the ''original'' in the first place.
** ''WesternAnimation/ChuckNorrisKarateKommandos'' was a pretty naked attempt to replicate their limited success with ''WesternAnimation/MisterT''. The formats were nearly identical - both shows featured a live-action wraparound segment starring the title character discussing the plot at the start and later restating the moral at the end, and both featured the title characters re-imagined as globetrotting heroes/badasses backed up a group of fictional characters - though while Creator/MrT was assisted by a [[MenOfSherwood group of teenage gymnasts]], Creator/ChuckNorris got a [[BadassCrew full action team]] to accompany his baddassery.

** You can consider it a full on adoption now that Warner Brothers just considers the Ruby Spears library a part of Creator/HannaBarbera. both legally and in marketing.

** You can consider it a full on adoption now that Warner Brothers just considers the Ruby Spears library a part of Creator/HannaBarbera. but legally and in marketing.

The history of the studio is a turbulent one. After their founding in 1977, they were purchased in 1978 by Creator/{{Filmways}}. Filmways sold the company to Taft Broadcasting in 1981, making it a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. Eventually their entire library prior to 1991 was sold, along with Hanna-Barbera, to Turner Broadcasting (later Time Warner), and legeally consolidating the two libraries into one. (Hence why all Ruby Spears DVDs have fine print saying they are owned by Hanna-Barbera) After the sale, the company restructured into RS Holdings. This led to them working on projects such as ''WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa'', ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' and the American ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon. The rights to many of these later shows have scattered as their partners absorbed them.

Ruby-Spears output slowed dramatically by the late 1990s, and while the studio still exists today, it's a shadow of its former self and mainly handles some direct-to-video productions. However, like their predacessor, a lot of their cartoons still hold favorably among the public and is often a sort of contention with the InternetBackdraft

The history of the studio is a turbulent one. After their founding in 1977, they were purchased in 1978 by Creator/{{Filmways}}. Filmways sold the company to Taft Broadcasting in 1981, making it a sister company to Hanna-Barbera (and leading to several co-productions). Eventually their entire library prior to 1991 was sold, along with Hanna-Barbera, to Turner Broadcasting (later Time Warner), which has led to further confusion over their properties today as some of their shows have been released with a Hanna-Barbera production logo. After the sale, the company restructured into RS Holdings. This led to them working on projects such as ''WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa'', ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' and the American ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon. The rights to many of these later shows have scattered as their partners absorbed them.

Ruby-Spears output slowed dramatically by the late 1990s, and while the studio still exists today, it's a shadow of its former self and mainly handles some direct-to-video productions. However, some of their cheesier works have picked up a reputation as SnarkBait as adults who watched their shows as kids look back on them now with a little nostalgia and a lot of irony.

* EpisodeTitleCard

* FollowTheLeader: ''{{Fangface}}'' was a particularly obvious example of this, with the catch that it was created by the same people who created the ''original'' in the first place.
** ''WesternAnimation/ChuckNorrisKarateKommandos'' was a pretty naked attempt to replicate their limited success with ''Mr. T''. The formats were nearly identical - both shows featured a live-action wraparound segment starring the title character discussing the plot at the start and later restating the moral at the end, and both featured the title characters re-imagined as globetrotting heroes/badasses backed up a group of fictional characters - though while Creator/MrT was assisted by a [[MenOfSherwood group of teenage gymnasts]], ChuckNorris got a [[BadassCrew full action team]] to accompany his baddassery.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' (animation for episodes aired on ''The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo/Puppy hour''; they were written and recorded at Hanna-Barbera)

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' (animation for episodes aired on ''The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy hour''; they were written and recorded at Hanna-Barbera)

* ''The Puppy'' (first a series of specials, then a regular series that aired as part of ''The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo / Puppy Hour''; co-production with HannaBarbera)

!List of shows produced by Ruby-Spears:

* ''WesternAnimation/RubySpearsSuperman''

!List of shows produced by Ruby-Spears:

* ''WesternAnimation/RubySpearsSuperman''