Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World (1987)
September 27, 1987Release Date
Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World (1987)
September 27, 1987Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Sharon Lewis
Barbie (voice)
Michael Breyner
Ken (voice)
Mary Adams
Dana (voice)
Sarah Jayson
Diva (voice)
Joanne Wilson
Dee Dee (voice)
Garry Chalk
Additional voices (voice)
Doc Harris
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Lynn Johnson
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Viktoria Langton
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Debbie Lick
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Cathy Mead
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Doug Parker
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John Payne
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Nikki Sharp
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Ellen Levy-Sarnoff
Producer
Veena Sood
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Release DateSeptember 27, 1987
StatusReleased
Running Time25m
Content RatingG
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Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World is a 1987 American animated television special created by DIC Animation City with Saban Productions featuring popular Mattel character Barbie. The story was based on the Barbie and the Rockers line of dolls, which featured Barbie as the leader of a rock band. The special originally aired in syndication. It was later released as a single tape (on VHS, or an exceedingly rare Betamax tape) by Hi-Tops Video. Foreign rights were assumed by Channel 5 Video, a joint-venture of Heron Communications (owners of Hi-Tops) and PolyGram.
Mattel had largely avoided media centered around the Barbie character prior to this special's release, in large part because of their reluctance to provide personality to a doll long seen as a "blank slate" for girls to use their imaginations with. However, competition from Hasbro's Jem line—which had a daily cartoon in syndication at the time—prompted Mattel to begin multimedia expansion.
The miniseries was allegedly supposed to have been the pilot for a daily Barbie cartoon series. However, negotiations between DIC and Mattel fell through, and the project eventually emerged with a whole new set of characters—and the sponsorship of Mattel rival Hasbro—as Maxie's World in 1988. (These plans, if they existed, were likely unrelated to a planned live-action/animated hybrid newsmagazine under the Barbie name that Mattel had planned for 1987; this show never made it to air.)