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3 is the second TV series based on the Mario NES games. The 30-minute program was originally broadcast during the after-school afternoon time-slots on Los Angeles-based KTTV Fox 11. The show starred King Koopa (also known as Bowser), the main antagonist of the Mario series. King Koopa's Kool Kartoons is a live action children's television show broadcast in Southern California during the holiday season of 1989/1990. The show was produced by DIC Entertainment and was distributed for syndicated television by Viacom Enterprises (full rights have since reverted to DiC through Nintendo). It was broadcast in syndication from September 4 to December 1, 1989. Super Show! is the first American TV series based on the Mario NES games. Donkey Kong, Mario and Pauline (from the Donkey Kong arcade game) were featured in the show. Each episode comprised several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the Golden Age of Arcade Games.

It ran for two seasons on CBS, beginning in 1983. Saturday Supercade is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. Mario and themes related to the franchise have appeared in television shows, anime, films, comics and manga, merchandise, and musical performance. The Mario media franchise extends out of video games into non-game media.

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