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The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Genre	Children's comedy
Voices of	Walker Boone Tony Rosato
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Broadcast
First shown in	NBC
Original run	September 8, 1990 – December 1, 1990
Chronology
Preceded by	The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Followed by	Super Mario World
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is the second TV series based on the Super Mario Bros. video games. It aired on NBC from September 8, 1990 through December 1, 1990.

Based on the Super Mario Bros. 3 video game, the cartoon shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad fighting against Bowser Koopa and his Koopalings, who went by different names on the show. On the show, the Koopalings were called:

• Cheatsy Koopa (Larry)
• Bigmouth Koopa (Morton)
• Kootie Pie Koopa (Wendy)
• Hop Koopa (Iggy)
• Bully Koopa (Roy)
• Hip Koopa (Lemmy)
• Kooky Von Koopa (Ludwig von Koopa)

Although the reason for their name change is disputed among fans, it is most likely that DiC did not have access to their real names during production of the show, for the company was probably using the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 3 as reference. In the game, the Koopa Kids were not originally given names until it was brought over into the US, shortly before The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 went on air. The made-up names were added in place. Apparently, DiC was never informed of the add-on at first glance. Oddly enough, bits from the American version of the game were inserted ("Kooky von Koopa" or referring to King Koopa as "Bowser"), which clearly shows DiC became aware of the change later. DiC likely retained the show names to avoid confusion among viewers.

Like the previous Mario cartoon series, the animation was done by Sei Young Animation Co. Ltd, however this show was co-produced by Reteitalia S.P.A., hence the slight differences in character design.

Since the show was based on Super Mario Bros. 3, the enemies and power-ups were also seen in the show. In addition to being more faithful to the Mario gameplay, the series was given an established sense of continuity, something that the previous series lacked. The show was also known for having many of its episodes set in "the real world", with "actual" human beings appearing from time to time. Episodes took place in locations such as London, Paris, Venice, New York City, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and even Washington, D.C.. One memorable episode entitled "7 Continents for 7 Koopas" was about the seven Koopa Kids invading each of the seven continents.

This cartoon was originally shown in the hour-long Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 programming block along with the second season of Captain N: The Game Master. All further airings of the series separated it from Captain N.

It has been released on DVD in Australia in a full box set made by MRA Entertainment, Europe which one volume out of the four has only been released in Germany, and one single DVD release in the US by Sterling Entertainment Group in 2003. Due to the success of the DVD sets of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Shout! Factory released a 3-disc box set of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 on June 26, 2007, which was released again with The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog volume 1 as a double pack on December 4, 2007.

• Walker Boone as Mario
• Tony Rosato as Luigi
• Tracey Moore as Princess Toadstool (Peach)
• John Stocker as Toad, Boomerang Bros, Fire Bros, Thwomp and Paragoombas
• Harvey Atkin as King Bowser Koopa
• Tara Strong as Lemmy "Hip" Koopa and Iggy "Hop" Koopa (credited as "Tara Charendoff")
• Paulina Gillis as Wendy "Kootie Pie" Koopa
• James Rankin as Larry "Cheatsy" Koopa
• Dan Hennessey as Roy "Bully" Koopa, Angry Sun and Sledge Bros
• Michael Stark as Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa
• Gordon Masten as Morton "Big Mouth" Koopa Jr.
• Louise Vallance as Ptooey
• Ernie Anderson as Opening Narrator

• USA
  • NBC (1990-1991)
  • The Family Channel (1992)
  • Cartoon Network (1994-1997)
  • PAX Network (1999)

• UK
  • Channel 4
  • The Children's Channel
  • POP! (2004–)
  • ITV2 (2005)