Direction: John Kimball

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Kimball. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Direction Tad Stones · Alan Zaslove · John Kimball · Bob Zamboni

Synopsis Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (TV Series) (1989) follows the adventures of Chip and Dale, two clever chipmunks who lead a team of animal detectives. Alongside their friends Gadget, Monterey Jack, and Zipper, they solve mysteries and fight crime in...

5.7

14K votes

5.7

14K votes

Direction Rudy Larriva · John Kimball · Norm McCabe

Synopsis Animated television show based on The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, a children's book by Catherine Woolley about Petey, a young dog who attached himself to a lonely orphan boy named Tommy.

4.9

33 votes

4.9

33 votes

Direction Bob Goe · John Kimball · Charles A. Nichols · Jay Sarbry

Synopsis It's the gold rush era in the Wild West. A mysterious stranger (Huckleberry Hound) arrives in a small desert town carrying a huge golden nugget. The notorious Dalton brothers steal it. The town asks "the stranger" to go after them.

4.8

40 votes

4.8

40 votes

4.8

118 votes

Turbo Teen (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 24 min. · United States

Direction John Kimball

Synopsis TV Series (1984-1985). 12 episodes. The series is about a teenager named Brett Matthews, who swerves off a road during a thunderstorm and crashes into a secret government laboratory. There, he and his red sports car are accidentally exposed to...

4.6

147 votes

4.6

147 votes

Direction Arthur Davis · Oscar Dufau · John Kimball · Jay Sarbry

Synopsis Yogi and the gang mistakenly board the famous Howard Hughes' plane The Spruce Goose. They accidentally start the plane, so they decide to take it for a spin, helping animals and people along the way.

4.6

30 votes

4.6

30 votes

Popeye and Son (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction John Kimball · Paul Sommer

Synopsis After 58 years of Popeye and Bluto fighting over Olive Oyl, they've all decided to finally settle down and start families. Popeye and Olive got married and had a son who hates spinach. Bluto also got married and had a...

4.4

828 votes

4.4

828 votes

All New Pound Puppies (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 26 min. · United States

Direction Don Lusk · Arthur Davis · Carl Urbano · Rudy Zamora

Synopsis Pound Puppies cartoon was inspired by the Tonka Toys line and centers on 11-year old Holly and her dog friends Cooler, Whopper, Nose Marie, and Howler at the Wagga Wagga Pound who work hard to find happy homes for dogs....

4.4

63 votes

4.4

63 votes

Thundarr the Barbarian (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rudy Larriva · John Kimball

Synopsis In the year 1994, from out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon unleashing cosmic destruction. Man's civilization is cast in ruin.Two thousand years later a strange new world rises from the old; a...

4.3

67 votes

4.3

67 votes

It's Punky Brewster (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction David W. Duclon · John Kimball · Rudy Larriva · Russ Mooney

Synopsis An animated spinoff from the popular Punky Brewster live action sitcom. In it, Punky is once again a young girl, only this time she meets a magical furry creature that looks vaguely like an Ewok, named Glommer. Glommer is a...

4.1

844 votes

4.1

844 votes

Rambo (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction John Kimball · Charles A. Nichols

Synopsis In the cartoon, Rambo was part of a G.I. Joe-like team called "The Force of Freedom." They went on missions around the world battling against a paramilitary organization of neo-Nazis named S.A.V.A.G.E. (Secret Administrators of Vengeance, Anarchy and Global Extortion),...

4.1

572 votes

4.1

572 votes

Direction John Kimball · Charles A. Nichols

Synopsis This was Chuck Norris attempt to star in his own animated series. He plays an operative for the United States government who has a team consisting of Pepper, a technological genius, Kimo, a Samurai warrior, Reed, his apprentice, Tabe, a...

3.2

116 votes

3.2

116 votes

Sky Commanders (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Dufau · John Kimball · Don Lusk · Charles A. Nichols

Synopsis Deep in the South Pacific, a tumultuous and untamed new continent has erupted, spawned by a highly unstable new element, known as Pheta-7. If this powerful new element could be controlled, whoever possessed it would be the undisputed ruler of...

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Saturday Supercade (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Charles A. Nichols · John Kimball · Walt Kubiak · Bill Reed

Synopsis Video games were exploding in popularity in the 1980s. Characters from several of the more popular games were featured in "Saturday Supercade," a weekly cartoon series perhaps most notable for being Donkey Kong's first starring appearance in a cartoon series....

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Rubik, the Amazing Cube (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction John Kimball · Rudy Larriva · Norm McCabe

Synopsis Four kids discover that their Rubik's cube is alive, and endowed with amazing powers. They befriend the cube, and they decide the best use for its powers is solving mysteries.

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Direction Geoff Collins · George Gordon · Bob Hathcook · John Kimball

Synopsis Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour is a 1982 cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, featuring animated versions of characters from Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley, and Happy Days, all part...

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Rambo: The Rescue

1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Kimball · Charles A. Nichols

Synopsis General Warhawk and his cronies try to take over a peaceful fictional South American country. Colonel Samuel Trautman sends John Rambo and mechanic Edward "Turbo" Hayes to stop Warhawk. Katherine Anne "K.A.T." Taylor assists them.

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Not rated