Malachi Tyrus

Malachi Tyrus an American/Canadian animated comedy television series based on the comic strip of the same name. It is created by Mala M and produced at Ben's Animation by  Mala M. and Andrew Stanton. It first premiered on the CBS. September 5,1970, as a first episode Malachi's Best Friends, which led to a series of half-hour episode. It got very little viewership and negative reviews on it's "sneak peek" premiere.

Malachi Tyrus was conceived by Malachi since 1947 shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with the producer Mala M. Malachi created a world and named the characters, substituting Malachi name. The comics became a part of FliM SliK on July 9, 1951, becoming the network's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1970).

The success of the show's premiere helped digital-to-video & feature films, Malachi & Friends Flims & Malachi Tyrus the Movie 1 & 2

History
Mala M. conceived Malachi Tyrus in 1989 with his idea with two characters, Rugchi and Stick Grape. They wore blue instead of purple, and Stick Grape had (their final designs were quickly created afterwards). Miles.'s father had previously tried pitching the show in the early 60's, but animation studios considered it "too extreme". In 1990, Stick Grape changed his name to Purple Guy, and Rugchi was subsequently renamed as Malachi. The show first appeared as a original unaired pilot and the comic in 1967. In 1969, Ben's Television and Screen Gems adapted Malachi Tyrus into a half-hour television series on CBS. The pilot episode was originally aired on September 5, 1970. The show's popularity resulted in a feature-length theatrical film produced, titled Malachi Tyrus The Movie, which was released on July 21, 1992, and its sequel titled Malachi Tyrus The Movie 2, which was released on July 18, 2014. In 2015, Malachi Tyrus Productions Inc ,Strathclyde Country Park purchased some of the rights to Malachi Tyrus for the equivalent of $99,000 (in US dollars). New episodes will be made, but using a mixture of Adobe Flash, GoAnimate, MSPaint, paint.net, Scratch, Sony Vegas, WMM, EpocCam (both the iPad app and the Windows EXE for the EpocCam drivers), Bandicam, Audacity, Blender and Cinema 4D, mostly for season 22.

Development
The show's first characters were first conceived by Robert Stainton, while working at Pizza Hut in the late 60's-early 70's. The idea hit him after he came up with two characters, Rugchi & Stick Grape. They did not exactly look like Malachi or Purple Guy. They wore blue instead of purple, and Stick Grape. But when the year 1990 came, Stick Grape changed his name to Purple Guy, and Rugchi to Malachi (then had their final designs then). Then Mala M. came up with a Sing-Along Songs segment with Purple Guy's cousin, Dr. After that more characters came along such as Malachi, Purple Guy, Little Guy, Dr. Beanson, Gree Guy, Geo Guy, Green Bob, Dr. PBS, and more. Now the creators had came up an idea for the name of the show, Malachi Tyrus. "It was a weird name," said Mala, the creator, developer, and director of the series. Mala M.,Terry Ward and James Clayton pitched the series to various companies and channel, who greenlit it. The Program Exchange provided (and still does provide) financing and licensing. Robert and his ragtag team of animators and others got the okay.

Production
Development of the Malachi television series started in 1964. In 1968, at the time Ben's Animation was founded, the company was originally set to produce the animation for the show, but left out due to in favor of other projects. Ben's Television Animation later announced in late 1983 that they would instead animate the show. The show was first aired on September 5, 1970, with the first episode "Malachi's Best Friends.

Main characters

 * Malachi
 * Purple Guy
 * Jenny (since 1987)
 * Takashi (since 1988)
 * Ashley (since 2010)
 * Bella (since 2015)
 * Damar (since 2016)
 * Dina (since 2016)

Minor characters

 * Little Guy


 * Dr. Beanson
 * Geo Guy
 * Green Bob
 * Dr.PBS


 * and more

Villains

 * Gree Guy
 * Gree Jr.
 * Bryan Guy
 * Pingux2012
 * CookieEater2
 * Santed Sailor
 * Walachi
 * NaPurple
 * Chae Cook
 * Bob Beanson
 * Beanson
 * Doom Vercetti
 * Eliprick11
 * Johnny Test
 * Barney
 * Evil Barney
 * Dora & Boots
 * Caillou