Stephen Anthony Rucker is an American composer.

Along with his partner Thomas Chase, he has done music for many TV shows, including Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light was originally a range of action figures from Hasbro, released in 1987. This action figure range was promoted by two different media, telling the stories of the characters...

, The Wuzzles

The Wuzzles

Disney's Wuzzles is an American animated television series created for Saturday morning television, and was first broadcast on September 14, 1985 on CBS. An idea of Michael Eisner for his new Disney television animation studio, the Wuzzles are crossbred animals which sport a combined appearance of...

, The Gummi Bears, Bionic Six

Bionic Six

Bionic Six is an American/Japanese animated television series from 1987, produced by TMS Entertainment and distributed by MCA TV...

, Codename: Kids Next Door

Codename: Kids Next Door

Codename: Kids Next Door, also known as Kids Next Door or by its acronym KND, is an American animated television series created by Tom Warburton and produced by Curious Pictures in Santa Monica, California.. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 6, 2002 and aired its final episode on...

, Detention

Detention (TV series)

Detention is a cartoon that premiered on Kids' WB! on September 10, 1999 and was created by Bob Doucette . This is one of the shortest lived programs by Warner Bros...

, Pirates of Dark Water, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an animated action-adventure television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and broadcast on Cartoon Network from August 26, 1996 to April 16, 1997. A revival of the 1960s Jonny Quest franchise, it features teenage adventurers Jonny Quest, Hadji Singh,...

, The Mighty Orbots

The Mighty Orbots

is an American/Japanese Super robot animated series created in a joint collaboration of TMS Entertainment and Intermedia Entertainment in association with MGM/UA Television. It was directed by veteran anime director Osamu Dezaki and features character designs by Akio Sugino...

, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, Dexter's Laboratory

Dexter's Laboratory

Dexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios . The show is about a boy named Dexter who has an enormous secret laboratory filled with an endless collection of his inventions...

, ChalkZone

ChalkZone

ChalkZone is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon. It was created by Bill Burnett and Larry Huber, and produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon TV channel...

, DuckTales

DuckTales

DuckTales is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Based on Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comic book series, it premiered on September 18, 1987 and ended on November 28, 1990 with a total of four seasons and 100 episodes...

, Stories From My Childhood, Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera...

, Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys, Dynamo Duck

Dynamo Duck

Dynamo Duck was the main character in the children's series "The Adventures of Dynamo Duck", which aired on television in the early nineties....

, The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The series ran from 1986 to 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. "The Real" was added to the title after a dispute with...

, Mr. T

Mister T (TV series)

Mister T was an animated series that aired on NBC from 1983 to 1986. A total of 30 episodes were produced during the first two seasons, with the final season consisting entirely of reruns...

, Sweet Sea, Powermasters, Conan the Adventurer

Conan the Adventurer (animated series)

Conan the Adventurer is an American animated television series adaptation of Conan the Barbarian, the literary character created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. Produced by Jetlag Productions and Sunbow Productions, the series debuted on September 12, 1992, ran for 65 episodes and concluded on...

and The Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera for Cartoon Network...

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The two also did scores for movies, including Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, known in Japan as simply Nemo, is a 1989 animated film directed by Masami Hata and William T. Hurtz. Loosely based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, the film went through a lengthy development process with a number of screenwriters...

, The Tale of Tillie's Dragon

The Tale of Tillie's Dragon

The Tale of Tillie's Dragon is an American animated film directed and written by Mike Stribling and animated by Steven Hahn. The film is about a red-haired girl who befriends a dragon named Herman. Together the two take part in a variety of adventures. The technical crew on this film features a...

, Creature

Creature (film)

Creature is a 1985 film directed by William Malone.-Plot:Creature is about a team of space explorers that encounters on the base on Titan a vicious alien creature that has the ability to manipulate its victims after death...

, Alien Predator, 976-EVIL

976-EVIL

976-EVIL is a 1989 horror film directed by Robert Englund.The film's title refers to the 976 telephone exchange, a now mostly defunct premium-rate telephone number system that was popular in the late 1980s but has since been superseded by area code 900....

, Scared to Death

Scared to Death

Scared to Death is a horror film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Bela Lugosi. It was filmed in Cinecolor, is one of only three color pictures Lugosi made, and the only one he starred in...

and its sequel Syngenor

Syngenor

Syngenor is a 1990 B horror/science fiction movie that is a sequel to the 1981 film Scared to Death. The film is directed by George Elanjian Jr and written by Michael Carmody and Brent V. Friedman...

, Armed Response, Pray for Death

Pray For Death

Pray For Death is a 1985 American martial arts action film starring Sho Kosugi.-Plot:The movie's plot centers on a Japanese man and his family moving to America to start a new life. But they find themselves the target of an American gangster who believes the family has in their possession a stolen...

, Monster in My Pocket

Monster in My Pocket

Monster in my Pocket is a media franchise developed by Morrison Entertainment Group, headed by Joe Morrison and John Weems ....

, The Fanatics

The Fanatics

The Fanatics may refer to:* The Fanatics, a 1990s comedy film* Ocean Colour Scene, a band whose members formerly had a band called "The Fanatics"* A group who follow around and support Australian sportspeople and teams...

, Dot and Spot's Magical Christmas Adventure, Bulletproof

Bulletproof (1988 film)

Bulletproof is a 1988 movie directed by Steve Carver.-Plot:A clan of terrorists, of all backgrounds and types, seize the "Thunderblast" top-secret super tank, hiding it in Mexico. The task of recovering it is entrusted to "Bulletproof" Frank McBain, a former secret agent and current cop...

, among others.

Rucker and Chase have also established their own company Chase/Rucker Productions which is known for composing music for shows and movies such as The Snorks

The Snorks

Snorks is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which ran on NBC from September 15, 1984 to May 13, 1989. Although not as popular as the animated series The Smurfs, the program continued to be available in syndication from 1986 to 1989, on the BBC in the late 1990s, and from...

, Salty's Lighthouse

Salty's Lighthouse

Salty's Lighthouse was a series for young children, produced by Sunbow Entertainment in 1997 in association with the Bank Street College of Education in New York. The show centred around a young boy named Salty, as he plays and learns with his friends in a magical lighthouse...

, Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...

, Galaxy High School, Alien Predator and Timeless Tales from Hallmark.

The music from Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space! sounds just like Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker music. However, the music was composed by Kurt Heinecke

Kurt Heinecke

Kurt Heinecke is an American music composer, songwriter, voice actor and photographer. He is the music director at Big Idea Entertainment, creators of the computer-animated VeggieTales.-Early life:...

, Phil Vischer

Phil Vischer

Phillip "Phil" Vischer is an American voice actor, animator, director, writer and puppeteer known for creating the computer-animated video series VeggieTales with partner and friend Mike Nawrocki...

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They also wrote the song Planted Page for the 1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 movie Family Plan.

They have also wrote and composed all the songs except Airport Welcome and A House is Not a Home in the television special Rockin' with Judy Jetson

Rockin' with Judy Jetson

Rockin' with Judy Jetson is a 1988 musical made-for-TV movie produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired in syndication as a part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series. It is based on the animated television series The Jetsons.-Plot:...

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Rucker lives in Malibu, California. He is also a former member of a band Chi where he was joined by partner Chase. He grew up in Van Nuys, Los Angeles in California, and attended Grant High School.

He should not be confused with Steve Rucker

Steve Rucker

Stephen"Steve" Rucker was a drummer in the popular band the Bee Gees. With the Bee Gees band, he appeared on The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O' Donnell, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and a Royal Variety Performance for the Queen of England...

, drummer for the Bee Gees

Bee Gees

The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...

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