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Animated series

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A Miss Mallard Mystery

A Miss Mallard Mystery is a Sino-Canadian mystery animated series produced by Cinar and Shanghai Animation Film Studio for the Teletoon network and OTV (Shanghai Media Group), loosely based on the Robert Quackenbush book series.

Christopher McCulloch

When McCulloch promoted it at a comic book convention in New York, he caught the eye of Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick, who offered McCulloch the chance to write for a Tick spin-off comic while Edlund wrote for the animated series.

Coby Whitmore

Glen Murakami, producer of the 2000s Teen Titans animated series on Cartoon Network, cited Whitmore and fellow illustrator Bob Peak as "big influences on the loose, painterly style we have been using for the backgrounds".

Fyvush Finkel

Through the 1990s and 2000s, Finkel has appeared in movies including Nixon and The Crew, guested on TV series including Chicago Hope, Law & Order, Early Edition, and Hollywood Squares, and provided voiceovers for episodes of the animated series The Simpsons ("Lisa's Sax") and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters ("Ickis! You'll Be Snorched!") and the animated direct-to-video feature The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.

Jennifer Pertsch

Jennifer Pertsch is a story editor, writer, series creator, and one of the founding partners of Fresh TV Inc (a partner Tom McGillis), a Toronto based production studio specializing in teen and family oriented animated series.

Karate Kommandos

The series follows the framing device of Mr. T's animated series (also a Ruby-Spears production): At the beginning of each episode, a live action segment with Norris, usually at a gym or martial arts studio, is shown to explain what is going on.

Little Wizards

Little Wizards is a American animated series, created by Len Janson and Chuck Menville and produced by Marvel Productions, that ran from 1987 to 1988.

Man-At-Arms

In Filmation's animated series, Man-At-Arms - given the "real name" of Duncan - despite being a soldier and a master of weapons is primarily peaceful and prefers alternatives to fighting.

Scyphozoa

Scyphozoa is the name of a fictional monster in the animated series Code Lyoko.

Space Gundam V

Space Gundam V (스페이스 간담브이) (sometimes spelled Space Gandam V), is a South Korean animated series directed by Kim Cheong-gi, released on July 1983.

Squigglevision

Tom Snyder of Tom Snyder Productions invented the technique, which his animation studio Soup2Nuts subsequently popularized in several successful animated series.

Steel City

Steel City is also the name of the primary setting in Jules Verne's novel The Begum's Fortune and is the location of the Titans East headquarters in the Teen Titans animated series.

Stephen Silver

He is best known as the lead character designer for animated series such as Kim Possible and Danny Phantom.

Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset

"Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" is episode 123 of the Comedy Central animated series South Park.

Tales from Riverdale

Sabrina the Teenage Witch stories were also present in this digest, but in the format of the animated series and Sabrina: Friends Forever.

The Catillac Cats

The Catillac Cats (also called "Cats & Company") is the name of an animated series made in 1984 by DiC.

The Losing Edge

"The Losing Edge" is the fifth episode of the ninth season of the American animated series South Park.

The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse

The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse is a 26 half-hour television animated series loosely inspired by the real life Eliot Ness, and his group of agents colloquially known as The Untouchables, and their investigation into the real life gangster Al Capone, although (as with past adaptations) it does take some liberties with history.

Tintin videos and DVDs

A limited edition of Ellipse-Nelvana's The Adventures of Tintin TV cartoon series was released as its HMV exclusive in Europe by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Tony Ross

Since then many other stories were published and adapted into a new series (appropriately titled Little Princess), featuring issues such as sibling rivalry, bad manners and attachment.

XHJUB-TV

Children's programming includes Spanish-dubbed versions of Nickelodeon's SpongeBob Squarepants, The Fairly OddParents, iCarly, Danny Phantom and The Penguins of Madagascar, as well as original Televisa programs such its animated version of El Chavo.


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1994 in Australian television

March 27 - The Animals of Farthing Wood, a British children's animated series based on the books by Colin Dann premieres on ABC.

Autobot

In the Michael Bay live action films as well as in the CGI-animated series Transformers: Prime, the title Autobots is explained to be the short version of the title Autonomous Robotic Organisms.

Chris Parson

Parson had voiced the title role (as well as many others) on Comedy Central's animated series Lil' Bush, and has lent his voice to episodes of Fox's popular shows Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, and Disney's Handy Manny.

Chuck Cecil

During much of his career, Cecil was forced to wear a "Gazoo Helmet"; a helmet so named because it resembled the head of The Great Gazoo, a recurring character in The Flintstones animated series.

Civic-Minded Five

The character appeared in five episodes of the animated series and was voiced by Rob Paulsen.

The character appeared in five episodes of the animated series and was voiced by Kevin Schon.

Cruella

Cruella de Vil, a character in the 101 Dalmatians novel, three films, and animated series

Dark Champions

The second edition, published in 2004, emphasizes general action-adventure scenarios such as one might find in the adventures of James Bond, Lara Croft, The A-Team, the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies, and so forth, though costumed vigilantes are still considered a subgenre (given detail in a supplement, Dark Champions: The Animated Series).

David Michel

Since 1999, David Michel has produced several long-running animated series along with Vincent Chalvon Demersay (CEO, Marathon Media) : Totally Spies, Martin Mystery, Team Galaxy, Monster Buster Club, The Amazing Spiez!.

Defenders of Dynatron City

Megawatt (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in the animated series), who can shoot electric bolts

Ego Trip

Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip, a 1999 animated television movie based on the animated series Dexter's Laboratory

Fiona Reid

Reid voiced Mrs. Jenkins in the animated series Timothy Goes to School.

Fuji Rabbit

Fuji Rabbits have been featured in Japanese animated series such as FLCL and Paranoia Agent and are a favourite amongst collectors of scooters and motorcycles in Japan.

GFK

GFK is also a nickname for Gandhi in the animated series Clone High.

Halation Summer

The main song is used as animated series Kyorochan first opening theme, and also appears on its Original Soundtrack album.

Iwatayama Monkey Park

The park is featured in an episode of the Japanese animated series K-On!.

Judyann Elder

She has also done voice work for the animated series Paddington Bear, Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone and Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

Kim Mitchell

he has contributed voice work for several episodes of the PBS animated series Cyberchase voicing Appollo in "out of sync", chief in "The guilty party" and Walter the walrus in "When Penguins fly"

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2

TVShowsOnDVD.com reported that the set won the award for "Best Animated Series" release at the 3rd Annual TV-DVD Conference.

Lucille Bliss

A New York City native, she lent her voice to numerous television characters, including the title character of the very first made-for-television cartoon, Crusader Rabbit, Smurfette on the popular 1980s cartoon The Smurfs and Ms. Bitters on the Nickelodeon animated series Invader ZIM.

Mark W. Ryan

He is also credited as a voice-over actor in the 1991 animated series Little Shop, based on the film Little Shop Of Horrors, in which he voiced the character Paine Driller.

Matt Crocco

Crocco also composed music for MTV animated series Clone High and also for ESPN Classic show "Cheap Seats" as well as music cues for the Cartoon Network film "Re-animated".

Micheline Charest

During this time, Charest would go on to serve as either producer or executive producer for dozens of popular animated series for children, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Animal Crackers, Emily of New Moon, Mona the Vampire, and The Wombles.

Octagón

The team of Octagón, Atlantis and Mascara Sagrada was dubbed "Los Movie Stars" and were booked to win the Mexican National Trios Championship from a team called "Los Thundercats" (patterned after the ThunderCats animated series) in 1991.

Paul Tibbitt

Paul Harrison Tibbitt (born 1968) is an American comedian, animator, television producer, writer, storyboard artist, songwriter and voice actor, best known for working on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants.

Phantasies

The series, featuring characters such as Willoughby Wren and Superkatt, is notable as being the last theatrical animated series produced in black-and-white.

Priit Pärn

Influences of Pärn's graphical style can be also be seen in such commercial animated series as Rugrats and AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! directed by Igor Kovalyov.

Psykosoul

The critically acclaimed album included the singles "Gladly" and "Good N'Strong," as well as a standout cover of Edie Brickell's "What I Am" which also made an appearance on the television soundtrack of the animated series The PJ's.

Rat King

The Slayer version of the Rat King from the 2003 animated series also appears as the boss of Episode Two in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare.

Rob Pottorf

While most of his time was spent scoring animated series such as “Hermie a Common Caterpillar” with Tim Conway and Don Knotts and “On the Farm” with Vince Gill, Amy Grant and Randy Travis to name a few, more film opportunities started to appear.

Roger C. Carmel

Carmel voiced Smokey Bear in fire safety advertisements and Decepticon Lieutenant Cyclonus, amongst others, in the second and third seasons of the popular Transformers animated series.

Rubicon Group Holding

Rubicon also manages the international licensing and merchandising of its intellectual properties, such as Tareq wa Shireen, the first 2D animated series in created exclusively in Arabic; Ben & Izzy, a 3D animated action adventure Pink Panther and Pals which is co-produced with MGM Studios airing on Cartoon Network.

Headlining the new partnership with Turner is an agreement to broadcast Rubicon’s own Ben & Izzy and Tareq wa Shireen animated series on Cartoon Network Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam

SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam is an action puzzle game featuring licensed characters from the SpongeBob animated series.

Stan Bush

Stan Bush is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose most notable work includes the songs "Dare" and "The Touch" from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie, and "She's Got the Power", featured in the American voice dub of the animated series Sailor Moon.

Station X

Station X (TV Series), the 2005 animated series about six young people produced by Teletoon

Tara Duncan

An animated series that premiered in France in 2010 aired in the U.S. on the "Girls Rule" division of Kabillion.

The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour

Don Diamond who voiced Sergeant Gonzales in this animated series previously portrayed Corporal Reyes in Disney's 1950s live-action series of Zorro.

The Vanishing Duck

O'Hanlon would go on to star as the voice of George Jetson on the ABC-TV animated series, The Jetsons, also produced by Hanna-Barbera, four years later.

Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers

When played live, they often use animation clips from the online animated series Salad Fingers.

Turbo cornutus

The names of the characters in the Japanese comic strip and animated series "Sazae-san" are derived from marine animals and things relating to the sea.

Vanessa A. Williams

Heavy Gear: The Animated Series (5 episodes, 2001) as Sonja Briggs

Variable fighter

A Variable Fighter is a series of fictional transforming aerospace fighter mecha primarily designed by Studio Nue's Shoji Kawamori for the animated series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross and later related projects.

Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad

It would be many years before the concepts seen in either Vor-Tech or M.A.S.K would be seen again in the form of A.T.O.M., an animated series developed by Kenner's eventual owners, Hasbro.

Vyacheslav Mescherin

Many of his compositions were included in popular animated series Nu, pogodi! and a 1959 science fiction film Battle Beyond the Sun.

Zig and Sharko

Zig and Sharko is a French animated series of 156 episodes of 7 minutes directed by animation studios Xilam Animation, known for their animated series A Kind of Magic, Ratz, Space Goofs and Oggy and the Cockroaches.