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Gran

1982

Gran

1982
5.5
Gran is a children's stop motion animation television series narrated by Patricia Hayes and directed by Ivor Wood. There were only two main characters, namely Gran and her grandson, Jim. The programme was made by Woodland Animations and was written by Michael and Joanne Cole. Ivor Wood created thirteen five-minute episodes in 1982. The series was broadcast on the BBC between 17 February 1983 and 12 May 1983, and was repeated in both 1986 and 1992. A children's book based on the series was also released in 1983. The shorts were also shown in the U.S. as part of the Nickelodeon series Eureeka's Castle. Despite moderate popularity with young audiences in the mid-1980s, the series has not been seen on UK television since being repeated in 1992, and no further episodes were made. Series 1 was released on Region 2 DVD in the U.K. on 7 March 2005 but has since been deleted.
BattleTech: The Animated Series

1994

BattleTech: The Animated Series

1994
8
Adam Steiner, a military officer in the distant future, struggles to liberate his home planet from an attacking faction.
The Brothers Grunt

1994

The Brothers Grunt

1994
6.5
The Brothers Grunt is an animated comedy television series that originally aired from August 15, 1994 to March 12, 1995 on MTV. The series centered around Frank, Tony, Bing, Dean and Sammy, an ensemble cast of pale, rubbery humanoids distantly related to human beings, all of them ostensibly male, wandering around in their underpants, in search of their lost brother Perry. The series had a short run and was met with generally negative reception. Its creator, Danny Antonucci, however, went on to create the hit Cartoon Network series Ed, Edd n Eddy.
Ape Escape

2002

Ape Escape

2002
6
Saru Get You -On Air- is a CGI animated television anime series produced by Xebec based on Sony's Ape Escape video game franchise. The series aired on TV Tokyo between April 8, 2006 and September 29, 2012 and loosely adapts storylines from Million Monkeys, Ape Escape 3 and SaruSaru Big Mission.
Chapi Chapo

1974

Chapi Chapo

1974
7.5
Chapi Chapo is a French short stop-motion series. Created by Italo Bettiol and Stephano Lonati, with music by François de Roubaix, it premiered in 1974 on RF Television and ran for 60 5-minute episodes. The show aired on American television in the 1980s as part of Nickelodeon's Pinwheel. It was named "Chapi Chapo" as a play-on-words with the French word, chapeaux, which means "hats". Both of the main characters wore oversized hats that matched their clothing. The one in red is Chapi and the one in blue is Chapo. Each episode ends with a little dance.
Super Duper Sumos

2002

Super Duper Sumos

2002
9
Super Duper Sumos, was an American animated series that is produced by DIC Entertainment and Xilam, It was created by Kevin O'Donnell and Vincent Nguyen.
Zixx

2004

Zixx

2004
7
Zixx is a Canadian television series that airs on YTV. This series was developed by Savi Media and The Nightingale Company with YTV Original Productions. The series was created by Jeff Hirschfield. The show consists of a mixture of live action "real world" sequences interspersed with computer-generated scenes set inside a virtual realm. In Zixx Level One, Elliott Digital used a game engine to create the animation, the first time this was done for a television show. For Zixx: Level Two, the production had to move to British Columbia when Thunderbird Films Inc. joined the team. Mainframe Entertainment came on board to do the animation and IDT Entertainment, the company that owns Mainframe, took over distribution of the show. It is the first ever Mainframe series to combine live action with computer animation. The crew would stay for season three.
Hey Monie!

2003

Hey Monie!

2003
7
Hey Monie! is an animated American black sitcom produced by Soup2Nuts. Originally part of the series X-Chromosome, Hey Monie! aired on Black Entertainment Television and, afterward, on the Oxygen Network in 2003. The series aired on The N from April 19, 2004 until April 25, 2004, only to be removed a month later. Its main character, Simone, works at a public relations agency in Chicago. She lives in an apartment building with her best friend Yvette. The show chronicles her life living as a single career woman in the big city. The series' voice talent included the Frangela duo; Angela V. Shelton as Monie and Frances Callier as Yvette, Melissa Bardin Galsky and Brendon Small.
Night Hood

1996

Night Hood

1996
7
Night Hood was a cartoon series inspired by the Arsène Lupin novels and was produced by Cinar and France Animation S.A. for television audiences in both English and French-speaking nations. It was set in the 1930s. The series aired in Canada in 1996 under the English-language title Night Hood, and in francophone markets as Les Exploits d'Arsène Lupin.
The Puppy's Further Adventures

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The Puppy's Further Adventures

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6
The Puppy’s Further Adventures is an animated television show based on The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, a children's book by Jane Thayer about Petey, a young dog who attached himself to a lonely orphan boy named Tommy.
Pandamonium

1982

Pandamonium

1982
6.5
Pandamonium is a 1982-83 animated series that aired on CBS.
Maxie's World

1987

Maxie's World

1987
4
Maxie's World is an animated cartoon series about a teenage girl named Maxie in Surfside High School in California. Maxie was a straight A student who produced and hosted her own TV show part time. Based on the "Maxie" line of fashion dolls from Hasbro, this show was broadcast in late '80s and early '90s syndicated to local stations in the United States, and in the UK on TV-am's Wacaday. The U.S. broadcast also included rebroadcasts of Beverly Hills Teens and It's Punky Brewster. Produced for Hasbro by DIC Entertainment, the U.S. broadcast was syndicated by Claster Television, which was owned by Hasbro, the makers of the "Maxie" dolls. Because of this, Hasbro must give approval before any home video release of this series is made. It is unknown when, or if the series will be released on DVD.
Welcome to Eltingville

2002

Welcome to Eltingville

2002
7
Welcome to Eltingville is an animated comedy pilot based on Evan Dorkin's Eisner Award winning comic book, Dork!; which takes place in Eltingville, Staten Island. The pilot episode, titled "Bring Me the Head of Boba Fett", in the premiered in the United States on March 3, 2002, on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim.
Animal Crackers

1997

Animal Crackers

1997
10
Somewhere, deep in the heart of Africa lies the Freedom willife Preserve. It's a haven of unmitigated natural beauty, a sanctuary our cast of neurotic characters call home.
Delta State

2004

Delta State

2004
10
Delta State is a Canadian animated television series, based on a comic book by Douglas Gayeton, featuring four amnesiac roommates with the ability to subconsciously enter an ethereal realm known as the Delta State. They face the dual tasks of piecing together their past lives and battling a group of Delta State denizens called Rifters, who seek to control the human mind. The main characters are Claire, Martin, Luna, and Philip. The series debuted September 11, 2004 on Teletoon, the Canadian cartoon television network. It is the first animated television series to be entirely rotoscoped, taking over 27 months to complete. Delta State is a French / Canadian co-production with designs, story-boards etc. done by Alphanim in Paris; shooting and recording were performed by Nelvana Canada. The project was conceived by Douglas Gayeton, who also directed the original pilot and wrote the bible for the show. The show has won the Special Award for a TV program at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the Frame
I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali

1977

I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali

1977
5.5
I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali is an animated series featuring heavyweight boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who starred as his own voice. The short-lived series was broadcast Saturday mornings on NBC in the fall of 1977, but was cancelled by January 1978.
The Great Space Coaster

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The Great Space Coaster

0000
5.5
The Great Space Coaster is a children's television show that ran from 1981 through 1986.
Project G.eeK.eR.

1996

Project G.eeK.eR.

1996
6
A wacky shapeshifting genetic experiment named GeeKeR teams up with a cybernetic warrior and a talking Tyrannosaurus Rex to thwart a malicious tycoon and a mad scientist who want to turn GeeKeR into a weapon of mass destruction.
Where's Huddles?

1970

Where's Huddles?

1970
6.5
Where's Huddles? is a Hanna-Barbera animated television program which premiered on CBS on July 1, 1970 and ran for ten episodes as a summer replacement show until September 2. It was similar in style to the studio's considerably more successful The Flintstones, and it used several of the same essential plots and voice actors. Also, like The Flintstones, and unlike many other animated series, Where's Huddles? aired in the evening during prime time, had a laugh track, and had somewhat adult themes. All ten episodes were produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The show's premise involved a professional football quarterback named Ed Huddles and his neighbor, the team's center Bubba McCoy. They played for a team called The Rhinos. Other characters included Ed's wife Marge Huddles, their rather jovial if acerbic neighbor Claude Pertwee who tended to refer to Ed and Bubba as "savages" {Pertwee's only friend is a spoiled cat named "Beverley"}; their teammate Freight Train, and their daughter Pom-Pom. Bu
Rickety Rocket

1979

Rickety Rocket

1979
5
Rickety Rocket is an animated television series, produced by Ruby-Spears Productions, and ran from 1979 to 1980 as a segment on The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show.