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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Opening title card for AoStH.
Created byDiC
StarringJaleel White
Christopher Evan Welch
Long John Baldry
Country of originUSA
No. of episodes66
Production
Running time30min
Original release
Networksyndication
Release1993 –
1996

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (or AoStH for short) is an American animated television series that was first broadcast in September 1993, and has been running in cartoon syndication ever since. It follows the escapades of the world-famous video game hero Sonic the Hedgehog (a speedy blue hedgehog) and his "best bud" Tails (a flying fox with two tails), as they stop the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his array of vicious robots from taking over the planet Mobius.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a fast-paced cartoon with a lot of slapstick humor, akin to such shows as Ren and Stimpy or Tiny Toons. The show features very few recurring characters, usually just Sonic, Tails, Robotnik and his two hench-bots Scratch and Grounder (with a third robot, Coconuts, appearing often) - however, there's a sizeable amount of other characters and robots to make up for it. The plots often loosely followed the storyline of the video games series, although at the time the Sonic games were still quite new, and lacking much plot or character development, which was in turn filled in by the show's writers.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was created by DiC Entertainment, which produced a total of 65 episodes for its first season, and was syndicated by Bohbot Entertainment, now BKN International (in the original run, every episode began and ended with the "Bohbot Entertainment Presents" logo). The first episode was "Best Hedgehog" (actually episode 13 in production order, shown September 6) and the last was "Hero of the Year" (episode 60 in production order, shown December 3). DiC ceased production on this comical interpretation to spend more time on its darker interpretation, dubbed just Sonic the Hedgehog (commonly known as SatAM by fans), a series launched on ABC's Saturday morning line-up.

After the original airing, DiC created one more episode in the winter of 1996, "Sonic Christmas Blast", which has features from Sonic the Hedgehog such as Princess Sally in a non-speaking cameo, and has Sonic and Tails visiting Robotropolis, which has a human population and a name pronounced with two "T"s. The letters page of issue #41 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book promotes the special as "An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas", suggesting that it was originally intended to promote Sonic X-treme, a Sega Saturn game which was eventually cancelled due to numerous problems in development; the special's name was changed to match the game that did come out, Sonic 3D Blast.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was most recently shown weekdays at 8:00 a.m. Central Time on Toon Disney in the USA. Robotnik was also the featured villain occasionally on the "Chillin' with the Villains" marathon block (he was even featured in their commercials). In the UK, AoStH was originally shown on Channel 4 until the show's end, recently the show was also shown on the satellite channel POP, until 17 April 2006 when it was replaced with Sonic Underground. It was last shown on that channel as part of a "Sonic Day".

Voices


Trivia

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Tails falls on Sonic in episode 16, Tails' New Home.
  • Jaleel White, who was the voice of Sonic in both this incarnation and on SatAM is mostly known for his role as Steve Urkel on the show Family Matters.
  • In the Chaos Emerald mini-series, Sonic (and Tails) time-traveled using radioactive boots in the first two parts. But in the second half, they switched to using a para-sail and then an electric skateboard. Erroneously, in the final installment, when Sonic and Tails gather help from past versions of themselves, they're all using the skateboard to time-travel rather than their original vehicles.
  • The show is set to appear in Uk's Cartoon Network in 2007. It will be the first Sonic show to appear on Cartoon Network. It is unknown if it will be on the USA's Cartoon Network,But there Might be a BIG chance it might air on that channel if it doesn't air on CBS
  • Also in the last Chaos Emerald episode, we learn that Tails goes to school (or did because he said he learned something at school, the controversial big bang theory) after Sonic recommended it during Over the Hill Hero.
  • Scratch's third sentence was "Are you my mother?", a reference to P. D. Eastman's famous book "Are You My Mother?"
  • In the first episode where we see Sonic's real feet (the hotel episode), he could still run fast, but he didn't because his feet would be severely injured due to the increasing friction.
  • In the episode set on Sonic's birthday, at his party we see human guests.

VHS/DVD Releases

There were 6 VHS tapes released in the US with 2 episodes each per tape. In the UK, there were about 10 tapes released; Volumes 1 to 6 (except Volume 5 which is Quest for the Chaos Emeralds, a 4 parter edited without the title cards and the Sonic Says segments) had 3 episodes per tape, High Stakes Sonic/Sonic Breakout and Momma Robotnik's Birthday tapes had 2 episodes each. Also there was a bumper tape released that was roughly 3 hours long.

There is a DVD release in Korea with the 1st 12 episodes however this show is not currently available on DVD in the Western markets.

Channels that aired the show

1. USA

2. United Kingdom

See also

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