Kidd Video

Kidd Video
Title card used during the first season
GenreAnimated series
Sitcom
Created byJean Chalopin
Andy Heyward
Haim Saban
Shuki Levy
Developed byJim Carlson (season 1)
Terrence McDonnell (season 1)
Tracy Mays (season 2)
Directed byBernard Deyriès (cartoon, season 1)
Richard Raynis (cartoon, season 2)
Bud Schaetzle (live-action)
StarringBryan Scott
Steve Alterman
Gabriela Nelson
Robbie Rist
Voices ofCathy Cavadini
Marshall Efron
Hal Rayle
Peter Renaday
Susan Silo
Robert Towers
Theme music composerHaim Saban, Shuki Levy[1]
Opening theme"Video to Radio"
Ending theme"Video to Radio"
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producersJean Chalopin
Andy Heyward
Haim Saban
Shuki Levy
ProducersTetsuo Katayama
Shuki Levy
Bud Schaetzle
Production locationLos Angeles, California (Live action segments)
Running time21 minutes
Production companiesSaban Productions
DIC Enterprises
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 8, 1984 (1984-09-08) –
December 7, 1985 (1985-12-07)
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Kidd Video (originally in development as Hot Rocks)[2] is an American Saturday morning live action/cartoon created by DIC Enterprises in association with Saban Productions. The series originally ran on NBC from 1984 to 1985.[3] Reruns continued on the network until 1987 when CBS picked the show up.

In the show, four teenagers are taken into a strange dimension called "the Flipside" and become cartoon characters, forced to fight the Master Blaster and his gang, the Copy Cats.[4] The show included then-current music videos.[5]

Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment.[6][7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference discogs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Saturday morning switching at NBC" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 16, 1984. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
  3. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 336. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  4. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 470–471. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  5. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 248–249. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  6. ^ "U.S. Copyright Public Records System".
  7. ^ "Disney+ and Missing Saban Entertainment & Fox Kids-Jetix Worldwide Library - StreamClues". September 14, 2022. Archived from the original on December 26, 2022. Retrieved October 2, 2022.