List of Totally Spies! episodes

The animated television series Totally Spies! follows the adventures of three Beverly Hills teenage girls—Sam, Clover, and Alex—who work as secret agents on missions to save the world, involving real locations and some fictional ones. The series comprises six seasons divided into 156 episodes.[1] Framing each episode is a side story in which the girls deal with high school life and its situations. Most of the episodes are self-contained.[2] In season 3, also titled Totally Spies! Undercover, the three girls share a villa, and at the end of that season, they are promoted to super spies in the organization and are referred to as such for season 4. Season 5 follows the girls' adventures as they continue onto university.

Totally Spies! premiered on November 3, 2001, on ABC Family (now Freeform). It later premiered in Europe on channels such as Germany's ProSieben, France's TF1 and the United Kingdom's Channel 4 during the spring of 2002.[3] The show was moved to Cartoon Network on July 7, 2003 where it enjoyed much success,[4] and continued airing for a total of five seasons until 2009.[5] It spawned a feature film Totally Spies! The Movie and a spin-off series The Amazing Spiez!.

In 2013, the show was revived for a sixth season, premiering at an event at the Palace of Versailles. Twenty-six episodes were broadcast on French television and networks across Europe starting on 4 September 2013.[5] In Canada, the sixth season premiered on September 7, 2014 on Teletoon, and on September 6 on sister station Télétoon.[6] The show has been broadcast worldwide on various networks, including TF1 in France, Teletoon in Canada, Cartoon Network in the US and Latin America, Rede Globo in Brazil, Disney Channel and Nickelodeon in Asia, Africa, and Europe (formerly Fox Kids and Jetix).The head writers for the show were Robert and Michelle Lamoreaux who were based in Los Angeles, and who had worked on Nickelodeon shows.[7] The theme song for the first two seasons is "Here We Go" by Moonbaby (Miranda Cooper and Brian Higgins), but with lyrics changed slightly to fit the show. Seasons 3–5 use the same song but as instrumentals. During the closing credits of seasons 3–4, one of the girls, or occasionally Jerry or Mandy, talks directly to the camera about random topics which sometimes are tied to the episode theme. The sixth season uses a different theme song.

The seventh season premiered on May 12, 2024.[8]

  1. ^ Milligan, Mercedes (January 31, 2013). "Zodiak Seals 'Spies' Deals, New COO". Animation Magazine.
  2. ^ "Interview with David Michel #2". Totally Spies Picture Archive / Geocities. May 18, 2004. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  3. ^ Burgess, Amanda (April 1, 2002). "Marathon totally spies global music and merch potential in its tween girl toon". Kidscreen. Brunico Communications Ltd. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  4. ^ "Total succès pour Totally Spies". Marathon Media (in French). Zodiak Media. April 9, 2005. Archived from the original on December 4, 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Milligan, Mercedes (September 27, 2013). "New 'Totally Spies!' Hit North America Shelves". Animation Magazine. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  6. ^ McLean, Tom (August 27, 2014). "Teletoon Sets World, Canadian Premieres for Fall". Animation Magazine.
  7. ^ Barraclough, Leo (November 6, 2010). "What makes a show run and run?". Variety. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  8. ^ Milligan, Mercedes (January 21, 2022). "'Totally Spies!' Are on a Season 7 Mission for 2023". Animation Magazine. Retrieved May 4, 2022.