| She-Ra: Princess of Power | |
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 Title card | |
| Genre | |
| Created by | |
| Directed by | Gwen Wetzler |
| Voices of | |
| Ending theme | "I Have The Power" by Erika Scheimer and Noam Kaniel |
| Composers |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 93 (and one Christmas Special: "He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special)" (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Lou Scheimer |
| Production location | United States |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production companies | Filmation Associates Mattel |
| Original release | |
| Network | First-run syndication |
| Release | September 9, 1985 – December 12, 1987 |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power is an American animated series produced in 1985 by Filmation.[1] A spin-off of Filmation's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series, She-Ra was aimed primarily at a young female audience to complement He-Man's popularity with young males. Unlike He-Man, which was based on the Masters of the Universe toy line by Mattel, the creation of She-Ra was a collaboration between Filmation and Mattel. The initial group of characters and premise were created by uncredited writers Larry DiTillio and J. Michael Straczynski[2][3] for Filmation, while the characters introduced later were designed by Mattel. Mattel provided financial backing for the series, as well as an accompanying toy line. The series premiered in 1985 and was ended in 1987, after 2 seasons and 93 episodes.
On March 22, 1985, several months before the release of the television series, Filmation released an animated film based on the series titled He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword. The film is composed of what would be the first five episodes from the She-Ra television series: "Into Etheria", "Beast Island", "She-Ra Unchained", "Reunions" and "Battle for Bright Moon".[4]
In between the first and second season of the She-Ra series, in which He-Man regularly featured, Filmation also produced an hour long (44 minutes without commercials) Christmas episode, He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special.
A rebooted series, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, premiered on Netflix on November 13, 2018, and concluded on May 15, 2020.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 546–547. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Scheimer, Lou (2015). Creating the Filmation Generation (2nd ed.). TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-60549-044-1.
- ^ @straczynski (July 16, 2018). ""The original He-Man bible was written in large measure by Larry DiTillio; Larry and I later co-wrote the bible for the She-Ra series. Filmation, being Filmation, never wanted any credits on those docs so I don't know if they survive with or without the credits."" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Todd Douglass Jr. (July 3, 2006). "The Best of She-Ra - Princess of Power". DVD Talk. Retrieved 5 January 2016. (review)
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