Waynehead | |
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Created by | Damon Wayans |
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Directed by | Paul Riley |
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Theme music composer | Stanley Clarke |
Opening theme | "The Party's Just Begun" performed by Orlando Brown, Tico Wells, Jamil Walker Smith, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh and Shawn Wayans |
Ending theme | "The Party's Just Begun" (instrumental) |
Composers | Stanley Clarke Todd Cochran Kennard Ramsey |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
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Editor | Denise Whitfield |
Running time | 22 minutes |
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Release | October 19, 1996 May 17, 1997 | –
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Waynehead is an animated television series created by actor/comedian Damon Wayans and ran from 1996 to 1997 on Kids' WB, and on YTV from 1996 to 1998.[1] It was a co-production of Warner Bros. Television Animation and Nelvana, with overseas animation by Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd., and Philippine Animation Studio, Inc., while the opening sequence was animated by TMS-Kyokuchi Corporation in Japan.
Waynehead lasted for 13 episodes for one season; Wayans stated that he was told by Warner Bros. that the cartoon wasn't black enough nor funny enough, to which a WB executive replied by insisting that the show was merely low-rated.[2] It is about a young boy named Damey Wayne, of unknown child years, from a poor background and with a club foot. It was based on Wayans' own childhood in the Chelsea neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Actors who provided voices for the show included Gary Coleman, Orlando Brown, and Marlon Wayans.[3]