Spaced Out (partially found Cartoon Network UK English dub of French animated series; 2000s)

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Title card.

Status: Partially Found

Spaced Out (known in French as Allô la Terre, ici les Martin) was a Canadian-French Sci-Fi cartoon that was produced and aired on the European Cartoon Network, in 2002. It was co-produced by Alphanim (now known as Gaumont Animation) Tooncan, and Canal+, in association with Vrak.TV, France 3, and Sofica Gimages 2, with the series being animated by Animation Enterprises (Hong Kong) (now known as Agogo Studios).[1][2][3]

Plot

This show is centered around a family surnamed the Martins. Consisting of the father George, the mother Monica, their eldest daughter Betty, their youngest Benjamin, George's mother Gran, their pet dog Fax, and their cat Goodgrief. George applies for a job at a company named Krach Industries. By accident, he gets accepted to being the director of a secret orbital station. So, he and his family move to the space station, where they have to live as an experiment started by Krach. They meet other people who have also been sent by Krach to live there, their neighbor who is also a teacher Mrs. Schuman, and her son Bobby Schuman, a Russian cosmonaut who crashed on their space station named Boris Malakoff, and a guy who keeps switching jobs named Guy.

Availability

The show first premiered in 2002 on Cartoon Network UK, and a year later on the rest of the European Cartoon Network channels, reruns were played on the network until 2005.

Since the show last aired, episodes of this show have been very strenuous to find online, particularly in English. The show wasn't promoted very well by Cartoon Network Europe, only airing the show in the mornings and after midnight with the occasional mid-noon slot. Unlike most shows airing on Cartoon Network at the time that ran with either seven- or thirteen-minute episodes, Spaced Out episodes ran for twenty minutes on the network with no commercial breaks between the shows, making it hard for full television recordings to be made and resurfaced online.

The show was released on DVD in France and Italy but only contained a handful of episodes on. The French DVD consists of a single volume with four episodes (#1, #2, #5, and #17), while the Italian DVD has the first nine episodes released in each of three volumes.

On March 2, 2016, a YouTube user known as the "Lost Cartoons Archive" uploaded the first 8 episodes from the Italian DVDs with the English audio track, with the exception of the show's third episode, "Invasion," due an error on the Volume 1 DVD, where, for some reason, the English audio track was missing. User-made subtitles were provided using Google Translate instead.

On February 12, 2023, another YouTube user, this time, known as "Mixxpost", who may have worked at Agogo Studios, the show's overseas animation studio, has been uploading episodes of the studio's entire animation catalog, including Spaced Out. The first eight episodes were already available in English online on the Lost Cartoons Archive YouTube channel. However, some episodes had Italian subtitles for the alien gibberish dialog, making it lost for English viewers, because they were sourced from an Italian DVD. These new uploads are of much higher quality and are in full English. It's possible that he could have more episodes of the dub on hand that he can upload in the near future.

Voice cast

The English dub was produced in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with voice direction provided by Terrence Scammell.

  • Mark Camacho as George
  • Ellen David as Monica
  • Eleanor Noble as Betty
  • Rick Jones as Guy, Fax, and Goodgrief
  • Bruce Dinsmore as Boris
  • Ricky Mabe as Bobby
  • Sonja Ball as Gran
  • Daniel Brochu as Benjamin
  • Susan Glover as Mrs. Schuman

Episode List

# Episode Title Status
1 All Aboard! Found
2 Death of an Alien! Found
3 Invasion Found
4 Boris, Our Hero Found
5 George the Magnificent Found
6 I Wanna Go Home Found
7 George Investigates Found
8 Monica at the Helm Found
9 The Robinsons Found
10 Cosmic Soup Partially Found (French)
11 A Question of Time Partially Found (French)
12 The Thing Partially Found (French)
13 The Unteachables Partially Found (French)
14 All About Gran Partially Found (French)
15 Holiday Madness Partially Found (French)
16 Pigs in Space Lost
17 Desperately Seeking Schuman Partially Found (French)
18 Blackout Partially Found (French)
19 Public Enemy N°1 Partially Found (French)
20 The Man in the Plexiglas Mask Partially Found (French)
21 Charge! Partially Found (French)
22 Black Hole Partially Found (French)
23 Downsized Partially Found (French)
24 The Learning Machine Partially Found (French)
25 Hostile Takeover Partially Found (French)
26 Incubated Partially Found (French)

Gallery

Images

Videos

Intro and Credits

#1 Cartoon Network commercial for the show that uses "Starlight" music from The Superman Lovers.

#2 Cartoon Network commercial for the show.

#3 Cartoon Network commercial for the show.

#4 Cartoon Network commercial for the show.

CN Station ID for the show

Early cut of the Theme Song.

Production art slideshow.

Danish trailer.

The first 30 seconds of "Hostile Takeover".

See Also

Anthology and Short Series

Audio

Bumpers and Interstitials

Pilots

Live-Action

Other Cartoon Network Series

External Links

References

  1. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 346.
  2. Cartoon Network launches French grid.
  3. Cartoon Network lines up new sitcom for January.

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