Spaced Out (partially found Cartoon Network UK English dub of French animated series; 2000s)
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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 on January 7th, 2002 on Cartoon Network UK, and months 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
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See Also
Anthology and Short Series
- Big Bag (partially found Cartoon Network live-action animated puppet series; 1996-1998)
- The Moxy Show (partially found Cartoon Network CGI animated anthology series; 1993-1995)
- Sunday Pants (partially lost Cartoon Network animated anthology series; 2005)
- ToonHeads (partially lost Cartoon Network animation anthology series; 1992-2003)
- ToonHeads "A Night of Independent Animation" (found special of Cartoon Network animation anthology series; 1996)
- Villainous (partially found Cartoon Network Mexico online animated short series; 2012-2013)
- What a Cartoon! (found Cartoon Network animated anthology series; 1995-1997)
- Youri, the Spaceman (found Cartoon Network France CGI animated short series; 2002)
Audio
- Adventure Time (lost uncensored episode commentaries from Cartoon Network animated series DVDs; 2012-2014)
- Akazukin Chacha (partially found Cartoon Network Asia English dub of anime; 1998)
- Ani-Yoko: My Next Door Neighbor (lost Cartoon Network Philippines English dub of anime; 2008)
- Class of 3000 (found original English audio of Cartoon Network animated musical series; 2006-2008)
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy "Matinee Mandy" (lost original English audio of Cartoon Network animated short; 2007)
- Heidi, Girl of the Alps (partially found Cartoon Network India English dub of anime; 2001)
- Mojacko (lost Cartoon Network Asia English dub of anime; 2013)
- My Melody (lost Cartoon Network Asia English dub of anime; mid-2000s)
- Out of Jimmy's Head (found Cartoon Network live-action/animated teen sitcom; 2007-2008)
- Sugar Sugar Rune (lost Cartoon Network Philippines English dub of anime; 2011)
- Uncle Gus (partially lost original English audio of Cartoon Network animated pilots; 2000-2001)
- Yatterman (lost Cartoon Network Asia English dub of anime; 2011)
- Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (partially lost unreleased original voice audio and unfinished/unknown Cartoon Network animated series episodes; 2002-2003)
- Zoids Genesis (partially found Cartoon Network Asia English dub of anime; 2007)
Bumpers and Interstitials
- The Big Game XXVI: Tom vs. Jerry (found Cartoon Network marathon special; 1998)
- Cartoon Network (partially found "High Noon Toons" bumpers from TV channel block; 1994-1996)
- Cartoon Network (partially lost "Nood" bumpers from TV channel; 2008-2010)
- Cartoon Network "Cartoon Network Responds!" (partially lost interstitials from TV channel; 1997-1999)
- Cartoon Network Mayors' Awards of Excellence (partially found interstitials of Cartoon Network Philippines civic campaign; 2000s)
- Cartoon Network NBA All-Star Slam (found interviews of marathon; 2003)
- Cartoon Planet (partially found bumpers of revival block of Cartoon Network animated variety series; 2012)
- Codename: Kids Next Door Mission Weekend (partially found marathon bumpers for Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)
- Fridays aka "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays" (partially found interstitials from Cartoon Network channel block; 1999–2007)
- Hotdog TV (partially found Cartoon Network interstitial series; 2010)
- Ice King Steals Christmas (partially found Cartoon Network UK Christmas themed bumpers starring "Adventure Time" character; 2015-2018)
- JBVO, Toon FM & Viva Las Bravo (partially found interstitials from Cartoon Network channel blocks; early-mid 2000s)
- Tickle-U (partially found Cartoon Network preschool block; 2005-2006)
- VBirds: Perfect (lost Cartoon Network UK interstitial series of British virtual girl group; 2003)
Pilots
- Ben 10 (partially found pitch pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; early-mid 2000s)
- Billy and Mandy in Trepanation of the Skull and You (found prototype short of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" Cartoon Network animated series; 1995)
- Camp Lazlo "Monkey See, Camping Doo" (lost pitch pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
- Captain Sturdy (found Cartoon Network animated pilots; 2001/2003)
- Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe (partially lost pitch pilots from British animation studio; 2008-2011)
- Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (found pitch pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)
- Imp Inc. (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
- Jeffrey Cat: Claw and Order "All Dogs Don't Go to Heaven" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2002)
- A Kitty Bobo Show (found storyboard of cancelled second animated pilot for Cartoon Network; 2002)
- Major Flake in "Soggy Sales" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
- The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (partially lost unaired "Wedgies" pilot and short of Cartoon Network animated series; 2007)
- Mess O' Blues (partially found prototype short of "Johnny Bravo" Cartoon Network animated series; 1993)
- My Gym Partner's a Monkey (lost pitch pilots of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003/2004)
- The Powerpuff Girls (lost pitch pilot of Cartoon Network animated series reboot; early-mid 2010s)
- Project Gilroy (lost Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2007)
- Regular Show (non-existent Flash pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; late 2000s-2010)
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast (partially found pitch pilots of Cartoon Network adult animated comedy series; 1993)
- Squirrel Boy "Kite Makes Right" (partially found pitch pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
- What's Wrong With Ruth? (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2007)
Live-Action
- Bobb'e Says (partially found Cartoon Network live-action clip series; 2009)
- BrainRush (partially lost Cartoon Network live-action game show; 2009)
- Track Rats (partially found Cartoon Network reality short series; 2010)
- The Othersiders (found Cartoon Network paranormal reality series; 2009)
Other Cartoon Network Series
- The Amazing World of Gumball (partially lost deleted scenes of Cartoon Network animated series; 2011-2019)
- The Amazing World of Gumball "The Downer" (lost original draft of Cartoon Network animated series episode; existence unconfirmed; 2012-2014)
- The Amazing World of Gumball "The Rex" (partially found production material of cancelled Cartoon Network animated series episode; 2012)
- Ben 10 (partially found pop-up trivia version of Cartoon Network animated series episodes; 2008)
- Chowder (lost pop-up trivia version of Cartoon Network animated series episodes; 2010)
- Chowder (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network TV film; 2009)
- Codename: Kids Next Door (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network animated series episodes; 2002-2008)
- Dexter's Laboratory "Rude Removal" (found unaired Cartoon Network animated series episode; 1997)
- Droopy's Guide to the Cartoon Network (found launch preview of TV channel special; 1992)
- Ed, Edd n Eddy "Luck Be an Ed Tonight"/"A Room with an Ed" (rumored/lost unfinished Cartoon Network animated series episodes; existence unconfirmed; 2005)
- Ed, Edd n Eddy "Special Ed" (non-existent unproduced Cartoon Network animated series episode; late 1990s/early 2000s)
- Hall of Game Awards (partially found Cartoon Network award show; 2011-2014)
- I Heart Tuesdays (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network animated series; 2011-2012)
- I-10: The Ben 10 User Generated Experience (found Cartoon Network TV special; 2008)
- Mixels (partially found unaired/unproduced episodes of Cartoon Network animated comedy series based on LEGO toy line; 2014-2016)
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes "Crossover Nexus" (partially found original 22-minute version of Cartoon Network animated series episode; 2010s)
- Skatoony (found original British version of Cartoon Network quiz show; 2006-2008)
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast (partially lost Gametap episodes of Cartoon Network adult animated comedy series; 2006-2008)
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast "Snatch" (lost script of ending of Cartoon Network adult animated comedy series episode; 1999)
- Sym-Bionic Titan (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network animated series episodes; early 2010s)
External Links
- Website for Spaced Out Retrieved 20 Feb '15
- Spaced Out Flyer: Retrieved 20 Feb '15
- Countries that aired Spaced Out: Retrieved 20 Feb '15
- Spaced Out Three Episodes Two Parts (Danish): Retrieved 09 Apr '15
- Spaced Out Four Episodes Three Parts (Hungarian): Retrieved 09 Apr '15
- Spaced Out Episodes from Lost Cartoons Archive (English): Retrieved 02 Mar '16
- All 25 Spaced Out Episodes (French); Retrieved 19 Apr '19
- Spaced Out Episodes uploaded by MIXXPOST (English): Retrieved 12 Feb '23
- Spaced Out on the current Gaumont website Retrieved 14 Apr '23
- Spaced Out on alternative Gaumont website Retrieved 7 May '24
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Cartoon Network launches French grid.
- ↑ Cartoon Network lines up new sitcom for January.