Captain Zed and the Zee Zone (found British-American animated series; 1991)
The most common VHS tape available. Contains the Follow the Leader and Monster Factor episodes.
Status: Lost
Captain Zed and the Zee Zone is a British-American animated series created by Tony Collingwood and produced by DiC animation. It originally aired in 1991 and was 26 episodes-long (made of two 13-episode seasons).
Premise
Captain Z is an agent of the Dream Patrol, part of the Dream Base, an organization that monitors children's dreams when they are asleep at night and make sure that nightmares do not appear.
Piloting a Dreamship, Captain Z is assisted with his co-pilot P.J. and pet cat Spring.
The Dream Base is run by anthropomorphic sheeps, led by the Commander. Most of its architecture, elements and machine designs are sleep/bed-themed.
Captain Zed also tends to be annoyed by a pretentious and ambitious rival, Captain Flannel.
The main villains are Snort and Mutter, two shapeshifting monsters who want to take over the Dream Base and send nightmares to children's minds.
Availability
The series has been aired in many countries over the years (especially Europe). However, it has never been released on DVD and only a few episodes have been sold on VHS tapes, some of them quite rare. They can be found for sale on eBay and Amazon.
The available VHS tapes contain the episodes:
- Follow the Leader; Monster Factor
- Nasty Norman; Catnapped
- Making the Grade; Curtain Call
No episode of the cartoon in its original English dub has resurfaced on the Internet to this day, not even those in the aforementioned VHS tapes.
However, a few episodes dubbed in German and Polish have been uploaded online.
Gallery
Another VHS tape. Contains the Nasty Nirman and Catnapped episodes.
Another VHS tape. Contains the Making the Grade and Curtain Call episodes.
Another VHS tape. This one cannot be found anywhere. Contains the "Revenge of the Killer Bunnies" and "Finishing School" episodes.
Screencap from an episode, with PJ on the left and Captain Zed on the right. Note PJ's redesign that seems to be exclusive to a season.
An animation cel, signed by creator Tony Collingwood.
