Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action! (partially lost DiC animated TV series; 2001-2002)

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Status: Partially Lost

Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action! is an animated television series produced by DiC Entertainment and Dualstar Entertainment Group, featuring the voices and likeness of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.[1] It premiered on ABC's One Saturday Morning block from October 20th, 2001 to June 29th, 2002. It was later cancelled after one season due to negative ratings.[2]

Plot

The show centres around the globe-trotting movie stars and special agents Misty and Amber (Mary-Kate and Ashley) who use their acting and movie-making skills to help people in need and fight evil doers around the world, with the help of their guy friends Rodney Choy and Ivan Quintero, and their robot dog Quincy. Using high tech gadgets and their own unique sense of style, they perform amazing rescues and protect the planet.

Production

On December 1st, 2000, DiC had announced that the show was in production under the working title Action Girls, was in co-production with France’s Canal J, and was being distributed worldwide by DiC. At first, 52 episodes were planned for the show, and the original airdate was in Fall 2001. The budget was at $275,000-$325,000 per episode.[3]

Broadcast

After its premiere date on ABC, DiC has also sold the show to ITV (United Kingdom), Canal J (France), Mediaset (Italy), YTV (Canada) and Fox Kids (Latin America) in November 2001.[4]

After the rebranding of One Saturday Morning, renamed ABC Kids, Toon Disney began reairing the show along with other shows from the original One Saturday Morning block.

Release

In 2005, Warner Home Video released a volume with one disc titled "Misty and Amber vs. Renee la Rouge", containing 5 episodes centering around the aforementioned Renee la Rouge, one of the show's main villains.[5] These episodes were "Gift With Purchase", "The Cat's Meow", "In a Lather", "Can You Dig It?!", and "Bad Hair Day". They would later be uploaded on YouTube in 2014, and officially rereleased on Apple TV in 2016. The other 21 episodes were not officially released.

Uploads

On June 11th, 2017, 20 episodes of the Hungarian dub have been uploaded to YouTube until the account that posted them was terminated.

On April 5th, 2018, the episode "Bug Off" has been found and uploaded to YouTube.

On April 11th-13th, 2021, thirteen more episodes were found in English and uploaded to YouTube.

On April 16th, 2021, a Hungarian dub of "Up in the Air" was reuploaded to YouTube with an unofficial English sub.

As of July 2021, 19 out of 26 English episodes have been found. Five episodes have been found in Ukrainian, one episode has been found in Greek, and one found in Serbian.

Episodes

# Episode Title Status Notes
1 SPF 5000 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
2 Gift With Purchase [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxztDHldly7iLOmOJ_3KRwQ/videos Found On DVD and Apple TV
3 The Mean Team https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Partially Lost First 5 minutes missing
4 Who Turned the Music Off? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
5 Operation Evaporation https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
6 Puppy Love https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
7 Tout Sweet https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
8 The Cat's Meow [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxztDHldly7iLOmOJ_3KRwQ/videos Found On DVD and Apple TV
9 Faster Food Partially Lost Ukrainian dub, missing in English
10 Out of Her Hair https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
11 Snow Much Fun https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
12 In a Lather [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxztDHldly7iLOmOJ_3KRwQ/videos Found On DVD and Apple TV
13 Pants on Fire https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
14 Just Kidding https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
15 Big Trouble https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
16 Catch a Wave https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IGktOLQfc2Jh0mfJPS3pXm Partially Lost Ukrainian and Catalan dubs, missing in English
17 Up in the Air https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IGktOLQfc2Jh0mfJPS3pXm Partially Lost Ukrainian and Catalan dubs, missing in English
18 Boy Stuff https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IGktOLQfc2Jh0mfJPS3pXm Partially Lost Ukrainian and Catalan dubs, missing in English
19 Bug Off https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
20 Dog Gone Partially Lost Serbian dub, missing in English
21 Can You Dig It?! [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxztDHldly7iLOmOJ_3KRwQ/videos Found On DVD and Apple TV
22 Alien Encounters https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98L8yg2ak-SgvouiNw_EnjJA Partially Lost Ukrainian dub, missing in English
23 Bad Hair Day [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxztDHldly7iLOmOJ_3KRwQ/videos Found On DVD and Apple TV
24 Rave Reviews [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1u8O9h_Rkc Partially Lost Greek dub, missing in English
25 Horsing Around https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found
26 Tourist Traps https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4guviP98IVOwK5mUfHnLuPvTkQFxWd Found

Gallery

One Saturday Morning promo.

One Saturday Morning promo.

Theme song.

Website intro.

Toon Disney promo.

Dolls commercial

External Links

References

  1. The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows; page 380. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd edition); page 531–532. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  3. What’s developing in kids production
  4. DiC scores raft of toon sales
  5. Misty and Amber vs. Renee la Rouge