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Created by | Andy Knight |
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Directed by | Andy Knight |
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No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
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Executive producer | Thomas Hart |
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Animator | Red Rover Studios |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production companies | Walt Disney Television Animation (credited as Jetix Animation Concepts) |
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Release | September 19, 2005 – April 24, 2006 |
Get Ed is an animated television series about a genetically engineered teenage delivery boy who fights industrial crime in Progress City. [2]
The show aired as a part of the Jetix programming block on the United States cable television network Toon Disney until the channel closed in 2009. The series also used to run on ABC Family before the channel switched to a non-animated format. Reruns aired on Toon Disney's successor, Disney XD in 2009. It was the second original show produced for the Jetix block and for the Jetix channels worldwide, where the show aired in 2005.
In the series, Ed is an "electro-genetically" enhanced teen who works for Dojo Deliveries, a courier service, in the futuristic Progress City. Ed uses his cyber sleuthing skills to thwart identity theft and other information-based crimes. He and his courier pals Burn, Deets, Fizz, and Loogie (accompanied by his puppet Dr. Pinch), along with their friend and mentor Ol’ Skool, must battle the ultimate evil – Mr. Bedlam, an industrialist who has taken over a significant portion of Progress City, employing stealing from, data mining, or outright destroying his competitors.
Production was underway in March 2005, [3] when the series was announced. [4] The series was created by Andy Knight, and produced by his Toronto-based Red Rover Studios in association with Walt Disney Television Animation. [5] [6] The series was created as Disney Television Animation's first fully-3D computer animated television series.
Knight's other creations included Ned's Newt and Pig City , and Get Ed was his third and final creation before he died in 2008 of a stroke. Get Ed was also credited as the first fully produced computer-animated television series made for Disney, outside of Playhouse Disney's Higglytown Heroes (which was co-produced with WildBrain Entertainment, under Happy Nest).
No. | Title | Written by | Original air date [7] | |
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1 | "Slammer" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | September 19, 2005 [8] | |
The Dojo crew run into a huge orb of light that gives Ed a mysterious package; Ed discovers he has a strange connection with the item inside it. | ||||
2 | "Sunblock" | Jeffrey Alan Schechter | September 19, 2005 [9] | |
3 | "Omnirex" | Unknown | September 26, 2005 [10] | |
4 | "Torch" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | October 3, 2005 [11] | |
5 | "Z3R0" | Victor Nicolle | October 10, 2005 [12] | |
6 | "Bio Trap" | Thomas Hart | October 17, 2005 [13] | |
7 | "Optigogs" | Jeffrey Alan Schechter | October 28, 2005 [14] | |
8 | "Fizzled" | Dan Smith | November 4, 2005 [15] | |
9 | "Neo-Dermis" | Erika Strobel | November 7, 2005 [16] | |
10 | "Perspectives" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | November 18, 2005 [17] | |
11 | "Momentum" | Erika Strobel | November 28, 2005 [18] [19] | |
12 | "Grim Tech" | Richard Clark | December 10, 2005 [20] | |
13 | "Static" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | December 17, 2005 (Part 1) [18] [21] | |
14 | January 23, 2006 (Part 2) [18] [22] | |||
15 | "Omnis" | Dale Schott | February 1, 2006 [23] | |
16 | "Procedures" | Peter Sauder | February 6, 2006 [24] | |
17 | "Trashed" | Richard Clark | February 13, 2006 [25] | |
18 | "Wi-Fi" | Ben Joseph & Frank Young | February 19, 2006 [26] | |
19 | "Basics" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | February 20, 2006 [27] | |
20 | "Klowned" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | March 6, 2006 [28] | |
21 | "Monument" | Richard Clark | March 13, 2006 [29] | |
22 | "Locked" | Thomas Hart | March 24, 2006 [30] | |
23 | "ZG" | Richard Clark | March 27, 2006 [18] [31] | |
24 | "Dilemma" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | April 17, 2006 [32] | |
25 | "Ex-Machina" | Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott | April 24, 2006 [33] [34] | |
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The show's opening theme music, by Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner, was nominated for the 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music. [35]
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