Get Ed

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Get Ed
GetEd.jpg
Created by Andy Knight
Developed by
  • Simon Racioppa
  • Richard Elliot
  • Dan Smith
  • Thomas Hart
Directed byAndy Knight
Starring
Theme music composer
Composers
  • Amin Bhatia
  • Ari Posner
Country of origin
  • United States
  • Canada [1]
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producerThomas Hart
Producers
  • Randi Yaffa
  • Daniele Araiche
Animator Red Rover Studios
Running time25 minutes
Production companies Walt Disney Television Animation
(credited as Jetix Animation Concepts)
Original release
Network
ReleaseSeptember 19, 2005 (2005-09-19) 
April 24, 2006 (2006-04-24)

Get Ed is an animated television series about a genetically engineered teenage delivery boy who fights industrial crime in Progress City. [2]

Contents

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.

Plot

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.

Characters

Dojo Deliveries

Villains

Recurring characters

Production

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).

Episodes

No.TitleWritten byOriginal air date [7]
1"Slammer"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottSeptember 19, 2005 (2005-09-19) [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 SchechterSeptember 19, 2005 (2005-09-19) [9]
3"Omnirex"UnknownSeptember 26, 2005 (2005-09-26) [10]
4"Torch"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottOctober 3, 2005 (2005-10-03) [11]
5"Z3R0"Victor NicolleOctober 10, 2005 (2005-10-10) [12]
6"Bio Trap"Thomas HartOctober 17, 2005 (2005-10-17) [13]
7"Optigogs"Jeffrey Alan SchechterOctober 28, 2005 (2005-10-28) [14]
8"Fizzled"Dan SmithNovember 4, 2005 (2005-11-04) [15]
9"Neo-Dermis"Erika StrobelNovember 7, 2005 (2005-11-07) [16]
10"Perspectives"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottNovember 18, 2005 (2005-11-18) [17]
11"Momentum"Erika StrobelNovember 28, 2005 (2005-11-28) [18] [19]
12"Grim Tech"Richard ClarkDecember 10, 2005 (2005-12-10) [20]
13"Static"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottDecember 17, 2005 (2005-12-17) (Part 1) [18] [21]
14January 23, 2006 (2006-01-23) (Part 2) [18] [22]
15"Omnis"Dale SchottFebruary 1, 2006 (2006-02-01) [23]
16"Procedures"Peter SauderFebruary 6, 2006 (2006-02-06) [24]
17"Trashed"Richard ClarkFebruary 13, 2006 (2006-02-13) [25]
18"Wi-Fi"Ben Joseph & Frank YoungFebruary 19, 2006 (2006-02-19) [26]
19"Basics"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottFebruary 20, 2006 (2006-02-20) [27]
20"Klowned"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottMarch 6, 2006 (2006-03-06) [28]
21"Monument"Richard ClarkMarch 13, 2006 (2006-03-13) [29]
22"Locked"Thomas HartMarch 24, 2006 (2006-03-24) [30]
23"ZG"Richard ClarkMarch 27, 2006 (2006-03-27) [18] [31]
24"Dilemma"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottApril 17, 2006 (2006-04-17) [32]
25"Ex-Machina"Simon Racioppa & Richard ElliottApril 24, 2006 (2006-04-24) [33] [34]
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Awards

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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