Lilo & Stitch: The Series

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Lilo & Stitch: The Series
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Also known asDisney's Lilo & Stitch
Genre
Based on
Developed by
Directed by
  • Victor Cook [1]
  • Don MacKinnon (season 1) [1]
  • Rob LaDuca (season 2)
  • Tony Craig ("Spike" and "Shoe")
Voices of
Opening theme"Aloha, E Komo Mai", Music by Danny Jacob and Mark Hammond; lyrics by Danny Jacob and Ali B Olmo; performed by Jump5
Ending theme"Aloha, E Komo Mai" (instrumental)
Composer Michael Tavera
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes65 (67 segments), [a] plus pilot and finale films (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
ProducerVictor Cook (season 2)
Running time22 minutes
Production company Walt Disney Television Animation
Original release
Network
ReleaseSeptember 20, 2003 (2003-09-20) –
July 29, 2006 (2006-07-29)
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series (titled simply as Disney's Lilo & Stitch on its title card and on U.S. copyright registrations) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It premiered on September 20, 2003, on ABC as part of ABC Kids, [2] with a delayed premiere on Disney Channel on October 12, 2003. [3] [4] The series ended on July 29, 2006, after airing 65 episodes in two seasons.

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A sequel spin-off of the 2002 feature film of the same name on which it was based, and the follow-up to August 2003 direct-to-video pilot Stitch! The Movie , it was the first of three television series produced in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, and the only one to retain the same setting as the original film. [5] It aired on Disney Channel worldwide but has only been released on DVD in full in Japan, in four box sets. On November 12, 2019, the series was made available to stream on Disney+, immediately following the service's launch. [6]

Plot

Continuing where Stitch! The Movie left off, Lilo and Stitch are given the task of collecting the rest of Jumba's 623 missing experiments, changing them from bad to good, and finding the one place where they truly belong. Meanwhile, the former Captain Gantu and his reluctant partner, Experiment 625 (later named Reuben), try to capture the experiments for the imprisoned Dr. Hämsterviel.

Running for two seasons, it had a total of 65 episodes. The storyline of the series concluded with the Disney Channel broadcast of the television film Leroy & Stitch on June 23, 2006.

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
Pilot film August 26, 2003 (2003-08-26) Direct-to-video
1 39September 20, 2003 (2003-09-20)February 28, 2004 (2004-02-28) Toon Disney
Disney Channel
ABC (ABC Kids)
2 26 [b] November 5, 2004 (2004-11-05)July 29, 2006 (2006-07-29)
Finale film June 23, 2006 (2006-06-23) Disney Channel

Crossover episodes

During its second season, Lilo & Stitch: The Series had crossovers with four other shows from Walt Disney Television Animation, three of which were airing during its run and one of which had already ended before the show's production began. According to executive producer Jess Winfield,[ citation needed ] these episodes were inspired by the four "Inter-Stitch-al" teaser trailers that were made for the original Lilo & Stitch film, which featured Stitch invading scenes of various Disney Renaissance ( The Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast , Aladdin , and The Lion King ) films and ruining them.

Characters

Main

Recurring

Production

In July 2002, Thomas Schumacher, then-president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, announced that Disney was developing a television series sequel to the film for Disney Channel in fall 2003 under the working title of Stitch! The TV Series. [1] The series was announced alongside the direct-to-video film, Stitch! The Movie. [1] Television animation directors Tony Craig and Bobs Gannaway, who both worked on Disney animated series such as House of Mouse and The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa , and television screenwriter Jess Winfield, who wrote for Teacher's Pet and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command , served as executive producers of the show. [1] Victor Cook and Don MacKinnon directed for the show's first 39 episodes, which comprised the first season. [1] For the remaining 26 episodes, which comprised the second season, Rob LaDuca replaced MacKinnon as the other main director alongside Cook, while Craig directed two episodes, "Spike" and "Shoe".

Release

Broadcast

The series aired as part of the ABC Kids block on ABC from September 20, 2003 to September 2, 2006, Disney Channel from October 12, 2003 to 2010, and again as part of the Disney Replay block from August 20, 2014 to January 1, 2015, and Toon Disney from January 16, 2006 to February 8, 2009, days before the network rebranded to Disney XD, which eventually reran the series from March 11 to July 29, 2018. The show also aired as a launch program on the Disney Junior channel from March 23, 2012 to September 3, 2013, marking this the first and only time a Disney Channel original series aired on that network.

Home media

Only a few episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series were released on home media in the United States. The episodes "Clip" and "Mr. Stenchy" were bonus features for a DVD board game called Lilo & Stitch's Island of Adventures that was released on November 11, 2003. [7] [8] Another two episodes, "Slushy" and "Poxy", were released on separate Game Boy Advance Video compilations of Disney Channel series. Finally, the final episode "Link" was a bonus feature on the Leroy & Stitch DVD that was released on June 27, 2006, a month before the episode aired on television.

Streaming

Lilo & Stitch: The Series was available on the now-defunct DisneyLife streaming service in the United Kingdom. [9]

The first American digital streaming release for The Series was via the TV Everywhere service DisneyNow in 2018, while the show reran on Disney XD, although it was later removed from the service in August that year.[ citation needed ] It was later made digitally available in the United States again and in other countries on Disney+ when that service launched on November 12, 2019, alongside all four feature-length Lilo & Stitch films. [6] For unknown reasons, Disney+'s listing claims The Series's original run ended in 2004 rather than 2006.

Reception

In a review for the finale film Leroy & Stitch, AllMovie's Skyler Miller called Lilo & Stitch: The Series a "high quality" television series, stating that it "was a pleasant surprise to fans of the 2002 film, continuing its good-natured, offbeat spirit while introducing the ingenious plot device of having the titular duo capture and rehabilitate Stitch's 625 'cousins.'" [10]

Betsy Wallace of Common Sense Media gave the show's quality 3 out of 5 stars, applicable for ages 6 and above. Wallace noted that "Lilo frequently demonstrates compassion to creatures" but ultimately deemed the series's humor to be its "strong point", pointing out that the show "even makes fun of [its own] scant educational content". [11]

In his 2018 book The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows, author David Perlmutter wrote that the show's concept was "saddled [...] with formulaic and derivative elements" that were not found in the original film, though he praised Kevin McDonald's vocal performance as Pleakley, calling said performance "clever and amusing" and "the show's central [ sic ] grace". [12]

Awards and nominations

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2004Jason Oliver & Steve Dierkens for episode "Sprout" Motion Picture Sound Editors Award for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation: MusicNominated
2005Michael Tavera Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and CompositionNominated

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Most episodes (63) are 22-minute full-length segments; season two's "Mrs. Hasagawa's Cats / Ace" and "Glitch / Woops" are each split into two 11-minute half-length segments.
  2. ↑ 28 segments
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Most experiment numbers are pronounced by digit (e.g. Stitch is "Experiment Six-Two-Six"), with the only known exceptions being Spooky (Experiment 300) and Woops (Experiment 600), whose numbers are pronounced as whole numbers (i.e. "Experiment Three Hundred" and "Experiment Six Hundred"), and Splodyhead (Experiment 619), whose number was pronounced "Six Nineteen" by Jumba. Separately, "X-" is the official abbreviation for "Experiment" when referring to a specific one of such (e.g. "X-626" for Stitch).

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