MoonDreamers | |
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Genre | Adventure Animation Children's animation Fantasy Family Sci-fi Musical Animated series |
Created by | Jackie Waterman McLoughlin |
Written by | Cynthia Friedlob John Semper Betty G. Birney Evelyn Gabai Lainy Morriss Nancy Jane Batchelder Ellen Guon Chuck Lorre |
Voices of | Peter Cullen Jennifer Darling Elizabeth Lyn Fraser Melanie Gaffin Robin Kaufman Tress MacNeille Clive Revill Neil Ross |
Theme music composer | Robert J. Walsh |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Production | |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production companies | Hasbro Sunbow Productions Marvel Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Syndication |
Release | September 25, 1986 – January 8, 1987 |
MoonDreamers is an American animated television series that aired in 1986 as part of the My Little Pony 'n Friends lineup.
My Little Pony aired the first 15 minutes and the second half rotated among MoonDreamers, Potato Head Kids and The Glo Friends , [1] all of which promoted toys from Hasbro.
The Moondreamers are a group of celestial people who create and deliver pleasant dreams to Earth children. Their main enemy is the evil Queen Scowlene who attempts to keep everyone awake at night with her nightmare crystals.
# | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Moondreamer Pt. 1" | Unknown | John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | September 25, 1986 | |
Two Star Children named Blinky and Bitsy want to be Moondreamers, but then Scowlene and her Sleep Creeps attack. | |||||
2 | "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Moondreamer Pt. 2" | Unknown | John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | October 2, 1986 | |
The Moondreamers defeat Scowlene and Blinky and Bitsy earn their place as Moondreamers. | |||||
3 | "All In a Night's Sleep" | Unknown | Betty Birney | October 9, 1986 | |
Stumbles the Snoozer falls off the Dreamalong Drifter and onto Earth where he uncovers a sinister plot by Queen Scowlene. | |||||
4 | "The Star of Stars" | Unknown | Astrid Ryterband, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | October 16, 1986 | |
The Moondreamers go on a quest to find their original base called the Star of Stars, but Queen Scowlene has taken control of it. | |||||
5 | "The Poobah of Pontoon" | Unknown | Nancy Jane Batchelder, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | October 23, 1986 | |
Queen Scowlene's older brother the incredibly fat Poobah of Pontoon returns and becomes Monstrous Middle's king. Due to Roary unknowingly stopping the Sleep Creeps earlier, Queen Scowlene and Scowlette plan to have the Poobah of Pontoon take Roary. | |||||
6 | "The Dreamkin" | Unknown | Ellen Guon, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | October 30, 1986 | |
A strange creature called the Dreamkin comes to life and Whimzee is sad to see it go. | |||||
7 | "Minor Problems" | Unknown | Evelyn Gabai | November 6, 1986 | |
Ursa Minor flies into Sparky Dreamer's new machine and is cloned. Both sides have problems caused by the Ursas. | |||||
8 | "Igon the Terrible" | Unknown | Bob Smith, Barry O'Brien | November 13, 1986 | |
After being sent on a vacation to the Frightful Forest by Queen Scowlene for accidentally wrecking Professor Grimace's Anti-MoonDreamer Beamer, Igon ends up befriending a giant Gundar named Hebo after saving him from a volcano. As a favor to Hebo, Igon uses him to get revenge on Queen Scowlene and plans to take Starry Up for himself. | |||||
9 | "Stuck on Bucky" | Unknown | Evelyn Gabai, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | November 20, 1986 | |
Sparky and Bucky use Galactic Glue and get stuck on each other. They must work together to foil an evil Scowlette invasion. | |||||
10 | "The Dreamnapping" | Unknown | Chuck Lorre, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | November 27, 1986 | |
A girl gets pulled into a dream by Queen Scowlene. | |||||
11 | "Bucky's Comet" | Unknown | Betty Birney | December 4, 1986 | |
Bucky wants Crystal Starr to think he's special, so he lassos a comet with Professor Grimace and Igon inside. | |||||
12 | "Dreamland Express" | Unknown | Mark McClellan, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | December 11, 1986 | |
N/A | |||||
13 | "Whimzee, Come Home!" | Unknown | Betty Birney | December 18, 1986 | |
Whimzee is afraid she has lost her imagination, so she goes to a world and battles a imagination demon. Note: This is the only Moondreamers episode that does not feature Queen Scowlene. | |||||
14 | "Zodies on the Loose" | Unknown | Kathy Selbert, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | December 25, 1986 | |
Scowlene sets all the Zodiacs in the Blue Zoo loose, and it's up to Celeste and Galaxia to stop them all. | |||||
15 | "The Night Mare Pt. 1" | Unknown | Lainy Morriss, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | January 1, 1987 | |
When Blinky and Bitsy are looking after a Starhorse named Andromeda at the Blue Zoo, the Starhorse falls into Monstrous Middle. Meanwhile, a horse-hating boy named Timmy falls into there. | |||||
16 | "The Night Mare Pt. 2" | Unknown | Lainy Morriss, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob | January 8, 1987 | |
Andromeda transforms into a Night Mare in Monstrous Middle and is captured by Scowlene, now it's up to Timmy, Blinky and Bitsy to save the day; Scowlene says "Timmy would like horses again" as the story ends. |
MoonDreamers was not a successful series. In 2014, io9 listed it among twelve 1980s cartoons that "don't deserve to be remembered at all, let alone fondly.", as for the other 3, io9 was harsh at them calling mlp and friends "a travesty on the haters invasion strike." [2]
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