Pepper Ann

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Pepper Ann
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Genre
Created by Sue Rose [1]
Based onPepper Ann
by Sue Rose
Directed by
  • Sherie Pollack (season 1)
  • Brad Goodchild (seasons 2–5)
Voices of
Theme music composerBrian Woodbury
Composer Pat Irwin
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes65 (113 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Running time22 minutes
Production companies Walt Disney Television Animation
Buena Vista International, Inc. [lower-alpha 1]
Original release
Network
  • ABC (seasons 1–3)
  • UPN (seasons 4–5)
ReleaseSeptember 13, 1997 (1997-09-13) 
November 18, 2000 (2000-11-18)

Pepper Ann is an American animated television series created by Sue Rose and aired on Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC. [2] It first premiered on September 13, 1997, and ended on November 18, 2000. [3] Pepper Ann was the first Disney animated television series to be created by a woman.

Contents

Tom Warburton, who later created Cartoon Network's Codename: Kids Next Door , served as the lead character designer for the series.

Overview

Pepper Ann centers on the trials and tribulations that occur during the titular character's adolescence and charts her ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. The character originated in a comic strip published in YM magazine. [4]

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
1 13September 13, 1997 (1997-09-13)January 24, 1998 (1998-01-24) ABC ( Disney's One Saturday Morning )
2 13September 12, 1998 (1998-09-12)January 16, 1999 (1999-01-16)
3 8September 11, 1999 (1999-09-11)January 22, 2000 (2000-01-22)
4 18February 6, 2000 (2000-02-06)February 27, 2000 (2000-02-27) UPN ( Disney's One Too )
5 13September 9, 2000 (2000-09-09)November 18, 2000 (2000-11-18)ABC (Disney's One Saturday Morning)
UPN (Disney's One Too)

Characters

Main

Recurring

Hazelnut Middle School

Broadcast and home media

Pepper Ann was aired as part of the Disney's One Saturday Morning block on ABC from 1997 to 2001. Reruns were also shown on Disney's One Too on UPN during the 2000–01 season, and later on Disney Channel, and on Toon Disney until 2008.

All 65 episodes of the series were released on Disney+ on September 8, 2021, [5] with the episodes from seasons 4–5 listed under season 3 on the platform and most of the season 5's episode segments that are in mismatched order. [6]

Internationally, the show aired on the likes of GMTV and RTÉ

Legacy

Notes

  1. Animation outsourced to Sunwoo Entertainment and The Hana Animation Company.

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