The Baskervilles | |
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Directed by | Nick Martinelli |
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Theme music composer | Danny Chang |
Composer | Jeff Fisher |
Country of origin | United Kingdom France Canada |
Original languages | English French |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
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Producer | Cassandra Schafhausen |
Running time | 23 minutes |
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Release | 10 March – 13 December 2000 |
The Baskervilles is a British-French-Canadian animated children's television series about a British family living in the most twisted theme park in the world. The show was originally created by series co-director Nick Martinelli and series co-writer Alastair Swinnerton, and was a co-production with CINAR, Alphanim and France 2, and produced in association with Carlton Television and Blue Nose Productions, with the participation of Teletoon. 26 episodes were produced. [1]
When a wealthy man made his fortune convincing the world that bad is good and good is bad, he got bored of his success, and wanted to have some fun with his fortune; he created a huge theme park as a slice of life look at Hell, called Underworld: the Theme Park. Disguised as the devil and calling himself "the Boss", he sunk to new lows in deviant behaviour, but it wasn't enough; so he invited a nice family to live in Underworld, for the sole purpose of torturing them. But when his skeletal right-hand man, Kevin directed the Baskervilles his way, he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
The show is almost a mirror image of The Munsters , where instead of a family of monsters trying to live in a human suburb, it's a human family trying to fit in a demonic city, where all the rules are the opposite of what they were back home.
A quiet family from Nice Town, they are a picture perfect portrait of what a nice quiet family should be; except for one little girl who is interminably put off by the excessive politeness of her kin. After seeing an advertisement for Underworld on the TV, they decide to spend their vacation there, not knowing the owner's true intentions.
A family of demons, with purple skin, horns and red eyes; the Boss rules Underworld with an iron fist, but he is the only one in his family who is actually mean.
The Baskervilles' next door neighbours are a family of vampires, who bear some resemblance to the Baskervilles' Nice Town neighbours. The Draculas have pale blue skin, black hair, red eyes, and talk in thick Irish accents (except for Vera who has black eyes and speaks in an Eastern European accent).
The Frankensteins are a family of reanimated creatures, ala Dr. Frankenstein's monster. They all have green skin and speak in Scottish accents; they are notoriously strong and stupid, and their favourite pastime is running amok.
With Teletoon original airdates in parentheses: [2]
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