Horrible Histories (2000 TV series)
Two kids travel through time to learn history.
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Horrible Histories is an animated children's television series based on the Terry Deary book series of the same name. The series ran for 26 episodes that aired between 19 December 2000 and 14 November 2001.
Characters
Stitch, voiced by Billy West, is one of the two main protagonists. He wears a huge dark-green T-shirt with a rat on it, has black glasses, is lazy, loves food (especially doughnuts), and considers himself a comedian. Mo, voiced by Cree Summer in the original American version and Jo Young in the British dub, is the other main protagonist.
She wears a white T-shirt with a flower and green camouflage jeans, is the brains of the pair, and loves animals. Darren Dongle, voiced by Jess Harnell, is the main antagonist, a history-knowledgeable nerd who taunts Stitch and Mo, is over-confident, and hates being wrong. The Narrator, voiced by Billy West in the American version and Stephen Rea in the British dub, transports Stitch and Mo through time, is a good joker, and is revealed in Amazing Aussies to be named Frank Synopsis.
Production
Horrible Histories is based on Terry Deary's book series; Deary later described having a terrible experience with the show. It is produced by Mike Young Productions (LA), Telegael Galway, and Scholastic Entertainment (NY), marking Young's and Telegael's first collaboration. The series is directed by Andrew Young and Gordon Langley, produced by Martha Atwater, Tamar Simon Hoffs, Michelle Conway, Paul Cummings, Deborah Forte, Mike Young, Mark Young, Beth Richman, and Charlie Stickney, among others, animated by Glenn Jason Hanna, and written by Martha Atwater, Terry Deary, Charlie Stickney, Andrew Young, Gordon Langley, and William Forrest Cluverius.
On ITV, the show attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers weekly. Stephen Rea recorded his voice work in Dublin. In 2006, The Mirror ran a promotion offering a free Horrible Histories DVD collection for 12 coupons.
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- Wikipedia: Horrible Histories (2000 TV series) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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