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Daft Planet Format Animated Comedy Written by Derry Smith
Brent DonnellyDirected by Jon Minnis Starring Oliver Grainger
Mark HauserCountry of origin Canada No. of seasons 1 No. of episodes 13 Broadcast Original channel Teletoon Original run September 2, 2002 – December 12, 2002 Daft Planet was a Canadian cartoon, first airing on Teletoon Canada. It originally ran from September 2, 2002 to December 12, 2002. Its main claim to fame is that it was the first cartoon in the world that was made in Flash and appeared on a national television network. The show met with some success but was taken off the air when funding ran out due to cuts to the CTF program.
Plot
The plot, set in the fictional Maple City, encircles the day-to-day lives of the protagonists, Ched and Hudson, in their on-going struggle to keep up with the latest trends and maintain their positions in the social hierarchy in high school. With Ched living from a trailer park, as the son of a taxidermist and Hudson as the son of a wealthy network executive, a parallel is drawn between the two characters, offering unlikely chemistry.
External links
- Daft Planet at the Internet Movie Database
- Daft Planet at TV.com
Categories:- Animation stubs
- Canadian animated television series
- 1999 Canadian television series debuts
- 2001 Canadian television series endings
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