Stevie and Zoya

Stevie and Zoya is an animated series that appeared first on MTV in the mid 1980's. The one-minute shorts were produced by Joe Horne, who later worked for Disney and currently works on Class of 3000. Horne later produced a new series in flash animation for the Internet in 2004.

Overview

The setting is New York City in the near future. The title characters work for a law enforcement agency called "DADDIO" (which seems to be a play on the similar organization in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.). Stevie Washington is depicted as a young white male in his early twenties, with black hair, sunglasses, black tee shirt, jeans and sneakers. He is rarely seen without his red, white and blue skateboard.(In the flash episodes, Stevie wears goggles and a hoody that obscures his features.) Zoya (no last name mentioned) wears a red jumpsuit with a black belt, collar, gloves, stilletto-heeled boots and a large hair bow that resembles a Playboy bunny's rabbit ears. She is armed with the unlikeliest of weapons: a yo-yo. She uses it to swing from lamposts or buildings a la Spider Man, to disarm opponents and on one occasion to defuse a bomb (by knocking off the fuse).

Stevie and Zoya attempt to stop the nefarious plots of various supervillains, including space aliens, the Minute Women, the voodoo priestess Mumawaldi, and most of all, disfigured evil industrialist John Warlok.

The early series was crudely scored (mostly with a pastiche of old movie and television music) and more crudely animated. Zoya spoke on only two episodes, and Stevie not at all. In spite of this, the series was quickly paced, which gave it a cult status. Narration was supplied by actor Russell Johnson. [ [http://strangerstill.com/journal/archives/000596.html Stranger Still: Stevie Washington, The Angry Youth ] ]

Opening narration

Each episode begins with the following narration (punctuation as in original):

Stevie Washington, the angry youth.

Born to Die!

New Yorx, New York.

The turn of the century.

All crime!!

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