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Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!

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Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as their animated counterparts
Genre
Created byRobin Riordan
Developed by
  • Dianne Dixon
  • Robin Riordan
Directed by
  • Jose Luis Marco
  • Pascal Gaugry
  • Jeff Wunderlich
Starring
Theme music composer
  • S. Hoffer
  • G. Smith
Opening theme"Mary-Kate And Ashley In Action! Theme"
Ending theme"Mary-Kate And Ashley In Action! Theme"
Composers
  • L.A. Piccirillo
  • Jean-Michel Guirao
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producers
  • Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Ashley Olsen
  • Robert Thorne
Producers
  • Neil Steinberg
  • Kaaren Lee Brown
Running time22 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseOctober 20, 2001 (2001-10-20) –
June 29, 2002 (2002-06-29)

Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action! is an animated children's television series featuring the voices and likeness of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.[1] It is also a series of books that spun off, from the show. The show premiered on October 20, 2001, on the ABC block Disney's One Saturday Morning, and was cancelled after one season due to low ratings.[2]

Cast

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Additional voices

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Episodes

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Production

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The series was first announced by DualStar and the then-Disney-owned DIC Entertainment in March 1999. Initially, the series was going to be based on the Trenchcoat Twins personas.[3]

By 2000, the series had become a co-production of DIC and Canal J, under the tentative title Action Girls. 52 episodes were tentatively planned for the series.[4]

After its premiere on ABC in the United States, in November 2001, DIC pre-sold the series internationally to CITV (and later Nickelodeon as well) in the UK, Canal J in France, Mediaset in Italy, YTV in Canada and Fox Kids Latin America.[5]

In April 2002, Televisa in Mexico and RTÉ in Ireland purchased broadcast rights to the series in their respective countries.[6]

Broadcast

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From September 2002 – 2003, following the channel's rebrand, Toon Disney reaired the series alongside other ex-One Saturday Morning shows.

In April 2015, Nickelodeon acquired several US broadcast rights to DualStar's content library, including this series, although it was never re-ran on the channel.[7]

DVD releases

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In June 2005, Warner Home Video released a single-disc volume called "Misty and Amber vs. Renee la Rouge",[8] featuring 5 episodes of the series focusing on the villain Renee la Rouge. The episodes come with English, Spanish and French audio tracks, as well as featuring a Trivia Challenge and a Villain Bio as bonus features.

In 2016, the series was released to iTunes, but it contained the same episodes only available on the Volume 1 DVD.

Books

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The series spun-off a series of books published by Dualstar Books and HarperEntertainment in 2002. In the books, the twins are special agents assigned to solve different mysteries around the fashion and sports world, and have to travel to such cities as New York City, Paris, and Rome to do it.

The series includes:

  • Book number 1: Makeup Shakeup. Setting: New York and Paris.
  • Book number 2: The Dream Team. Setting: Rome.
  • Book number 3: Fubble Bubble Trouble. Setting: The Mall of Malls, a fictional mall that appears to be based on the Mall of America
  • Book number 4: Operation Evaporation. Setting: Bermuda.
  • Book number 5: Dog Gone Mess: Setting: Germany.
  • Book number 6: The Music Meltdown. Setting: Washington, D.C.
  • Book number 7: Password: Red Hot Setting: England.
  • Book number 8: Fast Food Fight Setting: Anytown, USA

References

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  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 380. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 531–532. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  3. ^ "Olsen twins pact for Disney toon". 17 March 1999. Archived from the original on 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  4. ^ "What's developing in kids production". Archived from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  5. ^ "DIC scores raft of toon sales". Archived from the original on 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
  6. ^ "DIC Announces Post-MIP Int'l Toon Sales". 30 April 2002. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  7. ^ Samantha, Highfill. "Nickelodeon acquires Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's old content library". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Mary-Kate & Ashley in Action (Volume 1)". Amazon.com. 7 June 2005. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
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