Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990 TV series)
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures is a 1990 animated television series spin-off from the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. It follows the titular protagonists, dimwitted teenage musicians Bill and Ted, who are visited by Rufus, a man from the future, who needs them to graduate from high school to start a rock band that inspires the people of the future. They travel to various time periods, making sure that history happens as it should, more or less.[1]
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| Genre | Fantasy Sci fi Comedy Adventure |
| Created by | Peter Hannan |
| Based on | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon |
| Developed by | Gordon Kent |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson |
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| Opening theme | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
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| Executive producers | David Kirschner (season 1) Paul Sabella (season 1) Andy Heyward (season 2) |
| Running time | 20–23 minutes |
| Production companies | Hanna-Barbera Productions (season 1) DIC Enterprises (season 2) Orion Television Entertainment Nelson Entertainment |
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| Network | CBS (season 1) Fox (Fox Kids) (season 2) |
| Release | September 15, 1990 – November 16, 1991 |
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| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992 TV series) | |
The first season of the animated series was produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired on CBS in 1990, with Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, and Bernie Casey reprising their film roles.[2]
For the second season in 1991, the animated series switched production companies and networks, now airing on Fox Kids,[3] and produced by DIC Animation City. As Fox was also planning on airing a new live-action version series with the same name,[4] the cast was replaced, and the leads were now voiced by Evan Richards and Christopher Kennedy, the actors who would go on to portray Bill and Ted on the short-lived 1992 live-action television series. The new episodes introduced a "Squint" phone booth that could take Bill and Ted into literature, television shows, and (after shrinking them) inside the human body. The new show had trouble catching on, and after one more season, the animated Bill & Ted series was cancelled.
Hanna-Barbera version (1990)
- Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston, Esq.
- Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan
- George Carlin as Rufus
- Bernie Casey as Mr. Ryan
- Danny Cooksey as Deacon Logan
- Peter Renaday as Detective Logan
- Joe Alaskey
- Ken Berry
- Roscoe Lee Browne
- Hamilton Camp
- Nancy Cartwright
- Brian Cummings
- Keene Curtis
- Jennifer Darling
- Jeannie Elias
- Bernard Erhard
- Pat Fraley
- Dick Gautier
- Joan Gerber
- Ernest Harada
- Phil Hartman
- Dana Hill
- Robert Ito
- Arte Johnson
- Vicki Juditz
- Zale Kessler
- Maurice LaMarche
- Lu Leonard
- Page Leong
- Sherry Lynn
- Little Richard - Himself
- Dave Madden
- Kenneth Mars
- Tress MacNeille
- Scott Menville
- Rob Paulsen
- Henry Polic II
- Clive Revill
- Mandy Cumbie
- Bob Ridgely
- Kimmy Robertson - Missy Preston, Neferiti, Various
- William Schallert
- Kath Soucie
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Susan Tolsky
- B.J. Ward
- Jonathan Winters
- Anderson Wong
- Evan Richards as Bill S. Preston, Esq.
- Christopher Kennedy as Ted "Theodore" Logan
- Rick Overton as Rufus
- Susan Boyd
- Tara Strong - Mary Jane (credited as Tara Charendoff)
- Alyson Court
- Paulina Gillis
- Elizabeth Hanna
- Terri Hawkes
- Dan Hennessey[citation needed]
- Hadley Kay
- Don Lake
- Marilyn Lightstone
- Judy Marshak
- Tracey Moore
- Greg Morton
- Wayne Robson
- Susan Roman
- Andrew Sabiston
- Stuart Stone
- Greg Swanson
- Louise Vallance
- Marlow Vella
- Matthew Walker
This season featured historical characters like Giacomo Casanova, Elvis Presley, Theodoric and Martin Luther.
The first episode of the first season was released as a special feature on the Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection DVD box set, and on the Blu-ray of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
In 2013, TGG Direct, LLC (under license from MGM Home Entertainment) released a 2 disc "Best of" DVD. Disc 1 includes eight episodes from Season 1, while Disc 2 has the complete second season. It was a Wal-Mart exclusive at first, but now it's available nationwide.[5]
- ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Networks Juggle Saturday Morning TV Lineups". Los Angeles Times. United Press International. April 11, 1990. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
- ^ "Fine-tuning cartoons for young and old". Providence Journal. September 6, 1991.
- ^ DuBrow, Rick (May 22, 1991). "Fox Network Goes Out on a Limb Again". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
- ^ "Best of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures: Animated TV Series: Keanu Reeves, George Carlin, Alex Winter". Amazon.com. October 2013. Retrieved 2016-05-22.