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Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone

Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone
Genre Animation
Created by Martin Powell, Vivien Schrager-Powell
Developed by Dave Edwards
Directed by Don Lusk
Paul Sommers
Aniamation Directors:
Robert Alvarez
Creative director(s) Ray Patterson
Voices of George Lemore
Elizabeth Harnois
Janice Kawaye
Whitby Hertford
Joan Gerber
Kenneth Mars
Hamilton Camp
Rob Paulsen
Scott Menville
Frank Welker
Clive Revill
Theme music composer Michael Tavera
Country of origin United States
United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Martin Powell
Vivien Schrager-Powell
Paul Sabella
Producer(s) Davis Doi
Running time 21 mins
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera Productions
Sleepy Kids Communications PLC
Distributor Great American Broadcasting (original)
NBCUniversal Television Distribution (currently)
Release
Original network BBC
The Children's Channel (UK)
Syndication (US)
Original release September 1 – November 24, 1990

Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone is a British-American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera in conjunction with Sleepy Kids PLC and is known outside the US as Potsworth & Co.. In the United Kingdom (which is reflected in the theme song's lyrics in the British broadcast), the BBC felt that the suggestion of children being awake after midnight was inappropriate, thus the name was changed.

The series revolves around Potsworth, an English Springer Spaniel, based upon a real-life springer spaniel called Potsworth, bought from the Battersea Dogs Home by Martin and Vivien Schrager-Powell. The couple were somewhat disheartened with some of the children's programmes being made at the time, commenting that "Six-year-olds just aren't content to be fobbed off with 'Mr Wizard go pouf and nasty man go away'. Stories these days have to be believable, contain some logical process". In 1987, Martin started writing stories about Potsworth who lives in a city in America and four young children: Carter, Keiko, Rosie, and Nick. The couple took the idea to Hanna-Barbera and suggested a 50-50 deal to turn the stories into a television series.

First appearing on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera on the 1st September 1990, Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone lasted only 13 episodes. It was watched by 8.5 million in the US while 5.1 million watched the series on CBBC in Britain, making it the "second most popular children's show on British television after Neighbours".

The "real" Potsworth became something of a celebrity when he featured extensively in the British media as part of the promotion campaign for the cartoon series when it first aired in the UK in 1990/91 television season. A comic strip based on the show featured in the merged Beezer and Topper and, when that comic closed, the Dandy.

The series' setting, "Dream Zone", was first used on "Back to Next Saturday", the NBC Saturday Morning preview special for the 1985 season.


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