Danny Phantom | |
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Genre |
Comedy Teen drama Superhero Supernatural Action-Adventure |
Created by | Butch Hartman |
Developed by | Steve Marmel |
Voices of |
David Kaufman Grey DeLisle Rickey D'Shon Collins Colleen O'Shaughnessey Rob Paulsen Kath Soucie Martin Mull |
Theme music composer | Guy Moon and Butch Hartman |
Opening theme | "Danny Phantom", performed by Deric Battiste and Guy Moon |
Ending theme | "Danny Phantom" (instrumental) |
Composer(s) | Guy Moon |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 53 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Butch Hartman Steve Marmel (season 1-2) Mark Banker Marty Isenberg (season 1-2) Kevin Sullivan (season 3) |
Producer(s) | Bob Boyle (season 1) |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Billionfold Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studios |
Distributor | Nelvana (Canada) |
Release | |
Original network | Nickelodeon |
Picture format |
4:3 SDTV 16:9 HDTV |
Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Original release | April 3, 2004 | – August 24, 2007
Chronology | |
Related shows |
T.U.F.F. Puppy Bunsen Is a Beast The Fairly OddParents |
Danny Phantom is an American animated series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. It was produced by Billionfold Studios and distributed in Canada by Nelvana, a Canadian animation company. The series follows a teenage boy who, after an accident with an unpredictable portal between the human world and the "Ghost Zone", becomes a human-ghost hybrid and takes on the task of saving his town (and the world) from subsequent ghost attacks using an evolving variety of supernatural powers. He is aided in his quest by his two best friends, and later, his older sister, who for most of the series' run are among the only people who know of his double life.
The series premiered on April 3, 2004, its first episode airing after the 2004 Kids' Choice Awards, and ended on August 24, 2007, totalling 53 episodes over three seasons. Danny Phantom has received critical and audience acclaim, with praise primarily directed at its ensemble cast and comic book-influenced themes and storyline. Hartman himself has noted that the series is arguably his most popular and acclaimed work, despite its relatively short production life compared to The Fairly OddParents.Danny Phantom has spawned video games, home video releases, as well as toys and various other merchandise.
Danny Phantom centers on the life and adventures of 14-year-old Danny Fenton, a shy and quiet high school student living in the small town of Amity Park. He lives with his eccentric ghost-hunting parents, Maddie and Jack, and his overprotective but caring 16-year-old sister, Jazz. Upon pressure from one of his best friends, goth girl Samantha "Sam" Manson, Danny decides to explore the Ghost Portal that his parents had created in a failed attempt to bridge the real world and the Ghost Zone (the parallel universe in which ghosts reside). Once inside, he inadvertently presses the "On" button (which his parents failed to do), thus activating the Portal, infusing his DNA with ectoplasm, and transforming him into a half-ghost.