Dragon Tales
| Dragon Tales | |
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| Created by |
Ron Rodecker Jim Coane |
| Developed by |
Jim Coane Wesley Eure Jeffrey Scott Cliff Ruby Elana Lesser |
| Directed by | Tim Eldred Curt Walstead Phil Weinstein Michael Hack Gloria Jenkins |
| Voices of |
Andrea Libman Danny McKinnon Aida Ortega (Season 3) Ty Olsson Chantal Strand Jason Michas Kathleen Barr Eli Gabay Scott McNeil Garry Chalk |
| Theme music composer | Mary Wood, Jesse Harris, and Joey Levine |
| Composer(s) |
Joey Levine & Co. Jim Latham Brian Garland |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 93 157 (segments)(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Jim Coane (1999–2001) Nina Elias-Bamberger (1999–2003) Jeff Kline (2001–05) |
| Producer(s) | Richard Raynis (1999–2001) Jeff Kline (1999–2001) Ron Rodecker Cliff Ruby (1999–2001) Elana Lesser (1999–2001) |
| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Children's Television Workshop (1999–2000) (season 1) Sesame Workshop (2001–05) (seasons 2-3) Columbia TriStar Television (1999–2002) (seasons 1-2) Sony Pictures Television (2003–05) (season 3) Adelaide Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS Kids |
| Original release | September 6, 1999 – April 11, 2005 |
Dragon Tales is an American animated pre-school fantasy adventure children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker and developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser. The story focuses on the adventures of two siblings, Max and Emmy, and their dragon friends Ord, Cassie, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal. The series began broadcasting on the PBS on their PBS Kids block on September 6, 1999, with its final episode aired on November 25, 2005; re-runs ceased on August 31, 2010. On September 1, 2010, Dragon Tales was removed from PBS Kids Sprout and all PBS stations and its programming and website have been removed. However, episodes of the show are still sold on DVD. The program's full library of episodes was made available to subscribers of the streaming service Netflix. Though never released in a full season or series format on DVD, numerous individual releases were made available from all seasons on both DVD and VHS formats, a total of at least 17 DVD releases, each typically featuring at least 5 stories from the show, including "Adventures in Dragon Land," "Playing Fair Makes Playing Fun" and the animated / live-action special "Let's Start a Band."
Kellogg's cereal company and their associated products Rice Krispies, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes and card maker, American Greetings were major sponsors throughout the program's run.
Dragon Tales is based on the characters created in 1978 by Laguna Beach, California artist and retired educator Ron Rodecker, who was recovering from a coronary artery bypass graft when he began sketching dragons as a means of symbolizing forces in life that were too big to control. In 1997, Jim Coane, then a producer at Columbia TriStar Television, found the artwork and developed it into a television series with several writers. Coane then brought the project to the Children's Television Workshop, where Marjorie Kalins helped him and Columbia TriStar Television obtain a grant from the Department of Education and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The grant proposal was written by Wesley Eure. As Columbia TriStar was the TV division of two major Hollywood film studios, which in turn were owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, this made Dragon Tales the one of the few PBS Kids programs to be co-produced by a major Hollywood studio's TV subsidiary. The other PBS shows made by a major Hollywood studio were Bill Nye the Science Guy (made by Walt Disney Television) and Curious George (produced by Universal Television) In 2002, C-T was renamed to Sony Pictures Television, a company that would co-produce the third season of the program. Coane was the executive producer for the first two seasons.
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