Edgar & Ellen
| Author | Charles Ogden |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | adventure fiction |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
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Publication date
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2003–present |
| Edgar & Ellen (Television series) | |
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| Created by |
Charles Ogden Rick Carton |
| Written by | Adam Beechen Scott Gray Steven Kriozere Guy Toubes |
| Directed by | Keith Ingham |
| Starring |
Kathleen Barr Jillian Michaels Ashleigh Ball Richard Newman Michael Donovan Ian James Corlett Adam Behr Jan Rabson Michael Dobson |
| Composer(s) | Hal Beckett |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Delna Bhesania Barbara Ferro Trish Lindsay |
| Producer(s) | Brian Behling |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Studio B Productions Bardel Entertainment Star Farm Productions Nicktoons Original Series |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Nicktoons Network Nickelodeon (United States) YTV (Canada) Nickelodeon (Turkey) Kidz TV (Turkey) |
| Original release | October 7, 2007 – October 30, 2008 |
Edgar & Ellen, created by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, is based on twelve-year-old twins who cause mischief and mayhem in their sickly sweet town, Nod's Limbs. The series currently contains nine books in addition to some side material. The Twin's name's are derived from American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Rare Beasts is the first, followed by Tourist Trap, Under Town, Pet's Revenge, High Wire and Nod's Limbs, with a sequel series premiering just a year later, currently consisting of Hot Air, Frost Bites and Split Ends. The Mischief Manual, a book written in the voice of the twins themselves, hit the shelves in June 2007. A weekly TV series premiered October 7, 2007 on Nicktoons.
Edgar and Ellen live in a 13-story mansion on the edge of Nod's Limbs. Ellen is supposedly the older of the twins by 2 minutes and 13 seconds. They live with a hairy creature who they refer to as Pet — a hairball with an eyeball. Their groundskeeper and caretaker, Heimertz, lives in a small shack just outside the house. Their mansion is located near a now disassembled junkyard, which the twins had lovingly dubbed their "Gadget Graveyard". They take parts from it and create marvelous contraptions for trouble.
Both of the twins wear striped footie pajamas and prank each other all day long—when they're not pranking the goody-goody townspeople of Nod's Limbs. They are clever, fearless, mischievous and creative. So creative, in fact, that their pranks often backfire hilariously.
Books are published by Simon & Schuster in the United States, Canada, and the UK. Internationally books are published by Hachette Children's Book Australia, Pocket Jeunesse (France), Grupo SM in Spain and Editora Rocco in Brazil, among others.
Nod's Limbs is the town where Edgar and Ellen live. It's so sickeningly sweet that it makes your teeth hurt. There is no originality to the people that live there- which is why Edgar and Ellen are such a foil for them. The twins attempt to liven up the place as it's a place so clean and shiny that one just wants to throw mud at it just to mix things up a bit. Living in it is, in the twins' own words, "like living inside a sugar cube".
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