Spaced Out | |
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Also known as | Allô la Terre, ici les Martin |
Genre |
Comedy Science fiction Adventure |
Created by | Claude Lerist Léon Nöel |
Written by | John Handforth (adaptation) Steve Werner (lyrics) Aviva Wolman (lyrics) |
Directed by | Marc Perret Terrence Scammell (voice) Elisabeth Morcellett (first assistant) |
Starring |
Mark Camacho Ellen David Eleanor Noble Rick Jones Bruce Dinsmore Ricky Mabe Sonja Ball Daniel Brochu Susan Glover Terrence Scammell |
Theme music composer | Steve Wener |
Opening theme | "Spaced Out", performed by Fillmore King and Maude Buisson |
Ending theme | "Spaced Out" (Instrumental) |
Composer(s) | Steve Wener |
Country of origin | France Canada |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Finn Arnesen & Daniel Lennard (for Cartoon Network Europe) Françoise Reymond (for Canal+) Eve Baron (for France 3) |
Producer(s) | Christian Davin Clément Calvet Paul Cadieux (co-producer) |
Running time | 22–25 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Alphanim Tooncan France 3 Canal+ Cartoon Network Europe Vrak.TV La Sofica Gimages 2 |
Release | |
Original network |
Cartoon Network (Europe) Vrak.TV (Canada) Nickelodeon (Germany) |
Original release | December 20, 2001 – 2005 |
Spaced Out (known in French as Allô la Terre, ici les Martin) is an animated series, co-produced by Alphanim, Tooncan and Cartoon Network Europe, in association with several other companies and television networks. Spaced Out is a series with elements similar to that of The Jetsons, which also features a four-member family (at one time Cartoon Network Europe produced a promo for the series with the opening music from The Jetsons synchronized with moments from Spaced Out). The series had 1 season with 26 episodes. It never aired in the United States.
George Martin lives in a regular neighbourhood with his family and applies for a job in the apparently monopolistic company, Krach Industries. Although they do not intend to hire him, his application is accidentally blown by the wind to the heap of selected candidates. This leads to George being hired as director of a secret orbital station (Operation SOS) housing sub-development, where he and his family have to live as an experiment started by Krach. When the Martins arrive at the station, they meet other people who have also been sent by Krach to live there. To their surprise, their neighbour and teacher who taught the Martins' kids on Earth is also on the station with her son. Later, they save a Russian cosmonaut who decides to live with them. And so, they continue living on the space station, occasionally having personal disputes, meeting aliens and being monopolised by Krach.
Note: This list includes the original airdates of the Pan-European Cartoon Network. Spaced Out premiered on January 7, 2002 on Cartoon Network (UK & Ireland) and on July 2, 2002 on Canal+ in France.