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"Show Us Your Fangs" DVD cover
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Created by | Sonia Holleyman |
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Country of origin | Canada |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 65 |
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Running time | 20 minutes (Two 10 minute episodes per show) |
Production company(s) | Fancy Cape Productions Canal J/TiJi (season 3-4) Agogo Media (season 4) Alphanim Cinar Animation Services (season 3) |
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DHX Media Corus Entertainment |
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Original network | YTV |
Audio format | Dolby Surround |
Original release | September 13, 1999 – 2003 |
Mona the Vampire is a Canadian children's animated television series that was created by Sonia Holleyman. The series follows the adventures of Mona Parker, who refers to herself as "Mona the Vampire", as well as her two best friends, Lily Duncan ("Princess Giant") and Charley Bones ("Zapman"), and her pet cat, Fang, as they imagine themselves confronting a new supernatural foe, or solving a supernatural mystery, in every episode, but there are always rational explanations for what they see.
Mona the Vampire is based on a series of 1990s children's books of the same name that was written and illustrated by Sonia Holleyman and later also by Hiawyn Oram.
There are a total of 65 full episodes of Mona the Vampire. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long, not including the theme song and the credits theme, and each full episode contains two 10-minute episodes.
Four seasons of Mona the Vampire were produced. The first season contains 26 full episodes, while seasons 2, 3, and 4 each contains 13 full episodes.
The following is a list containing voice actors and the characters they voice. Throughout the series, there are a tremendous amount of minor and episodic characters, who solely appear in single episodes. Most of the voice actors of minor characters in the series are unknown.
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Mona the Vampire is based on a series of books of the same name that were each published in the early to mid 1990s and were written and illustrated by Sonia Holleyman, who was later partnered with Hiawyn Oram in the writing of that same book series. Holleyman's original idea of Mona, as represented in her first three Mona the Vampire books, led more towards a girl with a great imagination who, like many children, likes to experiment with multiple different obsessions. However, after Oram joined Holleyman in the writing of the next six Mona the Vampire books, they decided to modify Mona into a character who is solely obsessed with her vampire superhero persona. These ideas later developed into the modern television series.
Additionally, a series of eight picture books and three activity books based on the television series was published in the United Kingdom by Orchard Books in 2001. This picture book series depicts the characters and scenery in a similar manner to the television series. Each of the picture books are based on specific episodes of the first season of the show.