Pole Position (TV series)
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| Genre | Animated television series |
| Created by | Jean Chalopin |
| Voices of |
David Coburn Lisa Lindgren Melvin Franklin Darryl Hickman |
| Country of origin |
France United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Jean Chalopin Andy Heyward |
| Producer(s) |
DIC Entertainment Namco (characters) |
| Running time | 25 mins |
| Distributor |
LBS Communications (1980's) DHX Media (Current) |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 15 – December 8, 1984 |
Pole Position is an animated cartoon series produced by DIC Entertainment.
The name Pole Position was used under license from Namco, who held the rights to the name due to the video game Pole Position. The show sought to capitalize on the popularity of the video game. However, there is very little in common between the game and the show other than the car designated "Wheels" being colored red as in Pole Position and the car designated "Roadie" being colored blue as in Pole Position II.
Pole Position ran for 13 episodes on CBS in 1984 as part of its Saturday morning children's programming line-up. The show later returned in reruns for a few months in 1986, followed by a run on The Family Channel (now ABC Family) in the late 1980s through the early 1990s. It was shown in the United Kingdom during the 1980s in the CBBC strand and repeated in the early 1990s on Saturday mornings as part of Going Live on BBC1.
The show features the Darretts, a family of stunt-driving crime fighters, who investigated and thwarted wrongdoing while operating under the front of a traveling show known as "Pole Position Stunt Show", which was sponsored by the United States government in order to give cover for their investigative activity and provide maintenance for the high-demand vehicles. The Darretts had two adult children and a third child who was much younger in age. A road accident ended the life of the parents, and the father's younger brother, known as Uncle Zack, took charge of the stunt show. He said that now that the patriarch and his wife were dead, it was incumbent upon the two adult children, Tess and Dan, to continue their parents' dangerous and proud work.
The vehicles feature numerous hidden gadgets like water skis and hover jets. The vehicles' computers themselves are portable and can be removed from the dashboards and carried around using handles—thus they are often referred to as "the modules". The modules are characters appearing as talking computer-drawn faces displayed on video screens.
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