Sidekick | |
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Genre | Comedy Action/Adventure Fantasy |
Created by | Todd Kauffman Joey So |
Directed by | Joey So |
Voices of |
Miklos Perlus Christian Potenza Denise Oliver Stephanie Anne Mills Ron Pardo Tony Daniels |
Theme music composer | William Kevin Anderson |
Composer(s) |
Don Breithaupt Anthony Vanderburgh |
Country of origin | Canada |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 52 (104 segments) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Todd Kauffman Joey So Doug Murphy |
Producer(s) | Michael Décsi |
Running time | 22 minutes (2 11-minute segments) |
Production company(s) | Nelvana |
Release | |
Original network | YTV |
Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
Audio format | Dolby Digital |
Original release | September 3, 2010 | – September 14, 2013
External links | |
Website |
Sidekick is a Canadian animated television comedy series created by Todd Kauffman (former co-director of Total Drama, and later co-creator of Grojband and Looped) and Joey So. The series first aired in Canada on September 3, 2010 on YTV. In the United States, the series premiered on Cartoon Network alongside Almost Naked Animals on June 13, 2011 and also premiered in the UK and Ireland on CBBC on September 2014. The series is based on the original shorts originally titled The Not-So-Superheroic Adventures of Sidekick aired as part of the 2005 TV series, Funpak. The series ended on September 14, 2013.
The series is about an orphan boy named Eric, with his best friend Trevor and his two female friends, Vana and Kitty, who are training to become sidekicks at the Academy for Aspiring Sidekicks in the city of Splittsboro. While dealing with intense sidekick training, Eric must also contend with his strict guardian Maxum Brain, his grumpy teacher Professor Pamplemoose, the evil Master Xox and keeping secret the disappearance of his superhero mentor Maxum Man from the city.