Space Racers
| Space Racers | |
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| Also known as | The Space Racers |
| Genre | Animated, children's |
| Created by | Richard Schweiger and Julian Cohen |
| Developed by | Allan Neuwirth and Mark Risley |
| Written by | Allan Neuwirth, David H. Steinberg, Kate Boutilier, David Steven Cohen, Gabe Pulliam, Louise Gikow, Sam Dransfield, Davey Moore, Donna Logan, Phil Lollar, George Arthur Bloom, Angelo DeCesare, Ann Aptaker, Jim Kierstead, Richard Fegen, Andy Yerkes, P. Kevin Strader, Michael Daedalus Kenny, Chad Burke, Julian Cohen |
| Directed by | Mark Risley |
| Theme music composer | Jody Gray |
| Opening theme | Jody Gray, Allan Neuwirth, David Cohen |
| Country of origin | New Zealand United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 45 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Michael Matays, Charles Matays, Matthias Schmitt |
| Producer(s) | Space Race LLC, Mark Risley, Allan Neuwirth |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Distributor | Cake Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network |
PBS, Season One Sprout, Season Two |
| Original release | February 15, 2014 (broadcast debut) May 2, 2014 (US debut) – December 9 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Space Racers is an American CGI animated television series featuring the cadets of the Stardust Space Academy. The series premiered in 2014 on Maryland Public Television and was distributed through American Public Television (APT). The show was renewed for a Season Two, currently Broadcasting on NBCUniversal's Sprout (TV network). The show follows the Space Racers Cadets as they travel our Solar system on fun and exciting missions of space exploration. The show includes science and technology components as part of an early childhood STEM curriculum, receives input from NASA on science and space technology, and also maintains partnerships with the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and its Space Camp.
Space Racers is an educational animated television series aimed at children 3–6 years old. The main characters—Eagle, Hawk, Robyn, Starling and Raven—are cadets at the Stardust Space Academy, and each episode they discover a series of space-based scientific discoveries. The cadets spend each episode traveling through outer space.
The series concept was developed by Richard Schweiger, who wanted to create a show based around animated vehicles that traveled through space. Schweiger and Julian Cohen developed the idea into a feature-film script in 2009, which won a screenwriting award. In 2010 he formed the company that would produce Space Racers, and instead of pursuing a film, they decided to turn the concept into a television series. The idea developed into fifty individual 11 minute episodes for broadcast. The series is distributed by Maryland Public Television and American Public Television. Cake Television is the distributor for the show internationally.
Season one of Space Racers consisted of 26 half-hour episodes, first airing in 2014. The show's head writer was Allan Neuwirth, its director was Mark Risley, and its executive producers were Brenda Wooding as well as show creator Richard Schweiger. Episodes would contain two eleven-minute animated segments, offset by live-action sections between them. The US premiere of the show was on May 2, 2014. The show was also in international syndication, including broadcastings on France 5 and the show's world broadcast debut on February 15, 2014 in New Zealand.
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