Model "T" For Ted
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios, Orion Television Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment
- Animation studio
- Wang Films Productions Company, Cuckoos Nest Studios
Characters
Bill S. Prestone, Ted Logan, Mary Jane, Rufus, Detective Logan, Vice Principal Ryan, Missy-Mom, Deacon
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Paul Sommer, Don Lusk, Robert Alvarez, Carl Urbano
- Supervising Director
- Ray Patterson
Producing
- Producer
- Bruce Morris
- Executive Producers
- David Kirschner, Paul Sabella
Writing
- Story Editor
- Gordon Kent
Voices
- Voice
- Keanu Reeves (Ted), Alex Winter (Bill), George Carlin (Rufus), Bernie Casey (Mr. Ryan), Rueben Kincade (Mr. Preston), Danny Cooksey (Deacon), Tara Charendoff (Mary Jane), Joe Alasky, Ken Berry, Roscoe Lee Browne, Hamilton Camp, Brian Cummings, Keene Curtis, Bernard Erhard, Pat Fraley, Dick Gautier, Joanie Gerber, Ernest Harada, Philip Hartman, Arte Johnson, Vicki Juditz, Zale Kessler, Maurice Lamarcife, Lu Leonard, Page Leong, Little Richard, Dave Madden, Kenneth Mars, Rob Paulsen, Henry Polic II, Peter Renaday, Clive Revill, Bob Ridgely, Kimmy Robertson, William Schallert, Kath Soucie, Jeffrey Tambor, Susan Tolsky, B.H. Ward, Jonathan Winters, Anderson Wong
Music
- Music
- Chuck Loeb, Chuck Loeb
- Theme Song
- Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn
Animation
- Animation Directors
- Joanna Romersa, Sam Nicholson, Bill Hutten, Tony Love, Allen Wilzbach, Ed Love, Joan Drake, Robert Alvarez, Ken Southworth, Costi Mustatea
- Animation Supervisors
- David Michener, Craig Zukowski
- Animator
- Edwardo Olivares, Jang Woo Lee, Frank Gabriel, Bob Bemiller, Jason So, Bill Pratt, Ken Southworth, Robert Sledge, Bill Reed, Derek Eversfield, Bob Tyler, Moon Choi, Bill Nunes, Mark Christiansen, Kunio Shimamura, Ernesto Lopez, Lefty Callahan, Mike Bennett, Barry Anderson, Brenda Banks, John Walker, Frank Andrina
- Key Layout Artists
- Drew Gentle, Lorraine Marue, Joe Binggeli, John Guerin, David Cutler, Kim Hickey, William Dely, Bill Proctor, Andy Phillipson
- Xerography
- Star Wirth
- Animation Checking Supervisors
- Jan Adams, Gina Bradley
- Animation Checkers
- Jan Browning, Beth Goodwin, Bob Revell, Howard Schwartz
- Main Title Animation Director
- Cynthia Prince
Art Department
- Storyboard Artists
- Tony Benedict, Michael Bennett, Dale Barnhardt, Dan Haskett, Doug Lefler, Jeffrey Lynch, Lew Saw, Jim Willoughby
- Character Design
- Tony Sgroi, Chris Buck, Bob Onorato, Bwana Takamoto, Darrell Van Citters
- Background Artists
- Andy Phillipson, Jim Hickey, Patti Palmer, Joe Binggeli, Don Watson, Craig Robertson, Ruben Chavez, Jerry Loveland, Fereshteh Faghihi
- Creative Design
- Tony Sgroi
- Background Supervisor
- Al Gmuer
- Color Stylist
- Alison Leopold
- Color Key
- Kathleen Hardin
- Graphics
- Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
- Graphics Assistant
- Parviz Parandoush
Camera
- Camera Supervisor
- Dan Bunn
- Pencil Test Cameramen
- Neik Viker, Jim Keefer, Steve Mills, Bob Jacobs
Editing
- Editor
- Pat Foley, Gil Iverson, Tim Iverson, Pat Foley, Gil Iverson, Tim Iverson
- Contributing Editors
- John Loy, John Ludin
- Supervising Film Editors
- Terry W. Moore, Larry C. Cowan, Terry W. Moore, Larry C. Cowan
Sound
- Sound Editors
- Michael Mancini, Scott Jennings
- Sound Direction
- Alvy Dorman, Stan Wetzel
- Track Readers
- Kerry Iverson, Denise Whitfield, Jim Hearn, Carol Iverson, Kay Douglas
Music Department
- Music Editor
- Tom Gleason
- Director of Music Production
- Bodie Chandler
Casting
- Animation Casting Director
- Kris Zimmerman
- Recording Director
- Gordon Hunt
Production Management
- Production Supervisor
- Bob Marples
- Production Coordinator
- Vicki Casper
- Talent Coordinator
- Jamie Thomason
- Production Assistants
- Heidi Galperin, Kristin Lindquist, Sandy Benenati, Dan Conte, Shannon Fallis-Kane, Erika Grossbart, Nancy Grimaldi, Debby Lathrop, Joe Moriconi, Ann Powell
- Executive in Charge of Production
- Jayne Barbera
Crew
- Design Supervisor
- Scott Jeralds
- Unit Head
- Lance Falk
- Production Publicist
- Sarah Baisley
- Negative Consultant
- William DeBoer, Jr.
- Main Title Producer
- Infinity Filmworks
- Program Administrator
- Barbara Simon Dierks
Companies and other credits
- Music: Score Productions
- Music: Inc
- Main Title Computer Graphics: San Francisco Production Group
- Produced in Association with: Wang Films Productions Company
- Produced in Association with: Cuckoos Nest Studios
- Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Inc
- In Association with Orion Television Entertainment and Nelson Entertainment
- © 1990 Orion Television Entertainment and Nelson Films Inc
- All Rights Reserved
Production notes
Based on the Movie Screen version with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. William "Bill" S. Preston, Esquire and "Ted" Theodore Logan live in the unprecedented town of San Dimas California, They travel back and forth through time in their most excellent time machine phone booth! They meet up with the outstanding historical people including The Short Dead Dude (Napoleon), The Frood Dude (Freud), The Pool Game (Marco Polo), The Salad Dressing Dude (Caesar) and many more. They also play in their triumphant band called the Wyld Stallyns.
So some executive is sitting over at Hanna-Barbera playing air guitar to a Van Halen record, when suddenly, it hits him: "Dude! We could seriously make a most bodacious cartoon of those Bill and Ted dudes!" Then he and another executive look at each other and simultaneously say, "Excellent!" then burst into manic air guitar solos.
Okay, it may not have happened exactly like that, but a Bill & Ted cartoon certainly seemed like a sure thing. The main characters were already teenagers, and there was no need to put them in a more fantastic setting (a la Gilligan's Planet or Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.), since their time-traveling phone booth could carry to any place and time they chose.
In fact, little changed from the film version to the animated one. Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprised their roles as Bill and Ted, and George Carlin returned as Rufus, their mentor from the future. Bill and Ted were still struggling high school students in San Dimas, California, and Rufus still gave them clues as to where in history they could find the answers they needed.
The show continued the interaction with historical figures-Julius "The Salad Dressing Dude" Caesar, Wolfgang Amadeus "Wolfman" Mozart, and many others-taking the teens to several historical spots in each half-hour episode. A new plot twist was the boys' helping keep history in its place (building the Sphinx, inspiring Henry Ford to build the first car, etc.) The show also carried on the film's cheeky attitude toward history, with episode titles like, "This Babe Ruth ?Babe' is a Dude, Dude!"
For the second season, DIC took over production and the show moved to Fox. Reeves, Winter, and Carlin left the show and were replaced by the stars of Fox's new live-action primetime Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The new episodes introduced a "Squint" phone booth that could take Bill and Ted into literature, television shows, and (after shrinking them) inside the human body. The new show had trouble catching on, and after one more season, Bill and Ted were history.
So some executive is sitting over at Hanna-Barbera playing air guitar to a Van Halen record, when suddenly, it hits him: "Dude! We could seriously make a most bodacious cartoon of those Bill and Ted dudes!" Then he and another executive look at each other and simultaneously say, "Excellent!" then burst into manic air guitar solos.
Okay, it may not have happened exactly like that, but a Bill & Ted cartoon certainly seemed like a sure thing. The main characters were already teenagers, and there was no need to put them in a more fantastic setting (a la Gilligan's Planet or Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.), since their time-traveling phone booth could carry to any place and time they chose.
In fact, little changed from the film version to the animated one. Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprised their roles as Bill and Ted, and George Carlin returned as Rufus, their mentor from the future. Bill and Ted were still struggling high school students in San Dimas, California, and Rufus still gave them clues as to where in history they could find the answers they needed.
The show continued the interaction with historical figures-Julius "The Salad Dressing Dude" Caesar, Wolfgang Amadeus "Wolfman" Mozart, and many others-taking the teens to several historical spots in each half-hour episode. A new plot twist was the boys' helping keep history in its place (building the Sphinx, inspiring Henry Ford to build the first car, etc.) The show also carried on the film's cheeky attitude toward history, with episode titles like, "This Babe Ruth ?Babe' is a Dude, Dude!"
For the second season, DIC took over production and the show moved to Fox. Reeves, Winter, and Carlin left the show and were replaced by the stars of Fox's new live-action primetime Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The new episodes introduced a "Squint" phone booth that could take Bill and Ted into literature, television shows, and (after shrinking them) inside the human body. The new show had trouble catching on, and after one more season, Bill and Ted were history.