The Big Boy
- Studio
- Adelaide Productions, Columbia Tri-Star Television Animation, Dark Horse Entertainment
- Distributor
- Columbia TriStar Domestic Television
Synopsis
Rusty puts his head on the powerful robot body of Quark's T-7000 prototype. The result is Russ, a teenage version of Rusty. But Russ gets in over his head!
Characters
Rusty, Jo, The Big Guy, Dr. Erika Slate, Dwayne Hunter, Dr. Axel Donovan, Jenny the Monkey, Garth, Mack, General Thorton
Credits
Producing
- Producer
- Frank Squillace
- Co-Executive Producer
- Jeff Kline
- Associate Producer
- Helen Kalafatic
Voices
- Voice
- Pamela Segall (Rusty, Jo), Jonathan Cook (The Big Guy), Gabrielle Carteris (Dr. Slate), Jim Hanks (Dwayne Hunter), Stephen Root (Dr. Donovan), Kathy Kinney (Jenny), Kevin Michael Richardson (Garth), M. Emmett Walsh (Mack), R. Lee Ermey (General Thorton), Tim Curry (Dr. Neugog), Kevin Schon, Jennifer Hale, Dee Bradley Baker, Nancy Cartwright, Maurice LaMarche, Victor Brandt, Sherman HowardBrian Doyle-Murray
Music
- Music
- Inon Zur
Art Department
- Production Design
- Frederick J. Gardner
Crew
- Series Developer
- Jeff Kline
Companies and other credits
- Creator: Frank Miller
Production notes
Big Guy was the world's first artificially intelligent robot, created by the government to fight on behalf of the planet, or so we thought... Big Guy is, in fact, just a suit with a man inside it pretending to be Big Guy's mechanic. However, the world's population was not to know Big Guy wasn't a robot because the government couldn't tell society that the technology wasn't yet ready.
Years later, however, Big Guy finds that he has been put into retirement and replaced by a new, young robot called Rusty, who genuinely has Artificial Intelligence, along with the mind and personality of a 10-year-old boy. However, he soon comes unstuck when he's given the task of saving the world from alien invaders and mad robot cults. This proves too difficult for him, and it's now up to Big Guy, who is called out of retirement, to save the day. But now he must show the young robot the ropes.
Years later, however, Big Guy finds that he has been put into retirement and replaced by a new, young robot called Rusty, who genuinely has Artificial Intelligence, along with the mind and personality of a 10-year-old boy. However, he soon comes unstuck when he's given the task of saving the world from alien invaders and mad robot cults. This proves too difficult for him, and it's now up to Big Guy, who is called out of retirement, to save the day. But now he must show the young robot the ropes.