The Kidriends (TV series)

The Kidriends (also known as The Kidriends: The Series for marketing purposes) is an American animated television series based on the franchise of the same name. The series focuses on elementary school students and their interaction with other classmates and their teachers. The series serves as a bridge between The Kidriends 2 (1996) and The Kidriends: Future of Growin’ In (2005).

The series was rerun on Cartoon Network from September 23, 2003, to January 1, 2011. In Canada, it originally premiered on YTV in 2002 and ran until 2007. As of 2017, reruns of the series started airing on the Starz channel, Starz Encore Family, and the series is also available to stream on Starz's streaming service. Since the series' cancellation, KidsClick aired reruns of the series until 2018.

Plot
The series revolves around a group of school kids who repeatedly save the world from Lord De and other villains.

Characters

 * Main article: List of The Kidriends characters


 * Pamela Segall Adlon as Joshua
 * Kath Soucie as Samuel / Cynthia
 * Mona Marshall as Sophie
 * Jeannie Elias as Nick
 * Tom Kenny as Andrew
 * Billy West as Darwin
 * Carlos Alazraqui as Kayson
 * Anndi McAfee as Averie Ji
 * Mala Miles as Paintboy / Lil Rio 2000
 * Tress MacNeille as Molly Peace / Maya
 * Tara Strong as Eleana / Lord Da
 * Cree Summer as Rita
 * June Foray as Ringer Bob
 * Lauren Tom as Huojin
 * Gary LeRoi Gray as Jaxon
 * Lisa Bonet as Dylan
 * E.G. Daily as Waylon / Victoria
 * Candi Milo as Grace
 * Christine Cavanaugh as Kaleb (season 1)
 * Nancy Cartwright as Kaleb (season 2-8)
 * Debi Derryberry as Milia
 * Janice Kawaye as Uzuki, Huojin's older sister
 * Grey DeLisle as Big Baby / Amber Turner
 * Maurice LaMarche as Principal Kicker
 * April Winchell as Principal Willa
 * Charlie Adler as Frank / Ko-Ko
 * Rob Paulsen as Mr. Pample / Robbie
 * Jane Seymour as Ms. Tripper
 * Jim Cummings as Lord De / Major
 * Quinton Flynn as Demony
 * Frank Welker as Mr. Chucklers / Willers
 * R. Lee Ermey as Sgt. Durk
 * Jennifer Hale as Teresa White / Hattie / Jessica
 * Melissa Joan Hart as Elise
 * Tim Curry as Niet
 * Danielle Judovits as Wella
 * Kari Wahlgren as Helen
 * Lara Jill Miller as Billa / Guerilla / Moe
 * Jodi Benson as Cheesa
 * Wendee Lee as Karen

Additional voices

 * Jason Marsden
 * Cam Clarke
 * Jessica DiCicco (seasons 6-8)
 * Charlie Schlatter
 * Maggie Roswell

Episodes

 * Main article: List of The Kidriends episodes

Production
In late 1996, the Bear Bones Lineup announced that they would collaborate with Columbia TriStar Television and Bear Bones Productions to create an animated series based on the The Kidriends films.

The series was produced in association with Wang Film Productions in Taiwan, Thai Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd in Thailand, and for the first season, Mr. Big Cartoons in Australia and Fil-Cartoons in the Philippines.

Reception
Coming soon!

Home media
From 2002 to 2004, Columbia-TriStar Home Entertainment released several VHS tapes of the series, each containing four episodes of the series.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released The Kidriends on DVD. They have released all 6 seasons in Region 1. In Region 2, seasons 1-6 have been released while in Region 4, the first 5 seasons have been released on DVD. However, the entire series can be ordered and seen via video-on-demand services such as Amazon and iTunes. As of September 2010, the entire series was made available on the Netflix streaming service.

The Complete Series DVD set was released on September 22, 2016 by Shout! Factory.

Trivia
Coming soon!