Crashbox

Crashbox
Directed by	Dave Thomas
Composer(s)	Matthew Morse
Country of origin	Canada United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	39
Production
Executive producer(s)	Adam Shaheen Eamon Harrington John Watkin
Camera setup	Single Camera
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	Planet Grande Pictures Cuppa Coffee Animation HBO
Release
Original network	HBO Family
Picture format	480i (4:3 SDTV)
Original release	January 25, 1999 – March 27, 2000

Crashbox is a Canadian-American educational children's television show that airs on the HBO Family digital cable television channel in the United States and Asia and ran from 1999 to 2000. It aims to educate grade-school children in history, math, vocabulary, and other various subjects.

The show takes place in the insides of a game computer where green game cartridges (which are sculpted out of clay) are created and loaded by rusty robots. Each half-hour episode consists of at least seven 2-to-5-minute educational games. Near the end, the robots will do "Crashbox Rewind" where they review most of the games to the viewers.

Crashbox was one of the cornerstone programs for the relaunch of the HBO Family channel in January 1999.^[1][2] The series has never been released on DVD or VHS, but remains on HBO Family to this day.

Creation team

Crashbox was created by Planet Grande Pictures, ( Eamon Harrington and John Watkin) and is animated by Cuppa Coffee Studios, headed by Adam Shaheen. Planet Grande Pictures engaged award-winning Cuppa Coffee Studios 7 months to complete 13 hours of programming.^[3]

Voice cast

• Carlos Alazraqui - Assorted Haunted House Party Guests
• Maggie Baird - Detective Verity
• Dee Bradley Baker - Assorted Haunted House Party Guests, Noseless Calhoun
• Veena Bidasha - Riddlesnake Raj, Ivana Flipova, Cleopatra
• S. Scott Bullock - Captain Bones, Lens McCracken
• Greg Eagles - Captain Bob, Sketch Pad, various Mug Shots suspects
• Joseph Motiki/Arif S. Kinchen - Professor Rocket
• Peter Lurie - Jumpin' Johnny Jumble/Green Robot
• Dawn Maxey - Valley Girl Voice in Paige and Sage
• Edie McClurg - Female Polite Voice in Revolting Slob
• Mike McShane - The Revolting Slob
• Ritchie Montgomery - Eddie Bull, Checkers LaRue
• Alan Schlaifer - Ten Seconds Announcer, Butler in Haunted House Party, Left Ear
• Jerry Stiller - Host
• John Watkin - Horrid One, Right Ear, Word Shake Chef, Dr. Cleanpick
• Mari Weiss - Dora Smarmy
• Danny Wells - Poop or Scoop Announcer

Season 1

Season 2

External links

• Crashbox at TV.com
• Crashbox and Cuppa Coffee article in TAKE ONE
• Crashbox on IMDb

References