Teacher's Pet (TV series)

Teacher's Pet
Genre Children's television series
Comedy-adventure
Slapstick
Created by Gary Baseman
Bill Steinkellner
Cheri Stienkellener
Written by
Directed by
Voices of
Theme music composer Brian Woodbury & Peter Lurye
Opening theme Disney's Teacher's Pet Theme
Ending theme Disney's Teacher's Pet Instrumental Theme
Composer(s) Stephen James Taylor
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 39 (47 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Running time 11 minutes
(16 Segments/8 Episodes)
22 minutes (31 Episodes)
Production company(s) Walt Disney Television Animation
Distributor Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network ABC run:
September 9, 2000 – February 9, 2002[nb 2]
Toon Disney run:
January 11 - May 10th, 2002
Picture format 480i (4:3 SDTV) (2000-2002)[nb 3]
480i[nb 4] (16:9 SDTV) (2001-2002)[1]
Audio format Stereo
First shown in United States
Original release September 9, 2000 (2000-09-09) – May 10, 2002 (2002-05-10)

Teacher's Pet (also known as Disney's Teacher's Pet) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and directed by Timothy Björklund.

The series follows a 9-year-old boy and his dog who dresses up as a boy.[2] Created by Gary Baseman—the artistic designer for the Cranium board game—Bill Steinkellner, and Cheri Steinkellner, it was broadcast on Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC and later Toon Disney, from 2000 to 2002.

Premise

The series follows Leonard Helperman (voiced by future singer Shaun Fleming of the indie rock bands Diane Coffee and Foxygen), a 9-year-old boy in the 4th grade, who lives in fear because his mother, Mary Helperman, is his teacher. Because of this, he is often teased and called a "teacher's pet", but he wants to be considered normal. Meanwhile, his dog Spot (voiced by Nathan Lane) misses Leonard while he's at school, and yearns to be a human boy. So on the first day of the school year, he decides to come to class disguised as a new student named Scott Leadready II, who quickly becomes the coolest, dreamiest kid in school. However, Leonard eventually finds out his secret. Although he disapproves of this at first, he allows Spot to come to school.

Episodes

SeasonNetworkEpisodesFirst airdateLast airdate
1 ABC 13 September 9, 2000 January 13, 2001
2a ABC 8 September 22, 2001 February 9, 2002
2b Toon Disney 18 January 11, 2002 May 10, 2002

Programming

The show aired on ABC's "One Saturday Morning" on Saturday, September 9, 2000, and remained on ABC until September 7, 2002 due to a new Saturday morning block called "ABC Kids". In January 2002, the show began airing reruns on Toon Disney, and they used the channel to air the remaining Season Two episodes every Friday beginning January 11, 2002 (Although new episodes were aired on ABC until February 9).[3] As of 2006, it vanished from Toon Disney all together and hasn't been put into reruns in America since then.

There are rumors that if "Teacher's Pet" had stayed on ABC, there would have been a third & fourth season, leading up the 65 episode limit. Other rumors claim that Season 2 and Season 3 were merged into one season, hence why there is a Thanksgiving and Christmas episode in the second season despite it being aired in the spring time and why the second season has 26 (It would have split the 26 episodes in half, saving the other 13 episodes for the 2002-2003 season had ABC not created ABC Kids).

International broadcast

Country Network/Years Aired Language Foreign Title Ratio
United States United States ABC:
September 9, 2000 – September 7, 2002		 English None 4:3
Toon Disney:
January 7, 2002[3] – June 1, 2006
Disney XD ‡
Australia Australia Disney Channel Australia: 2001 – 2005[nb 5]
Seven Network [4]		 English
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Republic of Ireland Ireland		 Toon Disney (UK & Ireland) 2003-2006
Disney Cinemagic		 English N/A
Czech Republic Czech Republic TV Nova: 2005 Czech N/A 4:3
Netherlands Netherlands NET 5: April 11, 2005[5] - June 27, 2005[6]±
Jetix		 Dutch
 Mexico Disney Channel (Latin America) Spanish N/A
 Argentina
 Colombia
Russia Russia Channel One Russia:†
November 13, 2001[7] - August 27, 2002[8]		 Russian Любимчик
(Pet)		 4:3
Germany Germany Disney Channel (Germany): July 15, 2001[9]
- July 22, 2003[10] [nb 6] (Original Run)
July 23, 2003[11] - April 30, 2004[12] (Reruns)
Super RTL:
January 1[11] - February 24, 2004[12]
Toon Disney (Germany):
January 17, 2006[12] - February 28, 2007[13]		 German Klassenhund
(Class Dog)
Brazil Brazil SBT: 2000-2003
Disney Channel: 2001-2005		 Brazilian
Portuguese		 O Cãozinho Esperto
(The Smart Doggy)
Hungary Hungary RTL Klub: 2003 Hungarian Tanárok kedvence (Teacher's Favorite)
Sweden Sweden SVT: 2001; 2008-2009[14][15] Swedish En jycke i klassen
(A Pooch in Class)
Hong Kong Hong Kong Disney Channel Cantonese N/A N/A
New Zealand New Zealand TV2 English N/A
Greece Greece ET1: 2008[16]; 2011[17][18][19] Greek ΣΠΟΤ, ΤΟ ΟΝΕΙΡΟ ΕΝΟΣ ΣΚΥΛΟΥ
(Spot, The Dream Of A Dog)		 4:3
Poland Poland Disney Channel: March 25 - June 6, 2013[20]
2013 (Reruns)		 Polish Pupilek
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates MBC3: 2008[21]; 2011[22][23][24]; 2013[25][26][27] Arabic تيتشرز بيت
(Teachers House)
Philippines Philippines TV5:
≠ March 23[28] – May 1, 2015 (Original run)
May 13 - September 21, 2015 (Reruns)		 Tagalog None 16:9
Guatemala Guatemala Trecevisión: †
May 5[29] - July 16, 2014[30]
July 8[31] - August 31, 2016[32]
March 8[33] - April 21, 2017[34]
July 6[35] - August 16, 2017[36]		 Spanish La Mascota De La Clase
(The Mascot Of The Class)		 4:3
Malaysia Malaysia TV3: †≠
August 27, 2013[37] - October 28, 2013[38]
January 5[39] - July 13, 2017[40]		 English None 4:3
[nb 7]
  • ≠ Season Two was only aired
  • † The show also aired previous years, but may or may not have been documented.
  • ± Further evidence of the show airing cannot be found as of now
  • ‡ Unknown how long it aired if at all as there is no solid evidence that it ever actually aired on said channel.

Reception

TV.com gave the show a 7.9 out of 10 [41] and IMDB gave it a 6.5/10.[42]

Awards

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2001 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program Nathan Lane Won
British Academy Children's Awards Best International Children's Programming[43] Teacher's Pet Won
Annie Award Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Production[44] Teacher's Pet Nominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television Production[44] Gary Baseman Nominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Television Production[44] David Ogden Stiers Nominated
2002 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Teacher's Pet Won
Outstanding Individual in Animation Chuck Klein Won
2003 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Teacher's Pet Won
Outstanding Individual in Animation Gary Baseman Won

Film

On January 16, 2004, Walt Disney Pictures produced a full-length animated feature film based on the show in theaters, simply titled Teacher's Pet. Originally planned to be released in September 2003, it serves as the end of the series' continuity.

When Spot sees a mad scientist on TV who can turn animals into humans, he sees this as a chance to become an actual boy. However, when Spot becomes human, he soon realizes the experience isn't what he thought after all. Most of the actors from the series reprised their roles for the movie. The movie was a box office failure, only making over half of its budget back. Despite this, the critical reviews were mostly positive.

References

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  3. 1 2 "Disney's Teacher's Pet Heads to Toon Disney". Digitalmediafx.com. 2002-01-07. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
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  43. ↑ "BAFTA Awards | Children's | International in 2001". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  44. 1 2 3 "Annie Awards: 29th Annie Awards". Retrieved 2014-05-28.

Notes

  1. ↑ Voiced Spot/Scott in six episodes in Season Two
  2. ↑ The series stopped airing new episodes in early February, but reruns continued until September 7, 2002.
  3. ↑ Originally aired both seasons on 4:3 channels; It is unknown at the moment if the first season was produced in widescreen
  4. ↑ Currently unknown if the series was produced in full HD (1080i) as opposed to the basic 480i quality.
  5. ↑ In Australia, it aired on Disney Channel from 2001 to 2005 where it was pushed back to the mornings and late night spots on Disney Channel. The show's spot was then replaced in 2006 by 101 Dalmatians and finally Recess which currently is the only One Saturday Morning cartoon now airing on Disney Australia.
  6. ↑ The Christmas episode "The Blight Before Christmas" was skipped during Disney's airings of Season Two and it didn't air until February 19, 2004 on Super RTL for unknown reasons [10]. The episode eventually reran numerous times on Toon Disney.
  7. ↑ The network squishes the 16:9 widescreen episodes into the 4:3 ratio. In early June 2017, the show (along with Lilo and Stitch) briefly aired in the letterbox format before resetting back to the previous format for unknown reasons.
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