The Land Before Time (TV series)

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The Land Before Time
Format Animated Action/Adventure
Created by Charles Grosvenor
Judy Freudberg
Tony Geiss
Developed by Universal Animation Studios
Amblin Entertainment
Voices of Cody Arens
Anndi McAfee
Aria Curzon
Jeff Bennett
Rob Paulsen
Max Burkholder
Meghan Strange
Pete Sepenuk
Jessica Gee
Kenneth Mars
Tress MacNeille
John Ingle
Dorian Harewood
Miriam Flynn
Theme music composer Cory Lerios
Country of origin Canada
No. of episodes 26 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel YTV
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
720p (HDTV)
Original airing January 5, 2007
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary
Common rating
Australia G
Canada G
Japan U
New Zealand G
United States TV-G

The Land Before Time is an animated television series, based on characters from The Land Before Time film series created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss. It is currently in production at Universal Animation Studios and Amblin Entertainment (Amblin produced the first film), and premiered on YTV in Canada on January 5, 2007. The show premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on March 5, 2007 (although the first episode debuted on the 4th) after the DVD release of The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers. It aired on Boomerang in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2007. The first season has begun airing on Cartoon Network India, with its premiere on April 07, 2008.

It is made as traditionally-animated with computer-animated backgrounds, which the past sequels from The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration onwards have used. The main antagonists in the series are Red Claw, a Tyrannosaurus, and Screech and Thud, two Velociraptors. The TV series takes place after the events of The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends.

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[edit] Production

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It is currently unknown whether or not the show will be renewed for a second season.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of The Land Before Time episodes

[edit] Voice cast

[edit] Main English voice cast

Former CSI: Miami actor Max Burkholder, the current voice of Chomper, also voices Roo on My Friends Tigger & Pooh.

Anthony Skillman provided Littlefoot's singing voice because Cody Arens is not good at singing.

[edit] Guest voice cast

Some people once thought that Back to the Future actor Thomas F. Wilson, currently heard on SpongeBob SquarePants, voiced Kosh in The Star Day Celebration, but then realized that Pete Sepenuk actually voiced him in The Star Day Celebration (due to the fact that "Kosh" is Mr. Clubtail's first name). However, Jeff Bennett, who voiced Kosh in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, reprised his voice in The Amazing Threehorn Girl.

Cam Clarke, the voice of Bron, was the singing voice of Simba in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.

Elizabeth Daily (a.k.a. E.G. Daily), the voices of Rhett and Shorty, was also the voices of Tommy Pickles on Rugrats and All Grown Up!, Buttercup on The PowerPuff Girls, Babe the Gallant Pig in Babe: Pig in the City, also released by Universal, Baby Mumble in Happy Feet, Froggy in The Little Rascals, also produced by Universal and Amblin, and Lorenzo Odone in some shots of Lorenzo's Oil, also released by Universal.

In The Amazing Threehorn Girl, Kosh is credited as a nameless Ankylosaurus.

Kevin Michael Richardson, who voiced Scuttle, is famous for voicing Gantu in the Lilo & Stitch series.

[edit] Japanese Voice Cast

[edit] Trivia

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  • The songs are written by Michele Brourman (music) and Ford Riley (lyrics).
  • All of the songs sung in the TV series (with the exception of Adventuring, Friends for Dinner, Big Water, and The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur) are unnamed, and the names above are approximations.
  • All of the songs are generally very short, and only span roughly 1 minute.
  • Every episode of the TV series has exactly two songs in it.
  • Many of the song's melodies are reused in other episodes with different singers/lyrics.
  • The songs Talking Big (with a different absolute pitch), Fix Your Tooth, Do Anything, My Reality, Sniff Him Out, and Find Those Stones are all melodically the same with different lyrics, as are Remembering, Everything Will Be Okay, What To Do, Be Quiet Now, and Follow Me (with a different absolute pitch). Also, I Feel Mad, We Need a Plan, Must Believe, Made a Mistake, Hide My Stones, Me Need New Home (with a different absolute pitch), We Must Be Brave, and Is It True She Lied are all melodically the same with different lyrics. My Way is melodically the same as Oops-Eeps. It's Good to Be Home is melodically the same as Feel So Happy. Good Times, Good Friends shares its melody with Please Be Careful.
  • The only film songs played in the TV series that never share their melodies are Adventuring from The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration and Friends for Dinner from The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. Adventuring is also the only repeating song played in the TV series that never shares its melody.
  • The song Adventuring is taken from the film The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration. Friends for Dinner and Big Water are also taken from the film The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur is also taken from the film The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock.
  • The songs Hidden Runner, Big Longneck Test, and Don't Be Scared are melodically the same as Big Water from the film The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island. Similarly, Above the Mysterious Above and The Amazing Threehorn Girl (with a different absolute pitch) are melodically the same as Beyond the Mysterious Beyond from the film The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire. The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur from the film The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock shares its original melody with Up in the Sky.
  • In the episode Days of Rising Waters, the song Feel So Happy is played with a different absolute pitch than other versions of the song.
  • In the episode The Missing Fast-Water Adventure, the song Remembering is played with a different absolute pitch than other versions of the song.
  • In the episode Return to Hanging Rock, the song Feel So Happy is interrupted when Red Claw finds the Gang and Ruby's Family.
  • When Search for the Sky Color Stones first aired on Cartoon Network, the end credits for Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars were shown as an error. However, when Search for the Sky Color Stones re-aired on Cartoon Network on February 8, 2008, the end credits for the TV series were correctly shown.
  • Cera, Ruby, Spike and Ducky are occasionally computer-generated in Search of the Sky Color Stones. Also, Chomper was seen eating honey.
  • When The Amazing Threehorn Girl shares the melody with Beyond the Mysterious Beyond from the film The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire in NTSC format, its pitch sounds the same as the PAL version of Beyond the Mysterious Beyond from the film The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire.

[edit] Theme Song

The theme song is performed by the South African choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The Theme is written by Steve D'Angelo, Roc Gagliese and Terry Tompkins of The Eggplant.

[edit] External links

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