Rocket Power

Rocket Power

From left to right: Otto, Reggie, Sam, Twister
Created by
  • Arlene Klasky
  • Gábor Csupó
Developed by
  • Victor Wilson
  • Eryk Casemiro
  • Michael Bloom
  • Andy McElfresh
Directed by Darius DeShawn Price
Voices of
Theme music composer Mark Mothersbaugh
Opening theme "Rocket Power Theme" by Devo
Composer(s) David Eccles
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 71 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Gábor Csupó
  • Arlene Klasky
  • Eryk Casemiro (Season 4)
  • Co-Executive Producer:
  • Eryk Casemiro (Season 1–3)
Producer(s)
  • Susan Ward
  • Pernelle Hayes (Season 2–4)
  • Victor Wilson (Season 2–4)
  • John Crane (Season 4)
  • Maureen Iser (Season 4)
  • Erin Ehrlich (Season 4)
  • Supervising Producer:
  • Jim Duffy (Seasons 3–4)
Running time 24 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network Nickelodeon
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original release August 16, 1999 (1999-08-16) – July 30, 2004 (2004-07-30)

Rocket Power is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó, the creators of Rugrats. The series ran on Nickelodeon for four seasons from 1999 to 2004.[1] The show mainly revolves around four friends and their daily lives of playing extreme sports, surfing, and getting into various situations.

Premise

Rocket Power involves the daily situations of a group of friends — vain athlete Otto Rocket (Joseph Ashton), defensive and responsible Regina "Reggie" Rocket (Shayna Fox), nerdy goalie Sam "Squid" Dullard (Gary LeRoi Gray in seasons 1–2; Sean Marquette in Season 3), and slow-witted videographer daredevil Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez (Ulysses Cuadra in seasons 1–2; Gilbert Leal in season 3) — as they spend their free time playing extreme sports, such as surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and more. The series is set in the fictional town of Ocean Shores, California.

Otto and Reggie live with their strict-but-loved dad, Raymond "Raymundo" Rocket (John Kassir), who along with his business partner, retired surfer and self-styled philosopher Tito Makani (Ray Bumatai), runs a snack bar called Shore Shack, where the kids usually hang out. In most episodes, they get involved in competitions, but end up learning that their friendship is more important than winning.

Episodes

Season Episodes Season premiere Season finale
1 20 August 16, 1999 March 28, 2000
2 20 October 23, 2000 May 3, 2003
3 20 February 16, 2002 March 26, 2004
4 11 July 19, 2003 July 30, 2004

Home media

A VHS tape entitled Maxing Out was released containing five episodes ("Bruised Man's Curve", "Super McVarial 900", "Big Thursday", "The Big Air Dare", and "Otto's Big Break"). In 2004, Nickelodeon released four episodes of the series ("Island of the Menehune", "Tito's Lucky Shell", "Welcome to Ottoworld", "Follow the Leader") on the Island of the Menehune DVD.[2] Other episodes were featured on Nickelodeon compilation DVDs such as Nicktoons Christmas, Nicktoons Halloween, and Nickstravaganza 2.

In 2014, Nickelodeon released all four seasons of the series on DVD via Amazon MOD service.

Broadcast

Rocket Power premiered on Nickelodeon on August 16, 1999, and its final episode (a television movie called "The Big Day") aired on July 30, 2004. The series continued airing reruns on Nick until 2007.

As part of the Nick on CBS block, it aired on CBS from 2002 to 2005. Nicktoons aired the series from 2002 to 2010. Nick GAS also aired the series from 2003 to 2005. The series currently reruns on TeenNick's block The Splat (formerly The '90s Are All That) since 2014.

Other projects

Other projects related to Rocket Power and developed under the aegis of Klasky-Csupo and/or Nickelodeon have included Rocket Power: Beach Bandits, and Maximum Rocket Power Live: The Battle for Madtown Park, a live-action extreme-sports dramatic arena play that briefly toured the U.S. Midwest in spring 2002, before being canceled over low ticket sales (it had originally been scheduled to tour about 40 cities all over the U.S., all the way into the fall). Even with the moderate success of the show, there is no spin-off planned.

Soundtrack

  • Rocket Power
  • Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by various bands
Released February 6, 2002 (2002-02-06)
Recorded 1999-2002
Genre
Label

The soundtrack album to Rocket Power was released on February 6, 2002. It is officially the soundtrack to the television film Rocket Power: Race Across New Zealand.

Track listing

  1. "Rocket Power Theme Song" by Devo
  2. "Individuality" by Area-7
  3. "99 Red Balloons" by Goldfinger
  4. "Valentino" by Bowling for Soup
  5. "I'm Cool" by Reel Big Fish

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rodman, Sarah (3 October 2011). "Rocket' is a blast - Creators of 'Rugrats' give 'Power' and responsibility to older kids". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
  2. ↑ "Rocket Power: Island Of The Menehune". DVDEmpire. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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