Hey Arnold!
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| Hey Arnold! | |
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 The most relevant characters of the show. From left to right: Helga, Arnold and Gerald |
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| Format | Animation |
| Created by | Craig Bartlett |
| Starring | Toran Caudell Phillip Van Dyke Spencer Klein Jamil W. Smith Francesca Marie Smith Justin Shenkarow Christopher P. Walberg Christopher Castile Ben Diskin Sam Gifaldi Anndi McAfee Olivia Hack Dan Castellaneta Tress MacNeille Craig Bartlett |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 100 (List of episodes) |
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| Running time | 23 minutes (11 minutes per segment) (approximately per episode) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon |
| Original run | October 7, 1996 – June 8, 2004 |
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| IMDb profile | |
Hey Arnold! is an American animated television series that aired from October 7, 1996 until June 8, 2004 on Nickelodeon.
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[edit] Premise
The show stars 4th-grader Arnold, who lives with his grandparents Phil and Gertrude, proprietors of the Sunset Arms boarding house. In each episode, Arnold will often help a schoolmate solve a personal problem, or he will encounter a predicament of his own.
[edit] Setting
Hey Arnold! takes place in the fictional American city of Hillwood.
Craig Bartlett stated in an interview that the city the show is based in is actually Seattle, mixed in with some elements of New York City. Bartlett, having grown up in Seattle, bases many of the show's events on his own experience growing up in the city. The Pig War mentioned in the episode with the same title took place on the boundary between nowadays State of Washington and British Columbia.
In many first-season episodes and later, the Brooklyn Bridge is seen as a prominent landmark in the city. Other episodes show an overview of Arnold's Neighborhood, with the New York City skyline in the horizon, complete with the Empire State Building and World Trade Center, suggesting the neighborhood is Brooklyn, or Queens. Also according to a List of public elementary schools in New York City PS 118 is a school in St. Albans, which is a residential community in the New York City borough of Queens.
Also in the episode Eugene's bike, Arnold and Eugene visit Quigley Stadium which is in West Haven, Connecticut and was home to the West Haven Yankees from 1972-1979. West Haven is just north of New York. However, the stadium used in the series bears no resemblance to the actual Quigley Stadium.
[edit] Production
Hey Arnold! was created by Craig Bartlett and is based on his comics starring Arnold, which he created in 1986. Originally the first appearance of Arnold was in a early-1990s episode of Sesame Street in the imagination episode.[citation needed] All was done in claymation by Craig Bartlett. The familiar, cel-animated Arnold came about in the mid-1990s when Nickelodeon picked up the new series. Apart from the animation style, Nick's Arnold now wears a sweater, with his plaid shirt untucked (resembling a kilt). Only Arnold's cap remains from his original clay-animation wardrobe.
Hey Arnold! debuted as an animated short for the Nickelodeon film Harriet the Spy in 1996.
The show also aired on "Nick on CBS" from 2002 up until September 2004. As of April 2008, the show airs weekdays at 11 AM ET on Nicktoons Network. Recently, it aired on Nickelodeon one time on Thanksgiving 2007 at 12:30 PM. In Europe and Asia, it returns temporarily as part of Nick's Non-Sto Play Weekend.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Main voice cast
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Film
In the 2002 theatrically released film, Arnold and his friends Helga and Gerald set out on a quest to save their neighborhood from a greedy developer who plans on converting it into a huge shopping mall. This film featured the voice talents of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Sorvino, and Christopher Lloyd.
[edit] External links
- Hey Arnold! at the Internet Movie Database
- Hey Arnold! at TV.com
- Hey Arnold! at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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