Flight Squad
| Flight Squad | |
|---|---|
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| Also known as | Air Academy[1] |
| Genre | Animated series |
| Created by | Olivier Marvaud David Faure |
| Directed by | Benoit di Sabatino Jean Pilotte (co-director) |
| Voices of | See below |
| Country of origin | Canada France |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Micheline Charest Ronald A. Weinberg Christophe di Sabatino Eric Garnet Paul Hannequart Marc Minjauw |
| Producer | Cassandra Sahafhausen |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production companies | CINAR Corporation Antéfilms Productions Neurones Animation |
| Original release | |
| Network | Teletoon |
| Release | March 6[2] – July 2, 2000[2] |
Flight Squad (Air Academy[1] in French) is an [2] animated television series produced by the CINAR Corporation (now WildBrain), Antéfilms Productions, and Neurones Animation. The show has 26 episodes were produced.
Plot
A team of daredevil pilots form the Flight Squad. With their own airplane fleet that is a high-yielding as it is varied, Flight Squad is organized as an independent air services company, carrying out "à la carte" missions for their clients.
Characters
- Dan, an ex-fighter pilot and former member of the Canadian secret service.
- Tina, an assistant woman.
- Alex
- Jeff, brother of Emma.
- Emma, sister of Jeff
- Jeff's teenage friends.
- Max, indispensable.
- Parachute the Flying Squirrel, the team's pet.
Enemies
- Kordac, benefactor of Barracudas.
- Bill, leader of Barracudas.
- Buck, Bill's second in command and member of Barracudas.
- Boris, member of Barracudas and the more baddest of them.
Voice cast
- Al Goulem
- Ricky Mabe
- Thor Bishopric
- A.J. Henderson
- Patricia Rodriguez
- Richard Dumont
- Holly Gauthier-Frankel
- Mark Camacho
- Arthur Holden
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Teletoon/Télétoon title [3] | Teletoon airdate [2] | Télétoon airdate [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "One of Our Satellites Is Missing" "Opération satellite" | Unaired | June 4, 2000 |
| 2 | 2 | "Cream of the Crop" "La crème des récoltes" | March 27, 2000 | June 10, 2000 |
| 3 | 3 | "The Secret of the Icon" "L'icône mystérieuse" | April 17, 2000 | June 11, 2000 |
| 4 | 4 | "Sky Jack" "Hold-up en plein ciel" | July 2, 2000 | April 29, 2000 |
| 5 | 5 | "Whale Rescue" "S.O.S. Baleines" | April 24, 2000 | April 30, 2000 |
| 6 | 6 | "Leonardo De Alex" "Alex De Vinci" | Unaired | June 17, 2000 |
| 7 | 7 | "Log Booming" "Les voleurs de bois" | Unaired | June 18, 2000 |
| 8 | 8 | "Ghost Place" "L'avion fantôme" | Unaired | June 24, 2000 |
| 9 | 9 | "Flying Ark" "L'arche volante" | Unaired | June 25, 2000 |
| 10 | 10 | "Christmas Star" "L'étoile de Noël" | Unaired | July 1, 2000 |
| 11 | 11 | "The White She-Wolf" "La louve blanche" | May 8, 2000 | May 7, 2000 |
| 12 | 12 | "Parachute to the Rescue" "La chasse aux castors" | Unaired | July 2, 2000 |
| 13 | 13 | "The Black Lagoon" "Le lagon noir" | May 15, 2000 | May 13, 2000 |
| 14 | 14 | "The Return of the Pilot" "Le retour du pilote" | May 22, 2000 | May 14, 2000 |
| 15 | 15 | "Underground Fire" "Le feu sous la terre" | May 29, 2000 | May 20, 2000 |
| 16 | 16 | "Cloud Wraith" "Le spectre des nuages" | Unaired | May 21, 2000 |
| 17 | 17 | "Top Gal" "La justicière du ciel" | Unaired | May 27, 2000 |
| 18 | 18 | "Terror Train" "Aller simple" | Unaired | May 28, 2000 |
| 19 | 19 | "Pirates of the Frozen Sea" "Les pirates de la mer glacé" | Unaired | June 3, 2000 |
| 20 | 20 | "Skynapped" "Le sequestre la mine" | March 6, 2000 | April 5, 2000 |
| 21 | 21 | "Bigfoot" "Le Bigfoot" | March 13, 2000 | April 9, 2000 |
| 22 | 22 | "Trial by Fire" "Le baptême du feu" | March 20, 2000 | April 15, 2000 |
| 23 | 23 | "Compact Risk" "Compact risque" | April 3, 2000 | April 22, 2000 |
| 24 | 24 | "Double Trouble" "Double danger" | April 10, 2000 | April 23, 2000 |
| 25 | 25 | "Uranium Express" "Uranium express" | May 1, 2000 | May 6, 2000 |
| 26 | 26 | "Ice!" "Multiples facettes" | August 13, 2000 | April 16, 2000 |
Broadcast
The show ran on Teletoon in Canada.[4] Internationally, The show is aired on M6 in France and Telefutura (Spanish) and This TV in the United States.
DVD releases
Two volumes of the series, each containing three episodes, were released on DVD in 2005.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b "Archived copy". www.teletoon.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b c d e "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2 March 2016.[dead link] Alt URL
- ^ http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCProgram.do?sId=EP00425043&t=Flight+Squad&method=getEpisodesForShow&epYear=2001 [dead link]
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 65. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ "Flight Squad Air Wars". Amazon. 6 September 2005.
- ^ "Flight Squad Search and Rescue". Amazon. 6 September 2005.
External links
- Flight Squad at IMDb
