| Hey Arnold! | |
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 A screen from the Hey Arnold! opening |
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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) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 23 minutes (11 minutes per segment) (approximately per episode) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon |
| Original run | October 7, 1996 – June 8, 2004 |
| External links | |
| 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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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.
Production
Hey Arnold! was created by Craig Bartlett, and based on his clay animation shorts on Sesame Street and comics starring Arnold, whom he created in 1986. 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 remained 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" in 2002 until September 2004. As of November 2007, the show airs weekdays at 11 AM on Nicktoons Network.
Characters
Main voice cast
| Characters | Image | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Arnold |  |
Toran Caudell Phillip Van Dyke Spencer Klein |
| Gerald Johanssen |  |
Jamil Walker Smith |
| Helga G. Pataki |  |
Francesca Marie Smith |
| Grandpa Phil |  |
Dan Castellaneta |
| Grandma Gertie |  |
Tress MacNeille |
Episodes
Film
In the 2002 theatrically released film, Arnold and Gerald Johanssen 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 was featuring the voice talents of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Sorvino, and Christopher Lloyd. This movie was first intended for television and was made in 2000. There was to be a second movie, involving Arnold finding a map that might unveil his parents' location. The series was cancelled before it was released.
Setting
- It is implied that the city is actually New York City. In many season one episodes and later on, the Brooklyn Bridge was seen as a massive prominent landmark in the city. Other episodes showed the 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 was Brooklyn, or Queens.
Overview of Arnold's neighborhood looking towards the bay - The elementary school that Arnold attends is actually P.S. 118, Lorraine Hansberry School in Hollis, Queens County, New York, New York.
Trivia
- Arnold's last name is never revealed in the show.
- Craig Bartlett says that Arnold's head is a football head because he was designed in clay and he could be seen easier
External links
| Nickelodeon Portal |
- Hey Arnold! area on Nick.com
- Hey Arnold! at TV.com
- Hey Arnold! at the Internet Movie Database
- Hey Arnold! at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- "Arnold's Eyes Fansite" Every episode of Hey Arnold! for download
- "Polish Hey Arnold Site"
