Rocket Power
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Format	Animated Adventure/Comedy
Created by	Arlene Klasky Gabor Csupo
Starring	Joseph Ashton Shayna Fox Ullyses Cuadra Sam Salleta Gary LeRoi Gray John Kassir Ray Bumatai Lombardo Boyar
Opening theme	by Devo under the name "The Wipeouters"
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	64 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes (two 11 minute episodes)
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	August 16, 1999 – July 30, 2004
External links
IMDb profile

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Premise

A show based around extreme sports, friendship, and conquering the ups and downs of life, Rocket Power involves the daily situations of a group of friends living in the fictitious town of Ocean Shores. Extreme sports (now also known as action sports) is a general, somewhat hazily-defined term for a collection of newer sports involving adrenaline-inducing action. ...

Production

Rocket Power was produced by Ben Hail for Nickelodeon, while it does not currently air there, it can currently be seen on the Nicktoons Network. Episode directors included Michael Daedalus Kenny, Dave Fontana, Ron Noble, and Steve Ressel.

Ocean Shores, the city the show takes place in, is loosely based on the real Californian City of Santa Monica. There is a city called Ocean Shores and Ocean Shores, New South Wales, Australia, but it is in the state of Washington, not California or Australia. Some hints include the "Incline," similar to the California Incline in Santa Monica, the City's skyline and the pier, similar to the Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... Ocean Shores is a city located in Grays Harbor County, Washington. ... The name Ocean Shores can refer to: Ocean Shores, Washington, USA, founded circa 1962. ... NSW redirects here. ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... The Santa Monica Pier is located at the foot of Colorado Boulevard in Santa Monica, California and it is the citys most famous landmark. ...

The animators sometimes showed odd goings-on in the distant background. In one such scene, a UFO picking up a whale from the sea. UFO can mean: Unidentified flying object United Future Organization, a Japanese-Brazilian electronic jazz band UFO, the rock band that previously featured Michael Schenker UFO, the Gerry Anderson TV series United Farmers of Ontario, a political party that formed the government in Ontario from 1919 to 1923 U.F.O... Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986; see also 1986 in film) is the fourth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...

Characters

Main article: List of Rocket Power characters

This is a complete listing of characters from the Nickelodeon animated television series Rocket Power. ...

Voice cast

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Episodes

Main article: List of Rocket Power episodes

This is a list of Rocket Power episodes. ...

Films

Main articles: Rocket Power: Race Across New Zealand, Rocket Power: Island of the Menehune, and Rocket Power: The Big Day

Another telefilm based on the series, Reggie's Big (Beach) Break, centering on a spring-break type sports and music beach festival, aired on Nickelodeon in July of 2003. Island of the Menehune (IMDB:0427789 Los Angeles: Klasky Csupo Inc. ... The Big Day was an hour-long ep of the Rocket Power cartoon series, transmitted on Nickelodeon on July 30, 2004, and was the last new ep to be transmitted (as of Nov 2004). ...

Special guests

• Tony Hawk
• Andy MacDonald
• Jeremy Roenick
• Luc Robitaille
• Martin Brodeur
• Stacy Ferguson
• Shaun White
• Beth Beck
• Kyyyle Jessen

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Other projects

Other projects related to Rocket Power and developed under the aegis of Klasky-Csupo and/or Nickelodeon have included video games like 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 cancelled 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). Computer and video games redirects here. ...

External links

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