Rocket Power
Rocket Power logo
Format	Animated Adventure/Comedy
Created by	Arlene Klasky Gabor Csupo
Starring	Joseph Ashton Gary LeRoi Gray Sean Marquette Ulises Cuadra Gilbert Leal Shayna Fox 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

Rocket Power promotion shot

Rocket Power is an American animated television series that aired from August 16, 1999 until July 30, 2004 on Nickelodeon.

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.

Production

Rocket Power was produced by Klasky-Csupo for Nickelodeon, while it does not currently air there, it can currently be seen on 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.

The animators sometimes showed odd goings-on in the distant background. In one such scene, a UFO picking up a whale from the sea.

Characters

Main article: List of Rocket Power characters

Voice cast

Episodes

Main article: 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.

Special guests

• Tony Hawk
• Andy MacDonald
• Jeremy Roenick
• Luc Robitaille
• Martin Brodeur
• Gene Guarnieri
• Stacy Ferguson
• Shaun White

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).

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Rocket Power

• Webpage at Klasky-Csupo
• Webpage at Big Cartoon DataBase

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