Dragon Tales

Dragon Tales

INTRODUCTION

Dragon Tales is a Canadian–American animated pre-school fantasy adventure children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker and developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser. The story focuses on the adventures of 2 normal children, Emmy and soap, and their dragon friends Ord, Cassie, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal. The series began broadcasting on PBS on their PBS children block on September six, 1999, with its final episode airing on November twenty five, 2005. Following the series finale, reruns remained on this channel and another channel related to it named Universal Kids until August 31, 2010. Yearim Productions was responsible for the animation, with the expection of Koko Enterprises, which recorded the show, and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The U.S. Department of Education, and Kellogg's were responsible for the funding.

Origin

Dragon Tales relies on characters created in 1978 by lagoon Beach, California creative person and retired pedagogue Bokkos Rodecker. Rodecker was ill  from a artery bypass graft once he began sketching dragons as a way of figuration forces in life that were too huge to regulate. In 1997, Jim Coane, then a producer at Columbia TriStar Television, found the artwork and developed it into a television series with several writers. The project was considered something of a risky venture, because it was not based on a well-known franchise like many children's television programs, such as Arthur or Paddington Bear. The series was originally shipped to PBS member stations in 1995 at the suggestion of PBS, however all passed at the time. In October 1995, Jim Coane met Marjorie Kalins, senior VP of programming and production at Children's Television Workshop, and showed her the idea for the series. Kalins, who loved the idea, brought the series to Children's Television Workshop, who agreed to a partnership with the Columbia TriStar Television Group. Kalins helped him and Columbia TriStar tv get a grant from the Department of Education and also the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The grant proposal was written by Wesley Eure.As Columbia TriStar was the TV division of two major Hollywood film studios, which in turn are owned by the Sony Pictures recreation division of Japanese international conglomerate Sony, Dragon Tales became one of the few PBS Kids and Sprout programs to be co-produced by a Big Six major American studio's TV subsidiary. The other PBS shows made by a major Hollywood studio were Bill Nye the Science Guy (made by Walt Disney Television) and Curious George (produced by Universal Television). In 2002, C-T was renamed to Sony footage tv, a corporation that may co-produce the third season of the program.

Characters

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Protagonists Emmy and scoop (top image) during a season two episode of Dragon Tales. Ord, Enrique, Max, Emmy, Zak and Wheezie, and Cassie in a season 3 episode (bottom image) of Dragon Tales.

Emmy

Emmy, voiced by Andrea Libman, is six years previous. She normally seems because the leader of the cluster till she gave her position to Enrique whereas serving to him get accustomed Dragon Land. She is Max's older sister. Her ally is huisache, and she is perhaps known for saying, "Definitely!" whenever a good idea arises. Though Emmy is not ashamed to do "girly" things with Cassie, she is also heavily into sports and games and generally is up for any activity regardless of traditional gender roles. Though she experiences occasional jealousy of her brother, the 2 square measure otherwise sometimes along inside Dragon Land and share several adventures. Though a brave, smart natural leader, she is also impulsive and does not always think before she acts. She is usually seen carrying a blue button-up dress over a red shirt

Max

Max, voiced by Danny McKinnon, is four years previous. He is Emmy's younger brother. For the foremost half, he and Emmy get along fine, but occasionally have arguments. He is prone to anger. His best friend is Ord. Though Max loves Emmy, he sometimes struggles with being the younger brother, upset about being too little to do certain things, or frustrated when Emmy acts in certain ways. He is of AN adventurous  type and typically helps to offer bravery to Ord once he is scared of things like visiting the Forest of Darkness. He is kind to others and encourages Emmy once she is initially reluctant concerning permitting Enrique to share the key of Dragon Land. He often enjoys acting silly or goofy. He sometimes acts in a stubborn manner, determined to prove that a child his age can do things on his own, even when he really needs help. He sometimes wears a inexperienced short-sleeved shirt with yellow on the collar & edges of the shirt-sleeves and brown slacks. Max was named after the son of executive producer Jim Coan

Enrique

Enrique, voiced by Aida Ortega, is 6 years old. He is Emmy and Max's new friend WHO moved  from Republic of Colombia to the u.  s. and conjointly once lived in Puerto anti-racketeering law. He is raised by his father and his grandma ("abuelita")  He 1st seems within the Season three episode, To Fly With A New Friend, and travels to Dragon Land with the children. His recent experiences in South America provide more opportunities for the characters to demonstrate the meanings of new Spanish words.

He rides with Zak and Wheezie, the two-headed dragon who rarely flew with any human friends prior to Enrique's debut in Season 3.

His temperament is somewhat bashful, missing his homeland of Colombia and sometimes shy to join in on new experiences and saddened by reminders of times from his former home that he no longer has. However, he finds that he enjoys himself once he permits himself to abandoning, express his feelings and then move forward to have fun. He is raised by his grandparents ANd represented as an intensely sensible and logical character.