| Braceface | |
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) Series title card featuring protagonist Sharon Spitz | |
| Genre | Comedy Teen sitcom |
| Created by | Melissa Clark |
| Directed by | Micheal Stuart Bass |
| Voices of |
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| Theme music composer | Grayson Matthews Inc. |
| Composer | Pure West |
| Country of origin | Canada United States Hong Kong |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 78 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers |
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| Producer | Marilyn McAuley |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production companies |
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| Release | |
| Original network | Canada Teletoon United States Fox Family/ABC Family Toon Disney China CCTV |
| Original release | June 2, 2001 – September 1, 2004[1] |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Braceface is a Canadian-American-Chinese animated television series that aired on Teletoon in Canada and the Fox Family Channel in the United States. The series was produced by Nelvana and Jade Animation, with actress Alicia Silverstone of Clueless fame (who also voiced the titular character for the first two seasons) serving as executive producer.[2]
Summary
The series, set in Elkford, British Columbia, recounts the travails of Sharon Spitz (a Portmanteau of Sharing and Spits), who is a junior high school student with braces that get in the way of leading a normal teenage life.[3] Her braces are somehow electrically charged at all times, giving her strange abilities such as remotely operating machinery, tapping into wireless communication channels, and even discharging electricity directly into what's in front of her, though much of these abilities are often outside her control. In the first season, she is enrolled at Mary Pickford Junior High but later the show progresses into Sharon going into high school.
Cast
- Alicia Silverstone (seasons 1–2) and Stacey DePass (season 3) as Sharon Spitz
- Dan Petronijevic as Adam Spitz
- Michael Cera as Josh Spitz
- Tamara Bernier Evans as Helen Spitz
- Marnie McPhail as Maria Wong
- Peter Oldring as Conner Mackenzie
- Vince Corazza as Alden Jones
- Katie Griffin as Nina Harper
- Daniel DeSanto as Brock Leighton
- Emily Hampshire as Alyson Malitski
- Elisa Moolecherry as Hannah Corbett
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 26 | U.S. | June 2, 2001 | February 24, 2002 | |
| Canada | June 30, 2001 | March 27, 2002 | |||
| 2 | 26 | U.S. | September 27, 2002 | April 11, 2003 | |
| Canada | September 6, 2002 | June 22, 2003 | |||
| 3 | 26 (Canada) | November 5, 2003 | September 1, 2004 | ||
Production
The show was produced by Nelvana in Canada and Jade Animation (Shenzhen) in China, with additional work done by Studio B Productions.
Broadcast
In the United States, the series originally aired on Fox Family Channel starting on June 2, 2001, with reruns on its successor ABC Family and future corporate sibling Disney Channel and Toon Disney. In Canada, it ran on Teletoon from June 30, 2001[4][5] to September 1, 2004.[1]
Internationally, the series aired on Fox Kids UK and Pop Girl in the United Kingdom. It also aired on Nickelodeon in Germany. In India the series aired on Star One.[6] It aired in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ Two from 3 September 2001 to 2005.[7]
Home releases
Some of these DVDs were released by FUNimation.
- 2001
- Volume 1: Brace Yourself
- 2004
- Volume 2: Getting Real
- Volume 3: Twist of Fate
- 2005
- Turning 13
- Volume 4: Miss Popular
- 2006
- Miss Popular, Brace Yourself, Getting Real, Twist of Fate (4 pack DVDs)
References
- ^ a b "Mediacaster Magazine - Broadband & Content - TELETOON's September Sizzles with New Series and a Finale". 16 October 2013. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 91. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 155. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ "CANOE -- JAM! - Katie gets animated". June 10, 2016. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016.
- ^ "The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 29, 2001 · 85". Newspapers.com. 2001-06-29. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "STAR - Programme Guide". 24 November 2005. Archived from the original on 24 November 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ RTÉ Guide, 1–7 September 2001 edition and subsequent dates
External links
- Official site
- Braceface at IMDb
- Braceface at TV.com