# Astroblast!

Astroblast! is an American animated science fiction children's television series created by Bob Kolar for Sprout. The series follows Comet, a young puppy dog, Sputnik, an adventurous and loving piggy, Halley, a smoothie-delivering bunny, Radar, a bouncy monkey, and Jet, a mute alligator, who live together with an octopus named Sal in the Astroblast Space Station to the fictional smoothie cafe known as the Frosty Star. It is based on the book series Astroblast! by author and illustrator Bob Kolar.
The series is co-produced by Scholastic Media and Soup2Nuts and debuted on July 12, 2014. The series also started airing on NBC Kids, the Saturday morning programming block on NBC in October 2014. It was the final show produced by Soup2Nuts before its closure in August 2015.
An early promo for the series featured a variation on the theme music from The A-Team.
In 2021, FilmRise picked up the show for distribution. The show is currently available for streaming on the FilmRise multimedia platform, and on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV and Tubi TV in the United States, as well as on the Clan television channel and RTVE Play in Spain. The series is available in different languages and has aired in other countries internationally.

## Premise

A group of high-spirited and fun-loving animals including Comet the puppy dog. They live with their alien octopus friend in the Astroblast Space Station, which also houses a large library and a smoothie café called the Frosty Star.

## Cast

* Vinnie Penna as Comet, a young red puppy dog who goes on adventure. Penna also voices Morg, Bloodoo, and Flash, as well as additional voices
* Gigi Abraham as Halley, a pink bunny who likes smoothies. Abraham also voices Zelda, Sal's GamGam, Glippi, Bippity-Bops and more additional voices
* Veronica Taylor as Sputnik, a pink-peach piggy who has smoothies in time. Taylor also voices Carly Cosmos, Bippity-Bops, and Laney, as well as additional voices
* Joe Gaudet as Radar, a bouncy brown monkey who loves to bounce. Gaudet also voices Bob, Cosmo Carson, and additional voices
* Jet, a green alligator who has a quiet leader. It is a silent cameo and, unlike most characters, cannot speak. Instead he is mute, and she can only communicates by using gestures and sign language in many ways.
* John Taylor as Sal, a purple octopus who finds the Frosty Star. Taylor also voices Doobloo, and more additional voices

## Episodes
### Solo airings

Individual air dates for stories as a 15-minute program:
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Original airdate |
| 101 | Spic 'n Span | Jack Ferraiolo | July 21, 2014 |
| 102 | Smoothie Operator | Susan Kim | July 14, 2014 |
| 103 | Take Off! | Susan Kim | July 15, 2014 |
| 104 | Oh, Brother… | Jack Ferraiolo | July 12, 2014 |
| 105 | Bend it Like Radar | Jill Cozza-Turner | July 16, 2014 |
| 106 | Lost and Found | Ed Valentine | July 17, 2014 |
| 107 | I'll Save You! | Frederick Stroppel | July 18, 2014 |
| 108 | Growin' Crazy | Jack Ferraiolo & Susan Kim & Allan Neuwirth | July 14, 2014 |
| 109 | Twice the Talent | Jonathan Greenberg | July 15, 2014 |
| 110 | Building the Perfect Present | Jen Klein | July 12, 2014 |
| 111 | Glippi's Visit | Ed Valentine | July 15, 2014 |
| 112 | Don't Touch! | Adam Rudman | July 17, 2014 |
| 113 | Are You My Piffin? | Melinda LaRose | July 18, 2014 |
| 114 | Halley's Wannabe | Jill Cozza-Turner | July 19, 2014 |
| 115 | Sputnik the Spoiler | Susan Kim | July 20, 2014 |
| 116 | Don’t Fear the Surfboard | Frederick Stroppel | July 26, 2014 |
| 117 | Billy Starrider | Kacey Arnold | July 21, 2014 |
| 118 | Sore Loser | Denise Brossman | July 22, 2014 |
| 119 | Halley Goes Solo | Elizabeth Keyishian | July 23, 2014 |
| 120 | Z-Max Mania | Rogelio Martinez | July 12, 2014 |
| 121 | What a Mess! | Jen Klein | July 13, 2014 |
| 122 | Beck and Call | Pamela Hickey & Dennys McCoy | July 13, 2014 |
| 123 | Sputnik Takes Charge | Jonathan Greenberg | July 22, 2014 |
| 124 | The Clean Machine | Susan Kim | July 23, 2014 |
| 125 | Comet's Gift | Ed Valentine | July 24, 2014 |
| 126 | A Star Is Born | Jill Cozza-Turner | August 12, 2014 |
| 201 | A Bird in the Hand | Susan Kim | June 22, 2015 |
| 202 | How Do You Get to Carnegie Nebula? | Melinda LaRose | TBA |
| 203 | Who Let the Stuffie Out? | Jonathan Greenberg | TBA |
| 204 | Lights Out | Kacey Arnold | TBA |
| 205 | Shape Up! | Jack Ferraiolo | TBA |
| 206 | Surfin' Space Safari | Susan Kim | TBA |
| 207 | I Love a Parade…Sometimes | Rogelio Martinez | November 8, 2015 or May 9, 2015 or earlier |
| 208 | Radar Sleeps Over | Denise Brossman | October 29, 2014 |
| 209 | Stop Booging Me! | Jill Cozza-Turner | November 15, 2015 or May 16, 2015 or earlier |
| 210 | Just Peachy | Liz Keyishian | February 9, 2015 or May 16, 2015 or November 15, 2015 |
| 211 | Hole in One | Jack Ferraiolo & Susan Kim | February 10, 2015 |
| 212 | Treasure Hunt | Jonathan Greenberg | February 11, 2015 |
| 213 | Something Borrowed, Someone Blue | Susan Kim | January 19, 2015 |
| 214 | Be Mine | Ed Valentine | February 14, 2015 |
| 215 | GamGam Knows Best aka Gam Gam Knows Best | Kacey Arnold | January 19, 2015 or September 9, 2015 |
| 216 | Three's a Crowd | Denise Brossman | January 21, 2015 |
| 217 | Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Alligator? aka Big Bad Alligator | Jill Cozza-Turner | January 23, 2015 or June 6, 2015 or October 1, 2015 |
| 218 | Sing Along to the Bouncing Monkey | Susan Kim | February 2, 2015 or June 6, 2015 |
| 219 | I Feel Fine! | Jonathan Greenberg | January 26, 2015 |
| 220 | Shoes Blues | Ed Valentine | February 13, 2015 |
| 221 | Radar for a Day | Susan Kim | January 28, 2015 or November 3, 2015 |
| 222 | A Gift From Halley | Liz Keyishian | January 30, 2015 or November 3, 2015 |
| 223 | Best Guests | Susan Kim | February 2, 2015 or November 3, 2015 |
| 224 | Puzzle Hunt | Ed Valentine | February 4, 2015 |
| 225 | Bop 'til You Drop aka Bop Til You Drop | Jonathan Greenberg | February 6, 2015 or June 27, 2015 |
| 226 | Kapowsers! | Susan Kim | February 7, 2015 or June 27, 2015 |

## International broadcast

The series was dubbed into different languages. Finnish network Yle TV2 began broadcasting the series in November 2016, during the “Pikku Kakkonen” programming block. In Ireland, it aired on TG4, in Spain, it aired on Clan, and in Thailand, it aired on True Spark. The series have previously available on Hulu before 2019. FilmRise picked up the show for distribution, and it is currently available on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV and Tubi TV.