Todd McFarlane's Spawn

Todd McFarlane's Spawn, also known as Spawn: The Animated Series, is an American noir adult animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It has also been released on DVD as a movie series. The show is based on the Spawn character from Image Comics, and won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Animation Program (longer than one hour).

Voice cast
 Keith David – Al Simmons / Spawn
 Richard Dysart – Cogliostro
 Dominique Jennings – Wanda Blake
 John Rafter Lee – Jason Wynn
 Michael Nicolosi – Clown (human form)
 James Hanes – Violator (demoniac form), Overt-Kill
 Jennifer Jason Leigh – Lilly
 Victor Love – Terry Fitzgerald (episodes 1–12), Bobby (episodes 1–12)
 Michael Beach – Terry Fitzgerald (episodes 15–17), Bobby (episodes 15–17), and additional voices
 Kath Soucie – Cyan Fitzgerald and additional voices
 James Keane – Tony Twist, Sam Burke
 Michael McShane – Maximilian "Twitch" Williams, Gareb
 Denise Poirier – Merrick, Bounty Hunter, Angela
 Ronny Cox – Billy Kincaid, Senator Scott McMillan
 Victor Brandt – Chief Banks
 Ming-Na Wen – Jade (Lisa Wu)
 Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Jess Chapel
 Robert Forster – Major Forseberg
 James Hong – Gen Soon/Zhang Lao
 Debbi Morgan – Granny Blake

Legacy
Todd McFarlane's Spawn was ranked 5th on IGN's list of "The Greatest Comic Book Cartoons of All Time", and 23rd on IGN's list of "Top 25 Primetime Animated Series of All Time".

Series producer Eric Radomski reflected in an interview that "Spawn TAS was a personal success for me. Very rarely do artists get the opportunity to have as much uncensored creative freedom as I did at HBO on Spawn."

Music
The score and opening theme was made by Shirley Walker, who also composed music for Batman: The Animated Series. While Batman: The Animated Series featured traditional orchestra music, the producers of Todd McFarlane's Spawn requested that Walker give the series a more organic and subtle electronic soundtrack, with only minimal usage of orchestral sounds.

Home video
On July 24, 2007, HBO Video released a 4-disc 10th-anniversary signature collector's edition on DVD with all 18 episodes and multiple bonus features.

Related pages
 Spawn (character)
 Spawn (movie)

References

Other websites


 Todd McFarlane's Spawn  at Toon Zone

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