DIC Movie Toons

**DIC Movie Toons** (originally known as the **Nickelodeon Sunday Movie Toons** in the United States) were a series of animated made-for-TV movies produced by DIC Entertainment, which lasted for just one season (2002) on Nickelodeon in the United States. It started on October 6, 2002 and ended on January 5, 2003.

All films are nowadays a property of WildBrain, which holds the rights to most of DIC's library.

## List of movies

Initially, 40 films were ordered from Nickelodeon to air, with later productions including adaptations of concepts such as *Black Beauty* and *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*, but only 13 of them did so. The made-for-TV films are either based on various DIC productions such as *Inspector Gadget*, *Sabrina: The Animated Series*, and *Dennis the Menace*, or are loose adaptations of stories from classic literature such as *Treasure Island* and *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*. One film, *Groove Squad*, which was about a group of crime fighting cheerleaders, was an original story. In order, the movies featured were:

1. *Inspector Gadget's Last Case* (10/6/02)
2. *Sabrina: Friends Forever* (based on *Sabrina: The Animated Series*) (10/13/02)
3. *Time Kid* (based on *The Time Machine* by H. G. Wells) (10/20/02)
4. *Dennis the Menace: Cruise Control* (based on the 1986–1988 animated series version of Dennis the Menace) (10/27/02)
5. *The Archies in Jugman* (based on the Archie universe as portrayed in *Archie's Weird Mysteries*) (11/3/02)
6. *Dinosaur Island* (based on *The Lost World* by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (11/10/02)
7. *My Fair Madeline* (based on *Madeline*) (11/17/02)
8. *Groove Squad* (11/24/02)
9. *Treasure Island* (based on *Treasure Island* by Robert Louis Stevenson) (12/1/02)
10. *Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol* (based on *A Christmas Carol* by Charles Dickens) (12/8/02)
11. *Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure* (based on *Around the World in Eighty Days* by Jules Verne) (12/15/02)
12. *The Amazing Zorro* (based on Johnston McCulley's *Zorro*) (12/22/02)
13. *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea* (based on *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea* by Jules Verne) (12/29/02)
14. *5 Weeks in a Balloon* (based on *Five Weeks in a Balloon* by Jules Verne) (01/05/03)

## International Broadcasts

In October 2002, DIC announced that Disney Television International had purchased the broadcast rights to the movies for them to air on Disney Channel, Toon Disney and Playhouse Disney networks in France, Germany, Italy, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, the Middle East and Scandinavia.

In November 2002, it was confirmed that Super RTL had purchased the German free-to-air broadcasting rights to the films as part of a 6-year deal with DIC. DIC also confirmed that YTV in Canada, Cartoon Network Japan, Televisa in Mexico and RCTV in Venezuela had purchased the movies in their respective regions.

Later on, DIC would pre-sell the movies to ITV in the UK, Club RTL in Belgium, Mediatrade in Italy, Alter TV in Greece and Anteve in Indonesia.

## Home media

All of the movies apart from *A Christmas Carol* were later released to VHS and DVD in the United States by MGM Home Entertainment. In 2008, Gaiam re-released the films on DVD.

In the United Kingdom, a selection of the films were distributed through Prism Leisure and later Boulevard Entertainment.

In France, Italy, Spain/Latin America, Australia and Ukraine, the movies were released by TF1 Video, Eagle Pictures, Sum, Shock and ICTV.