Danny & Nancy

***Danny & Nancy*** is an American animated television series created by Denise Bonilla for GlobeBox. Produced by GlobeBox Animation in association with O Entertainment and Lucky Hope Studios, the series focuses on two regular 12-year-old siblings named Danny and Nancy Strong, who go on many misadventures and adventures (along with them facing the challenge of everyday lives), while dealing with school tasks.

Bonilla created the title character for an unpublished comic book series in the early 1980s, and later reluctantly produced the animated short *The School Day*, which became a part of *The Toon Hour* in 1989 on the newly-formed GlobeBox network. Following this success, the sketch was developed into a Saturday morning cartoon and GlobeBox gave the staff a large amount of creative freedom, with the writers targeting both children and adults. Bonilla turned to voice actresses E.G. Daily and Tara Strong who had worked with her on *The Toon Hour*, to voice the title characters.

*Danny & Nancy* premiered on GlobeBox on June 12, 1999, as the channel's first GlobeToon alongside other original animated series *Niki the Beast* (which premiered directly after *Danny & Nancy*) and *One Sly Dame* (which premiered after *Niki the Beast*). It has been commercially successful, establishing the title characters as the mascots of GlobeBox. It has spawned a successful franchise and adaptations into other media, such as comics and video games. The series garnered high ratings on GlobeBox and was the network's top-rated show ever since. This became GlobeBox's longest-running animated series of all time. The twenty-first season began airing in November 6, 2021, and the series was renewed for a twenty-second season on March 11, 2022. The series has inspired three feature films: *The Danny & Nancy Movie* (2004), *Danny & Nancy: Into the Different Worlds* (2015), and *Danny & Nancy: The Great Strange Rescue* (2021). Two spin-off series, *Old Times*, premiered in July 2020 on Peacock, and *Kaylin's Crazy Show!*, premiered in May 2021 on GlobeBox. As of February 2022, four additional films are in the works – consisting of three character spinoff films for Peacock and a new theatrical *Danny & Nancy* film.

## Premise

### Setting

The primary setting of *Danny & Nancy* is Destinyville, a fictional city in California. It is possibly based on Glendale, California.

### Characters

#### Main

* **Danny Strong** (voiced by E.G. Daily) - a smart and clever but stubborn boy who is into video games and other cool stuff, as well as alien-ish stuff.
* **Nancy Strong** (voiced by Tara Strong) - a happy-go-lucky, cheerful and sweet girl who is Danny' brother as she tried to be a one of the prefect girls that anyone ever think of.

## Production

### Development

During the early 1980s, while Denise Bonilla was in high school, she pitched out the treatment to *Danny & Nancy*. She pitched it a comic book, but it went unpublished. Meanwhile, Bonilla later joined Sullivan Bluth Studios, where she worked on as animator for *An American Tail*, *The Land Before Time*, and *All Dogs Go to Heaven*. She left Sullivan Bluth Studios in 1989 and joined Universal Cartoon Studios where she worked on *Back to the Future: The Animated Series*, *Jetty the Weak Jet Plane* and *Fievel's American Tails*. However, she also worked on *The Secret Dreams* and *Starlight* as an animator at Universal Feature Animation.

Bonilla cited that her animation style for *The Secret Dreams*, *Back to the Future: The Animated Series, Jetty the Weak Jet Plane*, *Fievel's American Tails* and *Starlight* was the basis for the *Danny & Nancy* show.

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### Animation

The series' first three season was produced by SkyRuby Studios. However, by season 4, co-founder Ruby Petersen wanted to have one producer to oversee the animation; Steve Oedekerk refused; and production was switched to Rough Draft Studios for the remainder of the series run.

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### Episodes

*Main article: List of Danny & Nancy episodes*

## Other media

### Home video

*Main article: List of Danny & Nancy videos*
From 2000 onward, all the home media releases were distributed by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (via GlobeBox). It appeared in either season sets or episode sets.

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### Films

*Main article: Danny & Nancy (film series)*
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