Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog

***Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog*** is an animated series that was based on the *Sonic the Hedgehog* video game series produced by Sega. Airing during the fall of 1993, 65 episodes were produced for first-run syndication. The series was co-produced by DiC Animation City, Sega of America, Inc., Bohbot Entertainment and the Italian studio Reteitalia S.p.A. in association with Spanish network Telecinco.

On November 24, 1996, USA Network aired a Christmas special which was produced to promote *Sonic 3D Blast* (originally meant for the ultimately cancelled *Sonic X-treme*). The series inspired a video game, *Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine*, which features several original characters from the show. Furthermore, some elements of the series, such as Sonic's fondness for chili dogs, appeared in later video games and media of the franchise.

## Plot

*Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog* is a comical, light-hearted and gag-driven adventure series based on the titular character Sonic the Hedgehog, an arrogant yet kind-hearted and mischievous teenage hedgehog with the power to move at supersonic speeds. Sonic, along with his idolizing young friend Tails, regularly oppose the main antagonist Dr. Robotnik, his robot henchmen Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts, and thwart their plans to conquer their home planet of Mobius. The series features a short PSA segment titled "Sonic Says" at the end of each episode; these segments were written by Phil Harnage.

## Characters

### Main[edit]

* Sonic the Hedgehog (voiced by Jaleel White) - The main character of the series. Sonic works to defend Mobius from the threat of Dr. Robotnik.
* Tails (voiced by Christopher Stephen Welch, except for "Sonic Christmas Blast"; voiced by Chris Turner) - A two-tailed fox who is Sonic's friend.

### Villains

* Dr. Ivo Robotnik (voiced by Long John Baldry) – An evil mad scientist who uses robots and inventions in order to take over Mobius. His headquarters is a fortress atop Mobius' tallest mountain, where he uses his Robo-Matic Machine to create robots called Badniks to aid him in his plots.
* Scratch (voiced by Phil Hayes) – A dim-witted chicken-type Badnik who is one of Dr. Robotnik's henchmen. Originally, Dr. Robotnik wanted the Robo-Matic Machine to create a super robot, only for it to produce Scratch instead due to a malfunction. He is the older brother of Grounder, both of whom work to catch Sonic which with comical results.
* Grounder (voiced by Garry Chalk) – A Badnik with a drill-nose, drill-hands, and tank treads for legs who was created by Dr. Robotnik when he put one of Scratch's tail feathers into the Robo-Matic Machine. He is the younger brother of Scratch.
* Coconuts (voiced by Ian James Corlett) – A monkey-type Badnik who was created before Scratch and Grounder. At some point, he was demoted to working as Dr. Robotnik's janitor and is often trying to impress him by outdoing Scratch and Grounder in stopping Sonic to no avail.

### Other characters

* Breezie (voiced by Venus Terzo) - A hedgehog-type Badnik created by Dr. Robotnik in a plot to get rid of Sonic. She developed feelings for him and left Dr. Robotnik's services. Breezie later met Robotnik Jr. who later developed a crush on her.
* Momma Robotnik (voiced by Kathleen Barr) – The mother of Dr. Robotnik who is even worse than her son. While kept in an asylum called the Mobius Home for Really Bizarre Mothers, she tends to escape on occasion and her insanity even scares Dr. Robotnik.
* Wes Weasely (voiced by Michael Donovan) – A weasel who works as a salesman at H.D.S.V.A.D.L. (Handy Dandy Super Villain Appliance Distributors Limited) company. He would often sell devices to Dr. Robotnik that would either fail because of either Sonic's ingenuity or Scratch and Grounder's incompetence.
* Sergeant Doberman (voiced by Phil Hayes) - A Doberman Pinscher who is a retired army sergeant and a known war hero.
* Professor Von Schlemmer (voiced by French Tickner) - A brilliant but eccentric and kooky scientist who is an ally of Sonic and Tails.
* Professor Caninestine (voiced by Garry Chalk) - A highly-intelligent dog scientist that invents gadgets for Sonic to use. Dr. Robotnik once captured him and had him build a time machine in order to steal four Chaos Emeralds in different time periods.
* Captain Rescue (voiced by Garry Chalk) - A retired superhero raccoon who briefly came out of retirement to help Sonic defeat Robotnik.
* Robotnik Jr. (voiced by Ian James Corlett) - A short Dr. Robotnik-resembling Badnik created by Dr. Robotnik to be his son and carry on his legacy the day after Dr. Robotnik passes away. Unfortunately, he defects from his creator and sides with Sonic. Robotnik Jr. later fell in love with Breezie.

## Episodes

### Special

season
 Robotnik disguises himself as Santa Claus in order to force him into retirement and con the children out of presents during Christmas. During a visit to Robotropolis, Sonic and Tails rescue the real Santa Claus, who presents Sonic with a speed run test due to a ring Sally Acorn gave him as a gift serving as a key.
Oddly, this special includes aspects of the Saturday morning Sonic TV show, such as Robotropolis and SWATbots (neither of which appear as they did in that series) and Sally Acorn (who appears in her regular design but with her pilot episode color palette). Said series had aired concurrently with the original run of "Adventures", but in a different time slot, and had stopped producing new episodes by the time "Christmas Blast" premiered. Despite this, the special maintains the humorous tone of "Adventures" rather than the darker one of the Saturday morning series.
*Note*: The letters page of issue #41 of the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic book promotes the special as "An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas" as this episode was originally going to be a tie in for *Sonic X-treme* on Sega Saturn. However, the game was cancelled, and the title was changed to tie in with *Sonic 3D Blast* instead.
This is also the only episode not to feature a *Sonic Says* segment at the end.

## Voice cast

* Jaleel White as Sonic the Hedgehog, Masonic, Mummified Hedgehog (in "Tails' Tale")
* Christopher Welch as Miles "Tails" Prower
* Long John Baldry as Dr. Robotnik, Robotnikhotep I
* Phil Hayes as Scratch, Sergeant Doberman
* Garry Chalk as Grounder, Professor Caninestein, Captain Rescue (in "Over the Hill Hero"), Dragon Breath, Computer (in "Grounder The Genius")
* Ian James Corlett as Coconuts, Robotnik Jr. (in "Robotnik Jr.," "Sonic the Matchmaker"), Rocket the Sloth (in "Slowwww Going"), Gambling Sheep, Dr. Warpnik (in "Trail of the Missing Tales"), Wallace A. Ditso, Sketch Lampoon (in "Sonic Breakout"), Goobster (in "So Long Sucker")

### Additional cast

* Kathleen Barr as Katella, Momma Robotnik (in "Momma Robotnik's Birthday," "Momma Robotnik Returns," "The Last Resort", "Zoobotnik", "Sonic is Running"), Miss Sniffed, Lucinda (in "Best Hedgehog"), additional voices
* Michael Benyaer as Lawrence (in "Pseudo Sonic")
* Jay Brazeau as Robot Santa (in "Sonic Christmas Blast"), Santa Claus (in "Sonic Christmas Blast"), Spelunk (in "Subterranean Sonic"), additional voices
* Jim Byrnes as Thrust, Coachnik (in "Coachnik")
* Babz Chula
* Jennifer Copping as Henrietta
* Michael Donovan as Wes Weasley (in "Birth of a Salesman," "The Magic Hassle," "Hero of the Year"), Mad Mike (in "The Robotnik Express," "Mad Mike, Da Bear Warrior", "Hero of the Year")
* Kyle Fairlie
* Terry Klassen as Doctor Quark, additional voices
* Wally Marsh
* Scott McNeil as MacHopper (in "MacHopper"), Rattrap
* Shane Meier
* Jane Mortifee
* Pauline Newstone
* John Stocker
* Jayleen Stonehouse as the Waitress (in "Too Tall Tails")
* John Tench
* Venus Terzo as Breezie
* French Tickner as Professor von Schlemmer (in "Too Tall Tails," "Boogey-Mania," "Tails to Prevail," "Tails' Tale")
* Lee Tockar as Wick
* Louise Vallance as Miss Possum, Catty Carlisle
* David Ward
* Cathy Weseluck as Suzie, Robot, Rebot, Becky, Penelope, Cat, Parrot
* Alec Willows as the Music Destroyer
* Dale Wilson