The Adventures of Leah Thompson

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***The Adventures of Leah Thompson*** (or ***Leah's World*** in the international release) is an American animated television series created by Geo G. for The Greeny Channel. The series is a spinoff of *Geo's World* and *The Geo Team*. The series has designed for the four shows, much like *The Simpsons*, *Bobby's World,* *Rugrats*, and *Family Guy.* The series set in a fictional town of Geoville and The Geo Mansion. The show holds a TV-G rating which may be suitable for all ages.

The series was conceived by the creator of the show in 1990, which was 6 years after the original run of *The Geo Team* for the The Greeny Channel in July 14, 1991. *The Adventures of Leah Thompson* first appeared in the original unaired pilot in 1996. The latter became one of the first Internet viral videos, which ultimately led to its production as a series. The cartoons were adapted into a half-hour television series on December 24, 1997 with the episode "House of Geo Guy's", which led to a series of half-hour episodes.

## Production

### Development

Geo G. initially conceived the show in 1991 after *The Geo Team* came out. The show was originally named *Leah's World*, then in September 1997, it was later retitled *The Adventures of Leah Thompson*.

*The Adventures of Leah Thompson* first appeared in the development slate by The Greeny Channel in early 1997, under no official name for the pilot, after a report that The Greeny Channel had purchased the series from creators. On June 7, 1997, Geo and Universal Television inked a deal. The pilot was named *1996 Pilot Pitch* in June 1997, when it appeared on the primetime slate for the 1997–98 television season, although it wasn't officially on the network schedule. In August 1997, the show appeared on the primetime slate for the 1997–98 television season. On November 20, 1997, it was announced that the show would premiere on December 24, 1997 with *The Geo Team episode,* Leah Joins The Geo Team*.*

Geo and Spielberg pitched a 28-minute and 57-second pilot to The Greeny Channel which aired on December 24, 1997. Even before the pilot episode premiered, the show had already been renewed for a 13-episode second season. After the first season of the show aired, it was given the green light to start production. On May 5, 1998, less than three weeks into the first season's winter hiatus, it was announced that The Greeny Channel was ordering a third season. A fourth season was announced on January 10, 1999, just a few days before the second season concluded.

### Executive producers

Geo G., Terry Ward, Steve Samono, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Matt Groneing, and Steven Spielberg were served as executive producers on the series since the first season. They're in charge of the production of the television series.

### Casting

The casting of the series was done by Geo G.

### Animation

The style uses a cel animation, hand drawn animation, key animation until the season 6 finale, ALF's Sick Day. The animation is currently done at Film Roman as of Season 8, as well as other companies like Rough Draft Studios, it's Korean division, AKOM Production Co., Anivision, Toon City, TMS Entertainment (seasons 1-3, 4-6, and 7-19), Yeson Entertainment, Mercury Filmworks, and DHX Media, just to name a few.

## Setting

The series is about the fictional town of Geoville and The Geo Mansion.

## Summary

The series is about an young and innocent girl who moves to a new town, Geoville, with her family, before she is befriended by Geo Guy and becomes his new girlfriend and go on a mansion called The Geo Mansion where his friends live and spend a time with them and deal with some villians for some trouble.

Main article: List of The Adventures of Leah Thompson characters

## Merchandise

The show also spawned a large and popular merchandise line at Hot Topic, Claire's, RadioShack, Target, Wal-Mart, and Toys "R" Us stores in the United States as well as the Zellers, Wal-Mart, and Toys "R" Us stores in Canada, and a limited selection of merchandise at Kmart and Target in Australia.

There were many *The Adventures of Leah Thompson* kids meal tie-ins at Burger King restaurants in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, for the movie in 2001, 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2015.

## Episodes

Main article: List of The Adventures of Leah Thompson episodes
## DVD releases

### Region 1

Universal Studios Home Entertainment released all nine seasons of *The Adventures of Leah Thompson* to Region 1 DVD in box sets, with each set having 19-13 episodes on two discs. The first 3 DVD sets show the original telecast versions, rather than the edited versions once seen in syndication and on cable networks.

## Credits

Main article: The Adventures of Leah Thompson/Credits
Geo G. and Universal Studios made the credits at the end of every episode from every season.

## Other media

### Video games

*More coming soon!*