Casper's Scare School (TV series)
Casper's Scare School (French: "Casper: L'École de la Peur") is a computer-animated series based on the computer-animated film of the same name featuring the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. The series premiered in Canada on YTV on January 11, 2009, and then in France on TF1's TFOU block on April 1, 2009, and later in the United States on Cartoon Network on October 4, 2009. A second season aired in 2012 with a new opening sequence, a new voice cast and a slightly different CGI animation style . 52 episodes were produced. Premise. Casper has to be able to graduate through Scare School before he gets banished to the valley of the shadows forever. He goes on many adventures with the students that attend there. Production. The series was produced by Classic Media, MoonScoop, Entertainment Rights and DQ Entertainment, with participation from TF1, The Harvey Entertainment Company (as an in-name only unit since Classic Media acquired their library in 2001) and CNC. The complete first season aired between October and November 2009. The second season aired in October 2, 2012 on Cartoon Network featuring a new title  theme, recasting all the voices and with new edited CGI animation. One of the new voice actors was Matthew Geczy who started in Code Lyoko, another France production. Jimmy's voice is similar to the movie version. The characters whose voices dramatically changed were Casper, Thatch, Stinky, Stretch, Wolfie and Alder, all voiced by Geczy, given a voice similar to his character, Odd Della Robbia from Code Lyoko. Geczy also voices numerous characters. Many other actors from said show also work on it such as Mirabelle Kirkland who voiced Yumi Ishiyama in Code Lyoko now plays Mantha and Jimmy in  the second season. Some background characters were given larger roles and speaking roles and the personalities of some characters have changed, mostly with Thatch having a tender side of playing with rubber ducks. Home release. On August 10, 2010, Classic Media and Vivendi Entertainment released "Casper's Scare School: 12 monstrous episodes" on DVD in Region 1. This collection features the first 12 episodes of the series.