Cosmic Quantum Ray is a CGI-animated television series. The series premiered in the United States on November 5, 2007, on Animania HD, then in 2009 in Germany on KI.KA, and then later on October 10, 2010, on The Hub. It also aired on Science Channel as part of a sneak peek of the latter.
Synopsis
The story centres on teenager Robbie Shipton, who possesses a shoe box leading to the Ninth Dimension, home of Quantum Ray. Robbie joins Team Quantum, a team of heroes responsible for stopping the many antagonists of the show, such as Professor Evil Brainhead and his hamster mother-figure named Mother, from carrying out their plans. He also attends school in the ordinary dimension, and occasionally characters from the two dimensions end up meeting with each other.
Production
Although produced by Germany's KI.KA and France's M6, the show was written in English, the writing supervised by Head Writers/Co-producers and Emmy winners Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy. In 2009, the series beat out Nickelodeon, Disney and Cartoon Network to win the Pulcinella Award for Best TV Series. The series was created by cosmologist Dr. Mani Bhaumik. Hickey and McCoy based all their stories on principles and theories from quantum physics, and Dr. Bhaumik provided the math. Cosmic Quantum Ray is a comedy/science-fiction adventure that, at the end of each episode, explains the quantum physics associated with a story and/or physical gags found within the series.
Cast
Ashleigh Ball – Allison
Doron Bell – Lucas
Richard Ian Cox – Chip Monahan
Matt Hill – Scott
Tom Kenny – Quantum Ray, Kronecker, Professor Evil Brainhead, Commander Fuzzy, Guy Gamma Colin Murdock – Bucketworth Pauline Newstone – Contessa De Worm Samuel Vincent – Robbie Shipton, Justin Cathy Weseluck – Mother Brainhead Chiara Zanni – Atee, Geecey
Crew
Mani Bhaumik – Creator, Executive Producer
Tatiana Chekhova – Executive Producer
Mike Young – Executive Producer
Andrew Young – Director
Arnaud Bouron – Co-Director (France) Karl Willems – Voice Director
Episodes
Alison Attacks! Sliptilicus It Was Nothing! What's Up With Gravity? There's a Universe in Scott's Head! Olga's Dish of Doom Chip Monahan: Alien Squirrel Master! What's a Bucketworth? Me, Robot Are We There Yet? Un-Real Estate Mr. Charm's Bad Vibration Eat at Olga's Alison's New Pet Rings of Fire Return of the Alien Squirrel Master Hall of Fame Here Today, Gone Yesterday Pirates of the Dark Matter Wild, Wild Wormhole Let's Play a Game Oh Mother, Where Art Thou? Tangled Up in Twins Cosmic Quantum... Robbie The Incredible Shrinking Ray Ms. Zooty's