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Sonic the Hedgehog TV series - Plot Summary

The show takes place on a planet called Mobius. An evil, bald, dark-eyed and mustachioed scientist named Dr. Julian Robotnik (Jim Cummings) invaded and conquered a huge and beautiful city named Mobotropolis, with the help of his intelligent but craven assistant Snively (Charlie Adler) and his army of laser-toting robot soldiers called SWATbots. Julian then used a giant airship to turn Mobotropolis into a new city renamed Robotropolis, a polluted city of factories and warehouses.

Julian soon invaded the castle home of the city's king (Tim Curry) and exiled him to a dimensional warp known as "The Void." Julian then changes his name to Doctor Ivo Robotnik, and captures the rest of the citizens, including a brainy old hedgehog named Sir Charles Hedgehog (William Windom) and his dog Muttski, and used a machine called the roboticizer to turn them in to robot slaves. Those who managed to escape retreated into the Great Forest to build a village named Knothole to hide from Robotnik. Among the youngest of the citizens were a group called the Freedom Fighters. First there's Sonic the Hedgehog (Jaleel White), Charles' speedy nephew. Then there is his best friend Tails (Bradley Pierce), a young two-tailed fox who can twirl his tails to fly. Next, there's Rotor (Mark Ballou/Cam Brainard), a walrus with a knack for machines. Next, Antoine (Rob Paulsen), a French coyote with many personality flaws. Next is Bunnie Rabbot (Christine Cavanaugh), a pretty southern cyborg rabbit who would almost certainly have been completely roboticized if not for Sonic (as it were though, only her left arm and legs were roboticized). Last is the group's leader, Princess Sally (Kath Soucie), the king's only daughter.

For 10 years, the Freedom Fighters constantly foiled Robotnik's schemes. In the show's second season, a female dragon named Dulcy (Cree Summer) was a new star. The show went up to 2 seasons and it got cancelled after the final episode, "The Doomsday Project" ended with a cliffhanger (suggesting a new villain for season three... it was subsequently revealed that it would have been a sorcerer from a previous episode, named Ixis Naugus). There were rumors of a third season but it never aired.

A DVD of five first-season episodes was available from DiC and Lions Gate Home Entertainment under the title Sonic the Hedgehog: Super Sonic. However, this was pulled when Buena Vista claimed to have distribution rights to the series.

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