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Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone
The logo for both versions of the show.
Also known as	Potsworth & Co.
Genre	Animation Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Created past	Martin Powell Vivien Schrager-Powell
Developed past	Dave Edwards
Directed past	Don Lusk Paul Sommers Animation Directors: Robert Alvarez
Creative manager	Ray Patterson
Voices of	Michael Bell Hamilton Camp Joan Gerber Elisabeth Harnois Whitby Hertford Janice Kawaye George Lemore Kenneth Mars Rob Paulsen Clive Revill Frank Welker
Theme music composer	Michael Tavera
Country of origin	U.s. United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	13
Product
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera Martin Powell Vivien Schrager-Powell Paul Sabella Theresa Plummer-Andrews
Producer	Davis Doi
Running time	21 mins
Production companies	H-B Production Co. Sleepy Kids PLC
Benefactor	Worldvision Enterprises
Release
Original network	BBC The Children's Channel (UK) Syndication (US)
Original release	ane September (1990-09-01) – 24 November 1990 (1990-11-24)

Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone is an blithe serial produced by Hanna-Barbera in conjunction with Sleepy Kids PLC and is known outside the US as Potsworth & Co. ^[1] In the United kingdom, the BBC felt that the proffer of children existence awake after midnight was inappropriate (which is reflected in the theme vocal'due south lyrics in the British broadcast); thus the proper name was changed.

The bear witness is well-nigh four children who meet in their dreams every night, accompanied by their dog Potsworth and a toy dinosaur, to protect the sleep of the innocent from the dreaded Nightmare Prince.^[ii]

History [edit]

The serial revolves around Potsworth, an English Springer Spaniel, based upon a real-life springer spaniel called Potsworth, bought from the Battersea Dogs Domicile by Martin and Vivien Schrager-Powell. The couple were somewhat disheartened with some of the children's programmes being made at the time, commenting that "6-year-olds just aren't content to be fobbed off with 'Mr Wizard become pouf and nasty man go away'. Stories these days have to be conceivable, contain some logical process". In 1987, Martin started writing stories about Potsworth who lives in a city in America and four young children: Carter, Keiko, Rosie, and Nick. The couple took the idea to Hanna-Barbera and suggested a 50-l deal to turn the stories into a television set series.^[3]

First actualization on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera on one September 1990, Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone lasted only 13 episodes.^[4] It was watched by 8.5 million in the Us while 5.1 one thousand thousand watched the serial on Children'due south BBC in Britain, making it the "second well-nigh pop children's show on British television later Neighbours".^[3]

The "real" Potsworth became something of a celebrity when he featured extensively in the British media as role of the promotion campaign for the cartoon series when information technology offset aired in the UK in 1990/91 boob tube season. A comic strip based on the bear witness featured in the merged Beezer and Topper and, when that comic closed, the Dandy.

The series' setting, "Dream Zone", was start used on "Back to Next Sat", the NBC Saturday Morning preview special for the 1985 flavor.

Premise [edit]

The series tells of four children and Potsworth the dog who alive in the same neighborhood. When they go to sleep at night they turn up in the Dream Zone where, every bit the Midnight Patrol, they are appointed past the Grand Dozer to protect it from nightmares and other threats and are given their missions by the Snooze Patrol. Their master enemy is the Nightmare Prince.

Whilst they are in the Dream Zone, the five have special powers. Keiko has a flight skateboard; Carter can draw anything and and so have it come to life; Nick is super-stiff and is able to fly; his stuffed toy Murphy comes to life; whilst his cynical sister Rosie tags along. Potsworth himself acquires the power of speech communication which enables him to mutter about the way he is treated in the existent world, and make wry comments about the kids and their own attitudes and relationships. The cartoon Potsworth had a very "English" accent, even in the American version of the programmes, reflecting his existent-life counterpart's British origins.

Computer game [edit]

An officially licensed figurer game of the series, using its British title of Potsworth and Co, was released in 1992 by Hi-Tec Software for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and Atari ST.

In this scrolling platform game, the player took on the part of one of the characters in each themed level and had to collect various items and then reach the exit.

Characters [edit]

Midnight Patrol [edit]

The 5 Midnight Patrol members are the chief stars of the show. Each one has his/her individual abilities.

Potsworth - A sarcastic 10-year-old English language Springer Spaniel who is the leader and has the ability to talk when he enters the Dream Zone.
Carter - Potsworth's owner. A ten-yr-quondam African American boy who is an expert artist. In the Dream Zone, his magic paintbrush tin can bring many things to life.
Keiko - A 9-twelvemonth-old Asian American girl who rides a flying skateboard in the Dream Zone. She is energetic and very optimistic and likes to be seen equally the leader of the group.
Rosie - An eight-year-old girl. A rude, annoying brat who gives the group a very difficult time (in ways similar to Lucy van Pelt in the Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz, Margaret Wade in the Dennis the Menace comics by Hank Ketcham, Zoe in H-B's Fantastic Max cartoon serial or Angelica Pickles in Nickelodeon's Rugrats drawing serial), though she still helps out in unsafe situations. She calls her brother Nick past his full proper noun "Nicholas" whenever she yells at him, which is quite often. She is the merely member of the Midnight Patrol without a special power.
Nick - Rosie's 6-yr-old blood brother who is a flying superhero when he'due south in the Dream Zone and is sometimes referred to as "Super Nick".
- Murphy - Nick'due south toy Brontosaurus who comes to life when he enters the Dream Zone.

Other Dream Zone characters [edit]

The Dream Zone has a number of inhabitants, the principals of which include:

The Grand Dozer - The King of the Dream Zone. He spends his fourth dimension half-asleep on pinnacle of a pile of mattresses. He has to stay this fashion because if he were to exist fully awake the Dream Zone will come to an finish. The Grand Dozer gives advice, just in the form of riddles which tin can be a fleck of a frustration.
The Main - A large only friendly woman who heads the local police department and assigns the Midnight Patrol with their missions.
Sebastian - The Grand Dozer's caput butler. He is e'er broken-hearted that his Male monarch is condom and asleep. A running gag of the series is that, whenever Sebastian claims the Grand Dozer is in a certain mood, the Grand Dozer would be shown sleeping, prompting Sebastian to state the Grand Dozer would be in that mood if he were awake.
The Greystone Giant - A giant made of stone who lives in a cavern filled with various objects which he supplies for people's dreams. Because there are so many dreamers he is always at work and never stops grumbling virtually it. Though deep down, he loves his job.
The Nosey Bird - A talking bird who enjoys spreading gossip. He talks creepy like Peter Lorre and appears in the episodes "The Nightmirror" and "Santa-Napped".

Antagonists [edit]

The Nightmare Prince - The main villain of the series. The Nightmare Prince is always coming up with ways of disrupting the M Dozer'south sleep or other nasty schemes in order to allow nightmares to have over the dreams. He is the Midnight Patrol's main enemy, though he is such a bungling idiot that his plans can fail due to his own incompetence.
- Igor - I of the Nightmare Prince'south dimwitted potato-shaped minions.
- Irving - One of the Nightmare Prince's dimwitted potato-shaped minions.
- Shorty - One of the Nightmare Prince'south dimwitted white potato-shaped minions.
The Nightmare Prince'due south Mother - This unseen character is always phoning up to tell her son to get on with destroying happy dreams and reproving him when things go wrong. The fact that the Prince has a large-sized phone (as opposed to a mobile phone) literally up his sleeve means that she calls him virtually all the time. Her constant yapping through the phone is reminiscent of the General from Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
The Cat - A giant cat who enjoys bullying and terrorizing the dogs in Dogland. He only appears in Male monarch Potsworth.
Count Bubba Bonebreaker - The nephew of the Nightmare Prince's Mother and the cousin of the Nightmare Prince. This villain was in one case in charge of nightmares when the Nightmare Prince's Female parent demoted the Nightmare Prince to janitor. The Midnight Patrol helped to get the Nightmare Prince back to his position by thwarting Bubba. He only appears in "When Bubba Rules".

Episodes [edit]

Bandage [edit]

Charles Adler every bit Rocky (in "I Was a Teenage Bodyguard")
Christine Avila
Michael Bong as Sebastian
Hamilton Camp as The Thousand Dozer
Brian Cummings
Jim Cummings as Giant Cat (in "Male monarch Potsworth"), Rags (in "King Potsworth")
Judyann Elder
Patrick Fraley as Jester Domestic dog (in "Male monarch Potsworth")
Dick Gautier
Joan Gerber as Nightmare Prince'southward Mother
Dorian Harewood
Elisabeth Harnois every bit Rosie
Whitby Hertford as Nick
Janice Kawaye equally Keiko
Emily Kuroda
George Lemore every bit Carter
David Lander
Marilyn Lightstone
Allan Lurie
Kenneth Mars every bit Greystone Giant
Scott Menville every bit Wonder Kid (in "Nick'south Super Switch")
Brian Mitchell
Howie Morris as Dr. Akenhoffer (in "Rosie's Fuss Attack")
Ron Palillo
Rob Paulsen equally Nightmare Prince
Henry Polic Two
Clive Revill as Potsworth
Ronnie Schell
Tom Scott
Hal Smith every bit Santa Claus (in "Santa-Napped")
B.J. Ward
Frank Welker as Murphy, Nosey Bird (in "The Nightmirror," "Santa-Napped")
Anderson Wong

Ratings (CBBC Channel) [edit]

Monday half dozen May 2002- 20,000 (9th about watched on CBBC that week)

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Home media [edit]

In 1991, Hanna-Barbera Home Video released a unmarried VHS cassette of the series in the Usa entitled Potsworth and the Midnight Patrol containing four episodes which are "Save the Cave", "The Wishing Whale", "King Potsworth", and "The Nightmirror".

References [edit]

^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Goggle box Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 541. ISBN978-1476665993.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Facts on File. p. 461. ISBN0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 21 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b "UK: Making it Tough for Tots - SLEEPY KIDS". Management Today. one June 1992. Retrieved xv September 2012.
^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 390–391. ISBN978-1538103739.
^ http://www.barb.co.britain^{[ total commendation needed ]}

External links [edit]

Potsworth & Co. at IMDb
Potsworth & Co. @ classic media
A Potsworth & Co Website
Toonrific

adamsthairstur1996.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Patrol:_Adventures_in_the_Dream_Zone