"ReBoot" (1994) TV series 1994-2001

Creators:

Gavin Blair
John Grace
Philip Mitchell

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

10 September 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

In the inner computer world of Mainframe, a guardian program sprite and his friends defend the system from threats from viruses and the User.

Plot Keywords:

Computer | Intelligence | Virtual Reality | Dreadlocks | Computer Virus

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Kathleen Barr	...	Dot Matrix (40 episodes, 1994-2001)
Michael Benyaer	...	Bob (28 episodes, 1994-2001)
Gary Chalk	...	Slash / ... (27 episodes, 1994-2001)
Tony Jay	...	Megabyte (25 episodes, 1994-2001)
Sharon Alexander	...	AndrAIa / ... (20 episodes, 1997-2001)
Paul Dobson	...	Matrix (20 episodes, 1997-2001)
Stevie Vallance	...	Mouse (20 episodes, 1994-2001)
Michael Donovan	...	Phong / ... (19 episodes, 1994-2001)
Shirley Millner	...	Hexadecimal (17 episodes, 1994-2001)

Runtime:

30 min (47 episodes)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:PG | USA:TV-Y7

Company:

Alliance Communications Corporation

Trivia:

The code the character Phong uses to unlock the Mainframe Principle Office's secrets throughout the series is "YADDAYADDAYADDA!" In the third season, this code is seen partially written out in binary on a machine of Megabyte's.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the episode "Painted Windows," when entering Lost Angles, Glitch, who had been "melted" early in the episode, kept appearing on Bob's arm. On the Bob "stand ups," you can see when Glitch had been put there on accident.

Quotes:

Powerlock: [Frisket snarling] Matrix! It's about time you got here. Call off your mangey mutt.
Matrix: Frisket, Heel!
Rob Cursor: Powerlock. What happened here?
Powerlock: I caught these two trying to crash the system.
Matrix: Hmm? Frisket, sniff!
Matrix: [Frisket starts sniffing the spectrols and then turns his head towards Powerlock and growls] Frisket always had a thing for viruses.
Powerlock: Stop. One more move and the system crashes.
Head Spectrol: No.
[the head spectrol tries in vain to keep Powerlock from crashing the system. A blast goes off cutting the line from door overhead]
Rob Cursor: Matrix watch out... Ooh!
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in A Map of the World (1999)

Amazing

It's 1994. I'm 11 years old, riding on a bus with my mom. I look around at all the advertisements, and one catches my eye. ReBoot. After all these years, I can still remember the tagline: "In Mainframe, no one dies. They are erased."

Of course, back then I had no idea what exactly ReBoot was. But from the moment I saw Megabyte in "The Tearing" some weeks later, I knew this would be one of my favorite shows.

I was fascinated by the computer animation, seeing that the computer we had at the time was a 386SX. That's what initially got me hooked. The show aptly filled the role of a "cartoon", but I could also see that it was much more than that. As the show progressed the characters became more real, more defined. Even then, I had a nasty habit of pointing out inconsistencies in TV shows, but ReBoot performed admirably in this area. The stories were never boring, and often cleverly incorporated details from earlier episodes. All the loose ends (the web, the twin cities, Lost Angles, Dot's father, etc.) that I feared would never be explained, were.

As the fun-adventures-of-the-moment turned into the dark, painful struggles of season 3, I was completely mesmerised, and felt for the characters as if they were real, and then rejoiced when everything turned out alright at the end. Very few presentations on either the big or small screen have ever elicited such a strong reaction from me.

In every sense, ReBoot was a great show. The characters, the plots, the visuals, it was all amazing. I'm only sorry season 4 ended on such a cliffhanger. More episodes, I say!

5 out of 5 stars.