Child’s Play

Alternative title
Out with the Crowd/Child’s Play
Synopsis
American animated television series following the adventures of a trio of hapless ‘time cops’ from the year 100,000,000 AD, who travel back in time attempting to correct the course of history. In this episode Buck, Larry (a robot) and the orphan boy Otto go back in time to meet Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre where Shakespeare is staging plays for bored children. The Time Squad is enlisted as actors in a new play Timeth Squad and the episode constantly questions the relationship between art and commerce.
Series
Time Squad
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Television
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Transmission details
14 Mar 2003 (Channel: Cartoon Network)
Duration
15 mins
Availability
No archive copy or distributor found (4/2007).

Credits

Cast
Daran NorrisWilliam Shakespeare
Kevin Michael RichardsonLance 9 Trillion
Mark HamillLarry 3000
Pamela AdlonOtto Ottsworth
Rob PaulsenBeauregard ‘Officer Bruck’ Tuddrusell

Additional Details

Production type
Animation
Keywords
children’s television; Globe Theatre; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Time Travel

Notes

General
Series created by David Wasson.
History
Two episodes were shown in a 30 minute slot - OUT WITH THE CROWD and CHILD’S PLAY.
Reviews
Burt, Richard ‘U.S. Television’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (pp 588-590).

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Child’s Play". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68061 (Accessed 10 Nov 2024)