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 Norris William Shakespeare Kevin Michael Richardson Lance 9 Trillion Mark Hamill Larry 3000 Pamela Adlon Otto Ottsworth Rob Paulsen Beauregard ‘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)