The Wild Thornberrys (1998)

Directed by

Steve Ressel, Mark Risley, Anthony Bell, Peter Avanzino

Genre

adventure television series

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 91 episodes

Rated

TV-Y7

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 300 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family of wildlife documentary makers travels around the world in a giant vehicle. Their daughter Eliza can talk to animals and often gets into trouble while helping them.

whimsicalenergeticadventurousfamily-friendlyeducationalcomedicheartfeltquirky

What happens

The Wild Thornberrys is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, Steve Pepoon, David Silverman, and Stephen Sustarsic for Nickelodeon. It was produced by Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. The series portrays the zany hijinks of a family of nomadic wildlife documentary filmmakers known as the Thornberrys, which consist of the nature documentary television host Nigel, his wife and camera operator Marianne, their 16-year-old daughter Debbie, their younger daughter Eliza, their adopted son Donnie, and a chimpanzee named Darwin. The series focuses particularly on Eliza, who has a magical ability to communicate with animals. The Thornberry family travels to every continent and wildlife environment in the ComVee, a recreational vehicle equipped with safety mechanisms to handle any terrain or body of water, to document their journeys in detail. Episodes typically involve Eliza befriending an animal and subsequently finding herself in peril. Originally pitched by Klasky Csupo as an adult animated sitcom for Fox, the series was then retooled as a family-friendly animated series for Nickelodeon and premiered on September 1, 1998, as the eleventh Nicktoon and the third overall produced by the studio following Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. It ran for 5 seasons containing 91 episodes in total, with the final episode airing on June 11, 2004. The series' fourth season premiere, "The Origin of Donnie", is a television special focusing on Donnie Thornberry's life before he was adopted by the family. A feature film, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, in which Eliza embarks on a quest to save a cheetah cub from poachers, was theatrically released on December 20, 2002. Rugrats Go Wild, a crossover feature film with Rugrats, was released in theaters on June 13, 2003. Spin-off media include DVD releases and three video games. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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