Turbo Teen

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Turbo Teen
Genre Animated television series
Created by Ruby-Spears Productions
Voices of T.K. Carter
Pat Fraley
Pamela Hayden
Michael Mish
Frank Welker
Country of origin  United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13
Production
Executive producer(s) Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Running time 20 mins (excluding commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 9, 1984 – August 31, 1985

Turbo Teen was an animated series that aired Saturday mornings on the ABC Network for twelve episodes between 1984 and 1985. The series was once rerun on the USA Network's now-defunct USA Cartoon Express block.

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[edit] Plot

The series is about a teenager named Brett Matthews, who swerves off a road during a thunderstorm and crashes into a secret government laboratory. There, he and his red sports car are accidentally exposed to a molecular beam invented by a scientist named Dr. Chase. Man and machine become fused together and as a result, Brett gains the ability to morph into the car when exposed to extreme heat and revert back into his human form when exposed to extreme cold. With this new super hero power, Brett and his friends, who call him "TT", go on crime fighting adventures together and solve other mysteries.

A recurring subplot involves Brett and Dr. Chase's search for a way to return Brett to normal. Also, a recurring villain is the mysterious, unseen "Dark Rider" who drives a monster truck and seeks to capture TT to find the secret behind his abilities.

[edit] Production

The show was produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. It was broadcast during the growing popularity of the Knight Rider television series and mirrors much of it, even down to very similar sounding theme music. The car that Brett turns into looks like an amalgam of a Chevrolet Camaro and its sister car the Pontiac Trans Am that Knight Rider's KITT is modeled after.

[edit] Turbo Teen episodes

  1. Turbo Thieves
  2. Dark Rider
  3. Mystery at Fantasy Park
  4. No Show UFO
  5. Micro-Teen
  6. The Sinister Souped-Up Seven
  7. Video Venger
  8. Dark Rider and the Wolves of Doom
  9. The Curse of the Twisted Claw
  10. Daredevil Run
  11. The Amazon Adventure
  12. Fright Friday
  13. The Mystery of Dark Rider

[edit] Cast

[edit] Parodies

Turbo Teen was parodied in the Robot Chicken episode "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster" with Brett Matthews voiced by Seth Green, while Alex was voiced by Tom Root and Patti was voiced by Katee Sackhoff.

A webcomic named Teen Boat ran for a short time, with a teenager who could turn into a small yacht.

A commercial for The Rotton Tomatoes Show on Current TV in July 2009 includes a man similarly transforming into a red sports car, a Mazda Miata. The man is wearing a similar wardrobe to the main character in Turbo Teen.

[edit] External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Teen"
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