Hannah Montana season 1
| Hannah Montana (season 1) | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
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| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Disney Channel ABC |
| Original release | March 24, 2006 – March 30, 2007 |
| Season chronology | |
The first season of the television series Hannah Montana was aired on Disney Channel from March 24, 2006 to March 30, 2007, and included 26 episodes. It introduces the five main characters of the series and Miley Stewart's situation of living a secret double life as a teen pop star. The season also introduces several significant recurring characters such as Roxy Roker, Jake Ryan, and Rico Suave.
The season's soundtrack was released on October 24, 2006 under the title Hannah Montana. The season itself was released on DVD as a four disc set on November 18, 2008, by Disney DVD. Certain individual episodes had been released earlier on other Hannah Montana DVDs.
Production
Hannah Montana debuted Friday, March 24, 2006 on Disney Channel with "Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?" The first season completed its run on March 30, 2007 with "Bad Moose Rising". In the United Kingdom it first aired in the Summer period of 2006, then the first series aired on free-to-view channel FIVE showing all episodes, the second series then aired in 2009. The first season consists of 26 colored, full-screen, approx. 23-minute episodes (without ads) recorded using a multiple-camera setup. Filming began November 7, 2005.
Opening sequence
The theme song for Hannah Montana is "The Best of Both Worlds" written by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, produced by Gerrard and performed by Miley Cyrus (as Hannah Montana). John Carta, who also composes the music cues to signify scene changes and commercial breaks, composed the music for the song. The song's lyrics describe the basic premise of the television series.
The full-length version, which is 2 minutes, 54 seconds in length, was included on the show's soundtrack, released in October 2006. For the TV version of the theme, which lasts only 50 seconds, only the first two stanzas and the last two were used.
"Just Like You" and "The Other Side of Me" were originally tested for the opening theme song, before "Best of Both Worlds" was chosen as the theme. Each cast member's name is "wiped" on the screen in a marquee-light-style, and episode clips of the cast members' character are shown as well. The sequence then switches to full-screen episode clips (most of the clips used in the Season One version of the sequence were of the early produced episodes) with the creator's names appearing in the second-to-last clip. The show's title logo design appears at the beginning, and again at the end, of the sequence (the latter portion as with most other portions of the sequence on the "concert stage" feature Cyrus as her character Hannah Montana).
Closing sequence
Episodes of the first season typically end with a scene that is not crucial to the plot, often functioning as a throwaway joke. Credits are shown for the crew and any guest stars or co-stars.
Casting
The show's five stars — Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso, Jason Earles, and Billy Ray Cyrus — appear in all first-season episodes.
Recurring cast are Shanica Knowles as Amber Addison, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle as Ashley Dewitt, Greg Baker as Francis Corelli, Morgan York as Sarah, Cody Linley as Leslie "Jake" Ryan, Romi Dames as Traci Van Horn, Dolly Parton as Aunt Dolly, Vicki Lawrence as Mamaw Ruthie, Frances Callier as Roxy, and Moises Arias as Rico.
There were many guest stars including Corbin Bleu as Johnny Collins, Paul Vogt as Dontzig, Matt Winston as Fermine, Andre Kinney as Cooper, Ashley Tisdale as Maddie Fitzpatrick, and Lisa Arch as Liza the photographer.
Co-stars for this season are Derek Basco, Kyle Kaplan, Creagen Dow, Jack Taylor, Blake Berris, Frances Bay, Christian Serratos, Ryan Newman, Summer Bishil, Kunal Sharma, Cutter Garcia, Helen Duffy, Jeff Mallare, Betsy Kelso, Noah Cyrus, Aimee Teegarden, Gena DeVivo, Destiny Edmond, Jay Brian Winnick, Dollar Tan, Jason Thornton, Gary Pease, Marius Mazmanian, and Alec Leddand.
Episodes
The series premiere with "Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?" had 5.4 million viewers breaking the highest-rated series premiere on a kids network in seven years and was the highest rated Disney Channel series premiere until Cory in the House.[1][2][3][4] In the episode, Miley reveals to Lilly that she is Hannah Montana.
Season 1 included a special episode called "On the Road Again?" that was part of "That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana". The episode had cross-overs with shows That's So Raven and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.[5]
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | Teleplay by: Michael Poryes, Gary Dontzig & Steven Peterman Story by: Michael Poryes, Rich Correll & Barry O'Brien | March 24, 2006 | 101 | 5.4[1] |
| 2 | 2 | "Miley Get Your Gum" | David Kendall | Michael Poryes | March 31, 2006 | 103 | 4.0[6] |
| 3 | 3 | "She's a Supersneak" | David Kendall | Kim Friese | April 7, 2006 | 105 | 4.4[1] |
| 4 | 4 | "I Can't Make You Love Hannah if You Don't" | Roger S. Christansen | Kim Friese | April 14, 2006 | 108 | 3.9[7] |
| 5 | 5 | "It's My Party and I'll Lie if I Want To" | Roger S. Christiansen | Douglas Lieblein | April 21, 2006 | 102 | 3.6[1] |
| 6 | 6 | "Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Play Favorites" | Roger S. Christansen | Douglas Lieblein | April 28, 2006 | 109 | 3.2[1] |
| 7 | 7 | "It's a Mannequin's World" | Roger S. Christansen | Howard Meyers | May 12, 2006 | 110 | 4.6[1] |
| 8 | 8 | "Mascot Love" | Roger S. Christansen | Sally Lapiduss | May 26, 2006 | 111 | 4.2[1] |
| 9 | 9 | "Ooo, Ooo, Itchy Woman" | David Kendall | Gary Dontzig & Steven Peterman | June 10, 2006 | 104 | 3.7[8] |
| 10 | 10 | "O Say, Can You Remember the Words?" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | Sally Lapiduss | June 30, 2006 | 113 | 4.1[1] |
| 11 | 11 | "Oops! I Meddled Again!" | Chip Hurd | Lisa Albert | July 15, 2006 | 107 | 3.4[1] |
| 12 | 12 | "On the Road Again?" (Part three of "That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana") | Roger S. Christiansen | Steven James Meyer | July 28, 2006 | 112 | 7.1[9] |
| 13 | 13 | "You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Zit is About You" | Chip Hurd | Todd J. Greenwald | August 12, 2006 | 106 | 3.5[1] |
| 14 | 14 | "New Kid in School" | Kenneth Shapiro | Todd J. Greenwald | August 18, 2006 | 114 | 3.4[1] |
| 15 | 15 | "More Than a Zombie to Me" | Roger S. Christiansen | Steven Peterman | September 8, 2006 | 116 | 3.7[1] |
| 16 | 16 | "Good Golly, Miss Dolly" | Roger S. Christiansen | Sally Lapiduss | September 29, 2006 | 118 | 3.7[1] |
| 17 | 17 | "Torn Between Two Hannahs" | Roger S. Christiansen | Teleplay by: Todd J. Greenwald Story by: Valerie Ahern & Christian McLaughlin | October 14, 2006 | 126 | 3.5[1] |
| 18 | 18 | "People Who Use People" | Shannon Flynn | Michael Poryes | November 3, 2006 | 119 | 4.1[1] |
| 19 | 19 | "Money for Nothing, Guilt for Free" | Roger S. Christiansen | Heather Wordham | November 26, 2006 | 115 | 3.6[1] |
| 20 | 20 | "Debt It Be" | Roger S. Christiansen | Heather Wordham & Sally Lapiduss | December 1, 2006 | 120 | 4.3[1] |
| 21 | 21 | "My Boyfriend's Jackson and There's Gonna Be Trouble" | Roger S. Christiansen | Andrew Green & Sally Lapiduss | January 1, 2007 | 124 | 3.5[1] |
| 22 | 22 | "We Are Family, Now Get Me Some Water!" | Roger S. Christiansen | Jay J. Demopoulos & Andrew Green | January 7, 2007 | 122 | 4.1[1] |
| 23 | 23 | "Schooly Bully" | Roger S. Christiansen | Douglas Lieblein & Heather Wordham | January 19, 2007 | 125 | 3.2[1] |
| 24 | 24 | "The Idol Side of Me" | Fred Savage | Douglas Lieblein | February 9, 2007 | 117 | 3.7[10] |
| 25 | 25 | "Smells Like Teen Sellout" | Sheldon Epps | Heather Wordham | March 2, 2007 | 123 | 4.4[11] |
| 26 | 26 | "Bad Moose Rising" | Roger S. Christiansen | Douglas Lieblein & Steven James Meyer | March 30, 2007 | 121 | 4.8[1] |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Oldenburg, Ann (January 14, 2007). "Miley Cyrus fulfills her destiny". USA Today. p. D.1. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
- ^ Cutler, Jacqueline. "Tween Queen Rules 'Hannah Montana'". Zap2it. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
- ^ Azote, Abigail. "Media Life Magazine". Media Life Magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
- ^ Schneider, Michael (January 16, 2007). "Shows set records for Disney; 'Jump,' 'Cory' help cabler top Friday ratings". Daily Variety. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
- ^ Mickey New - That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana Archived March 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ratings for Cable Networks". Associated Press. April 7, 2006.
- ^ "Ratings for Cable Networks". The Augusta Chronicle. Associated Press. April 20, 2006. Archived from the original on January 9, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
- ^ "Ratings for Cable Networks". The Washington Post. Associated Press. June 15, 2006. Archived from the original on January 9, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
- ^ "That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana - Zap2it Forums: Talk About TV, Movies and More". Tvbb.zap2it.com. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
- ^ Ho, Rodney (February 15, 2007). "TV RATINGS: Anna Nicole Smith grabs attention, even at the end". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Main ed.). p. E3.
- ^ "Wrestling in Top Spot in Cable Ratings". Associated Press. March 10, 2006. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
- General references
- "Hannah Montana Season 1 episodes". TV Guide. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
- "Hannah Montana: Episode Guide". MSN TV. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
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