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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Opening title card for AoStH.
Format	Animated series
Created by	DiC Naoto Ohshima (characters)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	65 + 1 special (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	20-22 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndication
Original run	September 6, 1993 – December 3, 1996
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is an American animated television series that was first broadcast in September 1993, and has been running in cartoon syndication ever since. It follows the escapades of Sonic the Hedgehog, and his comrade Miles "Tails" Prower, as they attempt to stop the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his array of vicious robots from taking over the planet Mobius.

Sonic and Tails from the episode "Robotnik Jr."

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a fast-paced cartoon with much slapstick humor, akin to such shows as Ren and Stimpy, Animaniacs, Tom & Jerry or Tiny Toons. The show features very few recurring characters, usually just Sonic, Tails, Robotnik and his two hench-bots Scratch and Grounder (with a third robot, Coconuts, appearing often)—however, there are many occasional minor characters and robots too. The plots often loosely follow the storyline of the video games series, although when the cartoon began, the Sonic games were still quite new, and lacking much plot or character development, which was filled in by the show's writers.

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was created by DiC Entertainment, which produced a total of 65 episodes for its first season, and was syndicated by Bohbot Entertainment, now BKN International (in the original run, every episode began and ended with the "Bohbot Entertainment Presents" logo). DiC ceased production on this comical interpretation to spend more time on its darker interpretation, dubbed just Sonic the Hedgehog (commonly known as SatAM by fans), a series launched on ABC's Saturday morning line-up.

Dr. Robotnik as he appeared in the first episode of the series, 'SSSSS Squad'.

In the UK, the series was screened on Channel 4 on Sunday mornings, with the "Sonic Sez" segments edited out even though the end credits still gave them a mention. TCC on analogue satellite TV also shown the series but with the "Sonic Sez" segments existent, and was screened in the afternoons.

After the original airing, DiC created one more episode in the winter of 1996, "Sonic Christmas Blast", which has features from Sonic the Hedgehog such as Princess Sally in a non-speaking cameo, and has Sonic and Tails visiting Robotropolis, which has a human population and a name pronounced with two "T"s. The letters page of issue #41 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book promotes the special as "An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas", suggesting that it was originally intended to promote Sonic X-treme, a Sega Saturn game which was eventually cancelled due to numerous problems in development; the special's name was changed to match the game that did come out, Sonic 3D Blast.

• Jaleel White as Sonic the Hedgehog
• Christopher Evan Welch as Miles "Tails" Prower (except Sonic Christmas Blast)
• Long John Baldry as Doctor Ivo Robotnik
• Gary Chalk as Grounder, Additional Voices
• Phil Hayes as Scratch
• Ian James Corlett as Coconuts, Additional Voices

On June 11, 2007, the entire series was released as a box set in the United Kingdom.

On July 17, 2007, Shout! Factory released the first 22 episodes in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog - Volume One in America, including special features such as an interview with animator, Milton Knight.

DVD Name	Cover Art	Ep #	Release dates			Additional Features
			Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
Volume One		22	July 17, 2007	TBA	TBA	This four disc boxset includes the first 22 episodes from Season 1. Bonus features include: How to draw Sonic The Hedgehog and Storyboard to Screen.[1]
The Complete		65	TBA	June 11	TBA	This eight disc boxset includes all 65 episodes from the series. All the DVD's are Region 0 meaning that they can be played on any Regional DVD Player. It will most likely not be released in the U.S. due to the fact that Shout Factory will probably release more box sets containing the rest of the episodes from where the first one left off.[2]

Note 1: There has never been a set/dvd of this series released in region 4 format

• USA
  • Syndication (1993–1995 and 1997–2000)
  • USA Network (1995–1997)
  • Toon Disney (2000–2002)

• UK
  • Channel 4
  • The Children's Channel (1995 – 1998)
  • POP! (2004 – 2006)
  • ITV2 (2005)

• List of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episodes
• Sonic Christmas Blast

• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• A DVD description of Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog: Volume One

• Voice actor Christopher Evan Welch was 11 years old when the program came on ABC. When "Sonic Christmas Blast" was released, he was 14 years old and was replaced because his voice changed^{[citation needed]}.
• Two classical music pieces, In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg, and Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov are used in the theme songs and throughout the series. The series and the theme song also regularly features the title screen theme from the first two Sonic games. This show is thus far the only Sonic the Hedgehog show to use a song from the games in its theme.
• "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" was originally offered to ABC for Saturday morning broadcasting. But because ABC executives found the series to be lacking in plot and animation, ABC told DiC to scrap it and work on another Sonic cartoon. Its replacement was the second series, Sonic SatAM.
• In the episode "Untouchable Sonic", Scratch and Grounder were seen watching Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog on TV. The footage they were watching was from the original pilot episode featuring animation by Milton Knight and some by Dan Povenmire.
• In Germany this show is named "Sonic der irre Igel" (Sonic the Insane Hedgehog).
• In the episode "Tails Prevails", there is a Star Trek reference when Tails says "I'm giving her all she's got captain." In an attempt at a stereotypical Scottish accent.