Fishtronaut (TV series)

"For the series' titular character, see Fishtronaut (character)."

Fishtronaut (original title: Peixonauta) is a Brazilian animated television series created by Celia Catunda and Kiko Mistrorigo and produced by TV PinGuim, which premiered on Discovery Kids in Latin America and Brazil. It is a very successful TV series that debuted on April 20, 2009. It was dubbed in English in Canada.

Synopsis
Set in Smiling Trees Park, where animals around the world live in harmony together and roam free. Viewers are welcome to explore the habitats and environments or to ride a sub at the bottom of an ocean cove and its colourful and the river also extends to a long ocean. In this series, the main character is Fishtronaut, along with his friends Marina and Zeek who live in Smiling Trees Park. Together, Fishtronaut, along with his friends, work together is secret agents who solve the cases around the park.

The most important object for solving the case is the P.O.P. (Primary Objective Pod), which helps solve the cases to figure out which objects are related to the case. In order to open it, Fishtronaut and his friends ask the viewers to dance to the rhythm in order to open it. After the case is solved, the agents receive another P.O.P. to know the case is completed.

English dub

 * Dawn Ford - Fishtronaut / additional voices
 * Angela Galuppo - Marina
 * Terrence Scammell - Zeek / Happy Plumb / additional voices
 * Rick Jones - Dr. Green / additional voices
 * Justin Bradley - Billy and Mac / Henry
 * Holly Gauthier-Frankel - Rosy Barb / additional female voices
 * Thor Bishopric - Bubble Tank in Fishtronaut's Lab / additional voices

Additional voices:


 * Annie Bovaird
 * Mark Camacho
 * Sonja Ball

Seasons
Each season contains 26 pairs of episodes during broadcast on TV. There are 52 single episodes in both seasons in which each episode runs for 11 minutes (two episodes in a pair fill a commercial block for 30 minutes).

Reception
The series received positive reviews from many viewers from Discovery Kids in Latin America and Brazil. Thus, the series became an icon after being a success.

Films

 * The first film of Fishtronaut: Fishtronaut: Secret Agent of S.E.A. was released in theaters on November 9, 2012, after three years of the debut in Brazil. The film was planned for two years and was released before the premiere of Season 2 of the TV series.


 * A second film known as Fishtronaut: The Movie features a different story in which no release date has been announced yet.