Child’s Play

Alternative title

Out with the Crowd/Child’s Play

Synopsis

American animated television series following the adventures of a trio of hapless ‘time cops’ from the year 100,000,000 AD, who travel back in time attempting to correct the course of history. In this episode Buck, Larry (a robot) and the orphan boy Otto go back in time to meet Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre where Shakespeare is staging plays for bored children. The Time Squad is enlisted as actors in a new play Timeth Squad and the episode constantly questions the relationship between art and commerce.

Series

Time Squad

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Television

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Transmission details

14 Mar 2003 (Channel: Cartoon Network)

Duration

15 mins

Availability

No archive copy or distributor found (4/2007).

Credits

Cast

Daran Norris	William Shakespeare
Kevin Michael Richardson	Lance 9 Trillion
Mark Hamill	Larry 3000
Pamela Adlon	Otto Ottsworth
Rob Paulsen	Beauregard ‘Officer Bruck’ Tuddrusell

Additional Details

Production type

Animation

Keywords

children’s television; Globe Theatre; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Time Travel

Notes

General

Series created by David Wasson.

History

Two episodes were shown in a 30 minute slot - OUT WITH THE CROWD and CHILD’S PLAY.

Reviews

Burt, Richard ‘U.S. Television’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (pp 588-590).