Galaxy High

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Galaxy High was an American animated series that premiered on September 13 1986 on CBS and ran for 13 episodes until September 5 1987. The series was created by movie director Chris Columbus and featured music and a theme song composed by Eagles member Don Felder. Galaxy High was about two earth teenagers who were accepted in the interstellar high school Galaxy High School on the asteroid Flutor. The teenage boy Doyle was popular in his earth high school while the teenage girl Aimee was shy and as the theme song states, "the smartest girl in school, not very popular, not very cool." But once in space, the alien teenagers seem to accept the not so popular Aimee, while Doyle tends to rub the aliens the wrong way. The show has hints of a budding romance between Doyle and Aimee but it never is given time to grow due to only 13 episodes being produced.

The aliens in the school included Gilda Gossip, the girl with the big mouth or mouths, Booey Bubblehead, who has a bubble for a head and is absent-minded, Milo De Venus, the six armed class president and Beef and the Bonk Bunch who bully Doyle. The teachers are even more unusual than the students: Ms. Biddy McBrain has a light bulb attached to her head while Coach Frogface eats flies and Professor Icenstein has to keep his classroom cold or he will melt.

Here is a brief description of the show from the video box:

"Blast off to the outer space high school where the students come in all shapes, sizes and every color of the rainbow! At Galaxy High the junior class president has six hands. The local pizza parlor is as close as the nearest satellite and when the science teacher gets mad he melts! Join two earthing exchange students as they encounter a crazy collection of cosmic kids from all over the universe."

Contents

1 Episodes
2 Cast
3 Facts
4 DVD
5 External links

Episodes

"Welcome to Galaxy High" (13 September 1986) Doyle and Aimee arrive at Galaxy High and meet their strange new classmates. Here, their roles are switched, as Doyle is now a nerd and Aimee is popular.
"Pizza's Honor" (20 September 1986) Doyle must make a pizza delivery to the creep Tinglar planet. But Beef and the Bonk Bunch follow him to make trouble.
"The Beef Who Would Be King" (27 September 1986) Beef is elected king of the planet Cholesterol. But once he gets crowned they want to eat him and Doyle must save him.
"Where's Milo?" (4 October 1986) Milo disappears after he angers his friends by making a couple of accidents.
"Those Eyes, Those Lips" (11 October 1986) Booey wants to go to the Mick Maggers concert, but the tickets are sold out. Aimee and the gang go to great lengths to get a ticket for Booey.
"Doyle's New Friend" (18 October 1986) The Hands Across the Universe dance is coming to Galaxy High, and Doyle's new friend Wolfgang arrives to help with the dance and play practical jokes on everyone.
"Dollars and Sense" (25 October 1986) Aimee is pursued by Reggie Unicycle, the richest man in the galaxy. He showers her with gifts and trips, and the gang must help her see him for what he really is.
"Beach Blanket Blow-Up" (1 November 1986) Everyone, but Doyle gets to go for Spring Break at Fort Lauderoid. But Doyle and Professor Icenstein find out that a supernova nearby will destroy the beach planetoid.
"The Brain Blaster" (8 November 1986) To get better grades, Doyle tries a brain blaster and gets addicted. He steals from his friends in order to pay for his habit, but Aimee and friends try to break him off of the drug. NOTE: This episode was nominated for a Humanitas Award.
"The Brat Pack" (15 November 1986) Beef is punished by Ms. McBrain to take over a class full of little kids who are a lot of trouble.
"Founder's Day" (22 November 1986) Doyle, Aimee, Milo and Creep fall into Professor Icenstein's time machine and go back to the day that Galaxy High was founded. But by being there, they alter time and have to make sure that Galaxy High gets created somehow.
"Martian Mumps" (29 November 1986) Everyone but Doyle, Aimee and Professor Icenstein get the Martian Mumps, a disease that turns everyone green and dull. They must find a cure soon or the students and teachers will remain martians forever.
"It Came From Earth" (6 December 1986) At a big game, Doyle is knocked out, and wakes up 15 years later to find he has grown into a giant. All the former Galaxy High students are on Earth and Beef's army has been ordered to destroy Doyle.

Cast

Susan Blu as Aimee Brightower
Pat Carroll as Ms. Biddy McBrain
Nancy Cartwright as "Flat" Freddy Fender and Gilda Gossip
Guy Christopher as Earl Eccchhh
Gino Conforti as Ollie Oilslick the cabbie and Reggie Unicycle
Jennifer Darling as Booey Bubblehead, Myrtle Blastermeier and Wendy Garbo
Pat Fraley as Coach Frogface and Sludge the janitor
Henry Gibson as Doyle's locker
David L. Lander as Milo De Venus
Danny Mann as the Creep
Howard Morris as Professor Icenstein and Luigi La Bounci
Hal Rayle as Doyle Cleverlobe
Neil Ross as Rotten Roland
John Stephenson as Beef Bonk and Harvey Blastermeier

Facts

John Kricfalusi was a character designer for the show and went on to create Ren and Stimpy and The Ripping Friends.

Galaxy High originally aired at 11:30am EST/10:30am CST after Teen Wolf and before CBS Storybreak in the 1986-1987 season on CBS.

An alternate theme song exists showing clips from various episodes. The theme was changed to an instrumental one. At the end Aimee speaks "Here we are Doyle! The only two kids from Earth at a high school in outer space! How do you feel?" Doyle responds "A little spaced out Aimee!"

An 85 page paperback book titled 'Galaxy High School' was published in August 1987 by Bantam-Skylark Books and written by Ann Hodgman. It is an adaption of six episodes, 'Welcome to Galaxy High', 'Those Eyes, Those Lips', 'The Beef Who Would Be King', 'Dollars and Sense', 'Beach Blanket Blow-Up' and 'Founder's Day.' In the prologue, it says that Doyle and Aimee are from Presley High School and their sports teams were called the Hound Dogs. It also says that Aimee didn't know Doyle well before coming to Galaxy High, but did think he was cute, until they actually meet when first entering their new school.

Later airdates: 2 January 1988 - 27 August 1988 on CBS, January 2, 1994-?, July 2, 1994-September 24, 1994, October 8, 1994-Decemeber 31, 1994-early 1995 , 7 February 1996 - 23 February 1996, April 2 1996-April 19 1996, May 27 1996-June 17 1996 on the Sci-Fi Channel.

The series was animated, distributed and owned by TMS Entertainment.

DVD

Galaxy High has been announced for release on DVD. The release is being produced and distributed by Media Blasters through their AnimeWorks division (the same company previously responsible for the release of Invader Zim).

The series will be split across two volumes. Volume 1 (Episodes 1-7) released June 27, 2006 and Volume 2 (Episodes 8-13) released July 25, 2006

External links

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