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Not to be confused with Geo's World (comic).


Geo's World is an American animated comedy television series based on the comic strip of the same name. It is created by Geo G. and produced at Pixar by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. It first premiered on the American Broadcasting Company on October 28, 1989, as a first episode Geo Guy's Midnight Sleep, which led to a series of half-hour episodes. The series ended on June 12, 2013, leading to the production of Geo's Universe.

The show's humor in the earlier seasons were made for mature audiences. But after season 11, The show removed most of the mature content. The first 11 seasons are still aired on Freeform and ABC during 9:00-10:00pm.

Geo's World was conceived by Geo since 1978 as a comic strip shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with the producer Terry Ward. Geo created a world and named the characters, substituting Geo Guy for his own name. The comics became a part of Universal Press Syndicate on July 9, 1981, becoming the network's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989).

The series aired on ABC and its affiliates, except in Canada where it has aired on English and Francophone networks due to Canadian television ownership regulations with a total of 269 episodes.

The success of the show's premiere eventually resulted in eight feature films, Geo's 1st Movie, Geo's 2nd Movie, Geo's 3rd Movie, Geo's 4th Movie, Geo's 5th Movie, Geo's 6th Movie, Geo's 7th Movie, and Geo's 8th Movie. A spin-off film titled Geo's Friends was released in 2014

A reboot/continuation titled Geo's Universe first aired on ABC in late 2013 and is currently ongoing.

History

Geo's World was developed and conceived in the lobby of Terry Ward's office by Geo G. in 1978. He was asked to do a series of comics, and decided to do one based on his Geo Comic series he did in 1971 back in High School.

Geo Guy and Green Bob

Best friends

However, he realized Geo Comic would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life's work, he decided and substituted Geo Guy for his own name; as it was an anagram of 'ego'. This resulted in the creation of Geo's World.

Geo's World first appeared to the world in the comic on July 9, 1981 by Universal Press Syndicate. Geo submitted crudely drawn sketches of Geo Guy and his friends to the animators, assuming they would clean them up in production. However, the animators just re-traced over his drawings; that is why Geo's World appear crudely drawn in the comics.

Production

In 1985, Geo G. was approached by the American Broadcasting Company about the possibility of adapting the comic strip into a television series. In 1988, a team of production companies adapted Geo's World into a half-hour primetime series, for the American Broadcasting Company. ABC was initially nervous to air Geo's World; as there hasn't been a cartoon in primetime since Bobby's World, and that they were unsure if they could keep the audience's attention for the duration of the episode. They proposed doing three seven-minute shorts and four specials until the audienc adjusted, but the producers gambled for thirteen half-hour episodes for the series. Geo's World was originally to premiere in the fall of 1988; with "Geo Guy VS. Greeny Phatom," but when the episode came back from animation in Korea, it had major, major problems with it. was extremely dissatisfied with the product and called for many parts of the episode to be redone. The producers then decided to just go ahead and air "Geo Guy's Midnight Sleep," on October 28, 1989.

NY Advertisment Geo's World 1988

NYC ad for Geo's World

Through the entire show's history since Season 1, John Lasseter, Geo G., and Terry Ward have served as the show's executive producers. Robert Stainton was also in this position, although was not credited. When Stainton left in 1999, he arranged a deal to be credited as executive producer as well as get profits even though he no longer works on the show.

The first team of writers for the first season of Geo's World were assembled by Robert Stainton. These were: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Phil Roman, Tim Hill, John France, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and Dan Povenmire. Newer Geo's World writing teams usually have 16 writers and episode ideas are thought of and proposed in early October. The main writer writes the first draft and the group changes it, adding in jokes and removing parts they don't like. This can sometimes change a script entirely. Up until 2001, the head of these groups was Jeff Pidgeon, who apparently wrote lots of the best lines from episodes. But the idea of all this came from the magic hand of Geo G. who invented the pictures.

Broadcast

Main article: List of episodes

The show was picked up for 25 seasons on ABC. The list of episodes are as follows:

Season Episodes Season Premiere Season Finale Production
Code
DVD Release Date
Pilot 1 June 24, 1988 J9Rx N/A
1 7 October 28, 1989 December 5, 1989 September 11, 2000 (Regions 1 & 4)
2 7 January 31, 1990 May 16, 1990 J0Fx
3 7 April 28, 1991 July 21, 1991 J1Fx
4 7 January 21, 1992 May 6, 1992 J2Fx
5 7 April 28, 1993 August 1, 1993 J3Fx March 6, 2001 (Regions 1 & 4)
6 6 October 11, 1994 November 15, 1994 J4Fx
7 7 September 19, 1995 October 31, 1995 J5Fx
8 7 May 14, 1996 August 20, 1996 AAB1xx
9 8 September 15, 1997 December 22, 1997 BAB1xx May 5, 2001 (Regions 1 & 4)
10 7 May 4, 1998 September 12, 1998 CAB1xx March 18, 2002 (Regions 1)
11 7 March 13, 1999 December 7, 1999 DAB1xx May 3, 2003 (Regions 1 & 4)
12 9 March 6, 2000 December 21, 2000 EAB1xx December 26, 2003 (Regions 1 & 4)
13 7 April 27, 2001 June 8, 2001 FAB1xx November 4, 2004 (Regions 1 & 4)
14 7 May 1, 2002 August 28, 2002 GAB1xx May 18, 2005 (Regions 1 & 4)
15 7 April 2, 2003 June 24, 2003 HAB1xx November 28, 2006 (Regions 1 & 4)
16 7 July 22, 2004 September 1, 2004 JAB1xx December 21, 2007 (Regions 1)
17 7 September 20, 2005 December 13, 2005 KAB1xx August 3, 2008 (Regions 1)
18 7 March 30, 2006 December 24, 2006 LAB1xx July 9, 2009 (Regions 1)
19 7 July 20, 2007 September 14, 2007 MAB1xx November 25, 2010 (Regions 1 & 4)
20 21 September 28, 2007 May 17, 2008 NAB1xx January 20, 2010 (Regions 1 & 4)
21 22 September 27, 2008 May 23, 2009 PAB1xx May 12, 2011 (Regions 1 & 4)
22 21 September 27, 2009 May 23, 2010 RAB1xx November 10, 2012 (Regions 1 & 4)
23 23 September 26, 2010 May 22, 2011 SAB1xx November 19, 2013 (Regions 1 & 4)
24 20 January 5, 2012 July 29, 2012 TAB1xx November 14, 2014 (Regions 1 & 4)
25 27 November 2, 2012 June 12, 2013 UAB1xx November 2015 (Regions 1 & 4)
26 20 January 2021 Febuary 2022 November 2022 (Regions 1 And 4)


Characters

Geo's World

The main characters, Geo Guy, Geo Girl, Green Bob, Dr. PBS and Gum, As you can see, Leah, Little Guy, Coraline, Margo, Dave and Toon Link are not here.

Main characters

Villains

Secondary characters

Minor characters

Films

Main article: List of Films

Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios produced Geo's 1st Movie, a computer-animated film based on the series that was released in theaters on December 23, 1997. The film was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Geo's World creator Geo G. and written by John Lasseter, Geo G., Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, and Pete Docter. In this film, Geo Guy's newest enemy, Doom Vercetti, has a plan to get rid of his parents once and for all, so Geo Guy, Green Bob, Leah, and the rest of 123 Geo's World team up to save Geo Guy's parents. It was followed by seven sequels which includes: Geo's 2nd Movie, Geo's 3rd Movie, Geo's 4th Movie, Geo's 5th Movie, Geo's 6th Movie, Geo's 7th Movie, and Geo's 8th Movie. They make up what is known as the Geo's World film series.

Broadcasting

United States

Canada

  • YTV (English) (1989–present)
  • Réseau Outre Mer 1ere (French) (1993–present)

Latin America

  • Discovery Kids (1996–present)
  • Azteca 7 (Mexico) (1992-present)
  • SBT (Brazil) (1995-present)
  • Chilevision (Chile) (1996-present)
  • Latina Television (Peru) (1997-present)
  • Venevision (Venezuela) (1998-present)
  • Repretel (Costa Rica) (1997-present)
  • Canal 9 (Argentina) (1999-present)
  • Canal 13 (Colombia) (1998-present)
  • Ecuavision (Ecuador) (1999-present)
  • Canal 5 (Honduras) (1998-present)
  • Canal 12 (El Salvador) (1997-present)
  • Canal 35 (Guatemala) (2006-present)
  • RNC-TV (Panama) (1999-present)

Bahamas

  • ZNS-13 (1993-present)

Barbados

  • 8PX-TV8 (1994-present)

Bermuda

  • ZFB-TV (1994-present)

Jamaica

  • Love TV (1997-present)

United Kingdom and Ireland

  • CITV (UK) (1990–present)
  • RTE2 (Ireland) (1992-present)

Austria

  • ORF 2 (1996-present)

Germany

  • Das Erste (1992-1995)
  • ProSieben (1994-present)
  • NDR Fernsehen (1998-present)
  • RTL (1998-2004)
  • Super RTL (2001–present)

Belgium

  • RTBF (French) (1992-present)
  • VRT (Flemish) (1994-present)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • RTVTK (1998-present)

Bulgaria

  • BNT 2 (2000-present)
  • Diema Family (2007-2009)
  • Diema (2010-present)

Croatia

  • HRT 2 (1995-present)
  • RTL Televizija (2005-present)

Czech Republic

  • TV Nova (1996-present)
  • ČT1 (2000-2011)
  • ČT2 (2012-present)
  • ČT :D (2015-present)

France

  • France 3 (1989–present)
  • Réseau Outre Mer 1ere (French overseas territories and Canada) (1993-present)

Greece and Cyprus

  • ANT1 (1989–present)
  • ERT1 (1990-present)
  • ANT1 Cyprus (1993-present) (Shown in Greek and Cypriot)

Hungary

  • M2 (1994-present)
  • TV2 (1998-present)
  • RTL Klub (2000-present)
  • Viasat 3 (2001-2008)

Italy

  • Italia 1 (1991–present)

Macedonia

  • MRT 1 (2003-present)

Malta

  • One TV (2000-present)

Netherlands and Flanders

  • NPO2 (1993-present)
  • Een (Flanders) (1993-present)

Nordic and Scandinavia

  • Kanal 5 (Sweden) (1989-present)
  • TV4 (Sweden) (1993-present)
  • SVT (Sweden) (1996-present)
  • DR (Denmark) (1996-present)
  • NRK (Norway) (1996-present)
  • TV2 (Norway) (1997-present)
  • YLE TV2 (Finland) (1998-present)
  • Stöð 2 (Iceland) (1999-present)
  • TV3 (1995-2004)

Poland

  • Polsat (1993–present)
  • TVP2 (1994-present)
  • TVP Katowice (1995-1998)
  • RTL7 (1998-2001)
  • TVN (2002-present)
  • TV4 (2005-present)
  • TV Puls (2014-2015)
  • Puls 2 (2015-present)

Romania

  • TVR (1996-present)
  • Pro TV (1997-present)

Eastern Europe

  • TV3 (Estonia) (2001-present)
  • LNT (Latvia) (2003-present)
  • LNK (Lithuania) (2002-present)

Slovakia

  • Jednotka (1997-present)

Slovenia

  • Kanal A (1999-present)

Serbia

  • RTS2 (1997-present)

Spain and Portugal

  • TVE 1 (Spain) (1990–present)
  • Neox (Spain) (2009-present)
  • TVG (Spain) (1999-present)
  • Super 3 (Spain) (2009-present)
  • RTP 2 (Portugal) (1993-present)
  • SIC (Portugal) (1996-present)

Switzerland

  • SRF (1996-present)

Turkey and Northern Cyprus

  • TRT Cocuk (1995–present)
  • BRT 1 (Northern Cyprus) (1998-present)

Australia and New Zealand

  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (1991–present)
  • TV2 (New Zealand) (1992-present)

Afghanistan

  • Shamshad TV (2006-present)

Armenia

  • Armenia 1 (2003-present)

Azerbaijan

  • TvAz (2002-present)

China

  • CCTV-1 (1993-2020)

Georgia

  • First Channel (1999-present)

Hong Kong

  • TVB (1993-2020)

Macau

  • TDM 1,2 (1999-present)

India

  • Prasar Bharati (1995-present)

Iran

  • IRIB (2003-present)

Israel

  • Arutz HaYeladim (1996-present)

Japan

  • TV Tokyo (TXN Network) (1992–present)

Kazakhstan

  • Channel 31 (2005-present)

Middle East and North Africa

  • MBC (1997-present)

Mongolia

  • UBS (2009-present)

Pakistan

  • PTV Home (2002-present)

Philippines

  • ABS-CBN (1992-present)

South Africa

  • SABC2 (1996-present)

Southeast Asia

  • Thai PBS (Thailand) (1997-present)
  • NTV7 (Malaysia) (1998-present)
  • MediaCorp Channel 5,8 (Singapore) (1995-present)
  • Indosiar (Indonesia) (1997-present)
  • VTV2 (Vietnam) (2001-present)

South Korea

  • EBS (1989–present)

Taiwan

  • TTV (1994–present)

Uzbekistan

  • MTRK (2010-present)

TV content ratings

United States

  • TV-G
  • TV-Y7-FV
  • TV-PG

United Kingdom

  • U
  • PG

Video games

Main article: List of Video games

A selection of video games based on the show have been released. The latest release has been Geo's World Racing 3, released in 2014.

Reception

Awards

The series has been acknowledged with the George Foster Peabody Award and four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Animated Program.

Critical response

Since its debut in 1989, Geo's World generally received acclaim from critics and fans. Critics says for the show "The shows looks cool. I think it was one of the best animated shows ever made." The show received a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an IMDb rating of 8.9/10. The show would help jumpstart the Geo's World franchise consisting of many feature films, video games, and merchandise.

Theme park attractions

Main article: Geo's World in amusement parks

Home Media

For a list of boxsets, see List of Geo's World boxsets. The series has since seen a blu-ray boxet release and is currently available on Disney+.

Name Season(s) Disc(s) DVD/Blu-Ray Release
Date
The Complete Season 1/4 1 - 4 4 September 11, 2000 (NA)
September 24, 2000 (UK)
The Complete Season 5/8 5 - 8 4 July 6, 2001 (NA)
August 8, 2001 (UK)
The Complete Season 9 9 2 October 1, 2002
The Complete Season 10 10 2 June 10, 2003

Trivia

  • There were many different changes in every seasons of the show, The title card was first appeared in "Geo Guy's Midnight Sleep". The Season 1 title card said: "Season [NUMBER] Episode [NUMBER] [EPISODE TITLE]" It ran from 1989 to 1993. The title card has changed the card. It shows the title of episode and the credits, that ran from 1994 to present. The original 1989 intro was ran to 1989 to 1990. The new intro was ran to 1991 to present.
  • The episodes were based on the comics.
  • Leah does not exsists during the first nine seasons, but only she made her first appearance in Geo's 1st Movie.
  • France was the 1st country to air Geo's World outside the USA and Canada is the 2nd.
  • Some episodes has similar plots to any episodes of other shows.
  • From 1998 to 2002, the show aired on Toon Disney.
  • This was one of the only Greenytoons to air on YTV in Canada
  • Due to being popular among kids, it often aired on ABC's Saturday Morning blocks.
  • The series is banned in Moldova because the president thought it was too unfunny.
  • In some countries Geo's World was a launch customer for channels in Greece, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Arab World, Turkey, Latin America, Norway, Hungary, and Afghanistan.
  • The show, along with its featured films and spin-offs, were added to Disney+ in 2020.

See also

External links

Geo's World
Main characters
Geo GuyGeo GirlGreen BobLeahJea TenromonLittle GuyDr. PBSGumCoralineMargoDaveToon Link
Media
HistoryEpisodesTelevision ShowsVideo gamesFilmsGeo's World (comic)Green Bob (TV Series)Geo's UniverseGeo's Universe Episodes
Films
Geo's 1st Movie (1997) • Geo's 2nd Movie (2000) • Geo's 3rd Movie (2005) • Geo's 4th Movie (2008) • Geo's 5th Movie (2010) • Geo's Big Movie (2012) • Geo's 6th Movie (2013) • Geo's 2nd Big Movie (2014) • Geo's Friends (2014) • Geo's 7th Movie (2016) • Geo's 8th Movie (2020) • Geo's Universe: The Movie (2023)
Games
Geo's World the Arcade (1990) • The Adventures of Geo Guy (1991) • Geo Guy and Green Bob, Turn on the Game! (1994) • Geo Guy's Nightmare (1994) • Geo's World (1996) • Geo's 1st Movie (1997) • Bob Beanson's Rampage (1998) • Racing (1999) • The Great Escape (1999) • Geo's 2nd Movie (2000) • Geo Guy and the lost Color Frog (2002) • Lost in Greeny City! (2001) • Paint (2002) • Extra Large (2003) • Surf n' Slide (cancelled) • Geo's 3rd Movie (2005) • Golf (2007) • Geo's 4th Movie (2008) • The Best Geo's World (2009) • Geo's 5th Movie (2010) • Geo Guy and the Big (2011) • The Geo Guys Bloo (2012) • Racing 2 (2013) • Geo's Heroes (2014) • Racing 3 (2014)
Attractions
Geo's World: The Attack of Bob BeansonGeo Guy's Bus TourThe Geo's World Experience: Doom Vercetti's Return123 Geo's World (Disney California Adventure)Geo Guy's Geo-Go-Around123 Geo's World (Universal Studios Singapore)
Creators and Producers
Geo G. (main creator) • Michael Wildshill (co-creator of Geo's Universe)
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