CyberChase, the hit cartoon-mystery series, takes kids on a wild ride through cyberspace where they are challenged to use the power of math. The voices of Christopher Lloyd and Gilbert Gottfried add to the fun in a series of cyber-adventures full of eye-popping animation and a sly comic flair. Airing daily on PBS Kids,
CyberChase is produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana.
In the world of cyberspace, a classic good-versus-evil battle rages! When the dastardly villain Hacker (Lloyd) launches a mad mission to conquer the virtual universe, Motherboard calls upon three Earth kids for help. They are Jackie, Matt and Inez - the culturally diverse heroes of
CyberChase - who travel from their real-world realm, along with the wise-cracking cyber-bird Digit (Gottfried), to the colorful virtual vistas of cyberspace where they vanquish the bad guys in an all-out battle of wits.
Each episode takes the kids on a thrilling adventure driven by a different math concept - from tackling time in a crazy cook-off, to cracking codes in creepy caves, or making sense of numbers in a fractured fairy tale world. The heroes use minds, not muscles, to overcome obstacles and danger everywhere. Guest voices include Al Roker, Bebe Neuwirth, Jasmine Guy, Jane Curtin, Geoffrey Holder, Phil Bosco, and others.
TV Guide proclaimed
CyberChase as one of the top ten new children's shows in the 2002 "Parent's Guide to Kids TV" edition.
Child Magazine gave
CyberChase four stars - it's highest rating - in February 2002. In May 2003,
Dallas Morning News' Jeanne Spreier called
CyberChase "food for the brain."
Now Paramount - thanks to their new
distribution agreement with PBS - is bringing
CyberChase home on
August 3rd with two DVD releases, each list-pricing for $16.99 and each containing two exciting episodes from the series:
- Cyberchase: Totally Rad & The Borg Of The Ring
- "Totally Rad" - The dastardly Hacker (Christopher Lloyd) takes over the Radopolis cybersite, declaring himself King in "Totally Rad," the 2nd-season premiere of CyberChase. In an effort to dethrone him, the kids challenge the Hacker's extreme team to a winner-take-all skate-off. There's just one catch: high-scoring tricks need as much area as possible and the field keeps mysteriously changing! With Digit (Gilbert Gottfried) as coach, the kids put on a dazzling display of blading, boarding, and biking, but can they match their performance to the changing arena? The Big Idea: Different shapes bounded by the same perimeter can enclose very different areas.
- "The Borg of the Ring" - A powerful crown is found and quickly stolen by Hacker. In trying to reclaim it, the CyberSquad meets a teenborg named Slider.
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- Cyberchase: Codename Icky & Harriet The Hippo And The Mean Green
- "Codename: Icky" - In the watery depths of cybersite Aquari-yum, the kids and Hacker go in search of a giant cyber-slug, who feeds on pure energy. The kids and Digit travel underwater in two separate vessels, but Hacker has a listening device that taps into their communications system, allowing him to overhear their plans - and track every move they make. The kids outsmart Hacker by devising a series of codes so they can send messages back and forth in secret - even though Hacker can hear what they're saying. But unless the kids can reach the slug first, Hacker will use the slug to attack Motherboard's circuitry and disable her once and for all! The Big Idea: You can use a code (a communication system that substitutes one thing for another) to send top-secret messages as long as your code has an adjustable rule that can be reversed to read the message.
- "Harriet Hippo and the Mean Green" - Hacker infects Motherboard with a new virus - one that causes her to make cyber-citizens act mean. Digit and the kids go in search of an antidote: 2/5 of the Electro-Root, 2/8 of the Healing Stone, and 1/3 of a box of Hacker's wig gel - a strange antidote indeed! Will the young cyber-heroes be able to gather the ingredients and figure out how to properly mix these odd fractions before it is too late? The Big Idea: Fractions that look different can represent the same portion of a whole.
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