Extrano

Extrano (also known as Disney's Extrano) is an American animated mystery horror-comedy television series created by John Dathis which aired on Disney Channel, Disney XD and ABC between 1997-2021. The series follow a group of three teenagers, the protagonist, Tariq O'Quinn, The neurotic Harvey Patel, and The geeky Bonnie Gilmore, a child, the young and kind-of-an-airhead Eliot Gilmore, Bonnie's younger sister and her anthropomorphic plush fox, Zorrito. Each episode, they discover an odd entity in their home city of San Antonio, Texas. Together, they stop the entity and document it in their "Team Log".

John Dathis conceived the concept of the show while studying animation and writing at Full Sail University in the 1980s, and was inspired by his own adolescences when he was growing up in San Antonio, Texas. He pitched the show to Disney Channel in 1987, which in turn lead to a pilot, produced by Disney Television Animation, which was screened at the Annecy Film Festival in 1993. A one-episode preview was aired on ABC in 1996, before the start of the Preseason NFL Football games. It again previewed on May 18, 1997 and officially premiered on June 9 on Disney Channel, later concluding on March 12, 2021 on Disney XD.

The show is one of the longest running animated televisions shows in America and the longest running show on Disney Channel. It received high viewership in the United States on cable television and influenced the development of merchandise, video games and a made-for-TV movie. Critics praised the writing, humor, story arcs and character development of the show, citing its appeal to a wide range of ages, however, some reviewers criticized its occasional gruesome imagery and immature jokes. The series won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2002 for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program, and won several Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program, Outstanding Character Voice-Over, Original Main Title Theme Music and Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.