The Adventures of Big Nate

The Adventures of Big Nate is a 1993 American-Spanish Animated series that was based on the Big Nate comics by Lincoln Peirce. With it airing during August of 1993. 20 episodes were produced between early-mid 1992 and Early 1995, which were syndicated by Bohbot Entertainment in the United States. It follows the adventures of the titular protagonist, alongside his friends, in sixth grade.

Plot
Big Nate follows the adventures and misadventures of Nate Wright, a semi-incompetent, spirited and rebellious sixth-grader. His friend group includes Francis, Teddy, Chad, and Dee Dee. Nate hates social studies teacher Mrs. Godfrey, whom he considers his nemesis and calls her names like “the school's Godzilla”, and the firm Principal Nichols. At home, Nate lives with his single father, Martin, and girly sister Ellen.

The series features a short PSA segment titled "Nate's announcements" which were shown at the end of every episode. These segments were written by Clyde Garcia.

Characters

 * Daniel DeSanto as Nate Wright
 * Rachael Macfarlane as Ellen Wright
 * Randy Peterson as Martin Wright
 * Roberto Garcia as Teddy Ortiz
 * Mort Chapel as Chad Applewhite
 * Erica Luttrell as Dee Dee Holloway
 * Harry Stones as Francis Pope
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Principal Nichols
 * Tress MacNeille as Mrs. Godfrey
 * Tara Meyer as Jenny Jenkins
 * Stuart Stone as Randy Betancourt

Production
In 1991, the first year the Big Nate comic was published, Peanuts executive producer Lee Mendelson purchased the option from Lincoln Peirce to make an animated Big Nate television series for Saturday-morning cartoons at NBC; Peirce "was paid $5,000 to write a quote-on-quote bible describing the characters and outlining a few story ideas". However, the day after this deal was finalized, all NBC Saturday-morning cartoons were cancelled, that was until Lincoln Peirce was approached by GAME Entertainment, who was already developing a TV show based on Mrs Piggle Wiggle at the time.

Originally, The Adventures of Big Nate and Mrs Piggle Wiggle were both originally going to premier on a new syndication block managed by PBS titled: "The Bookworm show" but was soon turn down over concerns by Leanne Carson that Big Nate may not be appropriate for PBS, so the show was put on Amazin' Adventures instead.