Greeny Phatom

Greeny Phatom is an American-Canadian-British-German-Belgian-French-Scandavian-Luxembourgian television series that was first episode on August 13, 1995 and has been going on ever since, but it has been announced that the series will end with the Season 25 episode Goodbye to Little Guy sometime in 2020.

Episodes
see: Greeny Phatom/Episode Guide

Video games
see: Greeny Phatom/Video Games

Companies that were involved with Greeny Phatom

 * Fox Kids Worldwide (1995-2002)
 * Saban Entertainment (1995-2002)
 * 4Kids Entertainment (2002-2008)
 * Steve Rotfeld Productions (2014-2016)
 * News Corporation (1995-2013), 21st Century Fox (2013-2018), The Walt Disney Company (2019-present)
 * 20th Century Fox Television (1995-2018), Walt Disney Television (2019-present)
 * Fox Animation Studios (1995-2000), Blue Sky Studios (2000-2018), Disney Television Animation (2019-present)
 * Gracie Films (1995-present)
 * The Curiosity Company (1997-present)
 * Capital Cities/ABC Inc. (1995)
 * ABC Group (1996-2000)
 * SBS Broadcasting Group (1995-2000, 2019-present)
 * DIC Productions (1995-2000), DIC Entertainment Corporation (2000-2008)
 * Cinar/Cookie Jar Group (1995-2012)
 * DHX Media (2012-present)
 * Sunbow Entertainment (1995-2004), Griffin-Bacal Advertising (1995-1998), TV Loonland AG (2000-2009), m4e AG (2011-present), Studio 100 (2011-present)
 * Owl Communications (1995), Owl Television (1996-2000)
 * Sony Wonder (1995-present)
 * Children's Television Workshop (1995-2000), Sesame Workshop (2000-present)
 * Klasky Csupo (1995-2004), Sony Pictures Animation (2004-present)
 * Film Roman (1995-2016), Studio 100 Animation (2016-present)
 * TF1 Group (1995-present)
 * Gaumont Multimédia (1996-1999)
 * Xillam (1999-present)
 * ZDF (1995-present)
 * BBC (1995-present)
 * TV Tokyo (1995-present)
 * TMS-Kyokuchi Corporation (1995-1998), Studio Ghibli (1998-2014), GAINAX (2014-present)

Production
In 1989, Robert Stainton created two characters, Big Guy and Dr. Benson, which would later become Little Guy and Dr. Beanson, the series was first pitched to Hanna-Barbera, who rejected it because they thought it was "too stupid" of an idea for them. Robert later pitched the series to DiC Entertainment (who rejected it due to Andy Heyward finding the idea "more fit for a indie comic book"), Ruby-Spears (who rejected it due to Robert being absent due to an appendix operation), CineGroupe (who rejected it due to Robert having difficulty understanding some of the staff through their Quebecois accents), Walt Disney Television (who rejected it due to it being "screwed-up" and "creepy"), and Cosgrove Hall Films (who rejected it due to being "too American of an idea"). In 1990, Big Guy and Dr. Benson's names were changed to Little Guy and Dr. Beanson, Robert shelved the series in 1991, until Sunday, July 18, 1993, when James Clayton met Robert while on vacation, Robert told him of Greeny Phatom, James was intrested, and signed a deal with Canadian company Owl Communications to fund the series, Robert started working on the pilot episode, there was one problem though, Robert didn't know how to animate, Robert decided to do with what he had and use Microsoft Paint on his Windows 3.1x computer and print the images and put them frame by frame to make it kinda've look like the characters move, Robert invited some kids to watch the test screening of the pilot episode with their parents, the pilot was test screened on Friday, January 21, 1994 on 16:30 pm, the parents found it a bit too dark for kids', but the kids liked it, Robert decided to pitch the series to Fox Kids Network, and shortly after, Robert and James got a call from Haim Saban that the series was greenlight for 1995, the pilot episode aired on Saturday, October 29, 1994 at 10/9c, but the series wouldn't air it's first actual episode until Sunday, August 13, 1995 at 10/9c, it was aired on Sunday due to test which meant that the episode aired on the regular Fox Network, Greeny Phatom went on to be such a sucess that networks from around the globe were asking for a dub of the series, Robert thought it was the right time to agree to those dubs since Fox Kids was starting to be on countries outside of the US and Canada.

Schedules

 * Seasons 1-4: Weekday-Saturday Mornings at 10/9c
 * Seasons 5-8: Weekday-Saturday Mornings at 7/6c
 * Seasons 9-14: Saturday Mornings at 7/6c
 * Seasons 15-19: Sunday Evenings at 10/9c
 * Seasons 20-23: Saturday Mornings at 10/9c
 * Season 24-present: Weekday-Saturday Mornings at 10/9c (weekdays reruns only)