Spy Girlz

Spy Girlz is an animated television series produced by GAME Entertainment and features the adventures of three female spies. This show is the second GAME show to be completely animated in digital ink.

The show aired on Syndicated networks on August 13th 1997, with the show eventually airing on Nickelodeon UK on September that year.

Premise
The show is about three spies who are part of the Intelligence Agency For Worldwide Protection (or IAFWP for short). When the girls aren't fighting crime, they live their lives in the city of Chicago.

The three spies are provided with various gadgets to help them fight crime as the "Villain of the Week" is introduced every episode.

Characters

 * Rachael Yiu (Voiced by Thuy Trang) A Chinese-American schoolgirl who loves her friends and would do anything for them, although she could come off as "savage" at times, she still keeps her cool.
 * Sara Patterson (Voiced by Andrea Baker) A sporty girl from Swedish ancestry, she never plans things and just goes with the flow.
 * Meg Franklin (Voiced by Reagan Gomez-Preston) An Afro-Jamaican girl who's the most fashionable out of all the group. She loves adding accessories to things to "Spice them Up".
 * Mr. Kendall (Voiced by Benedict Campbell) Founder and president of IAFWP and the trio's superior. He's in charge of most of the missions.
 * Suzie (Voiced by Joy Tanner) A girl who's trio's nemesis outside of their spy missions. She can be seen annoying them to the point that the trio becomes frustrated.
 * M.A.R.G.O.R.I.E (Voiced by Stevie Vallance) Kendall's personal AI assistant.
 * Todd (Voiced by Seth Green) The Trio's crush who often rejects them.
 * Lydia (Voiced by Katie Leigh) Sara's Mom
 * Motif (Voiced by Anna Van Hooft) a spy agent from the 1980s who's Mr Kendall's cousin.
 * Lucy (Voiced by Mary Kay Bergman) Rachael's Mom
 * Brenda (Voiced by Sanaa Lathan) Meg's Mom
 * Daniel (Voiced by Matt Hill) Sara's Dad
 * Michael (Voiced by Fernando Chien) Rachael's Dad

Villains

 * Memphis (Voiced by Cindy Robinson) A solo spy who claims to be superior from everyone.
 * Rick Rotten (Voiced by Sam Vincent) A man who has a crocodile head.
 * Suite Bill (Voiced by Billy West) A teen obsessed with candy, could do anything to get his hands on it. He also turns people into candy.
 * Eric D'Awesome (Voiced by Scott McNeil) A villain with a nasally voice.
 * Queen Eva (Voiced by Leanne Carson) the oldest out of all villains, she can act sarcastic at times.

Production
Early production began in late 1996 when Randy Peterson found out that not that many Spy shows had female protagonists at the time. The show was produced in-house by GAME themselves while animation was handled at nod studios.

The original working title for the show was "Girl, They're Spiez!".

United States
The series aired in syndication on various FOX affiliates from August 13th 1997 to January 27th 1999. The show later aired on FOX family from 2000 to 2001 with the show airing on ABC Family from 2001 to 2004 when it was pulled off the air (likely due to it being similar to a show called: Totally Spies!)

Reruns of the show eventually aired on the GAME funhouse network from the 2005-2008 season.

International
In Canada, the show aired on Teletoon from late 1998-mid 2003. The series also aired on many Disney Channel networks internationally.

In the UK, the show aired on CBBC before being removed from their schedule in Late 2002, the show would briefly return from late 2006-early 2007.

The series also aired in India on Cartoon Network.

Merchandise
Various merchandise of the show included toys based off the various gadgets, action figures, dolls and plushies. Non-toy merchandise varied from pencil cases, bedspreads, mugs, lunchboxes, stationary, backpacks, clothing, accessories and toothbrushes.

In August 2000, Mcdonald's collaborated with GAME in the USA and Canada for six happy meal toys based off the TV show.

Home Video
In the year 1999, the show was released on DVD and VHS through GAME home entertainment, where episodes were split into volumes consisting of 4 episodes. for DVD's, they sometimes included extra features, such as episode and language selection settings and voiced character descriptions by child voice actors.

In the UK, VHS and DVD rights were handled by Abbey Home Media.