Pepper Ann is an American animated television series created by Sue Rose and aired on Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC.[2] It first premiered on September 13, 1997, and ended on November 18, 2000.[3] Pepper Ann was the first Disney animated television series to be created by a woman.
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Created by | Sue Rose[1] |
Based on | Pepper Ann by Sue Rose |
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Theme music composer | Brian Woodbury |
Composer | Pat Irwin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 65 (113 segments) (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
Production companies | Walt Disney Television Animation Buena Vista International, Inc.[a] |
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Release | September 13, 1997 November 18, 2000 | –
Tom Warburton, who later created Cartoon Network's Codename: Kids Next Door, served as the lead character designer for the series.
Pepper Ann centers on the trials and tribulations that occur during the titular character's adolescence and charts her ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. The character originated in a comic strip published in YM magazine.[4]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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1 | 13 | September 13, 1997 | January 24, 1998 | ABC (Disney's One Saturday Morning) | |
2 | 13 | September 12, 1998 | January 16, 1999 | ||
3 | 8 | September 11, 1999 | January 22, 2000 | ||
4 | 18 | February 6, 2000 | February 27, 2000 | UPN (Disney's One Too) | |
5 | 13 | September 9, 2000 | November 18, 2000 | ABC (Disney's One Saturday Morning) UPN (Disney's One Too) |
Pepper Ann was aired as part of the Disney's One Saturday Morning block on ABC from 1997 to 2001. Reruns were also shown on Disney's One Too on UPN during the 2000–01 season, and later on Disney Channel, and on Toon Disney until 2008.
All 65 episodes of the series were released on Disney+ on September 8, 2021,[5] with the episodes from seasons 4–5 listed under season 3 on the platform and most of the season 5's episode segments that are in mismatched order.[6]
Internationally, the show aired on the likes of GMTV and RTÉ