Astroblast!

Astroblast! is an American animated science fiction children's television series created by Bob Kolar for Sprout. The series follows Comet, an extroverted dog, Sputnik, an adventurous and loving pig, Halley, a smoothie-delivering rabbit, Radar, a bouncy monkey, and Jet, a mute alligator, who live together with an octopus named Sal in the Astroblast Space Station to the fictional smoothie café known as the Frosty Star. It is based on the book series of the same name by author and illustrator Bob Kolar.

Astroblast!
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Genre	Educational Comedy Science fiction
Created by	Bob Kolar
Based on	Astroblast! by Bob Kolar
Directed by	Dan Flynn
Composer	Eggplant LF[a]
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producer	Deborah Forte
Producers	David Trexler[b] Emily Brown Jessica Wollman Jef Kaminsky
Running time	11 minutes
Production companies	Scholastic Entertainment[c] Soup2Nuts
Original release
Network	Sprout
Release	July 12, 2014 (2014-07-12) – February 7, 2015 (2015-02-07)

The series was co-produced by Scholastic Entertainment^[1] and Soup2Nuts and premiered on July 12, 2014. The series also started airing on NBC Kids, the Saturday morning programming block on NBC in October 2014.^[1] This was the final series produced by Soup2Nuts before the company closed on March 27, 2015.

An early promo for the series featured a variation on the theme music from The A-Team.^[2]

In 2021, FilmRise picked up the show for distribution.^[3] The show is currently available for streaming on the FilmRise multimedia platform, and was previously on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV and Tubi TV in the United States, as well as on the Clan television channel and RTVE Play in Spain. The series is available in different languages and has aired in other countries internationally.

Premise

The series follows the adventures of a group of high-spirited and fun-loving animals, Comet, Halley, Sputnik, Radar, and Jet. They live with their alien octopus friend in the Astroblast Space Station, which also houses a large library and a smoothie café called the Frosty Star.

Cast

• Vinnie Penna as Comet, an easily excitable, easygoing, optimistic and determined red dog who goes on adventures. Penna also voices Morg, Bloodoo, and Flash, as well as additional voices
• Gigi Abraham as Halley, a pink rabbit who likes smoothies the most and makes high-speed deliveries. Abraham also voices Zelda, Sal's GamGam, Glippi, Bippity-Bops and more additional voices
• Veronica Taylor as Sputnik, a pink-peach pig who has smoothies in time and tends to get overly passionate about things. Taylor also voices Carly Cosmos, Bippity-Bops, and Laney, as well as additional voices
• Joe Gaudet as Radar, a lazy and feisty but well-meaning and practical brown monkey who loves to bounce. Gaudet also voices Bob, Cosmo Carson, and additional voices
• Jet, a stoic green alligator who has a quiet disposition. He is silent and unlike most characters, cannot speak. Instead he is mute, and he can only communicate by using gestures and sign language in many ways.
• John Taylor as Sal, a level-headed, rational and advice-giving purple three-eyed octopus who founded the Frosty Star. Taylor also voices Doobloo, and more additional voices

The voice director of the series is Susan Blu.

Episodes

Solo airings

Individual air dates for stories as a 15-minute program:

#	Title	Writer(s)	Original airdate
101	Spic 'n Span	Jack Ferraiolo	July 21, 2014[citation needed]
102	Smoothie Operator	Susan Kim	July 14, 2014[citation needed]
103	Take Off!	Susan Kim	July 15, 2014[citation needed]
104	Oh, Brother…	Jack Ferraiolo	July 12, 2014[citation needed]
105	Bend it Like Radar	Jill Cozza-Turner	July 16, 2014[citation needed]
106	Lost and Found	Ed Valentine	July 17, 2014[citation needed]
107	I'll Save You!	Frederick Stroppel	July 18, 2014[citation needed]
108	Growin' Crazy	Jack Ferraiolo & Susan Kim & Allan Neuwirth	July 14, 2014[citation needed]
109	Twice the Talent	Jonathan Greenberg	July 15, 2014[citation needed]
110	Building the Perfect Present	Jen Klein	July 12, 2014[citation needed]
111	Glippi's Visit	Ed Valentine	July 15, 2014[citation needed]
112	Don't Touch!	Adam Rudman	July 17, 2014[citation needed]
113	Are You My Piffin?	Melinda LaRose	July 18, 2014[citation needed]
114	Halley's Wannabe	Jill Cozza-Turner	July 19, 2014[citation needed]
115	Sputnik the Spoiler	Susan Kim	July 20, 2014[citation needed]
116	Don’t Fear the Surfboard	Frederick Stroppel	July 26, 2014[citation needed]
117	Billy Starrider	Kacey Arnold	July 21, 2014[citation needed]
118	Sore Loser	Denise Brossman	July 22, 2014[citation needed]
119	Halley Goes Solo	Elizabeth Keyishian	July 23, 2014[citation needed]
120	Z-Max Mania	Rogelio Martinez	July 12, 2014[citation needed]
121	What a Mess!	Jen Klein	July 13, 2014[citation needed]
122	Beck and Call	Pamela Hickey & Dennys McCoy	July 13, 2014[citation needed]
123	Sputnik Takes Charge	Jonathan Greenberg	July 22, 2014[citation needed]
124	The Clean Machine	Susan Kim	July 23, 2014[citation needed]
125	Comet's Gift	Ed Valentine	July 24, 2014[citation needed]
126	A Star Is Born	Jill Cozza-Turner	August 12, 2014[citation needed]
201	A Bird in the Hand	Susan Kim	June 22, 2015[citation needed]
202	How Do You Get to Carnegie Nebula?	Melinda LaRose	TBA
203	Who Let the Stuffie Out?	Jonathan Greenberg	TBA
204	Lights Out	Kacey Arnold	TBA
205	Shape Up!	Jack Ferraiolo	TBA
206	Surfin' Space Safari	Susan Kim	TBA
207	I Love a Parade…Sometimes	Rogelio Martinez	November 8, 2015 or May 9, 2015 or earlier[citation needed]
208	Radar Sleeps Over	Denise Brossman	October 29, 2014[citation needed]
209	Stop Booging Me!	Jill Cozza-Turner	November 15, 2015 or May 16, 2015 or earlier[citation needed]
210	Just Peachy	Liz Keyishian	February 9, 2015 or May 16, 2015 or November 15, 2015[citation needed]
211	Hole in One	Jack Ferraiolo & Susan Kim	February 10, 2015
212	Treasure Hunt	Jonathan Greenberg	February 11, 2015
213	Something Borrowed, Someone Blue	Susan Kim	January 19, 2015
214	Be Mine	Ed Valentine	February 14, 2015
215	GamGam Knows Best[4] aka Gam Gam Knows Best[citation needed]	Kacey Arnold	January 19, 2015[citation needed] or September 9, 2015[4]
216	Three's a Crowd	Denise Brossman	January 21, 2015
217	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Alligator?[5] aka Big Bad Alligator[6]	Jill Cozza-Turner	January 23, 2015[citation needed] or June 6, 2015[5] or October 1, 2015[6]
218	Sing Along to the Bouncing Monkey	Susan Kim	February 2, 2015[citation needed] or June 6, 2015[5]
219	I Feel Fine!	Jonathan Greenberg	January 26, 2015[citation needed]
220	Shoes Blues	Ed Valentine	February 13, 2015[citation needed]
221	Radar for a Day	Susan Kim	January 28, 2015[citation needed] or November 3, 2015[7]
222	A Gift From Halley	Liz Keyishian	January 30, 2015[citation needed] or November 3, 2015[8]
223	Best Guests	Susan Kim	February 2, 2015[citation needed] or November 3, 2015[9]
224	Puzzle Hunt	Ed Valentine	February 4, 2015
225	Bop 'til You Drop[10] aka Bop Til You Drop[citation needed]	Jonathan Greenberg	February 6, 2015[citation needed] or June 27, 2015[10]
226	Kapowsers!	Susan Kim	February 7, 2015[citation needed] or June 27, 2015[10]

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International broadcast

The series was dubbed into different languages. Finnish network Yle TV2 began broadcasting the series in November 2016, during the "Pikku Kakkonen" programming block. In Ireland, it aired on TG4, in Spain, it aired on Clan, and in Thailand, it aired on True Spark. The series was previously available on Hulu before 2019. In 2021, FilmRise picked up the show for distribution, and it was available on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV and Tubi TV, but as of March 2025 it has been removed from nearly every streaming website.

Notes

1. A team of music composers consisting of Steve D'Angelo and Terry Tompkins
2. Supervising producer.
3. Animation outsourced to Top Draw Animation.