Santo vs The Clones

Santo vs The Clones (Spanish: Santo Contra Los Clones) is a 2004 Cartoon Network Latin American original animated series consisting of five short episodes, which were aired every Wednesday nights at 8:00 PM in Mexico,^[1] and also in another Latin American countries.^[2] It was created by Carlo Olivares Paganoni, a filmmaker and advertising worker, but also a cartoonist who already made the local Cartoon Network pilot Bobots; he wanted to pay tribute to the legendary defunct Luchador wrestler enmascarado and film actor Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, better known as El Santo. Finally, Carlo hired for this show as developer El Hijo del Santo.

Santo vs The Clones
Genre	Superhero
Created by	Carlo Olivares Paganoni
Developed by	El Hijo del Santo
Written by	Carlo Olivares Paganoni
Directed by	Carlo Olivares Paganoni
Creative director	Fernando Semenzato
Voices of	(See Voice cast)
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	5
Production
Executive producers	Carlo Olivares Paganoni Manuel Cuan, Barry Koch, and Hernán La Greca (for Cartoon Network Latin America)
Producer	Adolfo Díaz
Editors	James Powell Jesenko Fazlagic
Running time	2–3 minutes
Production companies	LMT Animation Studio HookUp Animation (main title only) Cartoon Network Producciones
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network (Mexico)
Release	October 27 (2004-10-27) – November 24, 2004 (2004-11-24)

Synopsis

Set in Mexico City, Santo vs The Clones follows the adventures of the homonym wrestler as a superhero who must try to stop the plans of Dr. Clone, an evil scientist, who which is determined to kill him and simultaneously dominate the world by creating clones of his old enemies (through their DNA).

Voice cast

• Daniel Giménez Cacho – Dr. Clone
• Omar Chaparro – Adenaido
• Jimmy Guthrie – Frankus
• Gabriela Guzmán – Diana
• Flavio Medina – Adrián
• Alberto Pedrel – Santo
• Arturo Rivera – The Announcer
• Héctor Sáez – The Professor
• Julio Vega – Jardinero
• Gabriela Willert – Chiquis

Episodes

No.	Original title/Translated title	Original air date
1	"Las Lobas Contra El D.F." / "The She-Wolves vs. The D.F."	October 27, 2004 (2004-10-27)
2	"Santo Contra el Regreso de Las Momias" / "Santo vs. the Return of The Mummies"	November 3, 2004 (2004-11-03)
3	"El Pelo en la Camisa del Jardinero" / "The Hair on the Gardener's Shirt"	November 10, 2004 (2004-11-10)
4	"El Regreso de Las Vampiras" / "The Return of The Vampires"	November 17, 2004 (2004-11-17)
5	"Santo Contra Santo" / "Santo vs. Santo"	November 24, 2004 (2004-11-24)

Canceled American show

Like a relation to Santo vs The Clones, in 2007 has been announced that its international version is in development at Cartoon Network Studios,^[3][4] but was eventually released as an unaired short pilot titled Mask of Santo in 2008. Also for it, Carlo Olivares Paganoni and El Hijo del Santo are reconfirmed as creator and developer, respectively.

Title	Written by	Storyboarded and directed by	Original release date
"Mask of Santo"[5]	Carlo Olivares Paganoni	Tyree Dillihay[6]	2008 (2008)