The Incredible Crash Dummies (TV special)

The Incredible Crash Dummies is a 1993 animated television special. In the United States, it originally aired on Fox Kids.^[1] It was later repacked as a video to be sold with two of the Crash Dummy action figures (Ted and a "purple/gold" repainted Junkman) as well as a mail-in offer to order. Like the TV ad the series was based on the "You Could Learn a Lot from a Dummy" PSAs, episodes would have the characters announcing at the end "Don't you be a dummy, buckle your safety belts...and leave the crashing to us!" It was the first full-length television cartoon created using computer graphics.^[2][3]

The Incredible Crash Dummies
Genre	Animated TV Special
Developed by	Savage Steve Holland Bill Kopp
Written by	Savage Steve Holland Bill Kopp
Directed by	Mark Mariutto
Voices of	John Stocker Dan Hennessey James Rankin Michael Caruana Lee MacDougall Richard Binsley Paul Haddad Susan Roman
Theme music composer	Jim Morgan Ray Parker Tom Szczesniak
Composer	Acrobat Music
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Michael Hirsh Patrick Loubert Clive A. Smith Larry Lamb
Producers	Pam Lehn Stephen Hodgins
Animators	Mark Mariutto Ron Pitts
Editor	Al Maciulis
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Nelvana Lamb&Company Tyco Industries
Original release
Network	Fox Kids
Release	May 1, 1993 (1993-05-01)

Plot

Dummyland is a fictional world inhabited only by living crash dummies. Many make a living testing cars, just like the real ones.

The story begins with crash dummy professor Dr. Zub has creating a new "uncrashable" prototype armor called the Torso 9000 and is testing it with the help of crash dummy Ted. Unfortunately the initial trial run goes awry and Ted's head is severed from his body. The following night however, Ted is accidentally replaced with the head of the evil Junkman, who can now harness the power of the Torso 9000 and manages to break free from the Crash Test facility.^[4]

Plotting to destroy the crash dummies, the Junkman sets up his base near an abandoned scrap heap and creates an army of killing machines out of spare car parts. When a valuable disc of information on the Torso 9000 is stolen, and finally Dr. Zub himself is kidnapped, heroes Slick & Spin step in to save the day.

Cast

• John Stocker as Dr. Zub/Horst
• Dan Hennessey as Junkman^[5]
• James Rankin as Slick/Jackhammer^[6]
• Michael Caruana as Spin
• Lee MacDougall as Ted
• Richard Binsley as Spare Tire/Pistonhead
• Paul Haddad as Bull/Daryl
• Susan Roman as Computer Voice

Production

Computer Hardware & Software

Silicon Graphics workstations were used in production utilizing Wavefront Technologie's modeling and animation software