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Len Janson. Len Janson is an American writer and director whose career in animated cartoons and live-action motion pictures spanned several decades beginning in the 1960s. He began work as an in-betweener at the Walt Disney cartoon studio. By 1965 he had become a story man with his first screen credit in Rudy Larriva 's Boulder Wham!.
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Len Janson is an American animator, writer and director who created the Sonic the Hedgehog television series and wrote for the Sonic Underground television series.
Janson was the series creator of Sonic the Hedgehog television series, having written the series' Bible (not to be confused with the general Sonic Bible), which documented the setting, general backstory and characters from the series. Janson thus created the concept of the Freedom Fighters, Knothole Village, and Sonic the Hedgehog characters like Snively, Rotor, Antoine Depardieu, and Sally, all of whom later transferred over to the Archie Comics series. The Bible also included the character of Nate Morgan, who never appeared in the Sonic the Hedgehog TV show but was later incorporated into the Archie Comics continuity.
Janson was Sonic the Hedgehog's story editor for both seasons and wrote several episodes himself. In particular, he insisted that the heroes must have both wins and losses, and he was a driving force behind the development of the Sonic/Sally relationship. In the second season, he was one of only three writers, along with Ben Hurst and Pat Allee. He was a particular idol to Ben Hurst (who referred to him as the "King"), and when Hurst was made the story editor of the series Sonic Underground, Hurst managed to give Janson six episodes to write.
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•Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series): •"Sonic Boom" •"Sonic Racer" •"Heads or Tails" •"Fed Up With Antoine" •"The Odd Couple" •Sonic Underground: •"A Hedgehog's Home is Her Castle" •"Bug!" •"When in Rome..." •"Three Hedgehogs and a Baby" •"Six is a Crowd" •"The Big Melt"
•Len Janson at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
•Len Janson at the Internet Movie Database
1."The Great Sonic Continuity Debate" (by PorpoiseMuffins, 11/10) at 2.SatAM Bible at 3."Ben Hurst on SatAM" (written by Ben Hurst, compiled by PorpoiseMuffins, 11/10) at
May 3, 2007 · Making these films was one of the great experiences of our lives. Chuck Menville passed away from lymphoma June 15, 1992 at age 51. Len Janson is today retired from animation and now writing novels. He and Chuck had long stints as a writing team at Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, and other studios. Len also wrote live-action.
Sonic the Hedgehog. (TV series) Sonic the Hedgehog is an animated television series based on the video game series of the same name. It was story edited by Len Janson and produced by DIC Productions, Sega of America, and the Italian studio Reteitalia in association with Telecinco. [2] It is the second of DIC's Sonic cartoons [broken anchor ...
Unhappy with the climate at Disney, Menville soon branched out into writing, and began a long working partnership with his friend Len Janson. During the mid-1960s, Menville and Janson co-produced a series of short live-action films, among them the Academy Award -nominated Stop Look and Listen , an innovative stop-motion pixilation experiment in ...
Len Janson co-wrote the Star Trek: The Animated Series first season episode "Once Upon a Planet" with Chuck Menville. He also worked on the script for "The Practical Joker", but is uncredited. Menville and Janson cooperated on many projects including several Filmation cartoons and stop-motion animated short film titled Stop, Look, and Listen for which they were nominated for an Oscar in 1968 ...
Len Janson is an American writer and director whose career in animated cartoons and live-action motion pictures spanned several decades beginning in the 1960s. He began work as an in-betweener at the Walt Disney cartoon studio. By 1965 he had become a story man with his first screen credit in Rudy Larriva's Boulder Wham!.
