Captain Sturdy (found Cartoon Network animated pilots; 2001/2003)

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A promo for the pilot.

Status: Found

Date found: 30 Aug 2018

Found by: Adult Swim

Captain Sturdy is a cartoon pilot produced at Renegade Animation and created by Bill Waldner, Darrell Van Citters, and Ashley Postlewaite, that aired on Cartoon Network in 2001 as part of their second Big Pick Weekend, where it competed against nine other pilots to get picked up for a series, but lost.

The pilot episode shown was titled "Back in Action", in which the aging and retired Captain Sturdy re-unites with his middle-aged sidekick Ultra Boy to save the world once again when the Union of Super-Heroes turns out to be a greedy organization that does not understand superheroes as much as it used to.

This episode has resurfaced online, but in low quality and not in its complete form. Footage of the episode can be found in this segment of the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Big Pick Weekend. A sequel was produced in 2003, "The Originals", for Adult Swim. This episode is still fully available online. In 2018, both shorts were made available on Adult Swim's website.

Videos

"Back in Action"

"The Originals"

See Also

• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (partially found "Wedgies pilot" of Cartoon Network animated series; 2007)
• Nikki (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2000)
• IMP, Inc. (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe (partially lost pilots from animation studio; 2008-2011)
• Jeffrey Cat: Claw and Order (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2002)
• Major Flake in "Soggy Sales" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• The Powerpuff Girls (lost pilot of Cartoon Network animated series reboot; 2016)
• Uncle Gus (partially found original English audio of Cartoon Network animated pilots; 2000-2001)
• Regular Show (partially found Flash pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; late 2000s-2010)
• Mess O' Blues (partially found prototype short of "Johnny Bravo" Cartoon Network animated series; 1993)
• Billy and Mandy in Trepanation of the Skull and You (found prototype short of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" Cartoon Network animated series; 1995)
• A Kitty Bobo Show (found storyboard of cancelled second animated pilot for Cartoon Network; 2002)
• Camp Lazlo "Monkey See, Camping Doo" (lost test pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)