Banding Together

Banding Together is an American animated sitcom created by Conner Jones for ABC. It is the second television series to be produced by Blue Dolphin Productions, but the first one to actually be created by Jones, as well as the first one to be produced by Touchstone Television. The series centers around five teenage friends living Journey City, Wisconsin They decide to form a rock band and perform music as a way to seek glory and fame.

Jones created the characters for ABC with plans to use the characters as mascots for the channel's Saturday morning block. However, a few of the channel's executives thought that the characters would be better off in their own television series, so decided to go with that plan and put the characters in a primetime animated family sitcom.

The series originally premiered on ABC on September 24, 1992 and finished its run on May 29, 1998. It had aired a total of 122 within 6 seasons. A feature film based on the series, titled Banding Together: The Movie, was released into theatres on February 19, 1999 and served as the series finale.

On May 23, 2020, Conner Jones announced that Disney+ will be making a new Banding Together movie for Disney+ titled Banding Together: Return of the Rock and Roll, which will be added to the streaming service on April 7, 2023.

Premise
The series follows the musical misadventures of five teenagers who form a rock band as a way to become famous and get noticed by millions of people. The band consists of Andrew Jones (voiced by Jason Marsden), the lead singer, Garfield Palmer (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz), the brains of the band, as well as the drummer and songwriter, Toby Vincent (voiced by Will Friedle), the wild card of the band and one of the guitarists, Steven "Job" Randall (voiced by Wil Wheaton), the muscle of group and the keyboardist, and Kira Walker (voiced by Cathy Cavadini), Andrew's love interest and the other guitarist of the group. Together, these get in all sorts of musical mishaps and usually sing at least one sing in each episode.

Production
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Film
On February 19, 1999, Touchstone Pictures released a feature film based on the series titled Banding Together: The Movie into theatres. The film served as the finale to the series.

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Reception
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Broadcast
The entire series aired on ABC from September 24, 1992 to May 29, 1998. The series started airing reruns on various, Fox, WB and UPN affiliates from September 8, 1996 to September 5, 1998. During the latter month, Disney Channel acquired the syndication rights and reran the series until 2007. The Disney Channel airings of the series had most of the episodes edited for content that was deemed unsuitable for the pre-teen oriented channel, with 3 of the series' episodes banned from ever airing on the channel.

From March 6, 2002 to September 1, 2008, ABC Family reran the series and again April 12, 2010 to January 5, 2016. Unlike the Disney Channel airings of the series, the ABC Family episodes were unedited and they were shown the same way they were originally shown on ABC. Toon Disney reran the series from October 6, 1998 to May 2, 2004, and again from June 4, 2006 to February 13, 2009 when the channel got rebranded as Disney XD, which would rerun the series from February 13, 2009 to March 7, 2010. Disney XD would bring back reruns of the series on June 2, 2012 for a marathon celebrating the show's 20th anniversary. The Toon Disney and Disney XD airings of the series were edited the exact same way as the Disney Channel airings.

The entire series was added to Hulu on September 29, 2017 along with some of its fellow Disney-ABC television properties and TGIF shows. The series was then added to Disney+ on November 12, 2019, the day the streaming service was launched.

Trivia
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