Tutenstein
Sign in to saveTutenstein is an American animated television series, produced by PorchLight Entertainment for Discovery Kids based on the comics by Jay Stephens. The series was first premiered on Discovery Kids' Saturday morning block on NBC on November 1, 2003. It ended on October 11, 2008. The series features young mummy Tutankhensetamun (based on real-life Tutankhamun and usually called "Tutenstein" as in the title) who is awakened about 3,000 years after his accidental death and now must face the fact that his kingdom is gone. The name is a portmanteau of Tutankhamun and Frankenstein.
Key facts
- Television.image
- Tutenstein logo.png
- Television.creator
- Jay Stephens
- Television.composer
- Guy Michelmore
- Television.country
- United States
- Television.language
- English
- Television.num_seasons
- 3
- Television.num_episodes
- 39 + 1 film
- Television.editor
- Tony Mark
- Television.runtime
- 18–22 minutes per episode
- Television.company
- PorchLight Entertainment
- Television.network
- Discovery Kids
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Characters
- Main
- Supporting
- The Egyptian Gods
- Episodes
- Series overview
- Season 1 (2003–04)
- Season 2 (2004–05)
- Season 3 (2006–07)
- Television film (2008)
- Production
- Historical accuracy
- Critical reception
- Awards and nominations
- Broadcast
- References
- External links
Tutenstein is an American animated television series, produced by PorchLight Entertainment for Discovery Kids based on the comics by Jay Stephens. The series was first premiered on Discovery Kids' Saturday morning block on NBC on November 1, 2003. It ended on October 11, 2008. The series features young mummy Tutankhensetamun (based on real-life Tutankhamun and usually called "Tutenstein" as in the title) who is awakened about 3,000 years after his accidental death and now must face the fact that his kingdom is gone. The name is a portmanteau of Tutankhamun and Frankenstein.
Beginning in August 2020, Yippee TV, the current owners of the series, made the series officially available for streaming on YouTube.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tutenstein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.