DIC Movie Toons


DIC Movie Toons were a series of animated made-for-TV movies produced by DIC Entertainment, which lasted for just one season on Nickelodeon in the United States. It started on October 6, 2002 and ended on December 29, 2002.
All films are nowadays a property of WildBrain, which holds the rights to most of DIC's library.

List of movies

Initially, 39 films were ordered from Nickelodeon to air, with later productions including adaptations of concepts such as Black Beauty and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but only 13 of them did so. The made-for-TV films are either based on various DIC productions such as Inspector Gadget, ', and Dennis the Menace, or are loose adaptations of stories from classic literature such as Treasure Island and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. One film, Groove Squad, which was about a group of crimefighting cheerleaders, was an original story. In order, the movies featured were:
  1. Inspector Gadget's Last Case
  2. '
  3. Time Kid
  4. '
  5. The Archies in Jugman
  6. Dinosaur Island
  7. My Fair Madeline
  8. Groove Squad
  9. Treasure Island
  10. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
  11. '
  12. The Amazing Zorro
  13. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    International Broadcasts

In October 2002, DIC announced that Disney Television International had purchased the broadcast rights to the movies for them to air on Disney Channel, Toon Disney and Playhouse Disney networks in France, Germany, Italy, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, the Middle East and Scandinavia.
In November 2002, it was confirmed that Super RTL had purchased the German free-to-air broadcasting rights to the films as part of a 6-year deal with DIC. DIC also confirmed that YTV in Canada, Cartoon Network Japan, Televisa in Mexico and RCTV in Venezuela had purchased the movies in their respective regions.
Later on, DIC would pre-sell the movies to ITV in the UK, Club RTL in Belgium, Mediatrade in Italy, Alter TV in Greece and Anteve in Indonesia.

Home media

All of the movies apart from A Christmas Carol were later released to VHS and DVD in the United States by MGM Home Entertainment. In 2008, Gaiam re-released the films on DVD.
In the United Kingdom, a selection of the films were distributed through Prism Leisure and later Boulevard Entertainment.
In France, Italy, Spain/Latin America, Australia and Ukraine, the movies were released by TF1 Video, Eagle Pictures, Sum, Shock and ICTV.