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. The series premiered in the United States on November 5, 2007 on Animania HD, then in 2009 in Germany on KI.KA, and then later on October 10, 2010 on

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(later in 2014 became

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). It also aired on Science Channel as part of a sneak peek of the latter.

Synopsis

The story centres on teenager Robbie Shipton, who possesses a shoe box leading to the Ninth Dimension, home of Quantum Ray. Robbie joins Team Quantum, a team of heroes responsible for stopping the many antagonists of the show, such as Professor Evil Brainhead and his hamster mother-figure named Mother, from carrying out their plans. He also attends school in the ordinary dimension, and occasionally characters from the two dimensions end up meeting with each other.

Production

Although produced by Germany's KI.KA and France's M6, the show was written in English, the writing supervised by Head Writers/Co-producers and Emmy winners Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy. In 2009, the series beat out Nickelodeon, Disney and Cartoon Network to win the Pulcinella Award for Best TV Series. The series was created by cosmologist Dr. Mani Bhaumik. Hickey and McCoy based all their stories on principles and theories from quantum physics, and

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provided the math. ''Cosmic Quantum Ray'' is a comedy/science-fiction adventure that, at the end of each episode, explains the quantum physics associated with a story and/or physical gags found within the series.

Cast

* Ashleigh Ball - Allison * Doron Bell - Lucas * Richard Ian Cox - Chip Monahan * Matt Hill - Scott * Tom Kenny - Quantum Ray, Kronecker, Professor Evil Brainhead, Commander Fuzzy, Guy Gamma * Colin Murdock - Bucketworth * Pauline Newstone - Contessa De Worm * Samuel Vincent - Robbie Shipton, Justin * Cathy Weseluck - Mother Brainhead * Chiara Zanni - Atee, Geecey

Crew

* Mani Bhaumik - Creator, Executive Producer * Tatiana Chekhova - Executive Producer * Mike Young - Executive Producer * Andrew Young - Director * Arnaud Bouron - Co-Director (France) * Karl Willems - Voice Director

Episodes

# Alison Attacks! # Sliptilicus # It Was Nothing! # What's Up With Gravity? # There's a Universe in Scott's Head! # Olga's Dish of Doom # Chip Monahan: Alien Squirrel Master! # What's a Bucketworth? # Me, Robot # Are We There Yet? # Un-Real Estate # Mr. Charm's Bad Vibration # Eat at Olga's # Alison's New Pet # Rings of Fire # Return of the Alien Squirrel Master # Hall of Fame # Here Today, Gone Yesterday # Pirates of the Dark Matter # Wild, Wild Wormhole # Let's Play a Game # Oh Mother, Where Art Thou? # Tangled Up in Twins # Cosmic Quantum... Robbie # The Incredible Shrinking Ray # Ms. Zooty's

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