The first season of the television series ''
Hannah Montana
''Hannah Montana'' is an American teen sitcom created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll and Barry O'Brien that aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between March2006 and January2011. The series centers on Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus), a ...
'' was aired on
Disney Channel
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from March 24, 2006, to March 30, 2007, and included 26 episodes. It introduces the five main characters of the series and
Miley Stewart's situation of living a secret double life as a teen pop star. The season also introduces several significant
recurring characters such as
Roxy Roker,
Jake Ryan, and
Rico Suave.
The season's soundtrack was released on October 24, 2006, under the title ''
Hannah Montana
''Hannah Montana'' is an American teen sitcom created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll and Barry O'Brien that aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between March2006 and January2011. The series centers on Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus), a ...
''. The season itself was released on DVD as a four disc set on November 18, 2008, by
Disney DVD. Certain individual episodes had been released earlier on other
''Hannah Montana'' DVDs.
Production
''
Hannah Montana
''Hannah Montana'' is an American teen sitcom created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll and Barry O'Brien that aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between March2006 and January2011. The series centers on Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus), a ...
'' debuted Friday, March 24, 2006, on
Disney Channel
Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Compan ...
with "
Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?" The first season completed its run on March 30, 2007, with "
Bad Moose Rising". In the United Kingdom it first aired in the Summer period of 2006, then the first series aired on free-to-view channel FIVE showing all episodes, the second series then aired in 2009. The first season consists of 26 colored, full-screen, approx. 23-minute episodes (without ads) recorded using a
multiple-camera setup. Production began on November 7, 2005, and ended in September 2006.
Opening sequence
The theme song for ''Hannah Montana'' is "
The Best of Both Worlds" written by
Matthew Gerrard and
Robbie Nevil, produced by Gerrard and performed by Miley Cyrus (as Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana). John Carta, who also composes the music cues to signify scene changes and commercial breaks, composed the music for the song. The song's lyrics describe the basic premise of the television series.
The full-length version, which is 2 minutes, 54 seconds in length, was included on the show's soundtrack, released in October 2006. For the TV version of the theme, which lasts only 50 seconds, only the first two stanzas and the last two were used.
"Just Like You" and "The Other Side of Me" were originally tested for the opening theme song, before "Best of Both Worlds" was chosen as the theme. Each cast member's name is "wiped" on the screen in a marquee-light-style, and episode clips of the cast members' character are shown as well. The sequence then switches to full-screen episode clips (most of the clips used in the Season One version of the sequence were of the early produced episodes) with the creator's names appearing in the second-to-last clip. The show's title logo design appears at the beginning, and again at the end, of the sequence (the latter portion as with most other portions of the sequence on the "concert stage" feature Cyrus as her character Hannah Montana).
Closing sequence
Episodes of the first season typically end with a scene that is not crucial to the plot, often functioning as a
throwaway joke. Credits are shown for the crew and any guest stars or co-stars.
Casting
The show's five stars —
Miley Cyrus,
Emily Osment,
Mitchel Musso,
Jason Earles, and
Billy Ray Cyrus — appear in all first-season episodes.
Recurring cast are
Shanica Knowles
Shanica Channell Knowles (born November 17, 1990) also known simply as Shanica, is an American actress, singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, known for her roles as Amber Addison on ''Hannah Montana'', Shauna Keaton on '' Jump In!'', and Vanessa ...
as Amber Addison,
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle as Ashley Dewitt,
Greg Baker
Gregory Baker (born April 16, 1968 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American television and film, actor and musician. He is perhaps best known for his recurring roles as Elliott, a producer on the show '' Sports Night'', Mr. Corelli, Miley Stewar ...
as Francis Corelli,
Morgan York
Morgan Elizabeth York is an American writer and former child actress best known for her roles as Kim Baker in the film '' Cheaper by the Dozen'', Lulu in '' The Pacifier'' (2005), and as Sarah in the ''Hannah Montana'' series.
Career
Her firs ...
as Sarah,
Cody Linley as
Leslie "Jake" Ryan,
Romi Dames
Hiromi "Romi" Dames (born November 5, 1979) is an American actress.
Biography
Born to a Japanese mother and Jewish American father, Hiromi (later shortened to Romi), lived in Japan until she turned 13; soon after, her father retired and moved ...
as Traci Van Horn,
Dolly Parton as Aunt Dolly,
Vicki Lawrence as Mamaw Ruthie,
Frances Callier as Roxy, and
Moises Arias as Rico.
There were many guest stars including
Corbin Bleu as Johnny Collins,
Paul Vogt as Dontzig,
Matt Winston as Fermine, Andre Kinney as Cooper,
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Michelle Tisdale (born July 2, 1985) is an American actress and singer. During her childhood, she was featured in over 100 advertisements and had minor roles in television and theatre. She achieved mainstream success as Maddie Fitzpatr ...
as
Maddie Fitzpatrick, and
Lisa Arch as Liza the photographer.
Co-stars for this season are Derek Basco,
Kyle Kaplan,
Creagen Dow,
Jack Taylor,
Blake Berris,
Frances Bay,
Christian Serratos,
Ryan Newman,
Summer Bishil
Summer Yasmine Bishil (born July 17, 1988) is an American actress. She first came to prominence starring as Jasira in the 2007 film '' Towelhead'', for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Over the followi ...
, Kunal Sharma, Cutter Garcia, Helen Duffy, Jeff Mallare, Betsy Kelso,
Noah Cyrus
Noah Lindsey Cyrus (born January 8, 2000) is an American singer and actress. As a child actress she voiced the titular character in the English dub of the film ''Ponyo'' (2008), as well as having minor roles on shows like ''Hannah Montana'' and ' ...
,
Aimee Teegarden, Gena DeVivo, Destiny Edmond, Jay Brian Winnick, Dollar Tan, Jason Thornton, Gary Pease, Marius Mazmanian, and Alec Leddand.
Episodes
*This season consists of twenty-six episodes.
*The series premiere with "
Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?" had 5.4 million viewers breaking the highest-rated series premiere on a kids network in seven years and was the highest rated Disney Channel series premiere until ''
Cory in the House''.
In the episode, Miley reveals to Lilly that she is Hannah Montana.
*Season 1 included a special episode called "
On the Road Again?" that was part of "
That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana". The episode had cross-overs with shows ''
That's So Raven'' and ''
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody''.
Mickey New - That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana
References
General references
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External links
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