For other uses, see Over the Garden Wall (disambiguation).
Over the Garden Wall
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Genre
Dark fantasy[1]
Comedy drama[2]
Mystery[3]
Adventure[3]
Horror
Coming-of-age
Created by
Patrick McHale
Based on
Tome of the Unknown by Patrick McHale
Story by
Amalia Levari
Tom Herpich
Patrick McHale
Cole Sanchez
Bert Youn
Creative directors
Nate Cash
Bert Youn
Voices of
Elijah Wood
Collin Dean
Melanie Lynskey
Christopher Lloyd
Tim Curry
Jack Jones
Samuel Ramey
Theme music composer
The Blasting Company
Opening theme
"Prelude" (performed by The Blasting Company) "Into The Unknown" (performed by Jack Jones)
Ending theme
"Black Train/End Credits" (performed by The Blasting Company)
Composer
The Blasting Company
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of episodes
10
Production
Executive producers
Jennifer Pelphrey
Curtis Lelash
Brian A. Miller
Rob Sorcher
Patrick McHale
Producer
Pernelle Hayes
Editors
Tony Tedford
Yoonah Yim
Running time
11 minutes
Production company
Cartoon Network Studios
Original release
Network
Cartoon Network
Release
November 3 (2014-11-03) – November 7, 2014 (2014-11-07)
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Over the Garden Wall is an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel across a mysterious forest to find their way home, encountering a variety of strange and fantastical things on their journey. The show is based on McHale's animated short film Tome of the Unknown, which was produced as part of Cartoon Network Studios' shorts development program. Elijah Wood and Collin Dean voice the protagonists Wirt and Greg, and Melanie Lynskey voices Beatrice, a bluebird. The series' voice cast also includes Christopher Lloyd, Tim Curry, Bebe Neuwirth, Chris Isaak, Shirley Jones, Thomas Lennon, Jack Jones, Jerron Paxton, John Cleese and Samuel Ramey. The Blasting Company composed the soundtrack. Over the Garden Wall was broadcast throughout the week of November 3 to November 7, 2014.
The show was the first miniseries on the network. McHale first envisioned it in 2004 and pitched it to the network in 2006. After working on other Cartoon Network shows including The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Adventure Time, the network expressed interest in McHale pitching a pilot. That pilot, Tome of the Unknown, became the catalyst for Over the Garden Wall. Production of the show began in March 2014 and was largely done in Burbank, California, but many of the show's artists worked from other U.S. cities, while the program's animation was outsourced to South Korean studio Digital eMation.[4] The series' environment evokes 19th- and 20th-century Americana, while its digital backgrounds are designed to resemble brunaille paintings.
The series was very well received by television critics, who praised its atmosphere and characters. In 2015, the series won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. A one-shot comic book adaptation penned by McHale has been produced, with four further issues commissioned. This was later expanded into an ongoing comic series that ran for 20 issues and continued in a series of graphic novels and comic book miniseries.
^Foxe, Steve (June 15, 2018). "Exclusive: Return to the Unknown in Over the Garden Wall: Hollow Town". Paste. Retrieved January 6, 2020.[permanent dead link]
^Thill, Scott (September 16, 2015). "Cartoon Network's 'Over the Garden Wall' Wins Three Emmys". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
^ ab"Over the Garden Wall Videos". Cartoon Network. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
^Edgar & McHale 2017, p. 45, 78.
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