The Success Of Walt Disney Show 'Recess'

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The animated comedy Recess was invented by Joe Ansolabehere and Paul Germain.
The show started production at the beginning of 1996 when Disney bought ABC. At this point the creators had left Nickelodeon. A pilot was then created; however the episode had completely different character design to what the future audience of Recess would be accustomed to seeing. They never released the pilot to the general public, but snippets of it could have been seen on the VHS of 101 Dalmatians.
Following the success of the pilot, the show was then produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The first channel to air Recess was ABC on their Saturday morning block in 1997. They continued to air the show until 2001, with returns of the episodes being shown