Mummies Alive - The Pharaoh's Guardians
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mummies Alive - The Pharaoh's Guardians |
| Original title | Mummies Alive! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 1997 |
| Production company |
DiC entertainment |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Episodes | 42 in 1 season |
| genre | Action, fantasy , children's series |
| Director | Seth Kearsley |
| production | Seth Kearsley |
| First broadcast | September 15, 1997 - November 25, 1997 (USA) on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
September 7, 1998 - November 3, 1998 on Super RTL |
Mummies Alive - The Guardians of the Pharaoh (Original title: Mummies Alive! ) Is an American animated series from the film studio Dic . In Germany it ran on Super RTL , where it was first broadcast on September 7, 1998.
content
The series tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named Presley Carnovan who lives with his mother in San Francisco . His friends and guardians are the four resurrected mummies who have special powers. Your task is to protect the boy who is the reincarnation of the Egyptian Prince Rapses. Your enemy and opponent is the evil wizard Scarab, who wants to achieve immortality in order to usurp world domination.
Characters
People
Presley Carnovan
A twelve year old student who lives with his mother in San Francisco. The soul of the Egyptian Prince Rapses, who is modeled after Ramses II, lives in it. He is often at odds with being able to live out his thirst for freedom as a budding teenager , but at the same time allowing the mummies to protect him from Scarab and his henchmen around the clock.
Amanda Carnovan
Presley's single mother. She works in the Egyptian Museum in the city of San Francisco. In episode 37 "My Father, the Hero" Presley's father, Paul Carnovan, also has an appearance. He seems to travel a lot on business and therefore cannot visit his family often. In the course of the plot it becomes clear that the relationship between Amanda and Paul is tense.
Elaine Setter
One of Presley's classmates who is secretly fond of him.
Walter Lu
Presley's school friend, who is in seventh grade with him.
Cynthia Lu
Walter's older sister, who Presley is in love with. Since she is a few years older, she doesn't really take Presley seriously and can't quite remember his name.
Tiny gymnast
Tiny is the schoolyard bully who regularly tries to bully Presley with his punk friend Chuck . In episode 15 "Horror Show on the Fairground", he almost fatally because Scarab mistakenly mistook him for the Pharaoh and then attacked him.
The mummies
Yes-cal
Ja-Kal is the leader of the four mummies that protect Prince Rapses. Like the other mummies, it has the ability to transform itself. His armor is modeled on that of a falcon and gives him the ability to fly. As an attack, he can shoot burning arrows. In ancient Egypt , Ja-Kal was a hunter.
Rath
Rath is the most educated of the four mummies and also built their vehicles, the chariot, the motorcycle, the boat and the plane. He reads a lot and does magic. When he is transformed, he is given cobra-like armor and fights with a sword.
Nefertina
The only female mummy. She loves to dance and often attends modern nightlife club events in San Francisco. She has the best driving skills among the mummies and therefore drives the motorcycle and the chariot. After her transformation, she is given cat-like armor with a whip as a weapon.
Armon
Armon is the strongest of the mummies physically. He is very fond of food and has only one arm. During his transformation, which gives him a ram-like armor, the missing arm is replaced by a golden one, which he can use for both attack and defense. Armon enjoys eating fast food at the Bifi burger outlets in San Francisco, which he mentions repeatedly on the series.
Antagonists
Scarab
Scarab is an old magician and also a mummy from ancient Egypt. His goal is to achieve immortality, for which he however needs the soul of Prince Rapses, which now rests in Presley's body. As the main villain, Scarab tries to capture Presley in almost every episode in order to achieve his goal. His headquarters are in a museum that is modeled on a large pyramid and stands out very dominantly from the city. Like the mummies, Scarab has the ability to transform. This makes it look like a human-like, purple-colored scarab beetle that can fly and fire beams of red energy from its hands. When Scarab goes public, he turns into the wealthy businessman Harris Stone and appears with this secret identity as a supporter of the Pyramid Museum.
Heka
A golden cobra that acts as Scarab's handyman and can spit fire. She can stiffen her body and is often carried as a scepter by Scarab . Heka often gives Scarab advice when he hasn't thought through his plans well, but because of his arrogance it is ignored and so leads to his defeat.
The Shabtis
The Shabtis are Scarab's private army. They mostly look like ancient Egyptian people, but they can also be disguised as modern people from the big city. Shabtis are made of clay and are very fragile. It is therefore easy for the mummies to defeat them. In addition, they cannot speak and blindly obey Scarab's orders. They are easy to recognize by their shining eyes.
Production and publication
The 42 episodes of the series were directed by Seth Kearsley , who also worked as a producer, produced at DiC Enterprises . The authors were Gary Stuart Kaplan, Steven Melching and Paul Harrison. John Campbell was responsible for the music and Mark Deimel, Theresa Gilroy-Nielsen and Miriam L. Preissel were responsible for the editing.
From September 15 to November 25, 1997, the series premiered on CBS in the United States. Further broadcasts followed in 1997 and 1998. A German version was shown on Super RTL from September 7 to November 3, 1998 . The series also released a VHS cassette, four DVDs and two series of action figures on Hasbro .
synchronization
| role | English speakers | German speakers |
|---|---|---|
| Presley Carnovan | Bill Switzer | |
| Armon | Graeme Kingston | Tilo Schmitz |
| Heka | Pauline Newstone | Barbara Ratthey |
| Yes-cal | Dale Wilson | Erich Rauker |
| Nefertina | Cree Summer | Katrin Zimmermann |
| Rath | Scott McNeil | Hans-Jürgen Wolf |
| Scarab | Gerard Plunkett | Jan Spitzer |