Astro voice actor here

[jeffbert]

We could also make new pages and ask Mark to put them on his site. I know we have all visited the whole website so long ago that we tend to forget that this is not only a forum but also a site!

I could volunteer to make the html just like the rest of the site.

Your solution is also just fine, fafner.

I had envisioned a design with thumbnails of the characters paire to thumbnails of the actors.

[jayrath]

"Outer Space Port R45"

Another snappy title from our translator. Anyone else would have cut the above in half. If we know it's a space port, do we need to also know that it is an OUTER space port, and that it is R45? Does that make us extra excited? "Oh, honey, look what's on TV tonight. I know Outer Space Port R44 was on last night; but tonight is R45!"

I'm a little upset that none of the American cast and crew get any credits whatsoever on the DVDs.

Pilot Tennyson is Paul. I am the responding pilot.

Dave and I are the gabby twins; I'm the taller one. Rich is the angry man, the hotel owner. The chief is Greg. You can hear here how we had to dump all the Japanese text into a few seconds.

I am the guy who gets the space pirates message.

Okay, this is all pretty gross.

Big icky captain in the helmet is Bob.

Oh! Disgusting show. Please no cartoons with characters cutting themselves! Or anyone.

"The Hijacked Airship"

Huh. Interesting episode. Paul is the hijacker, Greg is the captain. I am the news announcer. Nothing more to say. You know the classmate credits.

"The Human-Faced Rock"

Announcer is Debbie. HA! I am Mr. Whitely, who is named for our star, Patty Whitely -- Astro. The voice mimics Ed Wynn's, an early American vaudeville, Broadway and radio star. (If you ever hate a laugh track -- it is because of Wynn; he needed to hear audience response. Radio producers forbade audience noise until Wynn demanded that he needed it to perform. His son, Keenan Wynn, is Lt. Bat Guano in "Dr. Strangelove.")

And amazing again -- now we have Prof. Lewis -- the character is named for Del, our director, and Dave mimics Del's voice in doing it. Hilarious. The character even looks like Del. I'm sure that's how we hit on it. This is an example of how we rewrote on the spot.

Linda or Carl must have directed this show. Too funny! All respect to Linda, but when she directed, it meant we absolutely burned through scripts. And that made so much trouble for our engineers, because the work was sloppy. They had to spend days, repairing what Linda let us all gleefully get away with.

Fireball is Kahlei. The more I watch these shows, the more I remember that she was -- well, Kahlei was a pretty incredible woman. I have not seen her since we finished the shows. Sigh. I wish we had kept in touch; I wish we all had. I do not have the slightest idea where she is now. It's me, Patty, Paul and me now -- Skunk, Astro and Atlas, plus Dave, who had no recurring part except the yellow-shirted classmate. I'm trying really hard to find Brian, though.

This particular show just rings so many bells for me. Classic!

[jayrath]

[QUOTE=Astro Forever;84376]We could also make new pages and ask Mark to put them on his site. I know we have all visited the whole website so long ago that we tend to forget that this is not only a forum but also a site!

I could volunteer to make the html just like the rest of the site.

Your solution is also just fine, fafner.

I had envisioned a design with thumbnails of the characters paire to thumbnails of the actors.[/QUOTE]

I'll post photos soon. It's hard to find time for all this, and I want to get through the commentary.

[jayrath]

Ergh! I have a photo for you but I don't see how to upload it.

[Astro Forever]

Ergh! I have a photo for you but I don't see how to upload it.

I'll send you a private message.

[Astro Forever]

Edited: oops, it's huge... I'll resize it.

There it is:



Thank you!

[jayrath]

That is me, in our studio, with an old 1920s mic that had been stored there. I was trying to look like Hal Peary, my radio acting hero. Wow, I look 10 years old. I miss all that hair! This photo was taken right in the middle of production.

Ahem . . . I still have that sweater. I guess I should throw it out by now. Women, you know how men are.

[Astro Forever]

Announcer is Debbie. HA! I am Mr. Whitely, who is named for our star, Patty Whitely -- Astro.

So you often changed the names of the characters?

I don't think this one could be from any of you since you had not seen the Japanese version, but Mrs Honda - Tenma and Elefun's female assistant - becomes Mrs Ford in the English version.

[jayrath]

"Uran Falls in Love"

Bob is the man on the phone. Golfer is Rich, Dave is the man at the desk. Greg is the "faster" robot.

Holy cow, so much death. And this is a "love" story?

The mean kids in the park are Greg, Debbie and Dave.

Dave is Torch. I am the robot dog. This is such a funny show! Becky is perfect. This has to be her best show, ever.

I am the kid who falls in the park and discovers Astro. Urane is freaking HILARIOUS! I love that butt dance. Let's all start a new dance craze -- the Urane butt dance!

HA HA HA HA! I AM ZEUS! Oh, this is all just so perfect. What a good show. I don't remember doing it at all, but it is now one of my most favorite. Just a great message, excellent writing, great voice work, Becky's best show -- perfect. This is one of our finest episodes, ever.

Let's all celebrate with the Urane butt dance!
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"The World of Odin"

Greg is Prof. Gould. I am the bad man on the dock. Rich and I are the crew. Paul is Cloud. The big hairy guy, Zamara, is Dave. The child is Kahlei.

Elefun: "Hmm, LOOKS like the remains of a Nazi base." Yes, doctor. Yes.

Why are vikings bare-chested in the freaking arctic? Only pointy Livian must walk around half-naked in all weather!

Very few parts for me in this show -- just background stuff. S'fine; we all got paid just the same, whether we were guest stars or just had a single line.

Odin is Bob.

"The Secret of the Mayas"

Sombrero man is Dave, cowboy is Rich, I am gray hair with glasses.

Sphynx is Debbie. This is a very late show -- you can tell because we are so relaxed in matching lip movements.

Sr. Garcia is Paul. Carlos is Rich.

"Crab creatures! Then the stories about them are true!" Not our best translation work. Fernando is Del -- and it is not good work. I'm very surprised. It's a bad accent.

Why is the cat covered in huge nipples?

I am the long moustache man. The other scientist is Rich. There are clips in here from the pilot. Train announcer is bob, the train passenger is Greg. Becky is Nikki.

Oooh! Skunk music! I hope I come in soon. I remember so much more Skunk in the series than is now evident.
I am Prof. Rendall.

The Tezuka ending has been clipped out.

I am more and more angry that the DVD set lists the Japanese cast, and not one mention of us. For the record:

Patricia Kugler Whitely: Astroboy
Jay Rath: Skunk, Billie
Paul Nelson: Atlas
Greg Zerkle: Chief McLaw
Del Lewis: Prof. Boynton
Debbie Holmes: Theodore
Brian Parry: Dr. Elefun
Bob Gonzalez: Daddy Walrus
Kahlei Slick: Astro's mom
Richard Ganoung: Astro's dad, Alvin
Becky Wilenski: Urane
Dave Miller: almost every other large guest part
Celia Klehr: other small parts
Carl Battaglia: Alvin's dad


Mike DeMark and Tom Naunas: engineers
Linda Baldwin: producer
Carl Battaglia: associate producer
Del Lewis: director, with Linda and Carl

And we in the cast took, many, many other parts in every single show.

Well, that's it. It's done. Phew! That is the entire cast and crew, that's what we did.

[jeffbert]

Did I miss something, or did you forget a few episodes?

#6, Frankenstein

#37, Lily on Peligro Island
no voice for Lilly?