Program History
During the run up to the launch of the Dreamcast, Sega began to heavily advertise all its greater products. For Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega contacted DiC Entertainment (which at the time was owned by The Walt Disney Company), who previously made the TV shows Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series, to make the new Sonic cartoon. Sonic Underground ran for one season in 1999 on UPN.
While it was believed for a while that 65 episodes were made of which only 40 aired, Ben Hurst, a main writer from Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series (dubbed SatAM by fans), who was also involved in Sonic Underground's production, stated in a chat at the Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2008 that only 40 were produced.
Currently (As of 2009), reruns of Sonic Underground are airing on Firestone Communications' Sorpresa, a Hispanic children's station (Channel 850 on Time Warner Cable) in the United States. All of the audio has been translated into Spanish. In the United Kingdom, it airs on Pop, which has also aired Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and it's sister station Kix!. Between 2005 and 2006, it was also aired on ITV2 on the Action Stations! block.
Sonic Underground is currently available on Netflix instant streaming.
Re-runs of the series started airing on Disney XD as of June 11, 2012. This makes it the second time a Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon airs on a Disney-themed channel with the first being Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog on Toon Disney.
A graphic epilogue to the series, written by Ian Flynn, will be published in the 50th issue of Archie Comics' Sonic Universe comic book in March 2013.
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