TUTENSTEIN
(Discovery Kids, NBC, November 1, 2003-October 11,
2008)
PorchLight Entertainment, Telegael, Discovery Kids
Original Productions
MAIN CAST:
Jeannie Elias (as Loren Manda,
season 1), Maryke Hendrikse
(as Marie Vencer, season 2) & Donna
Cherry (season 3 & movie) - Tut Ankh En Set Amun/Tutenstein
Crystal Scales (as Babi
Mosquito) & Leah Lynette (season 3 & movie) – Cleo Carter
David Lodge (as Marcus Muldoon) – Luxor,
Set
The mummy lives!
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The original Tutenstein. |
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Luxor, Cleo and Tut, falling to pieces. |
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Barlow's series-launching image. |
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Set. And he looked like such a friendly guy. |
Tutenstein debuted
simultaneously on Discovery Kids and their programming block
on NBC on
November 1, 2003. Writers on the series included John Behnke, Rob Humphrey,
Brooks
Wachtel, Cynthia Harrison, Charlotte
Fullerton, Scott D. Peterson, Tim Cahill,
Kevin
Campbell, Julie McNally Cahill, Michael Merton
and Philip
Morton. With Spzakowska and Karen Hill-Scott, Ed.D. serving
as the educational consultants, each episode was able to inject a little
factuality into its comedic approach. The ancient gods, for example, were
largely accurate to the Egyptian depictions of them. The show was animated by
NIC Entertainment Inc. with music by Guy Michelmore.
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The Scepter of Was. |
Tutenstein ran for three
seasons, concluding with the film Clash
of the Pharaohs. The series was nominated for three and won two Emmy Awards in
2004, 2006 and 2007. In 2004, Marvel Comics published a promotional
comic in association with Discovery Kids that saw Tut and friends
meeting up with Spider-Man and
some of the X-Men as they banded
together to thwart Set’s latest scheme. In 2007, Discovery Kids released three
DVD collections containing four episodes apiece, along with games
and documentaries as special features.
EPISODE GUIDE:
Season 1:
“The
Awakening” (11/1/03) – Cleo Carter brings Tut back to life and Luxor gains the
ability to speak.
“The
Curse of the Pharaoh” (11/8/03) – El Zabkar summons Ammut, the devourer of the
hearts of the dead, to go after Tut.
“Clash
of the Shadbitis” (11/15/03) – Tut’s being lazy and sending shabitis to help
Cleo do chores causes things to go out of control.
“I
Did It My Way” (11/22/03) – Disliking the modern world, Tut changes everything
into ancient Egypt.
“The
Boat of Millions of Years” (12/6/03) – Tut asks Ra to delay the sunrise so he
can watch movies late, but Ra ends up in trouble and time stops.
“The
Powerful One” (1/3/04) – Tut’s anger over not getting his own pyramid causes
Hathor, the goddess of love, to be summoned and transformed into Sekhmet, the
goddess of war.
“There’s
Something About Natasha” (1/10/04) – Tut falls for Cleo’s friend Natasha and
has a love spell put on her, but the spell goes horribly wrong.
“The
King of Memphis” (1/17/04) – While visiting Memphis, Tut is split into three
copies of himself that he must reunite by sunset.
“Roommates”
(1/24/04) – Tut moves in with Cleo and constantly annoys her, on top of
cheating her out of her stuff.
“Ghostbusted”
(1/31/04) – The goddess Isis summons the ghost of one of Tut’s friends to
punish him after he cheats her in a game.
“Near
Dead Experience” (2/21/04) – Fearing Cleo might die of bronchitis, Tut wants
his doctor, Imhotep, to preserve her like he was.
“The
Unsafety Zone” (2/28/04) – Tut breaks the alarm that disturbed his slumber,
allowing two thieves to escape.
“Happy
Coronation Day, Tutenstein” (3/6/04) – Cleo throws Tut a party to honor the
good deeds he’s done, but a slave of Set crashes it and steals something from
him.
Season 2:
“Old
Man Tut” (9/4/04) – Tut breaks his ankh so that he can become
older—unfortunately, the process doesn’t stop.
“Cleo’s
Catastrophe” (9/11/04) – Tut accidentally causes Cleo and Luxor to switch
bodies.
“The
Shadow Gobbler” (9/25/04) – When Tut separates himself from his shadow, he
allows a shadow demon from the underworld to come to Earth and devour shadows.
“Tut
Jr.” (10/2/04) – Tut loses Cleo’s little cousin in the underworld.
“Something
Sphinx” (10/9/04) – Tut’s new servant makes Luxor feel left out.
“The
Supreme Tut” (10/16/04) – Tut becomes a god.
“The
Day of the Undead” (10/30/04) – Tut joins Cleo and her friends for Halloween
and summons a demon from the underworld to scare them.
“Friends”
(11/27/04) – Tut befriends a couple of delinquents and starts causing mischief.
“Green-Eyed
Mummy” (12/4/04) – Tut sends the new mammoth exhibit to the underworld.
“Queen
for a Day” (1/15/05) – Cleo takes Tut’s place when he’s kidnapped to the
underworld.
“Procras-Tut-Nation”
(10/1/05) – Having fun on Cleo’s skateboard may cause Tut to miss the Sed
Festival in the underworld.
“Behdety
Late Than Never” (10/22/05) – When Behdety calls in someone to help save the
museum money, he ends up being a thief that frames Behdety for his crimes.
“Walter
the Brain” (11/19/05) – Tut makes Walter smarter, and Thoth believes Walter is
the one who cast the spell.
Season 3:
“The
Comeback Kid” (9/9/06) – Tut uses a spell that makes him human again, but also
brings a dinosaur back to life.
“Rest
in Pieces” (9/12/06) – Tut separates his body parts to multitask, but they end
up getting dispersed.
“Irresistible
You” (9/13/06) – Tut tries to use a love spell to foil Cleo’s rival, but it
backfires.
“Sleepless
in Sarcophagus” (9/14/06) – Tut gets a snake to help him sleep, but doesn’t
know a demon is actually possessing it.
“The
Truth Hurts” (9/16/06) – Tut ends up cut-off after he insults some of the
ancient gods.
“Was
Not Was” (9/23/06) – Tut ends up losing his scepter.
“Tut
the Defender” (10/14/06) – Tut brings two Vikings back to life to fight.
“Spells
and Sleepovers” (10/28/06) – Tut disguises himself as a girl so he can attend
Cleo’s sleepover.
“Fearless”
(10/29/06) – Tut’s attempt to prove himself fearless causes him to leave a
portal to the underworld open, allowing a demon to escape.
“UnPharaoh”
(11/25/06) – A bracelet possesses Dr. Vanderwhelle and leads him to try and
prove Tut was no longer a pharoh.
“Tut’s
Little Problem” (12/2/06) – Using a size-changing scroll results in Tut
becoming tiny.
“Into
the Past” (10/9/06) – Cleo goes back to ancient Egypt to find out what happened
to her father.
“Keep
Your Wandering Eye to Yourself” (1/13/07) – Jealous of Cleo’s outside life, Tut
plans to spy on her.
Special:
“Clash
of the Pharaohs” (10/11/08) – Nightmares about his death prompts Tut to take a
trip back in time and Cleo ends up being mistakenly crowned as a pharaoh.
Originally published in 2017. Updated in 2018.
Originally published in 2017. Updated in 2018.
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