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Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999)

Country of Origin: USA
Dates of Original Broadcast: 1999
Number of Seasons:
Total Number of Episodes:
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: colour
Sound: Dolby

PLOT SUMMARY

In the future, a group of mobile infantry troops are the frontline in Earth's war against a race of aggressive insects.

SEASON ONE (1999)
Freefall (30 August 1999)
Plasma Bugs of Navarone (31 August 1999)
Handle with Care (1 September 1999)
Stranded (2 September 1999)
Basic Training (3 September 1999)
Of Flesh and Steel (8 September 1999)
Pluto and Beyond (21 September 1999)
Deep Trouble (22 September 1999)
Swarm (30 September 1999)
Water, Water Everywhere (12 October 1999)
Search & Destroy (21 October 1999)
Sole Survivor (4 November 1999)
Missing in Action (11 November 1999)
No Substitute (19 November 1999)
Hot Ice (25 November 1999)
Marauder (3 December 1999)
...And Then There Were Two (9 December 1999)
Liquid Dreams (17 December 1999)
Heart
Propaganda Machine
The Inside Story
Captured
Ice-Olation
The Face of Truth
Mixed Signals
Betrayal
D-Day
Metamorphosis
Letters Home
Marooned
The Mission
Among Us
Requiem
Spirits of the Departed
Trackers
Hide n' Seek
Checkmate
The Ice Men Goeth
Court-Martial of Lt. Razak
Funeral for a Friend

AVAILABILITY

Germany
DVD Distributor: Columbia/Tristar

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Germany
Rating: 16

USA
Rating: PG

TIMELINE

2001
May

3: Germany - DVD release (Columbia/Tristar)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Starship Troopers - working title
Starship Troopers: Bug Wars - working title
Starship Troopers: The Series – UK title

AWARDS

2000
Daytime Emmy Awards, USA

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing: Special Class (Robert Duran, Robert Poole II, Robbi Smith) - winner

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA (Golden Reel Awards)
Best Sound Editing: Television Animated Series: Sound (Robert Duran, Robbi Smith, Robert Poole II) – nominated (for Swarm)

2001
Daytime Emmy Awards, USA

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing: Special Class (Robert Duran, Robert Poole II, Robbi Smith) - nominated
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program (Richard Raynis, Audu Paden) - nominated

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA (Golden Reel Awards)
Best Sound Editing: Television Animated Series: Sound (Robert Duran, Robert Poole II, Kris Daly, Robbi Smith) – nominated (for Metamorphosis)

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Starship Troopers (1997)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Entertainment Weekly no.587 (16 March 2001) p.51 (USA)
review (Video: Editor's Choice: Military Intelligence (A-) by Marc Bernardin)

KEYWORDS

aliens, alien invasions, animation, book into television, computer animation, film into television, the future, giant insects, marines, military, soldiers, space, space colonies, space wars, spaceships

 


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