C.L.Y.D.E.

C.L.Y.D.E.

Company type	Joint venture
Industry	Animation, Television production
Founded	1990
Founder	Ronald A. Weinberg, Jean Cazes
Key people	Ronald A. Weinberg, Jean Cazes, Chris Randall (director)
Products	Animated TV series
Parent	France Animation, CINAR Animation

C.L.Y.D.E. is an animated TV series jointly produced by France's France Animation and Canada's CINAR Animation. The show was developed by CINAR co-founder and former president Ronald A. Weinberg along with Canadian-French producer Jean Cazes. The storyline revolves around C.L.Y.D.E. (Computer Linked Yield Driven Entity), a highly advanced computer from another world who faces exile after creating a virus known as a "sense of humour." Sent into space as punishment, C.L.Y.D.E. crash-lands on Earth, where two children, Matt and Sam, discover his core and embed it inside an old jukebox. This enables them to communicate with C.L.Y.D.E., who also possesses telekinetic abilities. The narrative follows their escapades as they evade secret agents hunting C.L.Y.D.E., while confronting threats such as computer viruses, hackers, and extraterrestrial dangers.

During the late 1990s, the series was introduced to Chinese audiences via CCTV-7 and later aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons programming block on This TV from 2009 to 2010.

Technical details

• French title: CLYDE
• Creators: Ronald A. Weinberg, Jean Cazès
• Director: Chris Randall
• Writers: Tony Scott, Alan Swayze (supervision), Gilles Taurand, Olivier Massart, Patrick Regnard, Tony Scott, Vincent James
• Character design: Vincent James
• Storyboard artists: Chris Randall, Tim O'Halloran, Tim Deacon, Vin James
• Background artists: Frédéric Bremont, Geneviève Chassaing, Michel Herbinet
• Layout artists: Jean-Baptiste Cuvelier, Eric Legeard, Paul-Henri Ferrand, Philippe Jallois, Dominique Lajeunie, Christine Landes, Gérard Lemaux, Benoît Le Pennec, Jean-Noël Malinge, Christophe Pouchot, Alain Remy, Jacques Stoll, Mieke Vermaerke, Gilbert Weppe
• Animators: James Appleton, Yannick Barbaud, Corinne Bretel, Claire De Carvalho, Didier Degand, Isabelle Faivre, Jean-Pierre Guzdziol, Philippe Lançon, Franck Marchand, Homa Niknam, Stéphane Piera, Hélène Poldervaart, Frédéric Raducanou, Valérie Schaefer, Jan Van Rijsselberge (Crayon Animation)
• Music composer: Leon Aronson (credits performed by Michel Pagliaro)
• Producers: Ronald A. Weinberg, Christian Davin; Micheline Charest and Jean Cazès (executive producers)
• Production companies: CINAR, France Animation, TF1
• Country of origin: France / Canada
• Language: French
• Format specifics: Color – 35 mm film – 1.33:1 aspect ratio – mono audio
• Total episodes: 26 (single season)
• Episode length: Approximately 25 minutes each
• Original premiere: France, 1990

French voices

• Jacques Ferrière as CLYDE / the green parasite
• Magali Barney as Samantha / the blue parasite
• Nicole Raucher as Matt
• Jean-Claude Donda as Alberto / the red parasite / additional characters
• Michèle Bardollet as Gaby
• Gérard Rinaldi in supporting roles
• Dubbing director: Michel Trouillet

Episodes

The series comprises 26 episodes broadcast from September 1990 through February 1991. Each installment lasts about 25 minutes and features main characters C.L.Y.D.E., Matt, Samantha, and Alberto embarking on various missions. Some key episodes include:

• Episode 1 "C.L.Y.D.E. Makes an Entrance" – first aired 13 September 1990
• Episode 2 "Treasure of Sesemar" – first aired 20 September 1990
• Episode 3 "Rock On" – first aired 20 September 1990
• Episode 4 "C.L.Y.D.E. and the Poison Pen" – first aired 27 September 1990
• Episode 5 "Bad Dreams" – first aired 27 September 1990
• Episode 6 "Alien Brain Drain" – first aired 4 October 1990
• Episode 7 "The Diabolical Dr. Hacker" – first aired 11 October 1990
• Episode 8 "C.L.Y.D.E. Lends a Hand" – first aired 18 October 1990
• Episode 9 "Shoot-out at the High Noon Corral" – first aired 25 October 1990
• Episode 10 "Shorty, the Short Order Cook" – first aired 1 November 1990

Subsequent episodes maintain similar themes with recurring characters and storylines centered around technology and adventure designed to appeal to the target demographic.

This organized episode schedule facilitated international distribution and helped establish brand presence for CINAR and France Animation within children’s programming markets throughout the early 1990s.