The Pirates of Dark Water (TV series)


 * For other uses, see The Pirates of Dark Water.

The Pirates of Dark Water is an American animated action fantasy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for Fox Kids' Saturday morning block as a five-part mini-series called Dark Water, before moving to ABC as a full series. It ran from 1991 to 1993, airing 21 episodes that spanned two seasons.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Music
The music was composed by the Tom Chase and Steve Rucker. The director music production was Bodie Chandler.

Cast

 * George Newbern as Ren
 * Jodi Benson as Tula
 * Hector Elizondo as Ioz
 * Roddy McDowell (miniseries) and Frank Welker (series) as Niddler
 * Brock Peters as Bloth
 * Tim Curry as Konk

Home media
Turner Home Entertainment released the five-part miniseries on both VHS and Laserdisc in the late 1991 and early 1992, respectively.

On August 31, 2010, Warner Archive Collection released the entire series together on DVD.

Reading material
To coincide with ABC premiere of the miniseries, Marvel Comics turned it into six-issue limited series from September 3, 1991 to February 25, 1992, before extending it to include their own original three-part story from March 24 to May 26.

Toys
Hasbro released action figures of Ren, Niddler, Ioz, Bloth, Zoolie, Konk, Mantus, and Joat, as well as a playset of the Wraith ship.

Video games
In 1994, when the series had already finished, Sunsoft published two different style of video games for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.