Fillmore!
Series, 2002, One Saturday Morning, Set in X Middle School safety patrol
Fillmore! is #22 of 22 in release order and #22 of 22 in chronological order in the ABC Saturday Morning Cartoons.
The story
Former delinquent Cornelius Fillmore saw the light, and now fights on the side of justice at X Middle School. Joining him is Ingrid Third, who has a photographic memory. Together, Fillmore and Third fight all those who attempt to break the rules at X, all while keeping Jr. Commissioner Vallejo off their backs and trying to please the school's overly-image-conscious Principal Folsom. Fillmore! is an American animated television series which was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series was created by Scott M. Gimple and directed by Christian Roman. It was the last series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation alone, without association with Disney Channel.
Fillmore! recap
Fillmore! (2002) turns a middle school safety patrol into a parody of 1970s police dramas, with a reformed delinquent as its best investigator. Scott M. Gimple created it, and it ran two seasons and 26 episodes from September 14, 2002, first on ABC Kids and later on Toon Disney; it was the last series Walt Disney Television Animation made for ABC. Cornelius Fillmore (Orlando Brown), a seventh grader with a record, is caught raiding the school's new chalk shipment and given a choice by safety patrol officer Wayne Liggit: help solve a case or spend the rest of middle school in detention. He joins the patrol at X Middle School, in the suburbs of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and partners with Ingrid Third (Tara Strong), a goth newcomer sent home from a reform school in Nepal, after he clears her name. Their boss is Junior Commissioner Horatio Vallejo (Horatio Sanz), who backs Fillmore while scolding him for wrecking school property, and the patrol includes crime scene investigator Karen Tehama (Lauren Tom), Joseph Anza (Danny Tamberelli) and photographer Danny O'Farrell (Kyle Sullivan). Principal Dawn Folsom (Wendie Malick) threatens to shut the office down when cases go unsolved. The crimes are kid-sized versions of adult ones, from stolen scooters and smuggled tartar sauce to illegal frog races and counterfeit collector cards. Every character is named after a San Francisco street.
Fillmore! ending explained
Fillmore! ends with "This Saviour, a Snitch," aired January 30, 2004. Under Principal Folsom's new "three strikes, you're expelled" rule, Fillmore is framed for destroying a giant statue of Folsom made from 12,000 pieces of macaroni and has to protect the one witness who can clear him, Augie Sansome, who testifies at a student council hearing. The series ends there after two seasons, and no revival has been made.
Ratings
IMDb 7.6/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after House of Mouse, the latest.
- Chronological order: after House of Mouse, the last.
Cast
- Orlando Brown as Cornelius Fillmore (voice)
- Tara Strong as Ingrid Third (voice)
- Horatio Sanz as Horatio Vallejo (voice)
- Wendie Malick as Dawn Folsom (voice)
- Danny Tamberelli as Joseph Anza (voice)
- Lauren Tom as Karen Tehama (voice)
- Jeff Probst as Raycliff (voice)
- Don LaFontaine as Narrator (voice)
- Kyle Sullivan as SPEC Member (voice)
- Michael Welch as Tyson Pelarez (voice)
- Christopher Rodriguez Marquette as Jamie Townsend (voice)
- Shaun Fleming as Proper Kid (voice)
Created by Scott M. Gimple.