Over the Garden Wall (2014)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Elijah Wood
Wirt (voice)
Collin Dean
Gregory (voice)
Melanie Lynskey
Beatrice (voice)
Samuel Ramey
The Beast (voice)
Patrick McHale
Creator / Executive Producer / Writer / Story
David Stevenson
Songs
Christopher Lloyd
The Woodsman (voice)
Germán Orozco
Background Designer
Nate Cash
Supervising Art Director / Director
Katie Krentz
Development Producer
Alex Borquez
Sound Editor
Stacy Renfroe
Production Assistant
Timothy J. Borquez
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Nick Gotten III
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Linda LaMontagne
Casting
Nick Cross
Art Direction
Brian A. Miller
Executive Producer
Matt Brown
Dialogue Editor
Kristi Reed
Casting
Rob Sorcher
Executive Producer
Jennifer Pelphrey
Executive Producer
Curtis Lelash
Executive Producer
Pernelle Hayes
Producer
Josh Kaufman
Music
Justin Rubenstein
Music
Tom Herpich
Story / Writer
Amalia Levari
Story
Bert Youn
Story / Writer
Natasha Allegri
Writer
Zac Gorman
Writer
Jim Campbell
Writer
Aaron Renier
Writer
Steve Wolfhard
Writer
Nick Edwards
Writer
Pendleton Ward
Writer
Vi-Dieu Nguyen
Writer
Laura Park
Writer
Steven A. MacLeod
Writer
Janet Klein
Miss Langtree (voice)
Deborah Voigt
Queen of the Clouds / Additional Voices (voice)
Chris Isaak
Enoch / Additional Voices (voice)
Frank Fairfield
Additional Voices (voice)
Thomas Lennon
Jimmy Brown (voice)
Noureen DeWulf
Pumpkin Gal / Additional Voices (voice)
Mark Bodnar
The North Wind (voice) / Writer
Jerron Paxton
The Highway Man / Additional Voices (voice)
John Cleese
Quincy Endicott (voice) / Adelaide (voice)
Tim Curry
Auntie Whispers (voice)
Bebe Neuwirth
Margueritte Grey (voice)
Sam Marin
Old Man Langtree (voice) / Hay Wagon Driver (voice) (uncredited)
Audrey Wasilewski
Tavern Keeper (voice)
Fiona Bishop
Additional Voices (voice)
Shannyn Sossamon
Lorna (voice)
Judah Nelson
Additional Voices (voice)
Emily Brundige
Sara (voice) / Sara / Additional Voices (voice)
Ashly Burch
Additional Voices (voice)
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 3, 2014
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes10
Running Time11m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Over the Garden Wall is an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel through a mysterious forest to find their way home, encountering a variety of strange and fantastical things on their journey. The show is based on McHale's animated short film Tome of the Unknown, which was produced as part of Cartoon Network Studios' shorts development program. Elijah Wood and Collin Dean voice the protagonists Wirt and Greg, and Melanie Lynskey voices Beatrice, a bluebird. The series' voice cast also includes Christopher Lloyd, Tim Curry, Bebe Neuwirth, Chris Isaak, Shirley Jones, Thomas Lennon, Jack Jones, Jerron Paxton, John Cleese and Samuel Ramey. The Blasting Company composed the soundtrack. Over the Garden Wall was broadcast throughout the week of November 3 to November 7, 2014.
The show was the first miniseries on the network. McHale first envisioned it in 2004 and pitched it to the network in 2006. After working on other Cartoon Network shows including The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Adventure Time, the network expressed interest in McHale pitching a pilot. That pilot, Tome of the Unknown, became the catalyst for Over the Garden Wall. Production of the show began in March 2014 and was largely done in Burbank, California, but many of the show's artists worked from other U.S. cities, while the program's animation was outsourced to South Korean studio Digital eMation. The series' environment evokes 19th- and 20th-century Americana, while its digital backgrounds are designed to resemble brunaille paintings.
The series was acclaimed by television critics, who praised its atmosphere and characters. In 2015, the series won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. A one-shot comic book adaptation penned by McHale has been produced, with four further issues commissioned. This was later expanded into an ongoing comic series that ran for 20 issues and continued in a series of graphic novels and comic book miniseries. A three-minute stop-motion short film, produced by Aardman Animations, was released on November 3, 2024 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series, bringing back several cast and crew members, including McHale, Wood and Lynskey.