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(Well, that's arguable. I am very happy that this episode technically aired before "Do the Rat Thing", which premiered in syndication before CBS' first airing of "The Prophet Motive". The opening narrator turns out to be, of course, Phasir, who makes his debut here.

If CBS hadn't been a part of the picture, most if not at all of the 13 fall '94 CBS episodes would've been produced anyway, and instead would've just first showed up on The Disney Afternoon instead. They were part of season one.) The fact that CBS picked episodes that Stones didn't expect them to indicates that at least the earliest CBS episodes were produced as any other episode would be. (And while I'm at it, despite what Wikipedia and other online episodes lists will tell you, the fall '94 CBS episodes were NOT "season two". I want to be very careful in stressing that the syndicated and network episodes were NOT two separate series. That is not to say that there weren't syndication episodes of a nature comparable to the CBS ones. If - n the most general sense - the syndication episodes were pop-rock, the CBS episodes were heavy metal. The action was more highly charged and the set pieces were more imposing. What exactly distinguishes the CBS episodes? They tend to have a darker, thicker tone the magic, the monsters, and the ancient temples, objects of power, and prophecies were more primordial, menacing, and potentially devastating. As it was one of the episodes to have been "previewed" (as far as I'm concerned, to have premiered) on The Disney Channel in early '94, it's easy to imagine, given Stones' account of CBS' selection process, the network people saying, "We like that one! We want it! And more like it!" The inference that CBS had first dibs on whatever episodes they wanted is very interesting.Īlthough "The Prophet Motive" was the third episode to air on CBS, I'd argue that it was the one that set the template for the episodes they chose.

That single quote gives insight into the series' production, and how which episodes ended up where in the fall of '94. Tad Stones was quoted as saying that he had "designed" (in so many words) more cookie-cutter episodes "with Saturday morning in mind", but CBS opted for episodes with "more of an edge" (or something to that effect). To my regret, I no longer have a copy of the issue of Animation Magazine - that I figure would have been released at some point in the summer of '94 - that had a news item on the Aladdin series' upcoming joint Disney Afternoon-CBS launch.