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"Here we were with a brand new thing that had never been done before, an animated prime-time television show. So we developed two storyboards; one was they had a helicopter of some kind and they went to the opera or whatever, and the other was Fred and Barney fighting over a swimming pool. So I go back to New York with a portfolio and two half-hour boards. And no-one would even believe that you'd dare to suggest a thing like that, I mean they looked at you and they'd think you're crazy. But slowly the word got out, and I used the presentation which took almost an hour and a half. I would go to the other two boards and tell them what they did, and do all the voices and the sounds and so-on, and I'd stagger back to the hotel and I'd collapse. The phone would ring like crazy, like one time I did Bristol-Myers, the whole company was there. When I got through I'd go back to the hotel the phone would ring and say "the president wasn't at that meeting, could you come back and do it for him." So I had many of those, one time I had two agencies, they'd fill the room I mean God about 40 people, and I did this whole show. I got to know where the laughs were, and where to hit it, nothing; dead, dead, dead. So one of the people at Screen Gems said "This is the worst, those guys...." he was so angry at them. What it was, was that there were two agencies there, and neither one was going to let the other one know they were enjoying it. But I pitched it for eight straight weeks and nobody bought it. So after sitting in New York just wearing out, you know really wearing out. Pitch, pitch, pitch, sometimes five a day. So finally on the very last day I pitched it to ABC, which was a young daring network willing to try new things, and bought the show in 15 minutes. Thank goodness, because this was the very last day and if they hadn't bought it I would have taken everything down, put it in the archives and never pitched it again. Sometimes I wake up in a cold-sweat thinking this is how close you get to disaster."
"A pen and ink disaster."
"Laura Bailey as Vex'ahlia "Vex" Vessar"
"Taliesin Jaffe as Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III, Lord de Rolo"
"Ashley Johnson as Pike Trickfoot"
"Matthew Mercer as Trinket, Lord Sylas Briarwood, Orthax, Umbrasyl, Artagan, Dr. Dranzel, additional voices"
"Liam O'Brien as Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar, Vorugal"
"Marisha Ray as Keyleth of the Air Ashari"
"Sam Riegel as Scanlan Shorthalt"
"Travis Willingham as Grog Strongjaw"
"Stephanie Beatriz as Lady Kima of Vord"
"Khary Payton as Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei"
"David Tennant as Brimscythe, the Iron Storm/General Krieg"
"Indira Varma as Lady Allura Vysoren"
"Grey Griffin as Delilah Briarwood"
"Sunil Malhotra as Shaun Gilmore"
"Eugene Byrd as Jarrett Howarth"
"Darin De Paul as Kerrion Stonefell"
"Rory McCann as Duke Vedmire"
"Stephen Root as Professor Anders"
"Dominic Monaghan as Archibald Desnay"
"Gina Torres as Keeper Yennen"
"Esmé Creed-Miles as Cassandra de Rolo"
"Tracie Thoms as the Everlight"
"Kelly Hu as Dr. Anna Ripley"
"Ragin' Fun"
"A Pox on Your Pox"
"Escape to Tooth Mountain"
"Deer Uncle Gerald"
"I Can Smell That Cheep Clone from Here"
"Dylan Crushes Reading"
"Winter Is Staying"
"Shame on Pee"
"Shell Raiser"
"On Golan Pond"
"Golan the Impregnable"