Time Force (2017 TV series)

''This article is about the 2017 animated series. For the Power Rangers season of the same name, see Power Rangers Time Force at Wikipedia.''

Time Force is an American-Canadian animated television series commissioned by Nicktoons Family and co-produced by YTV Family and Nelvana. The series, spun-off from Cartoon Madness, premiered on March 18th, 2017. The series is the network's first original series to air new episodes on Saturday mornings (though for its fifth and final season, YTV Family moved the Canadian premiere timeslot to 5PM due to EXO_Weekends' Saturday edition taking the previous premiere slot), despite being aimed at Nickelodeon's 1990s target cohort.

On May 4th, 2017, a second season and two specials were ordered. The first special premiered on May 20th, 2017. On July 15th, 2017, it was revealed that a Time Force miniseries, Rewriting History, would make up five episodes of the first season and would air in late July 2017. A second miniseries, Christmas Back in Time, will air in December 2017, with a third miniseries, Saving Medieval Times, airing in January 2018.

On November 29th, 2017, a third season was ordered, set to premiere the week after the conclusion of the second season.

On May 29th, 2018, YTV Family announced that a fourth season, called Time Force: College Years outside of North America, would air starting in August 2018.

In October 2018, a crossover between Time Force and Cottonsweet, called Cottonsweet: Time-Travelling Rabbit, was put into production and released in May 2019.

In December 2018, YTV Family and Nicktoons Family renewed the series for a fifth and final season. Titled Time Force: The End outside of North America and branded under Time Force: The Final Chapter in North America, the final season premiered on linear television in the US and Canada on August 3rd, 2019. The first two episodes of the final season are the only episodes to be made available on NickFamily Stream prior to their linear debuts. The series finale aired on February 8th, 2020.

Characters

 * David (Richard Ian Cox)- A boy who has time-travelling powers.
 * Sadie (Tara Strong)- The tech assistant and one of David's friends.
 * Cody (Dave Foley)- The head of mission control and one of David's friends.
 * Pat (Kathleen Wilhoite)- The inventor and one of David's friends.

Plot
After a boy gains the ability to travel through time, he and his three friends form the Time Force, dedicated to saving time and space from a dystopian future.

Episodes
Main article: List of Time Force episodes

Broadcasting
The series aired on YTV Family in Canada, and on Nicktoons Family in the United States. Reruns currently air in the United States via cable on Aura and Western Domination (the latter soon to be Beta on AnimeCore Extra), and via over-the-air TV via The CW's Nickelodeon Family on The CW block. The Christmas special was also rerun on Vortexx Network on December 25th, 2017.

In 2017, Turner Broadcasting struck a deal with YTV Family to broadcast the series internationally, excluding North America and the UK/Ireland. WarnerMedia (after dissolving Turner Broadcasting in 2019) currently holds non-North American broadcast rights except in Greece, Poland, the UK/Ireland, France, India, Japan, and Hong Kong (Disney Channel initially had the broadcast rights in Italy, but after its shutdown in May 2020 the rights were bought by Cartoon Network in the region; in February 2021, the rights to the show and its spin-off Cottonsweet were picked up by AnimeCore in Italy for its Beta Cartoon block).

The series premiered in Wales on Disney XD on May 7th, 2017 and in the rest of the United Kingdom and Ireland on Nickelodeon Family on January 7th, 2018, while reruns began airing on Cartoon Network on June 20th, 2017. On April 14th, 2018, new episodes started to air on Disney Channel, with reruns on Disney XD and Cartoon Network.

In Ukraine, Cartoon Network premiered the series on May 13th, 2017.

In Southeast Asia, the series premiered on Cartoon Network on June 23rd, 2017. On the same date, the series premiered on Cartoon Network in the Philippines.

In Australia and New Zealand, the series premiered on Cartoon Network on June 25th, 2017.

The series premiered on Cartoon Network in Latin America on June 23rd, 2017, with reruns airing on Nickelodeon Family since July 31st, 2017.

The Canadian French dub premiered on Télétoon Famille on August 9th, 2017. Following the sale of Télétoon Famille, the series, alongside Cottonsweet, was moved to Télétoon.

A Greek dub premiered on Nickelodeon Family in September 2017.

In December 2017, the series premiered on Boing in Spain.

A German dub began airing on Cartoon Network in February 2018.

A Polish dub premiered on Teletoon+ in Poland on February 3rd, 2018; the show would eventually move to Beta Poland in 2021.

An edited-for-content version of the series premiered on Nickelodeon Family in India on March 29th, 2018.

A Chinese localization was produced that removes all references to time travel and retitles the series "Fixing What's Right" (Traditional Chinese: 修正什麼是正確的). Only episodes that don't explicitly involve time travel are dubbed for the localization. This localization has only aired in Hong Kong on RTHK TV31. Only the first two seasons were localized. An uncut Mandarin dub also aired on Cartoon Network in Taiwan.

Manga/Anime
See also: Time Force Girls!, Time Force Dozi, Time Force: Before the Next Gen, Seito-kai no Tatakai: Tira to Seito-kai

In 2018, a manga/anime spinoff, Time Force Girls! (Japanese: タイムフォースガールズ！; Hepburn: Taimufōsugāruzu!), was released in Japan. The anime has been licensed by Nelvana and NickFamily Studios, with the manga being licensed by Tokyopop. A sequel to the original series, called Time Force Dozi, began serialization in September 2018 in Japan.

In 2020, Time Force: Before the Next Gen began airing on TV Akihabara's Super Fridays block and will run for two cours. An anime spin-off, Seito-kai no Tatakai: Tira to Seito-kai (Tila and the Student Council in English releases) began airing on AuraNightfall in October 2020.

Other spin-offs/sequels
Main article: Cottonsweet (TV series), Time Force: Next Gen, Science Squadron (TV series)

On April 7th, 2018, a spinoff, called Cottonsweet, premiered on YTV Family in Canada and Nicktoons Family in the United States.

In October 2019, Flare+ ordered a live-action Time Force sequel, Time Force: Next Gen. NFGo! and Flare+ have also co-produced another spin-off known as Science Squadron.

Home media
On September 11th, 2017, the first season was made available on DVD in Region 1, followed by a Region 1 DVD release of seasons 2 and 3 on July 10th, 2018. The fourth season was released on Region 1 DVD on June 15th, 2019, with season five being released to DVD sometime in summer 2020. A boxset, titled Time Force: The Complete Series, is slated for release in July 2020.

In July 2018, it was announced that the first three seasons would be released on Region 4 DVD by the end of 2018, making Time Force the first Nicktoons Family original series (as well as the first series within the Nicktoons Family Universe) to receive a DVD release outside of Region 1; this happened on August 4th, 2018 alongside an unannounced Region 2 release.

Streaming
As of 2020, the entire series is available to view on Flare+.

In Canada, Teletoon+ would add the series, Cottonsweet, and their anime adaptations sometime after the services' September 1st, 2022 launch as part of a non-exclusive deal.

Trivia

 * Part of the show's plot was inspired by Cartoon Network's Time Squad.
 * The series has no relation to the Power Rangers season Power Rangers Time Force.
 * The show is the first Nicktoons Family and/or YTV Family original series to receive a miniseries.
 * Pat often sings within the series; this is a reference to her voice actor also being a singer-songwriter.