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Mission Hill (originally titled
The Downtowners) is an American
animated television series that ran on
The WB from September 24, 1999, to July 16, 2000, and on
Adult Swim from July 14 to August 11, 2002. Although 18 episodes were planned, only 13 episodes were produced. The show was put on hiatus by the WB Network after two episodes due to poor ratings. It returned to the WB in the summer of 2000 but was canceled after four additional episodes. The show went on to develop a
cult following, thanks to repeated airings of all 13 episodes on
Teletoon's "Teletoon Unleashed" block,
Cartoon Network's popular late night programing block,
Adult Swim and Too Funny To Sleep, a late night programing block on
TBS.
Mission Hill was formerly known as
The Downtowners, although
MTV's production of the similarly titled
Downtown forced a name change.