Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer


Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer is an American animated children's television series created and executive-produced by Aaron Springer. The series lasted for one season and aired on Disney XD from June 3 to June 15, 2017.

Plot

The show follows the adventures of Billy Dilley, a 7th grader who loves science, and his lab partners, Zeke and Marsha, and his pet rat, Anaximander, who on summer vacation find themselves trapped in Subterranea-Tania, a strange world located in the Earth's core after a test ride in Billy's science fair project The Cheeserator, a giant drilling machine designed for cutting holes in enormous Swiss cheese, goes horribly wrong.

Characters

The show was first announced in 2014 as a potential pilot. In March 2016, it was confirmed that Disney XD has greenlit the show for a full series along with Big City Greens.
In 2015, Merriwether Williams was confirmed in a Twitter post by Vincent Waller as one of the show's writers, whilst Character designer Robertryan Cory announced on his Tumblr page he has been working on the series since December 2014, just over a year before the pickup was officially announced.

Episodes

The series consists of 13 half-hour episodes, with most of them containing 2 11-minute segments with the final episode being a full-length episode.

Broadcast

Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer premiered on Disney XD in Canada on June 5, in Germany, Disney XD premiered the series on July 7, in Australia and New Zealand, the series premiered on Disney XD in October 2017, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the show premiered on Disney XD on September 18, 2017.

Reception

Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the series 3 out of 5 stars; saying “This new world of Billy's appeals to kids' sense of imagination, even if it does so with more nonsense than anything else. The show is visually pleasing, boasts a talented voice cast, and is filled with nonstop action and laughs.”