[3] The story's main character, Infiltration Unit Zeta, is a humanoid robot (synthoid) designed to carry out covert assassinations on behalf of the National Security Agency.

[5] However, when the pitch went to Kids' WB, the network wanted shows that would skew to a younger demographic, and The Zeta Project was ultimately picked up with the thought process "It's a robot, and it's a teenage girl.

[7] The show staff promised that most of the locations Zeta would encounter would not be as dark, gothic, and oppressive as Batman Beyond's Gotham City.

As a result of this and other constraints, Goodman's original vision for the show's messages on dark government, misuse of technology, and various social and political issues became more difficult to execute.

[8] Despite the lighter tone adopted by the final product, Kids' WB felt The Zeta Project was too dark throughout its run and almost canceled it entirely following the September 11th attacks due to its plotlines involving terrorism and commentary on the NSA.

[10] Rosalie Rowan is a 15-year-old girl who grew up in foster care in Hillsburg with Sheriff Morgan and his family before being assigned to a state-run home on Gaines Street.

[6] Agent Bennet is the leader of the NSA team sent to capture Zeta and bring him back alive, believing him to be working with the terrorist organization Brother's Day.

Like him, it is a synthoid with mimicry skills and wields a large arsenal of weapons, but its metal frame is larger, powerful, and heavily armed.

Zeta discovers that the show does not really find lost family members, but instead makes money by turning runaways back to the state.

After investigating, Zeta learns that the thief is Blake, a customer of Myrell who resorted to crime to earn funds for him, and is able to stop him.

Following the September 11th attacks, Kids' WB considered canceling The Zeta Project, but Bob Goodman convinced them he could keep the show running without even mentioning terrorists.

told Goodman that the finale would be the end of Zeta's search for Selig, and that a third season would reveal that Ro was also a robot,[22] and follow the "Scooby-Doo", adventure of the week, formula.

[9] In December 2004, John Schneider revealed he was working on a filmed version of the show with series creator Bob Goodman.

As producers, Schneider and Goodman developed a live-action series that took liberties with the Zeta concept to fit the sensibilities of the network at the time, which included lessening similarities to The Fugitive, since the recent reboot underperformed expectations.

[9] Over the years, Bob Goodman has stated a desire to finish the series' story,[24] in either comic form[9] or long-form straight-to-DVD format.

[28] As with other DCAU shows before it, The Zeta Project was scored by Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion, Kristopher Carter, and supervising composer Shirley Walker.

[33] Working concurrently with the final season of Batman Beyond,[34] for Zeta's first season,[33] the Walker team worked to compose original music for each episode that blended the sound of a live orchestra composed of musicians hired from American Federation of Musicians Local 47, with more contemporary electronic elements the team recorded in their own studio.

"[36] The Zeta Project was the final show the Dynamic Music Partners (Ritmanis, McCuistion, Carter) had a live orchestra on,[36] and played a hand in the Dynamic Music Partner's being hired to score Treyarch's Spider-Man[37] First announced at Warner Home Video's annual Home Theater Forum chat in September 2008,[39] WHV (via DC Comics and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment) released the first season of The Zeta Project as a 2-DVD set for Region 1 on March 17, 2009.

The bonus material for the set was handled by Retrofit Films, who reached out to fans of the series to help field interview questions for the cast and crew.

[40][41] While the released disc featured a 16-minute documentary featurette, titled "The Making of Zeta", about the show's origin with commentary from the voice cast and production staff, the original press release stated the set would include a since unreleased 15–20 minute featurette titled "Finding Freedom", a roundtable discussion, in which the cast speculates on various theories of where the show would have gone while producer/show runner Robert Goodman and his team give the fans the definitive answers.

[9] To promote the release, Warner Archive held the "Warner Archive Collection's Kids' WB Flashback" panel at WonderCon Anaheim, featuring Diedrich Bader, Julie Nathanson, and Bob Goodman, as well as Phil LaMarr, who was representing WAC's recent Static Shock DVD releases.

[9] Not much is known about the plot, but many of the games original files are archived online and include a room named "IU8 Lab", suggesting the existence of an Infiltration Unit 8, as well as sprites of doctors seen in the episode "Absolute Zero".