[1] The show features a darker and more dramatic story than the lighter Adventures,[3] depicting Sonic and a band of freedom fighters battling to overthrow Dr. Robotnik, now a despotic dictator who conquered their home planet Mobius years ago, and rules it as a polluted industrial dystopia.

From the hidden woodland village of Knothole, Sonic the Hedgehog and Princess Sally Acorn lead a team of Freedom Fighters in a rebellion against Robotnik's regime.

Other group members include Sonic's best friend Tails, scientist Rotor the Walrus, Antoine Depardieu the Coyote, and half-roboticized Bunnie Rabbot.

They find Sally's father King Acorn, who is imprisoned within the Void, alongside the evil sorcerer Ixis Naugus.

The Freedom Fighters launch a full-scale counterattack, and Sonic and Sally use the Deep Power Stones to destroy his machine.

In a final scene, Snively survives and is accompanied by an unseen ally with red eyes, stated by writer Ben Hurst to be the evil sorceror Naugus, who would have become the main antagonist if a third season were produced.

However, DiC also wanted to expand the show and produce additional episodes for weekday syndication as well, similar to what DiC had previously done with The Real Ghostbusters, but Mark Pedowitz, the then-senior vice president of business affairs and contracts at ABC, who expected the Sonic cartoon to air exclusively on ABC, rejected the idea, telling London "If you guys want to do syndication, be our guest, go with God, but you won’t be on our network."

[15] The Saturday morning series differs from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which premiered two weeks earlier and aired on weekdays in syndication.

It explored unusual story concepts for animation, including losing loved ones to war[17] and relationships focusing on young couples.

Other changes in season two include Princess Sally donning a jacket, Dulcy the Dragon being added to the cast and Rotor receiving a new design.

According to the show's second season head writer, Ben Hurst in an interview found in the 2007 complete series DVD set, as well as archived conversations with fans online from the late 1990s, the show was cancelled due to being pre-empted for sport events, competing in the same time slot as FOX's popular Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and most notably due to ABC (who at the time entered a limited partnership with DiC Entertainment before becoming its owner) being bought by Disney and new people in charge coming in who weren't interested in renewing the show.

It has not been rerun on broadcast or cable television in Canada since its cancellation on CTV, but was present on the Shomi video-on-demand platform until its November 30, 2016, closure.

[citation needed] From 1994 to 1996, it had a complete run on the UK television on ITV and Channel 4, In December 1994, the first season was broadcast in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ2.

The package would also feature digitally re-mastered, color-enhanced versions of the shows with new contemporary music, as well as bonus director's cut "Secret Sonic" episodes.

[25] Bonus features include: storyboards, concept art, storyboard-to-screen comparisons, deleted/extended scenes, a printable prototype script of the series pilot (Heads or Tails), and interviews with Jaleel White and writer Ben Hurst.

Factory release (minus the printable pilot script, despite being mentioned on the box, as well as the hidden extra footage from interviews with Jaleel White and Ben Hurst), it uses different artwork for menus and packaging and the content itself has been reshuffled (discs 1-3 feature all episodes in production order and disc 4 contains all bonus features).

Spinball was commissioned due to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 being pushed back from its intended 1993 release in the holiday shopping season to February 1994, with the game being developed in under a year.

[31] Another video game tentatively titled Sonic-16 was intended to be set in the same universe, with a prototype being created by Sega Technical Institute in November 1993.

[32][33][34] Directly afterwards, the same team worked on Sonic Mars; this would have featured Princess Sally and Bunnie Rabbot as playable characters.

[36][37] Hackers also found within the data of the arcade game SegaSonic the Hedgehog (1993) a near-complete sprite sheet for the Robotnik design used in the cartoon, with it being speculated it was to be used in a scrapped English localization.

Hurst would later attend San Diego Comic-Con in August 1999, meeting the head writer of the Archie Sonic comics, Ken Penders.

"[47] Hurst would eventually call said the Sega executive, explaining his idea for a Sonic feature film to her, to which they had a very pleasant conversation, and she said she'd like to talk again.

[41] Len Janson helped write the script, a film entitled "The Gift", loosely based on the story of "Le Pétomane".

[53] In April 2022, a full teaser trailer was uploaded to the group's YouTube channel,[54] with a cover of the SatAM theme song "Fastest Thing Alive" by Johnny Gioeli of Crush 40.

Club gave it a positive review, saying that "the show pushed its cartoon animal characters to the most dramatic places they could go without venturing into self-parody.

"[61] Luke Owen of Flickering Myth felt Sonic aged better than is often supposed, praising its well-executed characterizations and treatment of war, although he considered Antoine to be "one of the worst characters committed to a cartoon series.

[62] The Escapist journalist Bob Chipman credited the series with providing a viably menacing take on Doctor Robotnik, and an engaging narrative.

[64] Sonic co-creator Naoto Ohshima later stated that he is a fan of the series and its characters, and that he owns a promotional cel given to him by DiC Entertainment during the show's production.