Free Willy
originally aired on ABC
Free Willy is an animated television series inspired by the 1993 film of the same name. The show continues the adventures of the killer whale Willy and Jesse, the boy who freed him from captivity as shown in the film. The overarching conflict is reminiscent of Moby-Dick: a powerful oil baron, known to the main characters only as a cyborg called "The Machine" until the final episodes, wants revenge upon "that rotten whale... and his boy"