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Jerrica Benton/Jem
This intelligent and hard working business woman is the manager of Jem and the Holograms.
She is also the owner and executive of the record company Starlight Music,
which she inherited from her father along with the Starlight
Foundation, a foster home for girls who were recently orphaned or
came from troubled homes. Since Jerrica's and Kimber's parents died, she has
also been keeping an eye on her younger sister, almost like a mother.
By touching her Jemstar earrings and saying the words "Showtime, Synergy", Jerrica
projects a hologram over her body and becomes Jem, the singer
of the band the Holograms. Only the members of the Holograms, know that Jem and Jerrica is
the same person. As Jem she is able to relax and cut loose
a little more. The problem is that she wants to be close to Rio even when she
is Jem, and he likes them both, unknowingly of the fact that they're the same person. Jerrica
fears Rio would be so hurt if he found out, that she will loose him.
Episodes:
Jerrica: 54.
Jem: All 65.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. In 4 editions.
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Kimber Benton
Jerrica's younger sister, and the youngest member of the Holograms. She is the keyboard player
and songwriter of the Holograms, but she is brilliant with any kind of instrument. She tends to
be a bit immature and less responsible at times. She always has guys falling for her, sometimes
more than one at the time.
Episodes:
All 65.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. 2 editions.
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Aja Leith
The first girl to be adopted by Jerrica and Kimber's parents as a foster
girl to live in Starlight House. Growing up togheter, Aja has become
Jerrica's best friend and right hand. She plays guitar in the Holograms, and loves cars and
motorcycles, so she is usually
the resident chauffeur at Starlight Mansion when the girls are off to somewhere. She is
the most athletic one of the girls, and makes sure the other girls stay in
shape and play sports. She knows a little karate, which she has taugh Jerrica and the other
Holograms, and she also knows a little chinese, both which she learned while
she was very young and still lived in China.
Episodes:
All 65.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. 2 editions.
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Shana Elmsford
The second foster girl to move into Starlight House. She played the
drums for a while, and later decided to switch to guitar. She also
dreams of working as a fashion designer, and often designs clothes
for the Holograms and Starlight Girls. She gives alot of attention to
the Starlight Girls who gets their share of tutoring in music, art and sewing.
Episodes:
All 65.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. 2 editions.
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Raya (Carmen Alonso)
The new member of the Holograms, who took over on drums after Shana
after winning a drum duel in the talent search. She has played drums
since she was very young, and is also good with other percussion
instruments. Raya is a bit shy but can have a temper when she's angry. She is
the only girl among three brothers. Her parents came to the USA from Mexico and owns
and operates their own nursery of domestic and exotic plants.
Episodes:
39.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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The Misfits
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Pizzazz (Phyllis Gabor)
She is the lead singer of The Misfits, and also plays guitar. She has a
rich father and has always gotten anything she pointed at. Now she is determined
to be famous aswell, and sees no reason why she shouldn't be. She is arrogant, selfish, rude
and lazy. But although her
attitude and temper makes her come across as just spoiled, few people know she
was abandoned by her mother when she was very little. Her real name
is Phyllis Gabor, no one is allowed to call her that.
Episodes:
56.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. 2 editions.
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Roxy (Roxanne Pelligrini)
She plays guitar in the Misfits but isn't the most musically creative of the Misfits.
She is pretty streetwise, and is apparently the cruelest of the
Misfits, who takes things a step further. She has been poor most of her
life, and never learned to read. She ran away from her home in
Philadelphia when she was 13 years old, and took a number of minor jobs
like waitressing, before joining the Misfits. She is determined to be a star to show
everyone she's made it.
Episodes:
55.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. 2 editions.
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Stormer (Mary Phillips)
The youngest member of the Misfits, and the one with the biggest heart.
She often hesitates when the other Misfits decide to make mischief.
Her nickname was chosen for her by Pizzazz. She plays keyboard and guitar,
and writes the music of the Misfits.
Episodes:
56.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. 2 editions.
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Jetta (Sheila Burns)
The saxophone player in the Misfits. She comes from a lower class family in England
in the working class town of Hull. Being a pathological liar, she claims her
family is aristocrats and that she is close friends of the royalties of England aswell as
several celebrities. She first played with the group the Tinkerbillies, who came to
the USA but were so obnoxious that they got kicked out of the country by the
immigration department. She later met the Misfits while performing at a club in
LA, when the Misfits were looking for a new member, although Roxy never approved
of her. Pizzazz used her father's money and influence to get a resident card for
Jetta.
Episodes:
30.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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The Stingers
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Riot (Rory Llewelyn)
The leadsinger of the Stingers. His charisma casts a
spell over most women who see him, including Pizzazz
and Jem. He doesn't use his charm on Jerrica, Roxy,
Stormer and Jetta, and those who are on their guard
against him like Aja, aren't affected. Unlike his rival Rio, Riot
likes Jem's mystery, and doesn't want to find out who
she really is, because he doesn't tolerate the slightest flaw.
Riot considers himself perfect, and will never settle for anything
but the best.
He doesn't like to talk about his family and background.
His family was forced to move
around alot to different cities and even countries when Riot grew up,
and never stayed long enough for Riot to form any friendships. Riot spent his last
three years of high school in Germany, he speaks fluent German, and likes Germany
better than any other place he has lived. Although Riot wanted to play music, his father never
approved of it, and pushed him to join the army. But while stationed in West Germany,
Riot joined his first band, Nirvana.
Episodes:
9.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Rapture (Phoebe Ashe)
Plays guitar in the Stingers. Her parents are
divorced, and she grew up spending nine months with
her mother who is a real-estate saleswoman in San
Francisco, and three months in the summer with her
father who is a neurologist in Chicago. The only thing that gets Rapture going is music, and
fantasy, which Rapture prefer over the mundane real world. Her interest
is fantasy oriented movies, books, and fantasy art. She
collects statues of griffins, chimeras, and dragons.
Even if she doesn't really believe in it all herself,
she has a big imagination and uses it to manipulate people, especially if she can earn
something on it.
Episodes:
9.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Minx (Ingrid Kruger)
Plays synthesizer in the Stingers. Comes from Berlin,
West Germany. Her mother is a secretary and her father is a computer
repairman. Minx has always been fascinated with the insides of computers and instruments,
and has an impressively good technical mind. She went to high
school with Riot in West Germany. She loves to flirt, she thinks she can get any man she wants,
and enjoys stealing men from other
women, and dumps them once she succeeds. But she
hasn't been able to charm Rio yet. She has a sharp tongue and says whatever she feels like.
Except for Riot and Rapture, she doesn't like Americans.
Episodes:
9.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Friends and boyfriends of the Holograms
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Synergy
A holographic computer which Emmett Benton, Jerrica's and
Kimber's father, started building after their mother Jacqui's death,
when Jerrica was only 16 years old. Synergy is the result of Emmett's
idea of linking music and threedimensional images. But she became
much more than he originally intended. She can generate realistic
holographic images, as much as 600 a minute without powerloss, that
are lightyears ahead of anything seen before.
She can also project voice imitations.
Emmett had planned to give Synergy as a gift to his daughters to be a
friend, mother, teacher and guide. He even recorded Synergy with Jacqui's
likeness. But incase he wouldn't survive his cancer he had programmed
Synergy to reveal her existance to Jerrica and Kimber. One day Jerrica
got a package with starshaped earrings in the mail.
These are the Jemstar earrings, which are small remote
projectors which enables Synergy to communicate, project
holograms, and even voice imitations through, which makes
it possible for Jerrica to become Jem without Synergy's actual presence.
Synergy is being kept a secret to the
world by Jerrica and the Holograms,
as she could be a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands.
She is kept in Starlight
Mansion, in a hidden room behind a holographic wall. But
she can also go out from the computer, in the form of a hologram.
Episodes:
23.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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Rio Pacheco
Jerrica's boyfriend, who is a technical engineer and the roadmanager of Jem and the Holograms.
He knows everything about the business, when it comes to musical equipment, touring, lighting,
and sound engineering.
His family moved next door to the Benton's when he was very young. He got his start in the
music business from Emmett Benton. He doesn't know that Jem and Jerrica is the same person.
He finds himself attracted to Jem, but doesn't want to betray Jerrica. Jerrica struggles with
the idea of revealing her secret identity to him, but Rio has a short temper and has made it
clear that he hates deception and liars.
Episodes:
47.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes. 2 editions.
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Countess Danielle Du Voisin
A very wealthy 38 years old aristocratic woman from France. She is the only girl
among two younger brothers, Henri and Michael.
Although her family owns vineyards, estates, several resorts hotels, and an
enormous hydrofoil yacht which she likes to cruise on the sea, she is first and
foremost a fashion designer. She has designed fashions for Jem
and the Holograms several times, and helped Shana and Regine with their fashion designing.
She is a good friend of Jem and the Holograms, and there seems to be
something going on between her and Howard Sands, she even bought a mansion
nearby his home.
Episodes:
10.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Lindsey "Lin-Z" Pierce
Has her own rockvideo TV-show on VTV, Lind-Z TV, where she shows music videos and reports the
latest music news. Jem and the Holograms are friends and
frequent guests, but even the Misfits appear at times even though they're
not favorites of Lindsey.
Episodes:
28.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Video (Vivien Montgomery)
A very energetic and prize winning video director. She comes from a little town called Mulberry.
As a child she had a passion for tv shows, which turned into a passion for video
equipment, and at her 10th birthday she got her first camera from her parents.
She won acclaim in the music industry by the help of Anthony
Julian. She is a cousin of Clash, and was born on exactly the same time as Clash in the same
hospital, although they've never gotten along well. She is a friend of Jem and the Holograms
which she has filmed on several occasions, documentaries aswell as music videos.
Episodes:
15.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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Danse (Giselle Dvorak)
A dancer full of charisma and warmth, and a friend of Jem and the Holograms and the
Starlight Girls. Came to the USA as a baby with her mother from Yugoslavia. Has
trained dancing since she was a little child, and has a natural talent for it. She
lost her mother in a natural disaster, and grew up with foster parents.
She has taken part in several music videos by Jem and the Holograms, and
she also works as a part-time volunteer with teenage runaways in the local
halfway house called Haven House.
Episodes:
11.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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Anthony Julian
A creative and intelligent director of film and music
videos, friend of Lindsey Pierce and Video, boyfriend of Shana who he met on
the Countess Du Voisin's yatch and they've been a steady couple since.
He directed the music video of "Twilight In Paris" and the movie "Starbright".
Episodes:
10.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Craig Phillips
Stomer's 5 year older brother, who is very protective of Stormer, the few times he's around.
Also a love interest for Aja's although they don't see each other alot and she doesn't know
that Stormer is his sister at first. He is a very talented musician, but first and foremost
a drummer who usually plays drums with his band The Blue Bloods in England, although he can
play just about any instrument. He doesn't care much about fame, as long as he gets to do what
he the likes most, which is to play drums. He actually prefers playing with smaller groups,
which is what he has been doing the last few years around Europe.
Episodes:
3.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Howard E. Sands
This 42 years old bachelor studied at a film school and is today a top movie producer and owns
the World Studios.
He often donates money to film programs and foundations. Infact he was the one who
donated the Starlight Mansion to the "Battle of the Bands" contest in which Jem and the
Holograms and the Misfits participated. He is also into
real eastate, antiques, art, sailing, scuba diving and cycling. He met Danielle in
France during a mini-series production.
Episodes:
8.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Jeff Wright
Works as a stuntman, and met Kimber while working on
the movie Starbright. Later engaged
with and almost married Kimber.
Episodes:
6.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Sean Harrison
A british teen idol singer and actor. Once a friend of
Pizzazz, but now dating Kimber.
Episodes:
5.
Invented by:
Mary Skrenes.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Regine Cesaire
A fashion designer, friend of Danielle and Jem and the Holograms although she started out as a fan of
them, epspecially of Shana and her designing. She is very cheerful, but also has a temper.
She comes from Fort-de-France the capital city of Martinique in the French Antilles (Windward Island)
of the Carribean. Her father
is a translator of English, French, Spanish and Creole. Her mother Vanessa has a business making
handprinted textiles. Regine learned alot about fabrics from her mother and designed all her clothes
already as a teenager. Danielle who was a client of Regine's mother, discovered Regine and took
her to Paris for training, and then to live in Danielle's mansion, which is next door to Starlight
Mansion.
Episodes:
1.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Astral (Maeve Eldritch)
A professional stage magician, sleight-of-hand artist and a psychic investigator, which has been an
interest of her since she was a young girl. Her family has
some of the most mixed genes as her ancestors come from all around the world. Her parents are
both doctors, and used to travel all over the world and take Maeve with them. Maeve went to
highschool in Phoenix
Arizona, where her family happened to live next door to an old man who was a student of Harry
Houdini, from whom Maeve learned alot of her magic tricks. She came to L.A. when she became involved
with a group of
psychic researchers at a university. She is very interested in psychic abilities like ESP, although
she keeps a skeptic mind to the supernatural.
Episodes:
1.
Invented by:
Hasbro.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Friends of the Misfits
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Eric Raymond
He used to work for Jerrica's father Emmett, and inherited half the music company Starlight
Music when Emmett died. He has also been the owner of Misfit Music, but now
owns half of Stingers Sound. He has had a hard time promoting the Misfits ever since
Jem and the Holograms showed up. He is a sly businessman with no scruples at all, and
doesn't hesitate to hire people like Zipper and Techrat to do his dirty work for him.
Episodes:
45.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Clash (Constance Montgomery)
Video's cousin, who is jealous of Video and always tries to outdo her or make her
life miserable. She is the biggest fan of the Misfits, but has not been allowed to join the band.
She always hangs out with them though, and they gladly take advantage of her and
her abilities of disguising herself to play tricks on Jem and the Holograms. She doesn't
play any instruments but manage get attention by causing noise with the two
cymbals she wears as armrings.
Episodes:
12.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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Techrat
A genius at high-tech, computers, electronics, sound equipment and laser-effects, in his
early 20's. He works for Eric and creates gadgets for the Misfits and the Stingers. He
doesn't care if his gadgets are used for evil purposes as long as they work as he meant them
to. And usually his gadgets end up causing alot of trouble for Jem and the Holograms.
Still Jem and the Holograms have never seen him and have no idea who he is.
He is not very social, he hangs out in his "Rathole", and does not like to be touched,
until he meets Minx who is the one person who he has allowed to come close to him.
Techrat isn't aware of Synergy, but knows that Jerrica has some kind of techinical device.
Episodes:
12.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Zipper
A very cruel and heartless thug who works for Eric and seems ready to do just about anything for a
flat fee, whenever Eric needs help
sabotaging for Jem and the Holograms. Changes haircolor after some episode from blonde to black.
Disappears from the show after the episode "Hot Time In Hawaii" where he is arrested by the police.
Episodes:
9.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Harvey Gabor
Father of Phyllis (Pizzazz). He was one of ten siblings. Born into a working-class family, but became
a business tycoon and was a billionaire already at the age of 20. He married Pizzazz' mother Gail Nye
at the age of 24, who soon ran off and left him and their daughter Phyllis.
His main concern is business and making money, but he always gave Phyllis
just about everything she asked for, except for love and attention.
Episodes:
7.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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The Starlight Girls
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Ashley Thomas
A tough and independant 12 years old girl who had trouble getting along with the other
Starlight Girls when she first arrived to Starlight House as the 14th Starlight Girl.
She is interested in both fashion, which Shana helps her with, and likes to sing and
practice guitar.
Episodes:
34.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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Ba Nee O'Carolan
She is 8 years old, and was brought to America from the village of An Loc by her vietnamese mother
who died soon after that. She is usually a very sweet and mannerly girl, who loves to draw and read
books of all kinds. But she is determined to find her father, while all she knows about him is what
her mother told her, that he is an american with red hair.
Episodes:
34.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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Krissie
She arrived to Starlight House when she was very young.
At only 11 years old, she is a very sensible and responsible girl, a loyal and helpful friend.
Episodes:
28.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
Yes.
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Deidree
A 12 year old girl who arrived to Starlight House when she was very young. She loves Jem and the
Holograms. She plays guitar and is determined to play in a band of her own one day. Infact she, Lela,
Becky and Ashley rehearse togheter in their own band called "the Starlights". She can be a bit
impulsive, but when the going gets rough she comes to her senses.
Episodes:
26.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Terri
An 8 year old girl who is superstitious, easily scared and hates Halloween.
Episodes:
22.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Lela
At the age 14 she is the oldest of the Starlight Girls, and was the first girl to arrive at
Starlight House, after Aja and Shana. She takes charge when Jerrica, Kimber, Aja, and Shana aren't
around. Plays drums and piano.
Episodes:
23.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Anne
An 11 years old girl who arrived to Starlight House when she was very young.
Episodes:
22.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Marianne
An 9 years old cuban girl.
Episodes:
22.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Joellen
An 9 years old girl.
Episodes:
23.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Becky
At 13 years old, she is one of the oldest of the Starlight Girls. She practices keyboard and drums
with the other Starlight Girls Lela, Ashley and Deidre.
Episodes:
21.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Nancy
A 10 years old girl.
Episodes:
25.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Delaree
An 13 years old girl who arrived to Starlight Hosue when she was very young.
Episodes:
18.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Laura
A 14 year old girl who arrived at Starlight Mansion when she lost her parents. But she didn't
stay for long. She didn't feel at home there, and eventually her low selfasteem caused her to
start using drugs.
Episodes:
1.
Invented by:
Sandy Fries.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Other re-appearing characters
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Joanie Stuart
This 50-something woman is originally from Scotland and she is the comptroller of Starlight
Music's financial affairs and have been working there ever since Emmett Benton's owned the company,
and is now the right hand of Jerrica at the record company.
Episodes:
5.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Mrs. Bailey
Has been around since Jerrica and Kimber were little, as the
housekeeper of Starlight House, and is now the housekeeper of Starlight Mansion and takes care
of the Starlight Girls.
Episodes:
10.
Invented by:
Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Harriet Horn
Shown on the same channel as the Lin-Z show, is Harriet Horn's a talkshow sponsored
by Cool Trash magazine, so you can imagine she likes to gossip about the celebrities
she interviews.
Episodes:
4.
Invented by:
Mary Skrenes.
Released as a doll:
No.
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Richard Xanthos
A very wealthy man who lives in an estate in Northern California. He has a huge interest in books,
and runs his own charity foundation. The concepts of friendship, good will and
peace are a prime concern to him. He thinks the key to making the world better is music. That's how
Jem and the Holograms meet him, when he decides to arrange little contests like a treasure hunt and
a music video contest.
Episodes:
2.
Invented by:
Ellen Guon and Christy Marx.
Released as a doll:
No.
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