Captain Sturdy: Back in Action was a short created by Bill Waldner, Darrel Van Citters, and Ashley Postlewaite and produced by Renegade Animation for the Cartoon Network. The short premiered on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays on June 8, 2001 as one of ten contenders for Cartoon Network's Big Pick 2, the winner of which would become the next Cartoon Cartoon. The short did not win The Big Pick, and was not picked up by Cartoon Network to become a full-length series. However, another Captain Sturdy pilot "Captain Sturdy: The Originals" was produced in 2003 and aired on Adult Swim.