Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is an American animated series that was first broadcast in September 1993, and has been running in cartoon syndication ever since. It follows the escapades of Sonic the Hedgehog, and his comrade Miles "Tails" Prower, as they attempt to stop the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his array of vicious robots from taking over the planet Mobius — though the emphasis is on humour and slapstick with Robotnik and his henchrobots being bunglers and incompetents.

DiC Entertainment planned a second season for Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog but the second season didn't come around due to the fact that DiC was busy working on the second season for Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM).

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was originally going to air on ABC Saturday Mornings but then ABC reject Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog because ABC thought it had horrible animation, lame plots and catch phrases. So ABC told DiC Entertainment to come up with a new cartoon or Sonic would not air on ABC. So Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was transfered to syndication on weekdays while Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) was on ABC Saturday Mornings.

The 65 episodes of this show (not including Christmas special) ran on weekdays at the same time as the 13 episodes of the first season of "Sonic the Hedgehog" (1993) were being shown on Saturday mornings.

The characters of Grounder and Coconuts were based upon the identically-named enemy robots in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) (VG).

In the Sonic games, there are seven Chaos Emeralds, all of which are multi-coloured. In the four-episode story-arc in this show (comprising "Blackbot the Pirate", "Hedgehog of the Hound Table", "Robotnik's Pyramid Scheme" and "Prehistoric Sonic"), there are four Chaos Emeralds, all of which are green and of various shapes, scattered throughout various points in history, and each give a specific power: invisibility, invincibility, immortality and the power to give life.

One episode was adapted for the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book published by Archie Comics, specifially "Psuedo Sonic" in Sonic the Hedgehog #9.

Most of the bounty hunters in the episode "The Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad" was re-used as the cast for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1993) (VG).

The Christmas special, "A Sonic Christmas Blast", used many elements from "Sonic the Hedgehog" (1993), including SWATbots and the appearance of Princess Sally (although a much different Sally to the one in the other cartoon).

Part of the theme is "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg.

Ben Hurst and Pat Allee were pitching ideas to write an episode of the show however the story editors (Bruce Shelly and Reed Shelly) rejected the ideas and was not able to write an episode.