Editing The Famous Jett Jackson (section)

==History and related series==
Show creator Fracaswell Hyman reportedly devised the character before casting Lee Thompson Young for the role. Like Jett, Young was raised in a single parent home in the South, and decided on an acting career at an early age. Young went on to write one of the episodes produced for the series.<ref>{{cite web
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The series included both young guest stars such as [[Hayden Christensen]], [[Rachel McAdams]], [[Britney Spears]], and [[Destiny's Child]] and veteran stars such as [[Eartha Kitt]], the latter of whom played the new coach of Wilsted's [[minor league baseball]] team in one episode.<ref>{{cite web
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The series ended on June 22, 2001, due to Disney's unstated policy of producing 65 episodes per series.

The show's end theme, "It's Not What You Think", was performed by the band [[Youngstown (band)|Youngstown]] in 1999; the full song includes lyrics from Young. The song was used for show credits in seasons 2 and 3.

One of the producers, [[Jim Steyer]] of company JP Kids, would go on to found [[Common Sense Media]] in 2003.