Fantastic Four (1994 TV series)
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DVD releases
A four disc DVD featuring all 26 (edited) episodes, including new episode introductions by Stan Lee, was released on July 5, 2005 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment in Region 1. Get the DVD set
Format Animated television series Created by Jack Kirby Stan Lee
Voices of Beau Weaver Lori Alan Quinton Flynn Chuck McCann Stan Lee Brian Austin Green Simon Templeman
No. of episodes 26
Production Running time 22 minutes
Broadcast Original channel First-run syndication Original run September 24, 1994 – February 24, 1996
Fantastic Four is an American animated television series and the third animated series based on Marvel's comic book series of the same name.
Overview
In the mid-1990s, Marvel Productions syndicated a new Fantastic Four animated series as part of The Marvel Action Hour. The first half of the hour was an episode of Iron Man; the second half an episode of Fantastic Four. During the first season, Stan Lee was featured speaking before each show about characters in the following episode and what had inspired him to create them.
The vast majority of episodes in the first season consisted of fairly accurate re-tellings and intelligent re-interpretations of classic 1960s FF comic book stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, but the season's cost-effective animation and attempts to add humor through the inclusion of a fussy British landlady for the FF were generally met with displeasure by fans - to say nothing of then-current FF comic book writer Tom DeFalco, who got in trouble for penning a scene in issue #396 of the series that featured Ant-Man watching and lambasting an episode of the cartoon.
Both the Fantastic Four and Iron Man series were radically retooled for the second seasons, sporting new opening sequences, improved animation, and more mature writing (the first season was primarily written by Ron Friedman), though noticeably having fewer introductions by Stan Lee, with several of the new shorter intros being used more than once. The Season 2 episodes also drew upon John Byrne’s 1980s run on the Fantastic Four comic, in addition to further Lee and Kirby adventures. The Marvel Action Hour lasted two seasons before being canceled.
Following the release of the 2005 live-action film, The Walt Disney Company released the series on Region 1 DVD, now featuring new introductions by Stan Lee for all 26 episodes (replacing the original introductions, which had been removed for network broadcast). Additionally, pieces of footage from the episodes themselves had also been removed for network broadcast, and it is these cut episodes that comprise the DVD set. Region 2 received only a DVD comprising of the first four episodes.
Voice cast
- Beau Weaver - Mister Fantastic/Reed Richards
- Lori Alan - Invisible Woman/Susan Storm Richards
- Quinton Flynn - Human Torch/Johnny Storm (Season 2)
- Chuck McCann - Thing/Benjamin J. Grimm
- Brian Austin Green - Human Torch/Johnny Storm (Season 1)
Episode list
Season 1
- Title Original AirDate(s)
- 1 "The Origin of the Fantastic Four" 9/24/1994 101
- 2 "The Origin of the Fantastic Four " 10/1/1994 102
- 3 "Incursion of the Skrulls" 10/15/1994 103
- 4 "Now Comes the Sub-Mariner" 10/8/1994 104
- 5 "The Silver Surfer & the Coming of Galactus (Part 1 of 2)" 10/22/1994 105
- 6 "The Silver Surfer & the Coming of Galactus (Part 2 of 2)" 10/29/1994 106
- 7 "Superskrull" 11/5/1994 107
- 8 "The Mask of Doom " 11/12/1994 108
- 9 "The Mask of Doom " 11/19/1994 109
- 10 "The Mask of Doom " 11/26/1994 110
- 11 "The Silver Surfer & the Return of Galactus" 12/17/1994 111
- 12 "Mole Man" 12/3/1994 112
- 13 "Behold the Negative Zone" 12/10/1994 113
Season 2
- Title Original AirDate(s)
- 14 "And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them" 9/23/1995 201
- 15 "Inhumans Saga (1): And the Wind Cries Medusa" 9/30/1995 202
- 16 "Inhumans Saga (2): The Inhumans Among Us" 10/7/1995 203
- 17 "Inhumans Saga (3): Beware the Hidden Land" 10/14/1995 204
- 18 "Worlds Within Worlds" 10/21/1995 205
- 19 "To Battle the Living Planet[" 11/4/1995 206
- 20 "Prey of the Black Panther" 11/11/1995 207
- 21 "When Calls Galactus" 11/18/1995 208
- 22 "Nightmare in Green" 11/25/1995 209
- 23 "Behold, a Distant Star" 2/3/1996 210
- 24 "Hopelessly Impossible" 2/10/1996 211
- 25 "The Sentry Sinister" 2/17/1996 212
- 26 "Doomsday" 2/24/1996 213