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Fantastic Four (1967)

Country of Origin: USA
Date(s) of Broadcast: 9 September 1967 - 15 March 1970
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 20
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Hanna-Barbera Productions / Marvel Entertainment
Executive Producers: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Producer: Alex Lovy

DIRECTION
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna

ANIMATION
Character Designer: Alex Toth

MUSIC
Music: Hoyt S. Curtin, Ted Nichols

VOICES
Gerald Mohr (Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic)
Jo Ann Pflug (Sue Richards / Invisible Girl)
Jack Flounders (Johnny Storm / The Human Torch)
Paul Frees (Ben Grimm / The Thing / The Watcher)

SUMMARY

While on a space mission orbiting the earth, four astronauts are bombarded by cosmic rays which give them super powers. Richards becomes Mr Fantastic, with the ability to remould his body into any shape he chooses; Sue Storm can turn invisible and is capable of projecting powerful telekinetic blasts; Ben Grimm becomes a huge, rock encrusted creature known as the Thing; and Johnny Storm can burst into flames to become The Human Torch. Together, they become The Fantastic Four and battle a variety of super-villains bent on world domination.

EPISODES

Klaws
Menace Of The Mole Man
Diablo
The Red Ghost
Invasion of The Super-Skrull
Three Predictions of Dr Doom
The Way it all Began
Behold a Distant Star
Prisoners of Planet X
The Mysterious Molecule Man
Danger in the Depths
Demon of the Deep
Return of the Mole Man
It Started on Yancy Street
Galactus
The Micro World of Dr Doom
Blastarr, the Living Bomb-Burst
The Terrible Tribunal
Rama-Tut
The Deadly Director

AVAILABILITY

USA
Television Distributors: ABC (1967); Rhodes Productions (1973 - 1976); Taft H-B Program Sales (1976 - 1979); Turner Program Services Inc (1992 - 1996); Worldvision Enterprises Inc (1979 - 1992); The Cartoon Network (?)

LINKS

SEE ALSO
The New Fantastic Four
(1978)
Fantastic Four (1994)
Fantastic Four (2005)
The Marvel Action Hour (1994 - 1996)

KEYWORDS

animation, comics into films, fantastic four, invisibility, marvel comics, superheroes

 


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