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Fantastic Max
Fantastic Max is an animated cartoon series, originally aired on the BBC from 1988 to 1990 and created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, Kalisto Ltd., Booker PLC and Tanaka Promotion Co. in association with S4C. It centers on a boy named Maxwell "Fantastic Max" Young who has adventures in outer space with two of his toys: FX, a pull-string alien doll from a planet called Twinkle-Twinkle, and A.B. Sitter, a C-3PO-like android made of blocks.
The series was developed by Judy Rothman and Robin Lyons from Siriol Animation as part of the creation of Kalisto Ltd. and was originally called Space Baby before being further developed by Mike Young and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.
In the United States, Fantastic Max ran in syndication for two years as part of the weekly Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming block. The first episode aired on September 11, 1988, and the last first-run episode aired on January 21, 1990. Boomerang aired reruns of the series until November 2013. On January 20, 2025, reruns started airing on Amazon's WBTV Cartoon Rewind channel. The series' pilot episode, Space Baby, first aired in the U.S. in November 1986 on The Disney Channel.
In the United Kingdom, the series was broadcast on the BBC as part of its Children's BBC programming block (now called CBBC), except all the episodes were split into two parts. The original 1986 pilot episode, Space Baby, with footage identical to the episode "From Here to Twinkle Twinkle" was first broadcast on BBC1 at 3:50pm on December 30, 1987.
The pilot episode of Fantastic Max, then known as Space Baby, was originally produced in the UK by Siriol Animation in 1986, and premiered on The Disney Channel of the same year and BBC1 in 1987.
The first season of Fantastic Max was broadcast in the United States on Saturday mornings from September 17 to December 10, 1988, and in the United Kingdom on BBC1 from September 13 to November 28, 1989. In the UK, episodes were split into two parts and aired on successive days. Episodes 1-8 premiered on Wednesdays before moving to Mondays for the remainder of the season.
The second season of Fantastic Max was broadcast in the United States on Sunday mornings from October 29, 1989, to January 21, 1990, and in the United Kingdom on BBC1 as 13 single episodes split into two parts.
Between 1989 and 1991, four VHS tapes were released by BBC Video, whereas the three episodes of the UK showings on each of the VHS tapes were made into 20 minute stories.
Fantastic Max
Fantastic Max is an animated cartoon series, originally aired on the BBC from 1988 to 1990 and created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, Kalisto Ltd., Booker PLC and Tanaka Promotion Co. in association with S4C. It centers on a boy named Maxwell "Fantastic Max" Young who has adventures in outer space with two of his toys: FX, a pull-string alien doll from a planet called Twinkle-Twinkle, and A.B. Sitter, a C-3PO-like android made of blocks.
The series was developed by Judy Rothman and Robin Lyons from Siriol Animation as part of the creation of Kalisto Ltd. and was originally called Space Baby before being further developed by Mike Young and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.
In the United States, Fantastic Max ran in syndication for two years as part of the weekly Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming block. The first episode aired on September 11, 1988, and the last first-run episode aired on January 21, 1990. Boomerang aired reruns of the series until November 2013. On January 20, 2025, reruns started airing on Amazon's WBTV Cartoon Rewind channel. The series' pilot episode, Space Baby, first aired in the U.S. in November 1986 on The Disney Channel.
In the United Kingdom, the series was broadcast on the BBC as part of its Children's BBC programming block (now called CBBC), except all the episodes were split into two parts. The original 1986 pilot episode, Space Baby, with footage identical to the episode "From Here to Twinkle Twinkle" was first broadcast on BBC1 at 3:50pm on December 30, 1987.
The pilot episode of Fantastic Max, then known as Space Baby, was originally produced in the UK by Siriol Animation in 1986, and premiered on The Disney Channel of the same year and BBC1 in 1987.
The first season of Fantastic Max was broadcast in the United States on Saturday mornings from September 17 to December 10, 1988, and in the United Kingdom on BBC1 from September 13 to November 28, 1989. In the UK, episodes were split into two parts and aired on successive days. Episodes 1-8 premiered on Wednesdays before moving to Mondays for the remainder of the season.
The second season of Fantastic Max was broadcast in the United States on Sunday mornings from October 29, 1989, to January 21, 1990, and in the United Kingdom on BBC1 as 13 single episodes split into two parts.
Between 1989 and 1991, four VHS tapes were released by BBC Video, whereas the three episodes of the UK showings on each of the VHS tapes were made into 20 minute stories.