Big Bad Beetleborgs
| Big Bad Beetleborgs | |
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| Genre |
Action/Adventure Science Fiction Superhero |
| Created by |
Haim Saban Shuki Levy Toei Company |
| Starring | Wesley Barker Herbie Baez Shannon Chandler Brittany Konarzewski Billy Forester Vivian Smallwood Kim Delgado Channe Nolen Christopher Cho Claudine Barros Marshal Hilton Blake Torney David Fletcher Joe Hackett Frank Tahoe Lina Godouse |
| Theme music composer | Jeremy Sweet Billy Forester |
| Composer(s) | Jeremy Sweet Barry Trop Inon Zur Shuki Levy Kussa Mahchi |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 88 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Haim Saban Shuki Levy Lance H. Robbins |
| Producer(s) | Robert Hughes |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Saban Entertainment Renaissance-Atlantic Films Toei Company, Ltd. Bugboy Productions, Inc. |
| Distributor |
Saban Brands MarVista Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network |
FOX (Fox Kids) UPN Kids (reruns, 1998–1999) |
| Original release | September 7, 1996 – March 2, 1998 |
Big Bad Beetleborgs (later Beetleborgs Metallix) is an American live-action television series by Saban Entertainment. The series was co-produced with Renaissance-Atlantic Films, Toei Company and Bugboy Productions. It aired for two seasons on Fox Kids between September 7, 1996 and March 2, 1998.
The series adapted combat footage from the Metal Hero tokusatsu-series Juukou B-Fighter (first season) and B-Fighter Kabuto (second season).
Set in the fictional town of Charterville, three "typical average kids"—two siblings, Drew (Wesley Barker) and Jo (Shannon Chandler/Brittany Konarzewski), and their friend Roland (Herbie Baez)--enter the supposedly haunted Hillhurst Mansion after accepting a dare from rich snobs Van and Trip. The house is revealed to be the home of real monsters when the kids accidentally bump a pipe organ, releasing a phantasm named Flabber (Billy Forester). He proves to be friendly, and in return for releasing him, offers to grant them one wish. They wish to become their comic book heroes, the Big Bad Beetleborgs. However, this also brings the Beetleborgs' sworn enemies to life: the Magnavores, led by the evil Vexor, who would summon monsters from the comic books to battle the Beetleborgs. Roland's mom and dad run the comic book shop along with his grandmother Nano. In a 6-parter, Vexor created his own Beetleborg, Shadowborg, which was a match for the Beetleborgs and briefly took their powers. They had to call a temporary Beetleborg (White Blaster Beetleborg) Josh, and after Shadowborg was destroyed, Josh lost his powers. The Beetleborgs would meet the Beetleborgs comic creator, Art Fortunes, during this six-part story in order for him to create the White Blaster Beetleborg and the Mega Blue Beetleborg.
In the penultimate episode of the first season, the Magnavores steal a picture of a new villain named Nukus from Art Fortunes' office. They bring him to life to enlist his help in destroying the Beetleborgs. Nukus assists them by planning devastating attacks on the city and creating Borgslayer, a hybrid of all the Magnavore monsters. Unbeknownst to the Magnavores, Nukus was actually plotting to get rid of them. Nukus tells Van and Trip (who were fleeing Charterville during Borgslayer's attack to their father's country estate) how to defeat Borgslayer, and orders them to take the information to the Beetleborgs. They succeed in destroying Borgslayer, causing the Magnavores to be swept back into the comics.
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