Bionic Six
| Bionic Six | |
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The Bionic Six (l-r): Karate-1, IQ, Sport-1, Rock-1, Bionic-1, Mother-1.
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| Genre | Animation |
| Written by |
Gordon Bressack Craig Miller Mark Nelson |
| Directed by |
Osamu Dezaki Toshiyuki Hiruma William T. Hurtz Lee Mishkin Sam Nicholson John Walker Steve Clark |
| Voices of |
Norman Bernard Carol Bilger Bobbie Block Jennifer Darling Jim MacGeorge Alan Oppenheimer Hal Rayle Neil Ross John Stephenson Frank Welker |
| Theme music composer | Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Yutaka Fujioka |
| Producer(s) |
Sachiko Tsuneda (Supervising Producer) Gerald Baldwin |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | TMS Entertainment |
| Distributor | MCA TV |
| Release | |
| Original network | USA Network & syndicated |
| Original release | April 19 – November 12, 1987 |
Bionic Six is an American-Japanese animated television series that aired from 1987 to 1989. It was produced by TMS Entertainment (which had previously worked on Dokonjō Gaeru and Hasbro's Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light) and distributed, through first-run syndication, by MCA TV, years before the latter company became NBCUniversal Television Distribution. Renowned Japanese animation director Osamu Dezaki was involved as chief supervising director, and his distinctive style (as seen in Golgo 13 and Cobra) is evident throughout all its episodes.
The title characters of the series are a family of machine-enhanced human beings possessing unique powers after being augmented with bionic technology. Each family member is given specific bionic powers, and thus they form a superhero team called the Bionic Six.
In the near future (some unspecified decades after 1999), Professor Dr. Amadeus Sharp Ph.D., head of the Special Projects Labs (SPL), creates a new form of technology to augment humans through bionics. His first subject was Jack Bennett, a test pilot who secretly acted as Sharp's field agent, Bionic-1. On a family ski vacation in the Himalayas, an alien spacecraft triggers an avalanche that buries the entire family, exposing them to the unusual radiation of a mysterious buried object. Jack frees himself but discovers his family in a comatose state. Theorizing that Jack's bionics protected him from the radiation, Professor Sharp implants bionic technology in the others, awakening them. Afterward, the family operates incognito as a publicly lauded team of adventuring superheroes, the Bionic Six.
The primary antagonist of the series is a mad scientist known as Doctor Scarab, along with his gang of henchmen – Glove, Madam-O, Chopper, Mechanic, and Klunk – accompanied by Scarab's legion of drone robots called Cyphrons. Ironically, Scarab is Professor Sharp's brother. Obsessed with obtaining immortality and ruling the world, Scarab believes that the key to both goals lies in the secret bionic technology invented by his brother, ever plotting to possess it.
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