Fantastic Four (1978 TV series)
| The New Fantastic Four | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated television series |
| Created by |
Stan Lee (characters / created for television) Jack Kirby (characters) |
| Voices of |
Mike Road Ginny Tyler Ted Cassidy Frank Welker |
| Narrated by | Dick Tufeld |
| Theme music composer | Dean Elliott Eric Rogers |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Lee Gunther |
| Producer(s) |
David H. DePatie Friz Freleng |
| Editor(s) | David H. DePatie Richard Cannon Richard Corwin |
| Production company(s) |
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises Marvel Comics Animation |
| Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | 9 September – 16 December 1978 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Fantastic Four (1967 TV series) |
| Followed by | Fantastic Four (1994 TV series) |
The New Fantastic Four (on-screen title: The Fantastic Four) is an animated series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Marvel Comics Animation (both owned by Marvel Entertainment) in the late 1970s.
It is the second animated series based on Marvel's comic book series Fantastic Four. The 1978 series replaced the character of the Human Torch with a robot named H.E.R.B.I.E. (Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics), because the 1978 television rights to use that character were tied up by a proposed television pilot movie in development by Universal Studios (now a sister company to NBC) that ended up never being produced.
In July, 2012, scenes from Fantastic Four were re-cut, edited, and re-dubbed into comical shorts as part of Disney XD's Marvel Mash-Up shorts for their "Marvel Universe on Disney XD" block of programming that included Ultimate Spider-Man and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
The company Liberation Films was going to release this series on DVD in the UK in November 2008, but due to the company going into bankruptcy, that never happened. However the company Clear Vision in the UK which had acquired the rights to the Marvel shows, released the series on DVD in March, 2010.
Morningstar Entertainment has released 2 episodes on Region 1 DVD in Canada, however both The Impossible Man and Meet Dr. Doom are reissues of Volumes 2 and 7 of the 1980s Prism Video Marvel Comics Video Library. Both DVDs were mastered from VHS copies of those old releases, and therefore contain the Spider-Man episodes that were added on as bonus episodes to the VHS releases. Meet Doctor Doom is only available in the Villains Gift Set by Morningstar.
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