Fantastic Max | |
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Genre | Animated Adventure Sci-fi Comedy |
Developed by |
Judy Rothman Rofé Robin Lyons Mike Young |
Written by | Kristina Luckey Judy Rothman Rofé |
Directed by |
Ray Patterson (Supervising) Oscar Dufau Don Lusk Paul Sommer Arthur Davis Carl Urbano Bob Goe |
Voices of | Ben Ryan Ganger Nancy Cartwright Gregg Berger Elisabeth Harnois Paul Eiding Gail Matthius Don Messick Benji Gregory |
Theme music composer | Clark Glassman Michael Tavera |
Composer(s) |
Michael Tavera Clark Glassman |
Country of origin | United States United Kingdom Wales |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Producer(s) |
Charles Grosvenor Mike Young John Parkinson |
Running time | 22 minutes (approx.) |
Production company(s) |
Hanna-Barbera Productions Kalisto Ltd. Booker PLC Tanaka Promotion Co. |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
Release | |
Original network | First-run syndication |
Original release | September 17, 1988 – January 21, 1990 |
Fantastic Max is a 1988–1990 animated cartoon series, aired as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, created by Kalisto Ltd. and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and in association with S4C. It centers on a diaper-wearing toddler with a mohawk 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 show was developed by Judy Rothman and Robin Lyons from Siriol Animation as part of the creation of Kalisto Ltd. and the series was originally called Space Baby before being developed by Mike Young and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions further. In the United States, Fantastic Max ran in syndication for two years as part of the weekly Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera program block. The first episode aired on Sunday September 11, 1988 and the last first-run episode aired on January 21, 1990. Currently, Boomerang airs re-runs of the show on Monday–Friday at 10:30 am. In the United Kingdom, the series was broadcast on CBBC, but this time all the episodes were split into two parts.
There's yet to be a DVD of the complete series from Warner Archive Collection.