Fantastic Voyage | |
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Genre | Science fiction |
Directed by | Hal Sutherland |
Voices of |
Marvin Miller Jane Webb Ted Knight |
Theme music composer | "Robert Allen" "Spencer Raymond" (as credited) |
Composer(s) | Gordon Zahler |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 17 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producer(s) |
Lou Scheimer Norm Prescott |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | Filmation |
Distributor | 20th Century Fox Television |
Release | |
Original network | ABC-TV |
Original release | September 14, 1968 | – January 4, 1969
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Fantastic Voyage |
Fantastic Voyage is an American animated science fiction TV series based on the famous 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer. The series consists of 17 episodes each running 30 minutes. It was run on ABC-TV from September 14, 1968 through January 4, 1969. The series was produced by Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox. It was later shown in reruns on Sci Fi Channel's Cartoon Quest. A Fantastic Voyage comic book, based on the series, was published by Gold Key.
The complete series was released, as a 3-disc DVD set, in the United Kingdom by Revelation Films on November 21, 2011. But in the United States, as of the middle of July 2015, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment had not formed, much less executed, any plans for release of the series on DVD and/or Blu-ray Disc.
Fantastic Voyage is the story of the C.M.D.F. (Combined Miniature Defense Force), a secret United States government organization that possessed the ability to reduce people to microscopic size.
The main characters were Commander Jonathan Kidd; biologist Erica Lane; scientist Busby Birdwell; and a "master of mysterious powers" known as Guru. The team was reduced in size for its missions, each miniaturization period having a time limit of 12 hours, and it traveled around in a microscopic flying submarine, the Voyager, doing battle against the unseen, unsuspecting enemies of the free world, both criminal and germinal matter. The series featured character voices provided by Marvin Miller, Jane Webb, and Ted Knight. The producers were Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott, the director was Hal Sutherland, and the music was provided by Gordon Zahler.