Fantomcat

Fantomcat
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Developed by	Anglia Television
Written by	Roger Stennett Jimmy Hibbert Keith Smith Maggie Fox Sue Ryding Maggie Smith Stefan Redfern Rob Rackstraw Lorelei King
Directed by	Ben Turner Andy Roper
Starring	Robert Powell Lorelei King Rob Rackstraw Jimmy Hibbert
Composer(s)	Phil Bush
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 min.
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	7 September 1995 – 18 December 1996

Fantomcat is an animated series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films. It was first broadcast in 1995, and was animated after Avenger Penguins in 1994, by Alfonso Productions, a Spanish animation studio. It aired largely on Children's ITV. The series also had a brief run on Pop and on Network Ten in Australia. It was produced and directed by Ben Turner.

Fantomcat centres on the character Phillipe Lentheric Guerlain de Givenchy, the Duke of Fantom, a masked swashbuckling hero who thrived in 1699, in mortal combat with his nemesis Baron Von Skeltar (a sword-wielding caped Skeletoid alchemist). De Fantom was treacherously cast into a painting within the halls of his house, Castle De Fantom, and became trapped for centuries. As time passed, the area around Castle De Fantom became a bustling metropolis called Metro City, a city submerged in crime rings led by the fiendish arachnid Marmagora.

Fantomcat was influenced heavily by Zorro, Errol Flynn, and the time-lost approach of Adam Adamant Lives.

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