X-Men (animated series)

X-Men
Genre	Superhero fiction Action/Adventure
Based on	X-Men by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and Len Wein
Developed by	Eric Lewald Sidney Iwanter Mark Edens
Voices of	Cedric Smith Norm Spencer Catherine Disher Iona Morris (1992–93) Alison Sealy-Smith (1993–97) Lenore Zann Chris Potter (1992–96) Tony Daniels (1997) Cathal J. Dodd Alyson Court George Buza
Theme music composer	Ron Wasserman
Composer(s)	Ron Wasserman (1992-95) Shuki Levy Noam Kaniel Amotz Plessner
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	76 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Avi Arad Stan Lee Joseph Callimari Winston Richard Eric S. Rollman
Producer(s)	Larry Houston Will Meugniot
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Marvel Entertainment Group Saban Entertainment Marvel Studios (1997) Graz Entertainment
Distributor	Disney-ABC Domestic Television (currently)
Release
Original network	Fox Kids
Original release	October 31, 1992 – September 20, 1997
Chronology
Preceded by	X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men
Followed by	X-Men: Evolution

X-Men Adventures
X-Men Adventures vol. 1 #1 (Nov 1992). Art by Steve Lightle.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing
Publication date(s)	November 1992–March 1997
No. of issues	53
Main character(s)	X-Men

X-Men, also known as X-Men: The Animated Series, is an American animated television series which debuted on October 31, 1992, in the United States on the Fox Network, as part of its Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup.X-Men was Marvel Comics' second attempt at an animated X-Men TV series after the pilot, X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, was not picked up.

In 1991, Margaret Loesch became head of Fox Children's Network. Having championed the Pryde of the X-Men pilot in 1989, she was quick to set up an order for 13 episodes of X-Men. Saban Entertainment was contracted to produce the show and hired a small studio Graz Entertainment to produce the episodes as it did not have sufficient staff at the time to handle production in house. Graz employed the creative staff, wrote and designed each episode, and drew the storyboards. The voice work was done using Canadian studios and South Korean studio AKOM was hired to animate the episodes. X-Men was originally to premiere over the Labor Day weekend in September; due to production delays, it was pushed to the end of October. When the animation team AKOM turned in the first episode, it contained hundreds of animation errors, which AKOM refused to fix. Because of time constraints, the episode was aired in an unfinished form. The second episode was turned in just before deadline, with 50 scenes missing and only a single day reserved for editing. The "Night of the Sentinels" two-part episode originally aired as a "sneak preview" on October 31.

Because of the production delays and animation errors in these two episodes, Fox threatened to sever AKOM's contracts. When Fox re-aired the pilot in early 1993, the errors were corrected. The series earned top ratings throughout its first season, and was renewed for a second season of 13 episodes.

After the box office success of the live-action X-Men film in the summer of 2000, Fox began airing reruns of the cartoon on weekday afternoons. At first, only episodes that primarily featured content in the movie were broadcast. Later, the series was aired in proper order, but it was pulled from the air in early 2001. Soon after, ABC Family and Toon Disney began airing reruns, due to Disney's buyout of all Saban Entertainment programs. X-Men was taken off the air again after Toon Disney was discontinued and Disney XD took over its programming.