The Marvel Action Hour
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| The Marvel Action Hour | |
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| Also known as | MAH |
| Genre | Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi |
| Developed by | Marvel Productions Genesis Entertainment |
| Presented by | Stan Lee |
| Voices of | Iron Man cast Fantastic Four cast |
| Narrated by | Stan Lee |
| Theme music composer | Keith Emerson |
| Composer(s) | Van Cilburn |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Avi Arad Stan Lee |
| Producer(s) | Glen Hill |
| Supervising producer(s) |
Ron Friedman Paul Strickland |
| Story editor(s) | Ron Friedman |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | First-run syndication |
| Audio format | THX |
| Original run | September 24, 1994 – February 24, 1996 |
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| Related shows | Iron Man Fantastic Four |
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| Official website | |
The Marvel Action Hour is a syndicated television block from Marvel Productions featuring animated adaptions of Marvel Comic Book heroes the Fantastic Four and Iron Man. The Marvel Action Hour debuted in 1994. The Marvel Action Hour lasted two seasons before being cancelled.
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[edit] Format
The first half of the hour was an episode of Iron Man; the second half an episode of Fantastic Four (many episodes of which were direct recreations of episodes from the original 1960s series). During the first season, Stan Lee was featured speaking before each show about characters in the following episode and what had inspired him to create them.
The show underwent a notable modification when broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom; owing to the fact that the BBC does not feature commercial breaks, the two shows that made up the Marvel Action Hour would actually only have totaled about forty minutes, and so episodes of the 1980s Incredible Hulk series were added between the two original shows to bring the whole bundle up to the promised hour in length.
[edit] Season 2
Both the Fantastic Four and Iron Man were radically retooled for the second seasons, sporting new opening sequences, improved animation, and more mature writing, though noticeably missing the introductions by Stan Lee.
In some markets, the second season was known as Marvel Action Universe (with the addition of Biker Mice from Mars), which was the name of a previous syndicated programming block in the late 1980s.
[edit] See also
- Fantastic Four (1994 TV series)
- Iron Man (TV series)
- New World Communications - Generally, New World (Genesis Entertainment as it was known at the time) affliated television stations broadcasted The Marvel Action Hour.
[edit] External links
- Behind the Scenes of the Marvel Action Hour
- The Creative Forces Behind the Marvel Action Hour
- Stan Lee Talks About the Marvel Action Hour
