TV series or program
Action Man
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Also known as
| Action Man ? The Greatest Hero of them All
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Genre
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Created by
| Hasbro
(original toys)
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Developed by
| Marty Isenberg
and
Robert N. Skir
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Starring
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Theme music composer
| Paul Gordon
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Opening theme
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Ending theme
| - "Amp it Up, Action Man" (instrumental)
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Composers
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Country of origin
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 2
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No.
of episodes
| 26
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Executive producers
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- Ian Pearson
- Paul Sabella
- Jonathan Dern
- Carol Monroe
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Producer
| Mark Ralston
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Running time
| 30 minutes
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Production companies
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Network
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Release
| August 5, 2000
(
2000-08-05
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August 20, 2001
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2001-08-20
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Action Man
is a 2000
CGI
animated TV series based on the
toy line of the same name
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Though unrelated to the
1995 version
, it was the first
Action Man
series to be made in CGI. In this series, Alexander "Alex" Mann is an
extreme sports
athlete known as "Action Man" and is a member of Team Xtreme.
Synopsis
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Alex Mann, Action Man's civilian identity, is an
extreme sports
athlete of Team Xtreme, taking part in the Mastervision Network's Acceleration Games, a series of unconventional televised sporting activities all over the world. Danger and
adrenaline
trigger hidden mental powers called the "AMP (Advanced Macro Probability) Factor", a result of secret experiments by his former high school coach Simon Grey. With it, Alex is able to calculate all future possibilities, choosing the best course of action. Alex "Action" Mann, Desmond "Grinder" Sinclair, Agnes "Fidget" Wilson, and Ricky Singh-Baines must stop arch-enemy Doctor X, a brilliant
geneticist
and bio-engineer, who will stop at nothing to duplicate Alex's AMP Factor to rebuild Earth with the genetically enhanced neo-humanity.
Cast
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Main
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Supporting
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Episodes
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Season 1 (2000)
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Dr. X captured and physically tested Alex Mann repeatedly, as well as his longtime rival and best friend Brandon Caine. Dr. X also added nanotech enhancements to Brandon, making him superior to Alex in athletics, only for them to have side effects. The culmination of the experiments was to mind transfer Dr. X into Brandon's body, becoming his younger self and nanotech cyborg, able to change his appearance and infect others. Following the ninth episode the series becomes more simplified. Dr. X founded the Council of Doom with his evil cohorts: assassin Asazi and weather manipulating scientist Tempest. Dr. X's nanotech trilobites appeared to gain collective intelligence and rebel against him, but this was actually Brandon Caine's uploaded mind punishing Dr. X.
Season 2 (2001)
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The Council of Doom continues to grow after Brandon was saved from Dr. X. The season features new villains: Gangrene & Quake.
Home media releases
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In the United Kingdom, four
VHS
were released by
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
and later reissued by
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
, containing three episodes per tape. One VHS release was also released by Maximum Entertainment.
VHS releases
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Release name
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Episodes
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Release date
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Running time
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Additional information
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Action Man Vol. 1: The Call to Action
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"The Call to Action" (feature-length)
"Grey Areas"
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July 9, 2001
April 29, 2002 (re-release)
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64 minutes
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Action Man Vol. 2: Storm Front
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"Storm Front"
"Gremlin in the Gears"
"Double Vision"
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July 9, 2001
April 29, 2002 (re-release)
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64 minutes
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Action Man Vol. 3: Out of the Shadows
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"Into the Abyss"
"Out of the Shadows"
"Lost in the Funhouse"
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July 9, 2001
April 29, 2002 (re-release)
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64 minutes
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Action Man Vol. 4: The Swarm
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"The Hereafter Factor"
"Cold War"
"The Swarm" (Double-Length)
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July 9, 2001
April 29, 2002 (re-release)
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85 minutes
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Action Man Vol. 5: Green Thought
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"Green Thought"
"First"
"Storm Front"
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14 April 2003
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63 minutes
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Action Man: Volume 1
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"The Call to Action - Part 1"
"The Call to Action - Part 2
"Grey Areas"
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October 4, 2004
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66 minutes
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The series also saw a few DVD releases as well, released in the UK by Maximum Entertainment.
Release name
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Episodes
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Release date
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Running time
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Additional information
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Action Man: Volume 1
Action Man: Storm Front
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"The Call to Action - Part 1"
"The Call to Action - Part 2
"Grey Areas"
"Storm Front"
"Gremlin in the Gears"
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August 30, 2004
2005 (re-release)
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110 minutes
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Action Man: Volume 2
Action Man: Team Xtreme
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"Double Vision"
Into the Abyss"
"Out of the Shadows"
"Lost in the Funhouse"
"The Hereafter Factor"
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October 2004
June 4, 2007 (re-release)
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110 minutes
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Action Man: Cold War
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"Cold War"
"Swarm - Part 1"
"Swarm - Part 2"
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March 21, 2005
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66 minutes
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Action Man: Ground Zero - Series 2
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Entirety of Series 2
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2008
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276 minutes
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Video games
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A video game named
Action Man: Search for Base X
was released based on the 2000 series.
Hasbro Interactive
published the
Windows
game
Action Man: Raid on Island X
in the United States as a tie-in to the TV series, despite having nothing to do with it.
Awards
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In 2001, the show won a Golden Camera Award at the U.S. and International Film and Video Festival for 'Best Animation' in the episode "The Swarm: Part 2".
References
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- ^
Perlmutter, David (2018).
The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows
. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 4.
ISBN
978-1538103739
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