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Fantastic Max
British-American animated television series
Fantastic Max is an animated cartoon series, originally aired on the BBC from 1988 to 1990 and created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, Kalisto Ltd., Booker PLC and Tanaka Promotion Co. in association with S4C. It centers on a boy named Maxwell "Fantastic Max" Young who has adventures in outer space with two of his toys: FX, a pull-string alien doll from a planet called Twinkle-Twinkle, and A.B. Sitter, a C-3PO-like android made of blocks.
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The pilot episode of Fantastic Max, then known as Space Baby, was originally produced in the UK by Siriol Animation in 1986, and premiered on The Disney Channel of the same year and BBC1 in 1987. The first season of Fantastic Max was broadcast in the United States on Saturday mornings from September 17 to December 10, 1988, and in the United Kingdom on BBC1 from September 13 to November 28, 1989. In the UK, episodes were split into two parts and aired on successive days. Episodes 1-8 premiered on Wednesdays before moving to Mondays for the remainder of the season. The second season of Fantastic Max was broadcast in the United States on Sunday mornings from October 29, 1989, to January 21, 1990, and in the United Kingdom on BBC1 as 13 single episodes split into two parts. Between 1989 and 1991, four VHS tapes were released by BBC Video, whereas the three episodes of the UK showings on each of the VHS tapes were made into 20 minute stories. During 1991, Abbey Home Entertainment also released three separate VHS tapes with two episodes on each; one episode ("Boo Who") was exclusively released as part of the Children's Classics range and sold at WHSmith stores. In June 1991, Tempo Video's Kids Club sub-label released a single video containing one episode, "Movie Star Max" (94932).
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