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The Marvel Action Hour
NetworkSyndication (U.S.)
LaunchedSeptember 24, 1994 (1994-09-24)
ClosedFebruary 24, 1996 (1996-02-24)
Country of originUnited States
OwnerGenesis Entertainment
Formerly known asThe Marvel Action Hour
FormatAnimated series
Running time60 minutes
late 1994 and 1995: 90 minutes
Original languageEnglish

The Marvel Action Hour, later Marvel Action Universe, was a 1994–1996 syndicated television block from Genesis Entertainment featuring animated adaptations of Marvel Comics superheroes Fantastic Four and Iron Man, with Biker Mice from Mars added for the block's second season.[1] It aired in syndication[2] for two years before being cancelled.[3]

Format

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The first half of the hour was an episode of Iron Man;[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] the second half, an episode of Fantastic Four.[12][13][14][15][16][17] During the first season, Stan Lee introduced the episode.[12]

Both the Fantastic Four[18][19][20] and Iron Man[21] were radically retooled[22] for the second seasons, sporting new opening sequences, improved animation,[23] and more mature writing, though the introductions by Stan Lee were shortened and now against a green screen displaying various production paintings from both shows.[24]

In most markets, the second season was known as Marvel Action Universe, which was the name of a previous syndicated programming block in the late 1980s, with the addition of Biker Mice from Mars extending the block to 90 minutes.[1] The structure was like this: there was a pre-opening overview[25][26][27][28] of the each respective series, then the Marvel Action Universe opening,[29] then the Stan Lee intro, then the episode prologue, then the regular show opening, and finally the episode.

UK modification

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The show underwent a notable modification when broadcast on the BBC[30] in the United Kingdom; because 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. The Stan Lee segments were, however, dropped. First series was broadcast from 20 April[31] until 22 June 1996[32] with 3 further episodes in late August and early September. The series was repeated in 1997 and 1998; however, the BBC did not screen Marvel Action Universe, due to the fact Channel 4 held the UK rights to Biker Mice from Mars.

Series overview programme

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CBBC Animated Series overview programme

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  • Incredible Hulk (September 18, 1982 – October 8, 1983) was added into the programme.

Stations

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Generally, New World owned television stations broadcast The Marvel Action Hour along with generally Fox, The WB, UPN, or independent stations in markets where New World did not own a station.

City Station
Albany GA WFXL 31 (Fox)[33]
Albany NY WXXA 23 (Fox)[34]
Atlanta WAGA 5 (Fox)
WUPA 69 (UPN)[35]
Austin KXAN 36 (NBC)
Baltimore WBFF 45 (Fox)[36]
Baton Rouge WGMB 44 (Fox)
Bellingham KVOS 12 (Ind)
Birmingham WDBB 17 (Fox)[37]
Boston WSBK 38 (UPN)
Buffalo WKBW 7 (ABC)
Charleston WTAT 24 (Fox)[38]
Charlotte WJZY 46 (UPN)[39]
Chicago WPWR 50 (UPN)[40][41][42]
Cleveland WJW 8 (Fox)
Cincinnati WSTR 64 (UPN)[43]
Columbus WSYX 6 (ABC)
WWHO 53 (UPN)
Dayton WKEF 22 (NBC)[44]
Detroit WJBK 2 (Fox)[45]
Fort Worth/Dallas KTXA 21 (UPN)
KDFW 4 (Fox)
Hartford WFSB 3 (CBS)[46]
Houston KTXH 20 (UPN)
Goldsboro/Raleigh WNCN 17 (WB)[47]
Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem WGHP 8 (Fox)
Greeneville/Bristol WEMT 39 (Fox)[48]
Jacksonville WBSG 21 (WB)[49]
Kansas City KSMO 62 (UPN)[50]
Los Angeles KTLA 5 (WB)[51]
Miami WDZL 39 (WB)[40][52]
Milwaukee WITI 6 (Fox)[53]
New York WPIX 11 (WB)[54]
Oklahoma City KOCB 34 (WB)[55]
Orlando WKCF 18 (WB)[56]
Philadelphia WPHL 17 (WB)[57]
Phoenix KSAZ 10 (Fox)
Pittsburgh KDKA 2 (CBS)[58]
Portland KPTV 12 (UPN)[59]
Rochester WROC 8 (CBS)[60]
Sacramento KPWB 31 (WB)[61]
San Diego KNSD 39 (NBC)
San Francisco KBHK-TV 44 (UPN)
Seattle KTZZ 22 (WB)[62]
St. Louis KTVI 2 (Fox)
St. Petersburg/Tampa WTVT 13 (Fox)
WTTA 38 (Ind)[63]
Washington, D.C. WBDC 50 (WB)[64]
West Palm Beach WTVX 34 (UPN)[40]
Yakima KCYU 68 (Fox)[65]

See also

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References

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