Action Man (2000 TV series)


Action Man is a 2000 Canadian CGI animated TV series based on the. The show is unrelated to the 1995 show. In this series, Alex Mann is an extreme sports athlete known as "Action Man" and is a member of Team Xtreme. A video game named was released based on the 2000 series. The show's theme song "Amp it up Action Man" was written and performed by Saban Entertainment's Paul Gordon.

Synopsis

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 AMP 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

Main

Season One (2000)

Dr. X captured and physically tested Alex Mann repeatedly, as well as his best friend Brandon Caine. Dr. X also added nanotech enhancements to Brandon, making him superior to Alex in battle and in athletics. The culmination of the experiments was to mind transfer Dr. X into Brandon's body to become a nanotech cyborg, able to change his appearance and infect others. Following the ninth episode the series becomes more simplified.

Season Two (2001)

Dr. X founded the Council of Doom with his evil cohorts: Asazi, Tempest, Gangrene, and Quake. 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.

Home releases

DVD

In 2004, Maximum Entertainment Ltd. released the complete 2000 series on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
DVD titleSeasonVolumeEpisodesRun TimeRelease date
Action Man115107 minutes23 Aug 2004
Team Xtreme125107 minutes25 Oct 2004
Cold War133
Ground Zero2113

The rights to the 2000 series of Action Man are currently owned by Disney Enterprises through BVS Entertainment, Jetix and Buena Vista International Television, who acquired the Fox Family/Fox Kids Worldwide franchise and the library properties of Saban Entertainment/Fox Kids in 2001. However, there were no plans to release the 2000 series on Region 1 DVD in the US.

VHS

Several volumes of the show were released on VHS with three episodes on each tape.

Awards

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".