Action Man (2000 TV series)

Action Man
Genre	Animation Action
Starring	Mark Hildreth Michael Dobson Tabitha St. Germain Peter Kelamis
Theme music composer	Paul Gordon
Composers	Shuki Levy Kussa Mahchi Michael Whitaker Paul Gordon
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	Ian Pearson Paul Sabella Jonathan Dern Carol Monroe
Producer	Mark Ralston
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Mainframe Entertainment
Original release
Network	YTV Fox Kids
Release	August 5, 2000 – 2002
Related
Action Man (1995 TV series) A.T.O.M.

Action Man was a Canadian-American CGI animated TV series based on the toy line of the same name. 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 Action Man: Search for Base X 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. Danger and adrenaline trigger hidden mental powers called 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 stops at nothing to duplicate AMP Factor to rebuild Earth with the genetically enhanced neo-humanity.

Main Cast

• Mark Hildreth - Alex "Action Man" Mann
• Michael Dobson - Desmond "Grinder" Sinclair
• Tabitha St. Germain - Agnes "Fidget" Wilson
• Peter Kelamis - Ricky Singh-Baines
• Christopher Judge - Coach Simon Gray
• Tyler Labine - Brandon Caine
• Michael Kopsa - Dr X (new body)
• Campbell Lane - Doctor X (original body)
• Andrew Francis - Templeton "Tempest" Storm
• Janyse Jaud - Asazi
• Garry Chalk - Dr. Wolfgang "Gangrene" Greenholtz

Supporting Cast

• Mackenzie Gray - Nick Masters
• Venus Terzo - Agent Diana Zurvis
• Michael Donovan
• Kirby Morrow - Jimmy Woo
• Ian James Corlett
• Brian Drummond - Craig

Season One

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.

Episodes

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"Competitive Edge"	James Taylor	Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir	August 5, 2000 (2000-08-05)
2	"Building The Perfect Beast"	Steve Ball	Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir	August 15, 2000 (2000-08-15)
3	"Grey Areas"	Steve Sacks	Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir	August 19, 2000 (2000-08-19)
4	"Storm Front"	Greg Donis	Steve Melching	August 26, 2000 (2000-08-26)
5	"Gremlin In The Gears"	Craig McEwen	Greg Klein & Thomas Pugsley	September 2, 2000 (2000-09-02)
6	"Double Vision"	George Samilski	Marsha F. Griffin	September 9, 2000 (2000-09-09)
7	"Into The Abyss"	William Lau	Kaaren Lee Brown	September 16, 2000 (2000-09-16)
8	"Out of The Shadows"	Sebastian Brodin	Andrew Robinson	September 23, 2000 (2000-09-23)
9	"Lost In The Funhouse"	Steve Sacks	Andrew Robinson	September 30, 2000 (2000-09-30)
10	"The Hereafter Factor"	Gio Corsi	Eric Karten	October 28, 2000 (2000-10-28)
11	"Cold War"	Ezekiel Norton	Marsha F. Griffin	November 4, 2000 (2000-11-04)
12	"Swarm: Part 1"	Gino Nichele	Kaaren Lee Brown	November 18, 2000 (2000-11-18)
13	"Swarm: Part 2"	George Samilski	Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir	November 19, 2000 (2000-11-19)

Season Two

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.

Episodes

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
14	"Green Thoughts"	Andrew Duncan	Eric Karten	February 26, 2001 (2001-02-26)
15	"Thirst"	Sebastian Brodin	Marsha F. Griffin	May 2, 2001 (2001-05-02)
16	"Ground Zero"	Angela Stevenson	Nick DuBois	May 3, 2001 (2001-05-03)
17	"Tower of Power"	George Samilski	Len Wein	May 4, 2001 (2001-05-04)
18	"Rumble - Part 1"	Gino Nichele & Colin Adams	Andrew Robinson	May 11, 2001 (2001-05-11)
19	"Rumble - Part 2"	Ezekiel Norton	Kurt Weldon	May 18, 2001 (2001-05-18)
20	"Search and Destroy"	Chuck Johnson	Sean Roche	May 25, 2001 (2001-05-25)
21	"The Triton Factor"	Steve Sacks	Brooks Watchel	June 1, 2001 (2001-06-01)
22	"Mann's Best Friend"	Mark Schiemann	Marsha F. Griffin	September 14, 2001 (2001-09-14)
23	"Mann Hunt"	Sebastian Brodin	Nick DuBois
24	"Tangled Up in Green"	Patrick Carroll	Eric Karten
25	"The Ultimate Doom - Part 1"	Gio Corsi	Robert N. Skir & Marty Isenberg
26	"The Ultimate Doom - Part 2"	Sebastian Brodin	Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir

Home releases

DVD

DVD title	Season	Volume	Episodes	Time length	Release date
Action Man	1	1	5	107 minutes	23 Aug 2004
Team Xtreme	1	2	5	107 minutes	25 Oct 2004
Cold War	1	3	3
Ground Zero	2	1	13

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".

External links

• Action Man (2002) at IMDb
• IMDB: Episode list for "Action Man" (2000)
• TV.com: Action Man (2000) Episode Guide