The first season of the show brought the X-Men into conflict with human conspirators building mutant-exterminating Sentinel robots, Magneto and his attempts to instigate a human-mutant war, and the powerful mutant Apocalypse's plans to eradicate the weak, both human and mutant alike. Hulk and She-Hulk were excluded from the episodes because the Incredible Hulk animated series featuring the characters was airing on rival network UPN. An earlier draft of "Secret Wars" involved all of the X-Men, but transporting the voice cast from Canada to Los Angeles, where production for the Spider-Man animated series was based, had been too costly in previous crossovers, so the episode was re-written to include only Storm, whose actress, Iona Morris, lived in Los Angeles. In the abbreviated form of the Secret Wars storyline, the Beyonder and Madame Web selected Spider-Man to lead a team of heroes including Storm against a group of villains. X-Men crossed over with the animated series Spider-Man, when Spider-Man seeks out the X-Men's help to stave off his progressing mutation. Television was satirized in the episodes " Mojovision" and " Longshot". The series deals with social issues, including divorce (" Proteus"), Christianity (" Nightcrawler" and " Bloodlines"), the Holocaust ("Enter Magneto", "Deadly Reunions", "Days of Future Past" and "The Phalanx Covenant") and AIDS hysteria (" Time Fugitives"), and feelings of loneliness (" No Mutant Is an Island"). 2)), composed of Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey, Professor X, as well as an original character, Morph (an adaptation of previous X-Men member Changeling).
The show features X-Men similar in look and line-up to the early 1990s X-Men drawn by Jim Lee (specifically, the Blue Team established in the early issues of X-Men (vol. Main article: List of X-Men (TV series) episodes and Hong Ying Animation also contributed some of the animation for this series. Given its success and Marvel's bankruptcy, Saban funded the additional eleven episodes at a much reduced budget. The show was originally planned to run for 65 episodes. Throughout the series run, producers had to deal with quality control issues including attempts to cut costs, requests to change the tone of the series to something more child-friendly as well to integrate toys being sold into the show. The series earned top ratings throughout its first season, and was renewed for a second season of 13 episodes. When Fox re-aired the pilot in early 1993, the errors were corrected. īecause of the production delays and animation errors in these two episodes, Fox threatened to sever AKOM's contracts. The "Night of the Sentinels" two-part episode originally aired as a "sneak preview" on October 31.
The second episode was turned in just before a deadline, with 50 scenes missing and only a single day reserved for editing. Because of time constraints, the episode was aired in an unfinished form. When the animation team AKOM turned in the first episode, it contained hundreds of animation errors, which AKOM refused to fix. X-Men was originally to premiere over the Labor Day weekend in September due to production delays, it was pushed to the end of October. The voice work was done using Canadian studios and South Korean studio AKOM was hired to animate the episodes. Graz employed the creative staff, wrote and designed each episode, and drew the storyboards. Saban Entertainment was contracted to produce the show and hired a small studio Graz Entertainment to produce the episodes as it did not have sufficient staff at the time to handle production in house. Having championed the Pryde of the X-Men pilot in 1989, she was quick to set up an order for 13 episodes of X-Men. In 1991, Margaret Loesch became head of Fox Children's Network.
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