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1980s American animated television series past Filmation

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
MOTUlogo.JPG

Series logo
Genre
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Sword and planet
  • Superhero
Created past Lou Scheimer
Based on Masters of the Universe
by Mattel
Voices of
  • John Erwin
  • Alan Oppenheimer
  • Linda Gary
  • Lou Scheimer
  • Erik Gunden
  • Erika Scheimer
Theme music composer
  • Shuki Levy
  • Haim Saban
Opening theme "Masters of the Universe"
Composers
  • Shuki Levy
  • Haim Saban
  • Erika Lane
Land of origin U.s.a.
Original language English language
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 130 (listing of episodes)
Production
Executive producer Lou Scheimer
Producer Gwen Wetzler
Running fourth dimension 23 minutes
Product companies Filmation Associates
Mattel
Distributor Grouping West Productions
Release
Original network Offset-run syndication
Audio format Mono (early season 1)
Stereo (mid-belatedly season ane–2)
Original release September v, 1983 (1983-09-05) (U.K.) September 26, 1983 (1983-09-26) (United states of america) –
Nov 21, 1985 (1985-xi-21)
Chronology
Related shows
  • She-Ra: Princess of Ability
  • The New Adventures of He-Man
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)
  • He-Human being and the Masters of the Universe (2021)

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American blithe television series produced past Filmation based on Mattel'south toy line Masters of the Universe.[1] [2] [iii] The show, often referred to as just He-Man, was 1 of the most popular animated shows of the 1980s.

It made its goggle box debut in September 1983 and ran until 1985, consisting of two seasons of 65 episodes each. Towards the end of the evidence's original run, information technology spawned i feature length theatrical picture show He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, which served as the introduction for the show's spinoff literal sister series She-Ra: Princess of Power. Reruns continued to air in syndication until 1988, at which betoken The states Network bought the rights to the series. Us aired He-Man until September 1990. The success of the toy-based evidence in syndication greatly influenced other animation houses to produce half-hour "drawing commercials", and considerably changed the syndicated drawing market.[4]

The franchise has been adapted many times in comic book and comic strip form, and a live-action pic was produced in 1987. A rebooted series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, renamed Masters of the Universe vs. The Snake Men during flavour ii, released on Toonami on Baronial 16, 2002. 2 continuation series were released in 2021 for Netflix: one is Masters of the Universe: Revelation for an adult audition and some other is a family-oriented blithe CGI revival, too titled He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Synopsis [edit]

The series takes place on Eternia, a planet of magic, myth and fantasy. Its lead grapheme is Prince Adam, the young son of Eternia's rulers, Rex Randor and Queen Marlena. Whenever Prince Adam holds the Sword of Power aloft and proclaims "Past the Power of Grayskull!" he is endowed with "fabulous secret powers" and transformed into He-Man, the nearly powerful human in the universe. Together with his close allies, Battle Cat (who undergoes a similar transformation from being Adam'southward cowardly pet tiger Cringer), The Sorceress, Teela, Man-At-Arms and Orko, He-Man uses his powers to defend Eternia from the evil forces of Skeletor. Skeletor'due south chief goal is to conquer the mysterious fortress of Castle Grayskull, from which He-Man draws his powers. If successful, Skeletor would take plenty ability to rule all of Eternia and mayhap the entire universe.[five]

Characters [edit]

Episodes [edit]

Production history [edit]

The Mattel company released the original He-Man action figure in 1982; the franchise backstory was developed by the Filmation animation studio. On ane Dec 1982, Michael Halperin wrote a "serial bible".[6] Some time after, both firms pitched the idea to the ABC network, who turned it down. The resulting series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, debuted through barter syndication in September 1983,[nb 1] and became the first syndicated show to be based on a toy. By 1984, it was seen on 120 U.S. stations and in more than thirty countries.[7] By mid-1985, it was ambulation on 152 stations across the U.South., and was the most popular syndicated plan with children 2-eleven with a ten.nine rating in that demographic.[8]

Despite the limited animation techniques that were used to produce the series, He-Man was notable for breaking the boundaries of censorship that had severely restricted the narrative scope of children'southward TV programming in the 1970s. For the first fourth dimension since Scarlet-Spears's Thundarr the Barbarian, a drawing series could feature a muscular superhero who was actually immune to hit people (although he more typically used wrestling-style moves rather than actually punching enemies), though he nevertheless could non use his sword often; more often than not He-Homo opted to pick up his opponents and toss them away rather than hit them. The cartoon was controversial in that it was produced in connection with marketing a line of toys; advertising to children was itself controversial during this period.[9] In the United Kingdom, advertising regulations forbade commercials for He-Human being toys to accompany the programme itself. In similar style to other shows at the time, notably 1000.I. Joe, an attempt to mitigate the negative publicity generated by this controversy was fabricated by including a "life lesson" or "moral of the story" at the finish of each episode. This moral was usually straight tied to the action or central theme of that episode.[10] [11] [12]

The show was and so successful that it spawned a spin-off series, She-Ra: Princess of Ability, following the adventures of He-Man's sis, Princess Adora.[xiii] Mattel'south subsequent attempts to relaunch the He-Homo toy line also led to the brusk-lived sequel series The New Adventures of He-Human being in the early 1990s, and an update of the franchise for a contemporary audience in 2002.[fourteen]

It is also noted for featuring early script-writing work from J. Michael Straczynski, later the creator of Babylon 5; Paul Dini and Brynne Stephens, both of whom who would become on to write acclaimed episodes of Batman: The Animated Serial; Animate being Wars story editor Larry DiTillio; and David Wise, later the head-writer of the Telly version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Real Ghostbusters.[xv] In 2016, a new episode of He-Human was released.[16]

Cast [edit]

  • John Erwin every bit Prince Adam / He-Man, Ram-Human, Beast Human, Faker, Webstor, Whiplash, Granamyr and others
  • Alan Oppenheimer every bit Skeletor, Cringer / Boxing True cat, Man-At-Arms, Mer-Homo, Buzz-Off, Roboto and others
  • Lou Scheimer (credited as Erik Gunden) equally Orko, King Randor, Stratos, Homo-E-Faces, Mekaneck, Zodac, Fisto, Sy-Klone, Moss-Man, Cadger Man, Trap Jaw, Tri-Klops, Kobra Khan, Clawful, Jitsu, Spikor, 2 Bad, Modulok and others
  • Linda Gary equally Teela, Evil-Lyn, Queen Marlena, Sorceress of Castle Grayskull and others
  • George DiCenzo every bit diverse male person guest voices (uncredited)
  • Erika Scheimer every bit diverse female guest voices

Music [edit]

The serial' music was composed past Shuki Levy and Haim Saban.[17] The opening theme, snippets of which are used whenever Prince Adam transforms into He-Man and during interludes, is in C Mixolydian[ description needed ].

In 1984, a soundtrack album was released in French republic and Argentine republic by CBS Records and reissued on compact disc by XIII Bis in 2012,[18] featuring music from the series and an adaptation of "A Friend in Demand" (French release)/"Diamond Ray of Disappearance" (Argentine release); La-La Land Records released a 2-disc, limited-edition soundtrack anthology in 2015, containing the musical content of the 1983 LP and much previously unreleased material.[xix]

The Latin American Castilian-linguistic communication version of the testify features an bodily theme song consummate with lyrics unique to this version, with vocals past Chilean singer Memo Aguirre (a.k.a. "Captain Memo") based on Levy and Saban's original musical score.

In 1986, Brazilian children'southward music group Trem da Alegria recorded a song near He-Human being.

Reception [edit]

He-Human and the Masters of the Universe is considered the well-nigh successful animated series ever made by Filmation.[ commendation needed ] The show was often criticized by parent groups equally a drawing designed to annunciate action figures.[10] [11] [20] [21] [22] In 2009, IGN ranked the series every bit the 58th greatest animated show of all time in their Peak 100 list.[23]

Proper noun in other languages [edit]

  • In Basque "He-Human being eta Unibertsoko Jaunak"
  • In Bosnian "He-Man i Gospodari svemira" ("Хи-Мен и Господари свемира")
  • In Catalan "He-Human being i els Senyors de l'Univers"
  • In Chinese "太空超人"
  • In Croation "He-Human i Gospodari svemira"
  • In Danish "Heman Og Førerne Af Universet"
  • In Dutch "He-Man, en de meesters van het Universum"
  • In Finnish "He-Man ja Maailmankaikkeuden Valtiaat"
  • In French "Musclor et les Maîtres de l'Univers"
  • In Galician "He-Man east bone Amos practice Universo"
  • In German
    • "He-Homo und Masters of the Universe" (TV Version 1992)
    • "He-Man und die Meister des Universums" (VHS Version)
    • "He-Human – Im Tal der Macht" (Goggle box Version 2002)
  • In Greek "Χι-Μαν Οι Κυριάρχοι Του Σύμπαντος"
  • In Hungarian Lovag és az univerzum védelmezői.
  • In Hebrew "הי-מן ושליטי היקום"
  • In Italian
    • "He-Man e i dominatori dell'universo" (Season 1)
    • "He-Man eastward i padroni dell'universo" (Season two)
  • In Macedonian "Hi-Men i Gospodarite na vselenata" ("Хи-Мен и Господарите на вселената")
  • In Montenegrin "Hi-Men i Gospodari svemira" ("Хи-Мен и Господари свемира")
  • In Norwegian "He-Human og mestere i universet"
  • In Shine "He-Man i Władcy Wszechświata"
  • In Portuguese
    • "He-Man east os Defensores practise Universo"
    • "He-Homo e bone Mestres practise Universo" (Brazil)
    • "He-Homo e os Donos do Universo" (Portugal)
  • In Romanaian "He-Man și maeștrii universului"
  • In Russian "Hullo-Men i Vlasteliny Vselennoy" ("Хи-Мен и Властелины Вселенной")
  • In Serbian "Hi-Men i Gospodari svemira" ("Хи-Мен и Господари свемира")
  • In Slovene "He-Man in Gospodarji vesolja"
  • In Spanish
    • "He-Man y los Amos del Universo" (Latin America)
    • "He-Man y los Masters del Universo" (Spain)
  • In Swedish "He-Man och Universums Giganter"
  • In Thai "ฮีแมน จ้าวจักรวาล"
  • In Turkish "He-Man ve Evrenin Efendileri"
  • In Ukrainian "Хі-Мен та Володарі Всесвіту"

Home media [edit]

In 1983-1986 RCA/Columbia Pictures Habitation Video released the serial in VHS and Beta. BCI Eclipse LLC (under its Ink & Paint classic blitheness amusement label) (under license from Entertainment Rights) released all 130 episodes of the original 1983 series of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe on DVD in Region 1 in 2005/2006, in 4 volume sets. Each episode on BCI Ink & Paint'due south He-Man and the Masters of the Universe DVD releases were uncut, unedited, fully restored and digitally remastered for optimum sound and video quality and presented in its original broadcast presentation and story continuity order.[24] [25] [26] [27] Each volume contains an extensive array of special features including documentaries, character profiles, commentaries, DVD-ROM features, trivia, photo galleries and more. As of 2009, these releases accept been discontinued and are out of impress as BCI Eclipse ceased operations.[28]

On Dec 10, 2010, Mill Creek Amusement announced that they had acquired the rights from Classic Media to re-release the series on DVD in America. They have subsequently re-released the complete starting time season in 1 eight-disc fix as well as two smaller 20-episode volume releases.[29] The complete second season was released on September 13, 2011.[30] The 2002 serial, equanimous of four discs; 960min, was also released in 2010 past Factory Creek Entertainment, and is titled Masters of the Universe: The Complete Series (ASIN B002DQL34G). Commemorating the 30th ceremony Masters of the Universe brand, Factory Creek Entertainment finally released the 30th Anniversary Commemorative Collection of the Masters of the Universe DVD. The 22-disc set features all 130 episodes of the 1983 series, 20 fan-favorite episodes of the 1990 serial, also as all 39 episodes of the 2002 series.[31]

DVD Proper noun Ep# Release date
The Consummate First Flavour 65 February 15, 2011
The Consummate Second Season 65 September xiii, 2011

Universal Pictures Abode Entertainment released all 130 episodes of the original 1983 He-Human and the Masters of the Universe series on DVD in Region ane on Oct 1, 2019, as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Complete Original Series. This release includes "He-Man & She-Ra: The Undercover of the Sword" and "He-Homo & She-Ra: A Christmas Special".[32]

In Region 4, Madman Entertainment released the unabridged series on DVD in Australia in iv volume sets (similar to BCI Eclipse releases). These releases accept been discontinued and are now out of print. A consummate series box set was released by Madman on June 24, 2009; this is however available.[33]

The pilot episode, "Diamond Ray of Disappearance", has a infinitesimal or so of footage missing due to the primary tapes being damaged. In the original version, subsequently teleporting the King and Queen and Homo-At-Arms away to some other dimension, Skeletor turns the ray onto Orko, who gets stuck inside a vase which deflects the beam. Orko escapes to warn He-Homo. This footage has not been lost; information technology is still real on other media in circulation. However, complications over the rights to it prevented it from being inserted back into the DVD release.[ citation needed ]

Sequel [edit]

Netflix is making ii new He-Man projects. The offset will be the adult Netflix Original series Masters of the Universe: Revelation, a straight sequel to the 1983 TV series.[34] With characters like Scare Glow and He-Ro from the Mattel toys (that never appeared in blithe class) too equally Lt. Andra who appeared in STAR/Marvel comics, the series acts every bit a sequel to overall 80s stories.

Information technology will be directed by Kevin Smith and will be animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios.[35] On February xiv, 2020, the full voice bandage was confirmed.[36] Accordingly there will be ten episodes total, divide in two "parts", from data Mattel provided in "Masterverse" activity figure order confirmation (the first wave in Masterverse will exist using designs from the MOTU: Revelation bear witness, but subsequent toy waves will depict other versions of He-Man). Then, on May 13, 2021, Entertainment Weekly released the first wait of the series, with the get-go 5 episodes fix to release July 23, 2021.[37]

It is as well confirmed a directly family oriented Netflix Original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series is in the works. It is reportedly being made past Mattel Telly for a CG-animated revival to the original He-Man series with new storylines and grapheme takes. Information technology is currently unknown if it volition be connected to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, or if at that place will too be versions of She-Ra characters.[38] [39]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ In the practice of barter syndication, production companies give television stations a series for free, in exchange for advertising.[7]

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External links [edit]

  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe at IMDb
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe at Don Markstein'southward Toonopedia. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man_and_the_Masters_of_the_Universe

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