From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Subject: X-Men and Batman cartoons--info
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:55:47 GMT

The following information comes from CBG #981, dated September 4th, 1992.

Batman: The Animated Series
Airs weekdays at 4:30 pm on Fox starting September 7
65 episodes in the season, more than half has been completed.
Michael Reaves, Martin Pasko and Paul Dini are story editors.
Writers include Denny O'Neil, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Elliot Maggin, 
  and Gerry Conway.  

Cast list:
Kevin Conroy             Batman/Bruce Wayne
Mark Hamill              Joker
Bob Hastings             Commissioner Gordon
Loren Lester             Robin/Dick Grayson
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.      Alfred
Bobby Costanzo           Detective Bullock
Lloyd Bochner            Mayor Hill
Adrienne Barbeau         Catwoman/Selina Kyle
Mark Singer              Man-Bat
Diane Pershing           Poison Ivy
John Vernon              Rupert Thorne
Michael Ansara           Mr. Freeze
Richard Moll             Harvey Dent/Two Face
Ron Perlman              Clayface
Alan Rachins             Clock King
Roddy McDowall           Mad Hatter
Thomas Wilson            Tony Zucco
John Glover              The Riddler
Treat Williams           Professor Milo
Aaron Kincaid            Killer Croc
David Warner             Ra's al Ghul
Helen Slater             Talia
Michael York             Count Vertigo
Diana Muldaur            Dr. Leslie Thompkins
Arlene Sorkin            Harley Quinn (the Joker's girlfriend)
"Downtown" Julie Brown   Zatanna

X-Men
Weekly animated series on Fox starting September 12th
Production budget is $400,000 for each of the 13 half-hour episodes ordered 
thus far.
Features Wolverine, Jubilee, Storm, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, Professor X, 
Beast, Archangel, Jean Grey, and "many of the X-Men's rogue's gallery"
A brief rundown on the first nine episodes:
"Night of the Sentinels, Part One":  Jubilee is saved by The X-Men from 
 Sentinels in a shopping mall.  The X-Men discover that renegades within 
 the government are using a Mutant Registration Program to track down and 
 eliminate mutants.
"Night of the Sentinels, Part Two":  The X-Men break into the Mutant 
 Registration office and destroy the mutant files, but Beast is apprehended 
 while trying to escape.  Gyrich and Trask, the men behind The Sentinels, 
 kidnap Jubilee.
"Enter Magneto":  While Beast stands trial for the break-in, Magneto 
 attempts to beak him out of prison.
"Deadly Reunions":  While Professor Xavier tries to stop Magneto, Sabretooth 
 infiltrates the X-Men headquarters.
"Captive Heart":  Cyclops and Jean Grey are captured by Morlocks.  while The 
 X-Men attempt to rescue them, Wolverine confronts his own feelings for Jean 
 and his jealousy toward Cyclops.  
"Cold Vengeance":  Wolverine leaves The X-Men to seek solitude in the Canadian
 wilderness.  He fnds peace among a group of Baffin island Eskimos, only to 
 discover that Sabretooth has been stalking him.
"Slave Island":  Hearing that mutants are welcome on the island nation of 
 Genosha, Professor X sends Storm, Gambit and Jubilee there for a vacation. 
 They discover that Genosha is a slave camp, where mutants are forced to
 build Sentinels.
"The Unstoppable Juggernaut":  When Xavier's mansion is destroyed and a 
 series of robberies are committed, The X-Men suspect Colossus, who is not
 a member of the team.
"The Cure":  A doctor at the Muir Island claims to have found a "cure" for
 the mutant gene.  Rogue flies to the island to seek the "cure."
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