Animorphs (also known under the promotional title AniTV) is a television adaptation made by Protocol Entertainment based on the Scholastic book series of the same name by K. A. Applegate. It was made for YTV for Season 1 and Global for Season 2 in Canada and Nickelodeon for the United States. The series was broadcast from September 15, 1998 to October 8, 1999 in the United States and Canada.

Cast

Main

Shawn Ashmore as Jake

Brooke Nevin as Rachel

Boris Cabrera as Marco

Nadia Nascimento as Cassie

Christopher Ralph as Tobias

Recurring

Paulo Costanzo as Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill

Eugene Lipinski as Visser Three/Victor Trent

Dov Tiefenbach as Erek King

Allegra Fulton as Eva / Visser One

Joshua Peace as Tom Berenson

Terra Vanessa Kowalyk as Melissa Chapman

Richard Sali as Principal Chapman

Diego Matamoros as Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul

Peter Messaline as the Ellimist

Frank Pelligrino as Jeremy, Marco's father (Peter in the books) Cassandra Van Wyck as Sara Berenson, Rachel's younger sister Jonathan Whittaker as Greg, Jake's father (Steve in the books) Karen Waddell as Nikki, Jake's mother (Jean in the books) Melanie Nicholls-King as Aisha, Cassie's mother (Michelle in the books)

Animorphs (TV series)

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (1998–99)

Animorphs (TV series)

Season 2 (1999)

Animorphs (TV series)

Home releases

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (when they were known as Columbia TriStar Home Video) had released twelve episodes in four VHS volumes known as The Invasion Series, collecting episodes from the series. The first 12 episodes are only released on VHS and not re-released on DVD. Part 1: The Invasion Begins ("My Name is Jake" parts 1 and 2, and "Underground") Part 2: Nowhere to Run ("Between Friends", "The Message" and "The Reaction") Part 3: The Enemy Among Us ("The Stranger", "The Leader" parts 1 and 2) Part 4: The Legacy Survives ("The Capture" parts 1 and 2, and "Not My Problem")

Seven volumes spanning the first 20 episodes (only the first of which was identical to its U.S. counterpart) were released in Australia. The episodes were placed in chronological order. Each volume had three episodes apart from Volume 7, which had two ("Face Off", parts 1 and 2).

All 26 episodes are currently available on iTunes, Vudu and Amazon Video spread across three volumes. Also, all 26 episodes were previously available on Netflix, And are now currently available on Tubi.

See also

List of Animorphs books

Manimal

Sheena

External links

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