Phantom 2040 Episode Guide
Season 1
by Mark Thompson
marktv.org
Version 2.0
9-13-95
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Changes since version 1.0:
- More character credits (thanks to Dave Van Domelen for his help)
Changes since version 1.1:
- Most all character credits (thanks to Stefan Marks at Hearst Animation)
- More episode listings for new episodes.
- Upcoming Episode Airdate Listing
Changes since version 1.2:
- Final episode listings for season 1, with summaries.
Changes since version 1.3:
- Minor corrections to credits for season 1.
Phantom 2040
(30 min, animated, Fall 1994 - present, syndicated)
Phantom 2040 is an unusually engrossing show with a small but growing audience.
Currently found in syndication across the country, its audience fluctuates with
its airtime from location to location. In my home city of San Jose, it is shown
at 7:30am Sunday mornings (ack!).
Phantom contains an ongoing storyline with episodic features. Based on a current
and long-running comic strip, Phantom 2040 manages to incorporate many of the
features of the comic without overwhelming the new viewer. The fascinating view
of the medium-distant future and interesting "background story arc" is gaining
the show new fans all the time.
Story Background:
The Phantom is also known as "The Ghost Who Walks". He has been a part of
African legend since the late 1500's, when he first appeared and began his
one-man crusade for justice. Helped by a tribe of African natives and occasional
assistants, the Phantom fights the "neverending battle" against injustice
wherever it may be found, though nearly always in Africa.
In reality, The Phantom is a direct descendant of the first Phantom. Each father
passes the mantle of the Phantom on to his son when the time is right. To the
outside world, the Phantom has never aged or died in almost 500 years and has
achieved a legendary status. To the Walker family, it is a family tradition and
responsibility.
In the early 2020's, having united Africa and finding fewer and fewer problems
to fight there, Kit Walker the 23rd Phantom took his crusade to the world.
Relocating to Metropia (a renamed New York City), he began fighting the
corporate schemer Max Madison. Both the Phantom and Madison vanished the same
night a toxic train wreck destroyed Grand Central Station and made a large
portion of Metropia uninhabitable.
It is now the year 2040, and Kit Walker Jr. is about to find out about his
family's unique history and his obligations.
Show Credits:
Character designs by Peter Chung (creator of Aeon Flux)
Art direction/conceptual design by Thom Schillinger
Character Voices:
| Parts credited in the show: |
|---|
| Part | Actor | First app |
|---|
| Kit/Phantom | Scott Valentine | 101 |
| Rebecca Madison | Margot Kidder | 101 |
| Guran | J.D. Hall | 101 |
| Graft | Ron Perlman | 101 |
| Maxwell Madison Jr | Jeff Bennett | 101 |
| Maxwell Madison Sr | Jeff Bennett | 104 |
| Heisenberg the Biot | Rob Paulsen ** | 103 |
| Parts unlisted in the show but filled in by Hearst: |
|---|
| Aunt Heloise | Carrie Snodgrass | 101 |
| Prof Jack Archer | Alan Oppenheimer | 101 |
| Sagan Cruz | Leah Remini | 102 |
| Dr. Jak | Mark Hamill | 102 |
| Sparks | Pamela Segall | 104 |
| Cairo | Paul Williams | 104 |
| Vaingloria | Deborah Harry | 105 |
| Betty (Saxophonist) | Iona Morris | 103 |
| Pavlova (Jak's Biot) | Liz Georges | 103 |
| Sean 1 | Rob Paulsen | 109 |
| Tranh (Kit's friend) | Dustin Nguyen | 101 |
| Steele | Peter Renaday | 116 |
| Gorda | Paddi Edwards | 109 |
| 23rd Phantom Kit's Dad | Charles Dennis | 102 |
| Cordwainer Bird | Harlan Ellison *** | 120 |
| Actors credited with "Incidentals" by Hearst: |
|---|
| (they play the myriad one-liner voices) |
|---|
| Kath Soucie |
| Amanda Rogers |
| Actors credited on the show, but part(s) unknown: |
|---|
| Mel Wells |
** Stefan Marks at Hearst says Rob Paulsen plays Heisenberg,
though one of the episodes actually lists Jeff Bennett in the credits as the
voice of the fractal biot. I'd guess the televised credits were wrong.
*** Cordwainer Bird's voice was mis-credited in the televised
credits to belong to "Cain Devore"; it will apparently be corrected in future
airings of the episode.
Episode Guide:
Episodes are numbered using a system of YXX where Y is the season number and XX
is the episode number within the season. Episodes are numbered according to
their airdates (not their production numbers). Each episode is credited with the
writer(s) name using the notation "W:" Production Numbers are enclosed in
parentheses and prefaced with "PN".
- Generation Unto Generation Part 1 (PN 101)
- Generation Unto Generation Part 2 (PN 102)
W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The origin of the 24th Phantom, as he is called into service on his 18th
birthday, unaware of his family's history.
- The Sum of the Parts (PN 103)
W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Maximum's new invention, the fractal (shape-changing) biot is part of a new plot
to capture the Phantom. Meanwhile, Professor Archer finds out about Kit's dual
identity.
- Fire and I.C.E. (PN 104)
W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
A new member joins the team - a superhacker kid named Sparks, and just in time
to "skate" the Integrated Cyber Environment and meet the mysterious entity known
only as Cairo.
- Reflections of Glory (PN 105)
W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The story behind the rock star, Vaingloria, is revealed during an adventure
involving kidnapped teens.
- Shadows from the Past (PN 106)
W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
An egyptian would-be queen wants revenge on the Phantom, who unified her
continent many years ago. But when her venom-tipped darts affect Guran instead
of Kit, we find out a little more about the night Kit's father vanished.
- The Good Mark (PN 108)
W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The Phantom learns the meaning of his Good Mark and, in the course of a plot by
Maximum to lure the Phantom into a trap, ends up marking Sagan with it.
- Ghost in the Machine (PN 111)
W: Brynne Stephens
When Rebecca is partially successful in resurrecting her dead husband, more of
the history of the Great Train Wreck of 2024 is revealed, as the Phantom squares
off with Max Madison, Sr. at Grand Central Station... again.
- Dark Orbit Part 1 (PN 109)
W: Len Wein
- Dark Orbit Part 2 (PN 110)
W: Brynne Stephens
Sean 1 of the orbital platform is close to achieving his dream of acquiring
enough power to enforce a declaration of independence. Will Graft and the
Phantom team up to stop him from destroying Metropia and part of the world in
his quest for a Free Orbital Nation?
- The Biot In Red (PN 107)
W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The further adventures of Heisenberg the fractal biot, as he explores the
concept of "feelings", and Dr. Jak has to do without his biot assistant for a
while.
- The Gauntlet (PN 114)
W: Marc Scott Zicree
The mystery of Sparks' missing parents is finally solved, during an adventure
with a new security system at Cyberville.
- Three Into One (PN 113)
W: Michael Reaves
Maximum Inc's latest innovation is a virtual theme park featuring the rock star
Vaingloria. But when three people seem to be taken over by a strange psychic
force, their combined might may be too much for Metropia, so the police decide
they need the Phantom's help - and offer him absolution if he solves the case.
And the liason the police choose to work with the Phantom? Why, Sagan, of
course...
- Life Lessons (PN 115)
W: Brynne Stephens
Heisenberg returns to warn the Phantom of a danger to both biots and humans deep
inside Cyberville. But why would anyone care about the destruction of biots,
even Heisenberg? After all, they're not alive... are they?
- The Magician (PN 116)
W: Mel Gilden
When Sagan digs into the mystery of the Phantom's identity, she uncovers an old
associate of the Phantom from 20 years ago. Unfortunately, her search has been
tailed - now, can that associate protect both himself and the Phantom from
Graft's overeager crew?
- Swifter, Higher, Faster (PN 117)
(Local TV lists it as "Swifter, Higher, and Stronger" and as PN 123).
W: J. Larry Carroll & David Bennett Carren
Kit's investigation into the
dissemination of a new drug leads him to the athletes at his own college, where
his friends confront him about his strange behavior and evasive secrecy.
- Lasers in the Jungle (PN 112)
W: Shari Goodhartz
When Graft begins to suspect that the Phantom's secret lair is inside the
poisoned Sector Zero, he sends in a biot army to find out.
- Down the Line (PN 118)
W: Craig Miller
A message from the Phantom of 2157 sent back to the Phantom of 2040 leads Kit to
some surprising clues and faces him with a difficult choice: whether to continue
the Phantom's code against killing, even in the face of the inevitable
destruction of the Earth.
- Control Group (PN 119)
W: Shari Goodhartz
Rebecca's further experimentation with downloading human consciousness into biot
bodies leads her to try a daring move: using Graft as a test case, she attempts
to effectively "clone" her security chief into dozens of biot bodies. But when
the Phantom grabs one of the new Graft-biots he gets more than he expected, as
he's able to watch Graft's personal memories and see how this former hero became
indentured to Maximum Inc.
- A Boy and His Cat (PN 120)
W: Lydia C Marano & Arthur Byron Cover
While testing his VR-controlled remote-control biot, Max gets trapped in his VR
world; as Rebecca hires an annoying genius to work from Maximum's end, the
Phantom works from inside VR to help get Max out before his remote biot wrecks
Metropia. But does Max *want* to get out?
Season 2 Episodes
(only 15 episodes in season 2) -----------------
- Rite of Passage *
- The World is My Jungle *
- Sanctuary
- The Ties That Bind
- The Woman in the Moon
- Matter Over Mind
- Homecoming Part 1
- Homecoming Part 2
- Sacrifice Part 1
- Sacrifice Part 2
- Rogue
- The Second Time Around
- Moments of Truth
- The Furies
- The Whole Truth
Episodes 201 and 202 are "retrospective" episodes, mainly consisting of clips
from earlier shows. See the Phantom Season 2
Episode Guide for details.
Air dates
Air dates given are Sundays, as the majority of stations airing the syndicated
show are airing it on Sundays. If your station shows Phantom on Saturday or
Friday, subtract one or two days from each date as appropriate.
6/04/95 101R Generation Unto Generation Part 1
6/11/95 102R Generation Unto Generation Part 2
6/18/95 103R The Sum of the Parts
6/25/95 104R Fire and I.C.E.
7/02/95 105R Reflections of Glory
7/09/95 106R Shadows from the Past
7/16/95 107R The Good Mark
7/23/95 108R Ghost in the Machine
7/30/95 109R Dark Orbit Part 1
8/06/95 110R Dark Orbit Part 2
8/13/95 111R The Biot In Red
8/20/95 112R The Gauntlet
8/27/95 113R Three Into One (some stations showed 118: Down the Line)
9/03/95 114R? Life Lessons ? (some stations showed 119: Control Group)
9/10/95 115R? The Magician ? (some stations showed 120: A Boy and His Cat)