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Biker Mice From MarsThe Catatonians

28 X Half Hours
The series premiered across the public holiday weekend 2006 (August 26-28) on Toonattik on Chan-nel 3
(GMTV/ITV) in The UK.
It then played weekly on Saturdays at 08.10. On the launch weekend the Monday Ep was the channels best
rated show of the whole weekend despite being scheduled against Scooby Doo on The BBC.
On two weeks during its UK Terrestrial run the series was the number one Boys 4-9 showincluding the
BBC and non-commercial channels.
On 4Kids TV on Fox in The USA, during fall 2008 Biker Mice grew the audience from its lead in by up to
5X for its key demographics.
Despite being in the relatively weak 08.30 slot for its first run by November the series was consistently in
the blocks top 3 programs against the key boy demograph-ics.
The series was scheduled to return to air on The CW in 2009 but events at 4Kids lead to con-solidating
scheduling on wholly controlled merchandise properties.
In fall 2008 the series was scheduled on Italia 1 on Sunday mornings. It achieved an amazing 13.5% share
of all viewers with a massive 41.8% share of kids viewing & peaking at over 43% of the 8-14 demographic.

Broadcasters include
4Kids (Fox & The CW) USA ; GMTV, CiTV, ITV2 UK; Italia 1 Italy;, TEN Australia; KTV Southern Africa; RTE Ireland; MTV3 Finland; DR2 Denmark; Cartoon Network Nordics; SpaceToon Middle East;
RTL Croatia; TV7 Bulgaria
Top 3 performer in markets scheduling on 4Kids TV in November 2008 in The USA
42% share of kids viewing in Italy across the fall of 2008.
Achieved UK No 1 Kids show of the week on ALL channels in The UK within 10 weeks of launch
Huge Web presence including www
www.4kids.tv
4kids tv & www.bikermice.tv
www bikermice tv
Highly visible & fast selling merchandise programNPD no 7 Action Fig-ure line in the UK by
November 2007 & No 1 boys line in Finland.

Biker Mice From Mars was created by Rick Ungar who at the time was also President of
Marvel Animation.
Animation He was assisted by Avi Arad and with input from Stan Lee.
Lee This was the team
responsible for the recent success of both the Spiderman & X-Men Evolution franchises. The
original series premiered over 3 seasons in the early 1990s. The original series has been very
successfully relicensed by ITV2 in The UK & MTV3 in Finland.

TheThe premise,Itssimple!!
bikesandmusic.Fastaction,camaraderieand.loudmusic
Catch Phrases are
CatchPhrasesare
RocknRide
TheThreeBaddest Mamajammers evertoride
All you need is Your
Allyouneedis
YourBrainsYourBrosAndYourBikes
Brains Your Bros And Your Bikes

Key Characters
Vinnie, Throttle & Modo the three heroes and comrades. Not forgetting their super cool bikes.
Nightshift
g
the double agent
g
renegade
g
mouse ((out of disguise
g
he is reallyy Stoker))
Charley The human mechanic who drives The Big Rig
Carbine the sassy female Martian General
Ronaldo Rump = Donald Trump. Hes the human cause of all the trouble. Hes trying to turn Mars
green to build golf courses, and at the same time build real estate on all the best sites on earth. (The
series is a gentle satire on big business and slightly anti-consumerist in stance.)
Hairball leader of the cats, The Catatonians. Based on Roman Abramovich in looks and voice!!!
FluffballHairballs rather Napoleonic French cousin
Cataclysm fearsome cartoon baddy.
Clawtroopers
Cla troopers The Catatonians cloned foot soldiers.
soldiers
Dr Catorkian looks exactly as he is named, you shouldnt need to see a picture!!!
Sir Richard Brand-Something occasional appearances when it suits his publicity requirements!
Bangers & Mash two frightfully English butlers who double as the most frightening Skeletal
characters.
RimfireModos young rookie nephew
The Crusheridentify your favourite US President!!! Daytime Emmy winning performance by Jim
Ward as The Crusher in Episode 20 Here Come The Judge.

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