Fantastic Max (Season 1)

The Loon In the Moon (Episode 1)

Air date: 1988-09-17

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: A.B. is frustrated because Max never listens to him, so he suggests that Max create a new plastic parent -- and he does.

Toys Will Be Toys (Episode 2)

Air date: 1988-09-24

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: A toy manufacturer named Sticky Wicket can't think of a new idea for a toy, so he steals FX and pretends to have invented him.

All In a Babe's Work (Episode 3)

Air date: 1988-10-01

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: Max is bored when he has to spend all day in a day care center, so he takes his baby friends into space.

The Big Sleep (Episode 4)

Writer: Kristina Mazzotti

Air date: 1988-10-08

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: FX's cord gets pulled out of shape and ruins his voice, so the gang goes back to Twinkle Twinkle in search of his doctor to fix it.

Attack of the Cubic Rubes (Episode 5)

Writer: John Bonaccorsi

Air date: 1988-10-15

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: Max takes A.B. and FX to colorless planets (literally) with crayons, but after they meet color lovers Alan and Neil, things get out of hand.

Monkey See, Monkey Zoo (Episode 6)

Air date: 1988-10-22

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: The gang visits an interplanetary circus and discover that the ringmaster had kidnapped the animals and are making them perform against their will.

Cooking Mother's Goose (Episode 7)

Air date: 1988-10-29

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: Max is bored with fairy tales until the gang goes into storybook world. Things are fine until FX's mischievous cousin comes along and makes everyone dance to music--which distracts them from their duties.

Journey to the Center of My Sister (Episode 8)

Writer: Dean Stefan

Air date: 1988-11-05

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: Zoe gets plagued with Nasal Bathrobe, the virus from Osirus, on the day of her birthday party. Max and company have to capture the virus or else never go into outer space again.

Carrot Encounters of the Third Kind (Episode 9)

Air date: 1988-11-12

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: Zoe grows a giant carrot for a vegetable competition, but the carrot, named Rooty, appears to be alive. He enlists Max's help to save him from a rabbit named Fatso, who wants to eat him.

The Baby Who Fell to Earth (Episode 10)

Air date: 1988-11-19

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: A pair of astronauts mistake Max for an alien. Now it's up to AB, FX, and even Zoe to save him from the press.

Beach Blanket Baby (Episode 11)

Writer: Thomas J. Spath

Air date: 1988-11-26

Runtime: 22 min

Stitches In Time (Episode 12)

Writer: Ken Knox

Air date: 1988-12-03

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: Max's father buys Max a toy dragon, which Max names Stitches, and FX brings him to life. The gang take Stitches through time via the rocket, but Stitches is a baby at heart, which gets him into trouble.

From Here to Twinkle Twinkle (Episode 13)

Writer: Robin Lyons

Air date: 1988-12-10

Runtime: 22 min

Overview: FX is deeply homesick so he ponders going back home to Twinkle Twinkle, but Max is reluctant to let him go.