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                         Phantom 2040 Episode Guide
                             by Mark Thompson
                       thompson@clipper.robadome.com

                                Version 1.0
                                 12-15-94

Phantom 2040 (30 min, animated, Fall 1994 - present, syndicated)

  Phantom 2040 is an unusually engrossing show with an unfortunately
  small 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 NYC), 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)

	Character Voices:
			Parts credited in the show:
		Kit/Phantom		Scott Valentine
		Rebecca Madison		Margot Kidder
		Guran			J.D. Hall
		Graft			Ron Perlman
		Maxwell Madison		Jeff Bennett
		Maxwell Madison, Sr.	Jeff Bennett
		Heisenberg the Biot	Jeff Bennett
			Parts unknown but possibly deduced:
		Sean 1?			Rob Paulsen
		Dr. Jack?		Mark Hamill
		Cairo? Sparks?		Bibi Osterwald
		Gorda?			Paddi Edwards
			Parts unknown:
					Kath Soucie
					Leah Remini
					Charles Dennis
					Carrie Snodgrass
					Alan Oppenheimer
					Iona Morris
					Liz Georges
					Amanda Rogers
					Dustin Nguyen
					Paul Williams
					Mel Wells
					Deborah Harry
					Pamela Segall

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.  Each episode is credited with the
writer(s) name using the notation "W:"

101. Generation Unto Generation Part 1
102. Generation Unto Generation Part 2
	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.

103. The Sum of the Parts
	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.

104. Fire and I.C.E.
	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.

105. Reflections of Glory
	W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
	The story behind the rock star, Vaingloria, is revealed
	during an adventure involving kidnapped teens.

106. Shadows from the Past
	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.

107. The Good Mark
	W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
	The Phantom learns the history 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.

108. Ghost in the Machine
	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.

109. Dark Orbit Part 1
	W: Len Wein
110. Dark Orbit Part 2
	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.  Can Graft and the Phantom stop him
	from destroying Metropia and part of the world in his quest
	for a Free Orbital Nation?

111. The Biot In Red
	W: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
	The further adventures of Heisenberg the fractal biot,
	as he explores the concept of "feelings", and Dr, Jack
	has to do without his biot assistant for a while.

112. The Gauntlet
	W: Marc Scott Zicree
	The mystery of Sparks' missing parents is finally
	solved, during an adventure with a new security system
	at Cyberville.

113. Three Into One
	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...
