Episode
The Fantastic Four: The Way It All Began
Overview
Dr. Doom heads towards New York, claiming diplomatic immunity. Sue and the police commissioner summon all the team members to the Baxter Building, where the Fantastic Four prepare for Doom's arrival. There, they get a message from Doom, who tells Reed that he should say goodbye to his team-mates as he only has a few hours left to live.
Details
- Series
- The Fantastic Four
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1967-09-23
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
The Way It All Began is Episode 3 in Season 1 of The Fantastic Four. It aired on 1967-09-23. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 2: Diablo
The Fantastic Four are lost in a Transylvanian forest while on vacation, and eventually come across an old castle. They are warned that the castle belongs to Diablo, an evil alchemist was was sealed away in the dungeon exactly 100 years ago.
Episode 4: Invasion of the Super Skrulls
On the Skrull homeworld, the Skrull emperor attempts to destroy the Fantastic Four, but Sue protects them with her invisible shield. Marshall Drom then shows the emperor a new weapon that will not fail: the Super Skrull, who has all the powers of the Fantastic Four.
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Episode 1: Menace of the Mole Men
Ben is helping Reed to test out Sue's new force field, when they start receiving complaints from the Baxter Building's other tenants. Reed decides to take the team's tests to an isolated island. When the Four get to the island, the team is stranded there when their U-Car is stolen.
Episode 5: Klaws
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Episode 6: The Red Ghost
Reed experiments on a meteor for use as a new super fuel, an idea he got from a scientist named Professor Ivan Kragoff, a.k.a. The Red Ghost, and so the Four endeavour to use the fuel to get to the Moon, winning the space race before Kragoff, and to explore a mysterious blue area on the Moon's surface.
Episode 7: Prisoners of Planet X
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Episode 8: It Started on Yancy Street
As the Fantastic Four answer the Yancy Street Gang's challenge to Ben, they quickly discover that it was a trap, and are attacked by three mutant apes.
Episode 9: Three Predictions of Dr. Doom
Dr. Doom appears on the Fantastic Four's TV, and challenges them to a duel to the finish. He predicts that he will remove the heart of the team, remove the team's greatest strength and finally, that the strongest power will conquer all.
Episode 10: Behold a Distant Star
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Episode 11: Demon of the Deep
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Episode 12: Danger in the Depths
Johnny is testing his ability to throw flares when he notices a strange object emerging from the sea. A blue-skinned woman emerges and introduces herself as Lady Dorma of Pacifica. She asks the Fantastic Four for help in fighting the tyrant Attuma, whom she inadvertently allowed to defeat the kingdom's rightful ruler, Prince Triton.
Episode 13: Return of the Moleman
An earthquake rocks New York, and Johnny spots that the whole city block has disappeared into the Earth's surface. Reed quickly deduces that this was the work of the Mole Man. The villain himself sinks Science Hall where Sue was giving a speech to a group of leading scientists, and tells the rest of the team not to interfere with his plans.