About this season
A diaper-wearing toddler with a mohawk named Maxwell "Fantastic Max" Young has adventures in outer space with two of his toys: FX, a pull string alien doll from a planet called Twinkle-Twinkle, and A.B. Sitter, a C-3PO-like android made of blocks.
Episodes (13)
1. Boo Who?
Aired 29 October 1989 • 22 min
It's Halloween, and Max is tired of staying home and missing out on the fun. So FX's trouble-making cousin XS takes the trio to Terrorforma, the spookiest place in the universe.
2. Ben, the Blackmailer
Aired 5 November 1989 • 22 min
Ben videotapes Max's latest trip into space, and he blackmails Max into letting him come along on the next voyage in exchange for his silence.
3. Cowboy Max
Aired 12 November 1989 • 22 min
Max's latest babysitter turns out to be Hoo Jipson, a famous outer space rodeo star.
4. Straight Flush
Aired 19 November 1989 • 22 min
Christopher the Plumber comes and dismantles A.B., taking everything but his head, and it's up to Max and FX to track him down and recover the parts.
5. Rats Like Us
Aired 26 November 1989 • 22 min
While visiting Buckyland theme park, Max and company encounter a friendly family of rats who are desperate for food, and they in turn do what they can to help.
6. Movie Star Max
Aired 3 December 1989 • 22 min
Max attends a film festival with himself as the main attraction.
7. Grab Bag Tag
Aired 10 December 1989 • 22 min
8. To Tell the Tooth
Aired 17 December 1989 • 22 min
A chase after the tooth fairy for not leaving Max any money sends our heroes on the lam when they crash land in the world of Tartarville.
9. Dr. Max and Baby Hyde
Aired 7 January 1990 • 22 min
A zap from an intergalactic satellite dish turns Max into an out-of-control delinquent. Things only get more difficult when he ends up as a spokesperson for Baby Co. after Zoe enters him in a TV contest.
10. Guess Who's Coming to Dinar?
Aired 14 January 1990 • 22 min
A trip to the Sahara Desert to get play-sand for Max’s new slide takes a wild turn when the gang ends up traveling back in time and Max gets mistaken for the sultan's long-lost son, who’s due to marry a princess.
11. A.B., Phone Home
Aired 21 January 1990 • 22 min
Max's constant crank telephone calls result in a long bill, and he has to work at an interplanetary phone company to pay it off.
12. Puzzle, Puzzle, Toil & Trouble
Aired 28 January 1990 • 22 min
13. Blarney Fife
Aired 4 February 1990 • 22 min
After an accident, A.B.'s foot squeaks, so the gang travels to Ireland -- otherwise known as ""Leprechaun Land"" -- to find a good cobbler. The cobbler they find is a leprechaun named Blarney Fife, who is trying to keep the map to Leprechaun Land's pot of gold from a greedy sneak named Pete O'Moss.