Alex Adventure

Alex Adventure is an American television series created by Rob Renzetti. Set in the fictional town of Tremorton, the series follows the adventures of a 16-year-old robot boy named Alex Blackman (a.k.a. HA-9), who was created by his mother Dr. Susan Blackman and designed to protect Earth, while also striving to live the life of a normal teenage boy.

The show often focuses on making lighthearted fun of typical teenage problems and over conventions of the teenage and superhero lives, mixed up with a blend of action and comedy sequences.

Nickelodeon debuted the series by airing the first episode of Alex Adventure on August 1, 2003 at 8:30 PM. But despite critical success, the series was a ratings disappointment. After the series was cancelled, later episodes started airing as "never before seen episodes" on Nicktoons Network. The series is distributed outside the United States by the Canadian animation studio, Nelvana Limited.

The entire series is available on iTunes, Amazon DVD, and on Hulu.

Alex Adventure received mostly positive reviews from critics, being nominated for numerous awards, most prominently one Primetime Emmy Award and eleven Annie Awards.

Synopsis
Alex Blackman (model name: HA-9) voiced by E.G. Daily, is a teenage robot boy created by Dr. Susan Blackman (Candi Milo). Susan is very close to Alex's and considers herself HA-9's mother in addition to being simply his creator. Alex is programmed to protect the Earth and fight off anyone or anything that causes harm (such as Queen Vexus (Eartha Kitt) and the Cluster). But Alex wants to live the live of a normal teenage boy (without his mom getting in his way and bugging him) and hang out with his close friends Brad Carbunkle (Chad Doreck), his little brother Cheese (Audrey Wasilewski), and Stevie Goff (Grey DeLisle).

Episodes
Main article: List of Alex Adventure episodes

Production
The Pilot, "Alex the Robot Slayer", premiered as a short on ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' on January 5, 1999.

Later, Nickelodeon debuted the series by airing the first episode of Alex Adventure on August 1, 2003 at 8:30 PM. Alex Adventure was aired in repeats on The N on August 7, 2005. The show was part of Nickelodeon's Saturday night programming block called SNICK on August 2, 2003 and briefly was part of the TEENick lineup on August 2003 to August 2004. The first season ended on February 9, 2004 with "Oh Snapped!" and "Time After Time".

The second season, which was originally set to air on October 1, 2004, was pushed back to December 8, 2004 with the Christmas episode "A Lost Claus". A new second season episode wasn't aired until January 24, 2005. After the airing of the infamous 48-minute Escape from Cluster Prime 2-part episode (which was emmy nominated in 2006), the show was cancelled, as Carlos Ramos left the project to focus on The X's.

The third season first aired in Asia starting on October 6, 2006, with "Weapons of Mass Distraction / Glitches and Glitches". For those in North America watching on Nicktoons, the third season started on October 4, 2008 with the last episode of the third season airing on May 2, 2009. This marked the end of the series' 7-year run.

Release
The series first aired on August 1st, 2003.

Reception
Alex Adventure received a generally positive reception from critics and the general public. As of June 2018, it holds a 7.0/10 rating on the Internet Movie Database and an 8.2/10 rating on TV.com.

Home video
On December 12, 2011, all 3 seasons of Alex Adventure were released on DVD at Amazon and CreateSpace. Then later eBay. Although, Escape from Cluster Prime is absent from the Season 2 DVD, however it is on the Season 3 DVD.

On February 5, 2012, Magna Home Entertainment released all 3 seasons of Alex Adventure as a single DVD set in Australia.