Animorphs (TV series)

Animorphs (also known under the promotional title AniTV) is a television adaptation made by Protocol Entertainment based on the Scholastic book series of the same name by K. A. Applegate. It was made for YTV for Season 1 and Global for Season 2 in Canada and Nickelodeon for the United States. The series was broadcast from September 15, 1998 to October 8, 1999 in the United States and Canada.

Main

 * Shawn Ashmore as Jake
 * Brooke Nevin as Rachel
 * Boris Cabrera as Marco
 * Nadia Nascimento as Cassie
 * Christopher Ralph as Tobias

Recurring

 * Paulo Costanzo as Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill
 * Eugene Lipinski as Visser Three/Victor Trent
 * Dov Tiefenbach as Erek King
 * Allegra Fulton as Eva / Visser One
 * Joshua Peace as Tom Berenson
 * Terra Vanessa Kowalyk as Melissa Chapman
 * Richard Sali as Principal Chapman
 * Diego Matamoros as Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul
 * Peter Messaline as the Ellimist
 * Frank Pelligrino as Jeremy, Marco's father (Peter in the books)
 * Cassandra Van Wyck as Sara Berenson, Rachel's younger sister
 * Jonathan Whittaker as Greg, Jake's father (Steve in the books)
 * Karen Waddell as Nikki, Jake's mother (Jean in the books)
 * Melanie Nicholls-King as Aisha, Cassie's mother (Michelle in the books)

Production
The series is set in most of Toronto, Canada. Deborah A. Forte and Bill Siegler are the executive producers of the series. The animals used in this series were supplied by the Bowmanville Zoo. Due to budget issues, the morphs of the characters were changed, with Jake having the white tiger morph, Tobias' morph being a Harris's hawk rather than a red-tailed hawk, and Rachel having the lion morph rather that an elephant and grizzly bear Also, instead of Cassie, Marco has the wolf morph, rather than a gorilla.

Home releases
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (when they were known as Columbia TriStar Home Video) had released twelve episodes in four VHS volumes known as The Invasion Series, collecting episodes from the series. The first 12 episodes are only released on VHS and not re-released on DVD.
 * Part 1: The Invasion Begins ("My Name is Jake" parts 1 and 2, and "Underground")
 * Part 2: Nowhere to Run ("Between Friends", "The Message" and "The Reaction")
 * Part 3: The Enemy Among Us ("The Stranger", "The Leader" parts 1 and 2)
 * Part 4: The Legacy Survives ("The Capture" parts 1 and 2, and "Not My Problem")

Seven volumes spanning the first 20 episodes (only the first of which was identical to its U.S. counterpart) were released in Australia. The episodes were placed in chronological order. Each volume had three episodes apart from Volume 7, which had two ("Face Off", parts 1 and 2).

All 26 episodes are currently available on iTunes, Vudu and Amazon Video spread across three volumes. Also, all 26 episodes were previously available on Netflix, and are currently available on Tubi.