Original title
Big Bad BeetleBorgs
Released
9/7/1996
Origin country
US
Genre
Action & Adventure, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
Saban Entertainment, Toei Company, Saban International, Renaissance-Atlantic Films
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
88
When three kids explore Charterville's haunted Hillhurst Mansion on a dare, they discover a lot more than they bargain for! The trio find a wild and wacky phasm named Flabber, who changes their lives forever when he grants their wish to become the superheroes they've read about in BeetleBorgs comics. However, not only does Flabber grant the kids' wish, but he also accidentally facilitates the escape of supervillains from the comic books as well! Now it's up to these three newly tapped superheroes - aided by a friendly neighborhood phasm and armed with fantastic powers and awesome vehicles - to save the world from the forces of darkness that threaten the peace and harmony of all mankind.
Drew, Jo and Roland are hanging out at Zoom Comics reading the latest BeetleBorgs comics when local bullies Van and Trip dare them to go into the old abandoned Hillhurst House.
When Flabber grants the kids their wish to become BeetleBorgs, he also accidentally unleashes the comic book villains too!
Van and Trip pay to have the Hillhurst Mansion blown up while the Magnavors have their own plan to destroy the Mansion.
Trip and Van hire a bogus ghostbuster to exterminate Flabber from Hillhurst.
Flabber has a cold, and is surprised to discover that the old handkerchief he uses to blow his nose is actually a treasure map! The three Beetleborg kids use it to seek out what they expect to be riches beyond imagination. But Van and Trip swipe the map, in an effort to find the treasure themselves. The Magnavores then steal it from them, and release a monster, the Terror Bear, from the comics to keep the Beetleborgs busy. After defeating the monster, the kids team-up with the House Monsters to track down the treasure: and it turns out to be golden slime.
A werewolf arrives at Hillhurst. His name is Wolfgang, and he's a notorious freeloader from the House Monsters' old country (Transylvania). Lucky for them, when he makes a big scene in Charterville, the Magnavores take interest, and kidnap Wolfie, hoping to use his strength against the Beetleborgs.
Flabber helps Roland improve his magic trick abilities by lending him a magic book. When he practised his new trick, he performs it at Zoom Comics (but on the way there, he lost the book). He makes Jo disappear, and could not remember how to bring her back. When he discovers that the book was gone, he must find it immediately or Jo is stuck being invisible.
A production of a movie would be taking part in Hillhurst Mansion, and everyone was excited to see it they could become a star in the latest Hollywood movie.
Nano discovers a bracelet inside a closet, and puts it on. Now, whoever is in the presence of her, becomes her servant. And take a guess just what happens when she visits Hillhurst!
A rat kidnaps Heather while she was waiting for Nano to arrive back in Charterville from her trip.
Drew finds himself slowly becoming a cat monster.
Drew wants to get Heather a very special birthday present: the gem of Queen Magna. So he convinces Flabber to accompany him into the comic dimension!
The House Monsters are getting tired of not catching their meals - the three kids, Drew, Jo, and Roland.
Vexor summons a bottle from the comics, which contains all the badness in the world. And once the substance is released from the battle, it creates a bad atmosphere, bringing out the worst of people. Jo drinks it and turns into a lunatic.
Flabber, The House Monsters, and the three kids discover a hunchback in the attic of the Hillhurst Mansion.
Oliver visits his cousins - Drew and Jo and when he pretends to be a Beetleborgs by dressing up like one, the Magnavors capture him as they believe he is a real Beetleborg.
Bank robbers steal Nano's money and hide it in Hillhurst Mansion.
A rock band moves into Hillhurst.
The kids attempt to meet the Beetleborgs' comic creator, Art Fortunes, at a Comic Book Convention. But the Magnavores sieze the opportunity to release several monsters at once.
A plant monsters is sent out of the Comics to destroy the Beetleborgs.
Dr. Baron Von Frankenbeans, the creator of the House Monster known simply as Frankenbeans, arrives at Hillhurst for a visit. The doctor runs experiments and tests on Flabber and the other House Monsters to check on their health.
Aliens arrive on the planet Earth, and the Magnavors are the first creatures on Earth to witness them. They capture them to use their advanced technology to help defeat the Beetleborgs.
The House Monsters find what appears to be a brain in their attic. Little do they realize, that it was placed there by the Magnavores to spy on them and the Beetleborg kids.
Frankenbeans ventures out from Hillhurst on Halloween.
Count Fangula attacks the people in Charterville, turning Van and Trip into vampires!
Vexor, using a piece of Roland's Blue Stingerborg armor, creates his very own evil Beetleborg, the Shadowborg. Meanwhile, a new kid in town catches Heather's eye, and thus, catches Drew's ire.
The Shadowborg can not be defeated by the three Beetleborgs, so the three kids turned to the creator of the Beetleborgs Comics, Art Fortunes. He creates a new Beetleborg, and a new boy in town named Josh Baldwin gets to use the new armour.
When the Beetleborgs lose their power to the Shadowborg, the White Blaster Beetleborg retrieves it.
Shadowborg captures the Beetleborgs while attempting to battle Vexor, so they must obtain help from their new Beetleborg.
Drew and Josh successfully find their way into the Magnavors hideout and steal an energy rod that contained the required energy to restore the Shadowborg's strength.
The power rod is used to give Drew the Blue Stingerborg upgrade of Mega Blast. Will it be enough to destroy Shadowborg? And how will this effect the White Blasterborg?
Blackbeard the pirate is summoned from a history book by Flabber.
As Christmas Day approaches, Flabber recruits the house monsters to decorate the Hillhurst House for the holidays. When Flabber discovers that Christmas gifts and trees are being stolen all over town by the Magnavores, the BeetleBorgs find them leaving a house with bags full of gifts.
Zoom Comics discovers a lost pet while the Beetleborgs had to take care of another monster released from the Comics.
A Phantom appears in Hillhurst, seeking his long lost love, who just happens to resemble Jo!
Dr. Baron Von Frankenbeans, Frankie's creator, returns, and gives his ""son"" an operation to increase his intelligence. But the new, super-smart Frankenbeans turns out a little too snobby.
Two archaeologists come to Hillhurst to retrieve there Mummy finds. They reviewed how they had dug up Mums, and how they got the curse where they continue to sneeze, itch, etc... They must reburry Mums so they can rid of the curse.
The ghost of Old Man Hillhurst returns and continues to haunt Hillhurst Mansion, while Abbie (Roland's mother) replaces Aaron at Zoom Comics.
Wolfgang plays around with Flabber's spellbook, and accidentally changes Jo into looking like a different girl!
A female werewolf arrives at Hillhurst, and Wolfgang falls in love at first sniff. But it turns out she's none other than Jara, the Magnavore mistress!
There's a legend about an enormous fish that lives in Charterville, and Vexor has a plan to release a Giant Fish from the Comics and attack citizens of the city.
Dr. Baron Von Frankenbeans creates a bride just for his ""son"", Frankie. She's not interested in him, until she learns of how he'll be inheriting the Baron's ""fortune"".
Count Fangula's "victim quota" is low, as he hasn't drank any blood in weeks! Vlad the Impaler, head vampire from the old country, comes to Hillhurst to make sure he gets back on track.
The kids switch bodies with the Magnavores.
A bug creature is released from the newest issue of Beetleborgs. He's accidentally merged with Flabber!
Hypnomania is unleashed into the real world and he controls the house monsters to attack the kids. The Beetleborgs must find Hypnomania and destroy him so the house monsters are not under the control of Vexor anymore. While the Magnavor trio are fired by Vexor and have to make a living earning money off humans.
A monster called Evil Eye attacks the city sending out bad luck to everyone it encounters.
The Monsters find a baby on the steps of Hillhurst. Unfortunately, the baby is the Rocket Man monster in disguise.
A boy named Norman Nussbaum arrives in the city to slay a vampire, who goes by the name of Fangula. When the Beetleborgs discover his motive (because he is in a line of Vampire Hunters), they have to save Count Fangula from the child.
Flabber is determined to turn his hideous housemates into healthy hard-bodies. Enter Super-Noxic, Noxic's little brother, who arrives at Hillhurst under the guise of "Hurt-ulese," a pumped up personal trainer.
The author of "Fright Files" thinks that Hillhurst would be a great inspiration for his work and moves in. Meanwhile, Vexor's new power-phaser makes Typhus more powerful and they set off to confront the Beetleborgs.
Wolfgang's recurring daydream of causing a mutiny becomes reality when Wolfie accidentally returns Flabber to the pipe organ where he gets stuck. Vexor and the Magnavors burglarize Art Fortunes' studio and take comics featuring Nukus, a very intelligent creature.
The BeetleBorgs take a beating from Borgslayer and finally escape to Hillhurst where they must rescue Flabber from the organ and Art from the monsters.
Nukus destroys the Beetleborgs' armor, weapons, and powers, and turns Flabber into ice. While the kids try to persuade Art Fortunes to draw new armor, weapons, and powers for them, Nukus frees Fortunes' twisted brother Les from jail and summons some of Les' drawn monsters into the real world.
Nukus, along with new fellow villains Vilor and Horribelle and the Dregs, takes Les Fortunes to the Charterville Cemetery, in order to have a new army of monsters drawn for him.
The Crustaceans kidnap Art Fortunes, but the kids use the Bug Out spell to sneak into the Charterville Cemetery and rescue him. Art then draws a new Battle Station and new Battle Vehicles so that the Beetleborgs will be able to face the Worm Tanks and the Crustacean Jet Fighters that Les drew for Nukus.
Items begin to go missing around Hillhurst, leading the House Monsters to suspect someone new has taken up residence in their basement.
The siren-song of Les' latest creature, Hagfish of Gar, threatens the children of Charterville from falling under its spell. Luckily, the latest issue of the Beetleborgs Metallix comic features the debut of new motorcycles for the team, known as the Sector Cycles, which Flabber brings to life to aid in defeating the horrible menace.
The Headless Horseman comes to Hillhurst, seeking his missing head! Seems Wolfgang stole it years ago in the old country... will he give it back, or will the Horseman need to take one of the House Monsters'?
A monster of Les', with shape-shifting powers, comes to Hillhurst, and wrecks havoc by transforming into each of the House Monsters.
The house monsters create a hotel in the Hillhurst Mansion, but what is there to do when one a new creation of Les Fortunes checks in?
When Vilor brings Les' new monster to life, it proves to be more than the crustaceans reckoned for.
An aging starlet from Hollywood's silent era (and now ghost) shows up at Hillhurst, wanting to make a comeback.
An anxious journalist seeks out the Beetleborgs' secret identities... and finds them! Will she keep quiet, or will she use this scoop to make herself famous?
A Transylvanian bounty hunter comes looking for the Little Ghoul.
Nukus is angry when publisher Rudy McDougal refuses to devote a comic book to his new Brain Sucker monster.
The Grim Reaper comes to Hillhurst. Not to kill anyone, but to train Little Ghoul to be his replacement!
Nukus has a special portrait of Flabber sent to him, and before long, Flabber starts turning old and gray.
Dr. Frankenbeans sends his youngest son, Frankie, to stay wih his older brother, Frankenbeans, at Hillhurst.
Little Ghoul takes up some abnormal gardening.
Mums' mommy, who is also a mummy, comes to town.
As the House Monsters leave Hillhurst on Halloween to do some Trick or Treating of their own, the mansion attracts unsuspecting kids believing it to be haunted.
The Booger Man appears at Hillhurst to give the house monsters nightmares. This inspires Nukus to have him give nightmares to Les for an inspiration for a new monster.
Edgar Allan Poe, the long-deceased horror poet author, comes to Hillhurst seeking inspiration.
When Art and Les Fortunes were children, they produced a homemade comic book together. Their only collaboration. Now, Les leads the Crustaceans in a quest to find where he buried it years ago. Art and the Beetleborgs are also in pursuit for it. Within its pages are the predecessors to the Beetleborgs, the Astralborgs and Mantrons.
To help out the Beetleborgs, one of the Astral Borgs, Dragonborg is unleashed to battle with the Evil Borgs.
Count Fangula, believing he can see the future, starts up a psychic hotline. Also, the Beetleborgs gain a new Astral Borg ally, in Fireborg!
Wolfgang wanted to come along with the Beetleborgs and the Astral Borgs (the Lightningborg is now found to add the the team of 3 so far) to see what it's like to be in the middle of a battle against other comic monsters. And the Borgs are glad he came because he OWNED the opponents (kicked their butts).
Count Fangula is feeling ill. Seems he swallowed one of the Astral Coins! Horribelle, disguised as a nurse, attempts to retrieve it. Should Fangs manage to cough it up, the Beetleborgs will gain a new Astralborg ally, the Ladyborg!
One of the monsters of Hillhurst is kidnapped and the enemies want something in return...One of the Astral Borgs.
An Ambush is done by the Crustaceans to eliminate the Astralborgs so they can get at the three puny Beetleborgs.
The 8 Astral Coins are at last reunited with the Astral Sword, leading to the summoning of the giant robot beetle fighting creature, Roboborg! But whose side will he be on?
Nukus and Vilor get an upgrade, going Mega powered. To even things up, the Beetleborgs are given a power-boost by Roboborg, fusing their old powers with their Metallix ones, creating the Mega Spectra Beetleborgs! But will this added armor be enough to stop Mega-Nukus?
Les creates the Astral Ax, and with it, Roboborg's evil counterpart, known as Boron. Mega-Nukus pits Boron and Roboborg against one another.
Roboborg battles Boron... this time on the moon!
Count Fangula becomes a super hero by helping out the Beetleborgs defeat their rivals/enemies.
Dr. Baron Von Frankenbeans' latest creation, a mutant plant, is sought by Mega-Nukus' forces.
The Beetleborgs make one last play to gain control of Boron.
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