Alienators: Evolution Continues (also known as Evolution: the Animated Series in the UK) is a traditionally animated series based on the moderately successful live-action feature film, Evolution

Evolution (film)

Evolution is a 2001 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Julianne Moore and Ted Levine...

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Premise

As with the movie, the premise of the series is that a meteor carrying organisms that evolve at a very quick rate crashes into the Arizona

Arizona

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 Desert; single-celled alien organisms on this meteor quickly evolve into monstrous creatures, dubbed the "Genus". A team of scientists, the Alienators, must eliminate all these creatures before they destroy all life on Earth. Follows up to the Ivan Reitman science fiction film, Evolution. The characters, Ira Kane, Harry Block, Lucy Mai, and Wayne Green must study all these extraterrestrial lifeforms and find a way to defeat them all.

The "Genus" is led by a "humanoid manifestation" named Scopes.

Characters

• Scientist Ira Kane - A biologist fascinated by scientific discoveries and breakthroughs. His scientific knowledge, along with his excitement and passion about the theory of quick evolution, helps him lead the team in eliminating the Genus.
• Scientist Harry Block - A coach who always keeps up on game scores, etc., and loves coaching the women's team. His strategies help the team to victory.
• Lt. Lucy Mai - A tough and aggressive lieutenant trained by a Special Forces team called The Blue Berets. She believes everything should be done by the book, and if it is not explained in the book, they should avoid it.
• Teenage "wannabe fireman" Wayne Grey (who's been renamed Wayne Green) - A 17-year-old firefighter-in-training. Being the first human infected with alien DNA, he continues to mutate for brief periods of time. His mutations are usually similar to the strain of Genus he encounters.
• Scientist Allison Reed has no direct work with the alienators, but is mentioned a few times, no retaining a relationship with Ira like in the movie.
• General Russell Woodman is the pompus windbag in charge of giving the alienators missions.
• GASSIE Stands for "Genetically Altered Symbiotic Stasis in Evolution". The team's pet. It was an alien cell originally neutralized by Ira. It evolved into Gassie, a slime creature that yips and behaves like a dog, who can detect and track other Genus creatures. When Gassie detects the Genus, he quivers and emits a foul odor.
• SCOPES is the Genus' leader: Super intelligent and intent on taking over the universe. Though he occasionally evolves into various creatures, his most common form is as an alien humanoid octopoid. His name is a reference to the Scopes trial
  Scopes Trial
  The Scopes Trial—formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial—was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made it unlawful to...
  
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Production credits

26 episodes, half an hour each.

Produced by DIC Entertainment

DiC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...

 in association with The Montecito Picture Company

The Montecito Picture Company

The Montecito Picture Company is a film production company owned by Ivan Reitman.-Filmography:*Road Trip *Evolution *Alienators: Evolution Continues *Killing Me Softly *Old School...

 and DreamWorks SKG.

It has a similar distribution set-up to the parent film: DreamWorks handles ancillary rights in North America, while Trifecta Entertainment & Media

Trifecta Entertainment & Media

Trifecta Entertainment & Media is an American entertainment company founded in 2006. The company's founders previously held jobs as executives at MGM Television. Trifecta is primarily a distribution company and also handles advertising sales in exchange for syndication deals with local television...

 handles syndication on behalf of its animation department (which has been its own company since 2004), and Paramount

Paramount Pictures

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 Home Entertainment handles DVD rights. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television

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handles global distribution rights.

Episode list

No. Episode	Episode	Date
1	Survival, Part 1	September 15, 2001
2	Survival, Part 2	September 22, 2001
3	Survival, Part 3	September 29, 2001
4	Don't Drink the Water	October 6, 2001
5	Slick	October 13, 2001
6	Swarm	October 20, 2001
7	Junkyard Dogs	October 27, 2001
8	French Underground	November 3, 2001
9	Runaway Strain	November 10, 2001
10	Dead Wayne Cells	November 17, 2001
11	Roman Holiday	December 1, 2001
12	To Carthage Then I Came	December 8, 2001
13	Year of the Genus	February 9, 2002
14	Hot Java	February 16, 2002
15	Ira Knows Best	February 23, 2002
16	Genus in Your Tank	March 2, 2002
17	Cradle Will Fall	March 9, 2002
18	Head Case	March 16, 2002
19	General Disorder	March 23, 2002
20	Itching for the Genus	March 30, 2002
21	REAPER, Part 1: Countdown	May 4, 2002
22	REAPER, Part 2: The Ark	May 11, 2002
23	REAPER, Part 3: Alpha Omega	May 18, 2002
24	Fire and Ice	June 8, 2002
25	Meltdown	June 15, 2002
26	End Game	June 22, 2002

External links

• Alienators Wikia