Mutant League is an animated series based on the video games Mutant League Football and Mutant League Hockey which aired from July 2, 1994 to February 24, 1996. The show ran for two seasons, with the second typically incorporating more poignant stories and issues, while the first seemed somewhat jumbled with little regard for continuity (the Monsters have one win streak that ends twice, for instance). There are forty episodes in all, thirteen in Season 1 and twenty-seven in Season 2. The series was distributed by Claster Television and produced by Franklin/Waterman 2 Productions in association with Electronic Arts.

Plot

During a football game, an earthquake reveals buried toxic waste, and the fumes cause all of the attendees and players to mutate, including young Bones Justice (Bones Jackson in the games). A sports federation based around the superhuman beings, the Mutant League, is formed and Bones grows up to play for the Midway Monsters. Corrupt league commissioner Zalgor Prigg constantly schemes to get the popular athlete to play for any one of the four teams he owns (Slayers, Evils, Derangers or Ooze), or if nothing else discredit him for refusing to join. Bones' search for his father and his personal quest to bring order to the league, are subplots throughout the series. Several other characters from the games like Razor Kidd, Mo and Spew, K.T. Slayer, Grim McSlam and Coach McWimple regularly appear in the show. Unlike the games, players did not die from their unique approach to contact sports. Although frequently maimed to the point of losing body parts, through treatments in a machine called the Rejuvenator which bathed them in toxic chemicals, they would soon be reinvigorated. The show also has no robot players (except in one episode where K.T. Slayer was benched by robotic clones of himself) and only five teams: the Monsters, the Slayers, the Ooze, the Derangers and the Screaming Evils. It also has the teams competing in all manner of sports, not just the ones seen in the games. Most commonly Football, but also hockey, basketball, soccer, baseball, volleyball and even monster truck races and sumo wrestling. Much like the video games, all of these sports were modified with deathtraps and loose rules on violence to accommodate the near-indestructible nature of the players. Some episodes end with a "grudge match" between two particular players. A line of action figures was released based on the show, but went virtually unknown. Rumors of a Mutant League wrestling league surfaced featuring such characters as the Polluter, the Toxic Teacher and "Dad" (or possibly Butch Justice), but apparently never entered production.

Characters

Midway Monsters

Slay City Slayers

Derangers

Screaming Evils

Ooze

Other characters

Voice cast

Episodes

There are forty episodes altogether: 13 in season one, 27 in season two.

Season 1 (1994)

Season 2 (1995–1996)

Release

Home video

A 69-minute VHS tape of the show was released in 1996 by Columbia TriStar Home Video, featuring episodes edited together into what was called Mutant League: The Movie.

Streaming

In 2022, Sony Pictures Television's YouTube channel Throwback Toons began uploading episodes of the series.