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Marvel Television is a division of Marvel Entertainment in The Walt Disney Company conglomerate. The division is responsible for live-action and animated (through Marvel Animation) television shows and direct-to-DVD series. The division is based at affiliate ABC Studios' location. ==Background== Marvel previously licensed a few characters out for TV shows with animated shows being more successful than the live action shows. ''The Incredible Hulk'' (1978–82) was Marvel's only successful live action television series, running five seasons. The last TV series, ''Blade: The Series'', was canceled after one season on Spike. Marvel's first live action TV licenses were for Spider-Man with the character in The Electric Company's Spidey Super Stories segments (1974–1977), CBS's ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' series (1977–1979) and Toei's tokusatsu style ''Spider-Man'' series (1978–1979). ''The Incredible Hulk'' also launched in 1977 on CBS. ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' pulled in reasonable rating but was canceled in 1979 by CBS as they did not want to be the "comic book" network as they had already had three comic book based show, choosing to stay with ''The Incredible Hulk'', as it had the better ratings. In 1978, Doctor Strange got a TV movie to act as a pilot similarly to ''Spider-Man'' and ''Hulk''. Captain America also starred in two pilots in 1979, ''Captain America'' and ''Captain America II: Death Too Soon''. None of these pilots were picked up.〔 After the end of ''The Incredible Hulk'' in 1982, live action Marvel shows did not return until 1988 with ''The Incredible Hulk Returns'', designed as a backdoor pilot for Thor. Additionally, ''The Trial of the Incredible Hulk'' acted as a backdoor pilot for Daredevil, and ''The Death of the Incredible Hulk'' premiered in 1990.〔 Three direct pilots were done in the 1990s, ''Power Pack'', ''Generation X'' and ''Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', but none of them were picked up for series. Marvel had better luck in syndicating their properties in the late 1990s and early 2000s with ''Night Man'' and ''Mutant X'', lasting two and three seasons, respectively. The latter show triggered a lawsuit by 20th Century Fox, who held the rights to the X-Men. As a follow up to the ''Blade'' film series, ''Blade: The Series'' was created for cable TV, lasting one season in 2006.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marvel Television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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