• Air date: 25 Feb '00 13 episodes
      Max Steel is a science fiction–action, CGI, animated series which originally aired from February 25, 2000 to January 15, 2002, based on the Mattel action-figure of the same name. Max Steel ran for three seasons, totaling thirty-five episodes with a predicted audience of young males from the ages of eight to twelve. From 2004-2012, direct-to-DVD movies kept the presence of the main character alive. However, the first movie was the only movie to keep the continuity of the series. After Endangered Species, the continuity was altered. "Endangered Species" was the only movie to be made available in America, while later releases were in Latin America. The voice-acting cast for the series included such people as Chi McBride and Christian Campbell, the older brother of Neve Campbell, as well as well-known sports stars, such as Tony Hawk. After the bankruptcy of Netter Digital and Foundation Imaging, Mainframe Entertainment took over the productions of the third season and the movies. The last episode...
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Strangers

      25 Feb '00
      The first episode. Rachel Leeds, the agent Max Steel has been partnered with, is among a group of people kidnapped at a peace conference at the Reichstag in Berlin. The kidnapper quickly turns out to be L'Etranger, or ""The Stranger."" Max saves them, just in time for his public identity, Josh McGrath, to pick up his girlfriend, Laura Chen. A glimpse of surprises, and enemies, to come.
    • 2. Shadows

      04 Mar '00
      Josh is having nightmares about the time when he first learned of N-Tek's real mission, and became Max Steel. Then, on a mission to Paris to investigate the cause of numerous city-wide blackouts, Max begins to faint at odd times, coincidentally at the same time as the outages happen. Each time, he has a short flashback about his first meeting and fight with Psycho, and the events following it. By the end, Max has come to terms once more with that clip of his past, and helps to defeat Psycho a
    • 3. Sacrifices

      11 Mar '00
      The episode opens with an assassination attempt on United Nations secretary general, Mari Keita, or so N-Tek believes. Max, however, has his doubts. Especially when he is told his adoptive father, Jefferson Smith, has had a heart attack, and yet, is unable to be found in any hospital. It quickly becomes apparent that Smith has been kidnapped. While the rest of N-Tek searches various leads, Max heads out on his own hunt. After discovering a hidden base and being captured, Max finds Jefferson
    • 4. Sportsmen

      25 Mar '00
      While in the middle of a qualifying contest for the Del Oro Extreme, Josh and the other athletes are rocked by a strange and violent lightning storm. By the next day, Josh has decided to quit the D.O.X., saying to his father that ""...there's no challenge; and it's just not fair."" However, when the lightning ceases to stop, Max must don the D.O.X. uniform, and try to find out the cause. After a series of near-death experiences for all of the D.O.X. competitors, Max learns that the threat is
    • 5. Sabres

      01 Apr '00
      Josh and Laura seem to be repairing what damage was done to their relationship after a few recent events, while Pete simultaneously questions Josh as to his love for Laura. Meanwhile, Sabre, N-Tek's space station, has suffered a mysterious malfunction, and is in danger of plummeting back to Earth. Max, along with Jake Nez, is sent to investigate the problem. After a short fight in space, the duo reaches the station, only to find that it was all a set-up, by Psycho and Vitriol, designed to ste
    • 6. Sharks

      08 Apr '00
      After recapturing the Barkowskis and their hurricane machine, Max and Rachel must recover plutonium from a vessel that sank in the storm, not realizing that freelance mercenary L'Æ’tranger is after it also.
    • 7. Sphinxes

      22 Apr '00
      In Egypt, Team Steel attempts to de-fuse Dragonelle and Dread's latest plot against world peace.
    • 8. Seraphim

      13 May '00
      When Max fails in his first attempt to steal back a computer code disk, N-Tek must bid for it at an auction.
    • 9. Snowblind

      20 May '00
      Vacationing in Aspen with Laura and their friend Pete, Josh spots Psycho and follows him, only to discover that Dread has tapped into his Bio-Link with N-Tek HQ in order to kidnap Max and experiment on him.
    • 10. Swashbucklers

      16 Sep '00
      Josh and Laura's Spring Break vacation in Baja turns into a Max Steel adventure, as they encounter pirates with an earthquake machine.
    • 11. Spear Carriers

      23 Sep '00
      Team Steel's new mobile base of operations, the Behemoth, is hijacked with 'Berto trapped inside.
    • 12. Scions

      30 Sep '00
      Trapped by a volcano, Max listens to a log of one of his late father's missions and imagines what it was like.
    • 13. Shattered

      14 Oct '00
      N-Tek has a climactic showdown with the forces of DREAD.