It would have been really hard to explain the X-Men to children’s television executives in the 1980s

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How would you have gone about trying to explain the X-Men to children’s TV executives in the 1980s? A time when TV was still largely run by the World War 2 generation? That would have been an interesting challenge!

This is an excerpt from our full length video, Rise of the X-Men, here on YouTube

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