- The Fantastic Four agree to be special guests during a live televised charity event. They explain their origins to the audience, as well as how they took down The Puppet Master, a villain who can control people's minds.
- The pilot episode begins with the Fantastic Four locked in an underwater battle against Prince Namor. Moments later, we discover the Fantastic Four are in a television studio, recounting the battle for the audience as they make an appearance on Dick Clark's scholarship telethon. The Four are selling copies of their team autobiography to raise funds, which leads to Clark inquiring about the origin of the Four's superpowers. Reed Richards proceeds to tell of his discovery of a mysterious celestial body streaking through our solar system and his desire to investigate it. Sue Storm, her brother Johnny, and friend Ben Grimm refused to allow him to go into space alone and so they climb into Reed's rocket and set off for the mysterious object's path. What Reed had failed to realize was how the cosmic radiation emitted from the object would affect the energy field surrounding Earth and, as a result, the rocket and its crew were basked in unusually potent cosmic rays.
The rocket crash-lands on an island and each of the team begin to discover how their bodies/DNA have reacted to the incident: Sue has gained the power of invisibility, Reed can stretch his body to incredible lengths, Johnny can create/control flame and fly, and Ben has transformed into a creature of stone. From that moment, the team adopts their new hero personas and return to New York when they rent an apartment. The team's first opportunity to display their new-found powers arrives in the form of a man in a trance who climbs atop a bridge and moves to jump. The team manage to save the man's life, and in the process, gain the attention of the man behind the trance - the Puppetmaster.
The Puppetmaster becomes obsessed with the Fantastic Four's superpowers and fears they may pose a problem with his master plan of using his sculptures to control the population of the local prison and using them to terrorize and control the city. To prevent the Four from interfering, the Puppetmaster creates a sculpture of the Thing and forces him to come to his apartment. Sue is worried that the Thing's sudden departure is related to a recent fight he had with Reed and follows him invisibly. The two arrive at the Puppetmaster's home and his blind daughter, Alicia Masters, is able to sense Sue's presence. Not taking any chances, the Puppetmaster lures Alicia and Ben behind protective glass and floods the room with sleeping gas. Sue is soon incapacitated and the Puppetmaster decides to use this turn of events to his advantage; he disguises Alicia as Sue and sends her back with the Thing hoping that the two of them can help him bring down the team and free the path to his total control over the city.
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of The Origin of the Fantastic Four: Part One (1994) in Australia?
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