Family Home Entertainment

Family Home Entertainment (also known as F.H.E.) is an American home video distributor that released a number of Generation 1 episodes on video (both VHS and Beta) during the 1980s, and was also responsible for the first home video release of The Transformers: The Movie. In addition to Transformers, F.H.E. also released home video collections of other Sunbow cartoons, including G.I. Joe.

The company changed its name to International Video Entertainment in the mid '80s, and then again to Live Home Video in 1990, but all the while kept the F.H.E. brand working for them as a sub-division of the larger company. In 1991, Avid Home Entertainment, another imprint of Live Home Video, released their own VHS of The Transformers: The Movie. The company then changed its name again in 1995 to Live Entertainment, then in 1998 to Artisan Entertainment, and was eventually folded into Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2003.

Perhaps the most memorable thing about the F.H.E. video releases was that the back of each box featured a comic strip summarizing the episode rather than a one paragraph plot description. With the strips being so extremely truncated, their coverage of the episode's plot was sometimes downright perplexing if the reader had no knowledge of the episode's content ("Why is Ravage mauling that crippled guy?"). They also had a memorable title card for all their video releases, featuring the company's "child's handwriting" logo and an INCREDIBLY LOUD "bwaaaaannnnnnnng" noise followed by a series of tones.

Releases

• The Transformers — Volume 1: "More than Meets the Eye" (1985)
• The Transformers — Volume 2: "The Ultimate Doom" (1985)
• The Transformers — Volume 3: "S.O.S. Dinobots" (1985)
• The Transformers — Volume 4: "Fire in the Sky" (1985)

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  Volume 1
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  Volume 2
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  Volume 3
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  Volume 4

• The Transformers — Volume 5: "Divide and Conquer" (1985)
• The Transformers — Volume 6: "Roll for It" (1985)
• The Transformers — Volume 7: "Transport to Oblivion" (1985)
• The Transformers — Volume 8: "Fire on the Mountain" (1985)

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  Volume 5
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  Volume 6
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  Volume 7
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  Volume 8

• The Transformers — Volume 9: "War of the Dinobots" (1985)
• The Transformers — Volume 10: "Heavy Metal War" (1986)
• The Transformers — Volume 11: "Countdown to Extinction" (1986)
• The Transformers — Volume 12: "The Secret of Omega Supreme", "War Dawn", "A Plague of Insecticons" (1986)

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  Volume 9
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  Volume 10
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  Volume 11
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  Volume 12

• The Transformers — The Return of Optimus Prime (1987)
• The Transformers: The Movie (1988)
• The Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness (1990, also available on laserdisc)
• The Transformers: The Movie (Avid Home Entertainment, 1991)

• The Return of Optimus Prime
  The Return of Optimus Prime
• The Transformers: The Movie (1988 release)
  The Transformers: The Movie (1988 release)
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  Five Faces of Darkness
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  The Transformers: The Movie (1991 Avid release)

External links

• Family Home Entertainment at Wikipedia
• Archive of F.H.E. comic strips