Family Home Entertainment (FHE) is an American home video company, founded in 1982, which releases children's and family-oriented programming, most notably the popular 1980s Marvel/Sunbow television series The Transformers, G.I. Joe, Jem, as well as ThunderCats, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series,Gumby, and The Care Bears. It also has a theatrical release division, FHE Pictures, established in 2002; its first release was Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. FHE was the distributor for most of the seasonal Rankin-Bass TV specials, the others being Vestron Video and Lightning Video, two now-defunct home video distributors. The company has also released several VHSs of British kids' cartoons in the US since the 1980s (i.e., Will Quack Quack). The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Various Transformers toys Transformers is the name of a line of toys produced by Hasbro from 1984 onwards, and also of a number of spin-offs based on the toys including a Marvel Comics series, an animated television series that began airing on 1984 (Transformers series) and a feature-length... 1960s Action Soldier Adventure Team circa 1973 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a line of military-themed action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... ThunderCats was an American animated television series developed by Rankin/Bass and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1983 based on the characters created by Tobin Ted Wolf. ... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson Film Productions Inc. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Gumby and Pokey Gumby is a dark-green clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a series of American television shows totaling 223 episodes over a 35 year period, animated using stop motion clay animation. ... The Care Bears are a set of characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. ... now. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Rankin-Bass (aka Videocraft International) is an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials. ... Vestron Video was a company based in Millford, CT that was active from the early 1980s to mid-1990s. ... Its often spelled Will Quack Quack, but on the opening credits it is indeed spelled Will Cwac Cwac. It is a cartoon based on a series of childrens books written in the 1920s. ...

FHE, since 1990, was a division of Live Entertainment, which has since been acquired by Lions Gate Films. MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Live Entertainment is the second name of International Video Entertainment when it changed its name in 1990. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Lions Gate Films. ...

External links

• Lions Gate Films
• Division information
• Family Home Entertainment (FHE) at the Internet Movie Database