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Family Home Entertainment (FHE) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 home video
Home video

Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment. The term originates from the VHS/Betamax era but has carried over into the current DVD/Blu-ray Disc age....
 company founded in 1981. It releases children's and family
Family

Family denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," some cultural anthropology have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts r...
-oriented programming, most notably the popular 1980s Marvel/Sunbow television series The Transformers
The Transformers

The Transformers can refer to:*Transformers *Transformers *Transformers *The Transformers *The Transformers *The Transformers *Transformers ...
, G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe is a line of military-themed articulated "action figures" produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S....
, Jem
Jem (TV series)

Jem is an United States animated television series that ran from 1985 to 1988 in U.S. first-run television syndication. The show is about music company owner Jerrica Benton, her singer alter-ego, Jem, her band the Holograms, and their adventures....
, as well as ThunderCats
ThunderCats

ThunderCats is an United States animated television series that was developed and produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1985, based on the characters created by Tobin Wolf....
, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an United States animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Inc. It premiered December 14, 1987, first as a five-part mini-series....
 animated series, Gumby
Gumby

Gumby is a green clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a List of Gumby episodes of American television which spanned over a 35-year period....
, The Care Bears, and Bucky O'Hare
Bucky O'Hare

Bucky O'Hare is a character, created by comic writer Larry Hama between 1978 and 1979, who was the eponymous hero of a comic book series, as well as a number of spin-offs, including a TV series and various toys and games....
. It also has a theatrical release division, FHE Pictures, established in 2002; its first release was Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie is a computer animation film based on VeggieTales, produced by Big Idea Productions and FHE Pictures. Released in 2002, it was the first feature-length film in the VeggieTales series....
.






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Family Home Entertainment (FHE) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 home video
Home video

Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment. The term originates from the VHS/Betamax era but has carried over into the current DVD/Blu-ray Disc age....
 company founded in 1981. It releases children's and family
Family

Family denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," some cultural anthropology have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts r...
-oriented programming, most notably the popular 1980s Marvel/Sunbow television series The Transformers
The Transformers

The Transformers can refer to:*Transformers *Transformers *Transformers *The Transformers *The Transformers *The Transformers *Transformers ...
, G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe is a line of military-themed articulated "action figures" produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S....
, Jem
Jem (TV series)

Jem is an United States animated television series that ran from 1985 to 1988 in U.S. first-run television syndication. The show is about music company owner Jerrica Benton, her singer alter-ego, Jem, her band the Holograms, and their adventures....
, as well as ThunderCats
ThunderCats

ThunderCats is an United States animated television series that was developed and produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1985, based on the characters created by Tobin Wolf....
, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an United States animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Inc. It premiered December 14, 1987, first as a five-part mini-series....
 animated series, Gumby
Gumby

Gumby is a green clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a List of Gumby episodes of American television which spanned over a 35-year period....
, The Care Bears, and Bucky O'Hare
Bucky O'Hare

Bucky O'Hare is a character, created by comic writer Larry Hama between 1978 and 1979, who was the eponymous hero of a comic book series, as well as a number of spin-offs, including a TV series and various toys and games....
. It also has a theatrical release division, FHE Pictures, established in 2002; its first release was Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie is a computer animation film based on VeggieTales, produced by Big Idea Productions and FHE Pictures. Released in 2002, it was the first feature-length film in the VeggieTales series....
. FHE was the distributor for most of the seasonal Rankin-Bass television specials aired on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
, the others being Vestron Video
Vestron Video

Vestron Video was the main subsidiary of Vestron, Inc., a home video company based in Stamford, Connecticut that was active from the early 1980s to mid-1990s....
, Children's Video Library and Lightning Video, three 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
Will Quack Quack

Will Quack Quack is a Welsh language cartoon based on a series of children's books written in the 1920s by Jennie Thomas and J. O. Williams ....
), as well as some Japanese anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
, plus the Australian "Dot"
Dot and the Kangaroo

Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian outback and is eventually befriended by a kangaroo and several other marsupials....
 films.

In 1982, the company introduced USA Home Video as a non-family division of the company. In 1986, the company changed it's name to International Video Entertainment, and then to Live Entertainment, with "Family Home Entertainment" as an imprint of the company. They would later go on to become Artisan Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment

Artisan Entertainment was a privately held independent film United States movie studio until it was purchased by Lionsgate in 2003. At the time of its acquisition Artisan had a library of thousands of films developed through acquisition, original production, and production and distribution agreements....
, which has since been acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment

Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation is a Canadian entertainment company that originated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As of 2007, it is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America....
. For further information on the company, see the articles in question.

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