The series premiered on YTV on 1 October 2003 in Canada. It premiered on Canal J on 15 November 2003 in France and Jetix on 7 August 2004 in the UK. It uses an art style similar to Japanese anime.
The series re-imagines the comic books' main characters Martin Mystery and Diana Lombard as teenage stepsiblings attending Torrington Academy, a high school located in Sherbrooke, Quebec. They work for a secret organization known as "The Center" which covertly protects the people of Earth from supernatural threats and investigates the unknown and the paranormal.
