Battle
of the Planets
Battle of the Planets is an American animated television adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman from 1972.
Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment.
Battle of the Planets casts five young people as G-Force, consisting of Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop, and Tiny.
The question has been raised whether or not the characters were cyborgs due to their "cerebonic" enhancements which granted them superhuman agility and demonstrations of power such as their tornado-like, spinning force "Whirlwind Pyramid" form.
G-Force protects Earth from planet Spectra and other attacks from beyond space. The most prominent field commander of the Spectra forces was a villainous, masked individual known only as Zoltar.
Zoltar would receive his orders directly from a being he would refer only to as "Luminous One".
The Luminous One would appear only as a ghost-like, disembodied, floating head. Who or what this being actually was/is never explained in any detail throughout Battle of the Planets.
I used to love this show as a kid growing up in the late seventies / early eighties. This box set is fantastic and well worth it for all BotP fans !
Battle of the Planets episodelist
1. Attack of the Space Terrapin
2. Rescue of the Astronauts
3. The Space Mummy
4. The Space Serpent
5. Ghost Ship of Planet Mir
6. Big Robot Gold Grab
7. Ace From Outer Space
8. Fearful Sea Anemone
9. Jupiter Moon Menace
10. A Swarm of Robot Ants
11. Space Rocket Escort
12. Beast With A Sweet Tooth
13. Perilous Pleasure Cruise
14. The Thing With 1,000 Eyes
15. Microfilm Mystery
16. The Alien Beetles
17. A Whale Joins G-Force
18. Mad New Ruler of Spectra
19. The Sea Dragon
20. Magnetic Attraction
21. The Musical Mummy
22. The Fiery Lava Giant
23. The Bat-Ray Bombers
24. Race Against Disaster
25. The Ghostly Grasshopper
26. The Galaxy Girls
27. Curse of the Cuttlefish, Part I
28. Curse of the Cuttlefish, Part II
29. Demons of the Desert
30. Siege of the Squids
31. Orion, Wonderdog of Space
32. The Fierce Flowers, Part I
33. The Fierce Flowers, Part II
34. The Space Rock Concert
35. Prisoners In Space
36. Victims of the Hawk
37. Raid on Riga
38. Seals of Sytron
39. Giant Gila Monster
40. The Capture of the Galaxy Code
41. Raid On A Nearby Planet
42. Keyop Does It All
43. Peaks of Planet Odin
44. The Sky Is Falling, Part I
45. The Sky Is Falling, Part II
46. Raid of the Red Scorpion
47. Mammoth Shark Menace
48. Fastest Gun In the Galaxy
49. Giant From Planet Zyr
50. Secret Island
51. Giant Space Bat
52. Attack of the Alien Wasp
53. Decoys of Doom
54. Zoltar Strikes Out
55. The Great Brain Robbery
56. Raid of the Space Octopus
57. Silent City
58. Peril In the Pyramids
59. Rage of the Robotoids
60. The Alien Bigfoot
61. Invasion of the Locusts
62. Space Safari
63. Museum of Mystery
64. Peril of the Preying Mantis
65. The Awesome Ray Force
66. The Duplicate King
67. Defector To Spectra
68. Panic of the Peacock
69. Mission to Inner Space
70. Spectra Space Spider
71. Super Space Spies
72. Cupid Does It To Keyop
73. Tentacles From Space
74. Island of Fear
75. The Awesome Armadillo
76. Invasion of Space Center, Part I
77. Invasion of Space Center, Part II
78. Save the Space Colony
79. Charioteers of Changu
80. Vacation On Venus
81. Rockets Out of Control
82. G-Force Defector
83. Strike At Spectra
84. G-Force In the Future
85. Conway Tape Tap
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Five incredible young people with super powers,
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