Battle of the Planets
Battle of the Planets is an American adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the Battle of the Planets adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment.Battle of the Planets cast five young people as G-Force, consisting of Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop, and Tiny. 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 as Zoltar. Zoltar would receive his orders directly from a being he would refer to as "Luminous One". The Luminous One would appear as a ghost-like, disembodied, floating head. Who, or what this being actually was, is never explained in any detail throughout the series.The main ship of the G-Force team was called the Phoenix, which could carry, transport and deploy four smaller vehicles, each operated by one team member. The four vehicles included a futuristic race car with various hidden weapons driven by Jason; this vehicle was concealed within the Phoenix's nosecone. The "galacti-cycle", a futuristic motor cycle the Princess rode, was stored within the left wing capsule of the Phoenix. Keyop's "Space Bubble", an all-terrain, tank-like vehicle capable of VTOL as well as being a submersible craft, was held in the right storage capsule of the Phoenix. And lastly, a futuristic jet fighter Mark pilots was stored in the top rear section of the Phoenix command island structure, and which used its tail fin to make up the center tail fin of the Phoenix. The fifth crew member, Tiny, was assigned to pilot the Phoenix rather than one of the detachable craft.A regularly featured plot device was the transformation of the Phoenix into a flaming bird-shaped craft able to handle virtually any exceptional situation by functioning as a sort of giant, super blowtorch called the Fiery Phoenix. The Phoenix's primary weapon was a supply of rockets called "TBX missiles" in the series. It also occasionally flaunted a powerful solar-powered energy blaster, although the team had the misfortune of choosing very cloudy days to use it.The G-Force team themselves would use a combination of martial arts skill, ninja-like weapons, and their "cerebonic" powers to dispatch hordes of enemy soldiers and overcome other obstacles. Their bird-like costumes include wing-like capes that could fan out and function nearly identically to parachutes and/or wing suits, enabling the G-Force members to drift or glide down to safety from heights which would otherwise prove fatal.The G-Force members stay in contact through a wrist-band communicator device which also serves as a way for them to change instantly into their G-Force uniforms or back into their civilian clothes. Other weapons seen displayed by various team members include: Mark's sonic boomerang, a bird-shaped boomerang with razor sharp wings; Jason's and Tiny's multi-purpose gadget guns, which can be outfitted with grappling hook and line, drill bits, etc.; and Keyop's and Princess's yo-yo bombs, which could be used as bolas, darts, and explosive devices. Other weapons include feathers with a sharpened steel quill that could be used as deadly throwing darts, and mini-grenades shaped like ball bearings with spike studs.
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Episodes
S01E01 · 1978-09-18
Attack of the Space Terrapin
S01E02 · 1978-09-25
Rescue of the Astronauts
S01E03 · 1978-10-02
The Space Mummy
S01E04 · 1978-10-09
The Space Serpent
S01E05 · 1978-10-16
Ghost Ship of Planet Mir
S01E06 · 1978-10-23
Big Robot Gold Grab
S01E07 · 1978-10-30
Ace from Outer Space
S01E08 · 1978-11-06
Fearful Sea Anemone
S01E09 · 1978-11-13
The Jupiter Moon Menace
S01E10 · 1978-11-20
A Swarm of Robot Ants
S01E11 · 1978-11-27
Space Rocket Escort
S01E12 · 1978-12-04
Beast with a Sweet Tooth
S01E13 · 1978-12-11
Perilous Pleasure Cruise
S01E14 · 1978-12-18
The Thing with 1000 Eyes
S01E15 · 1979-01-08
Microfilm Mystery
S01E16 · 1979-01-15
The Alien Beetles
S01E17 · 1979-01-22
A Whale Joins G-Force
S01E18 · 1979-01-29
Mad New Ruler of Spectra
S01E19 · 1979-02-05
The Sea Dragon
S01E20 · 1979-02-12
Magnetic Attraction
S01E21 · 1979-02-19
The Musical Mummy
S01E22 · 1979-02-26
The Fiery Lava Giant
S01E23 · 1979-03-05
The Bat-Ray Bombers
S01E24 · 1979-03-12
Race Against Disaster
S01E25 · 1979-03-19
The Ghostly Grasshopper
S01E26 · 1979-03-26
The Galaxy Girls
S01E27 · 2003-09-23
Curse of the Cuttlefish (1)
S01E28 · 2003-09-23
Curse of the Cuttlefish (2)
S01E29 · 1979-04-16
Demons of the Desert
S01E30 · 1979-04-23
Siege of the Squids
S01E31 · 1979-04-30
Orion, Wonderdog of Space
S01E32 · 2003-09-23
The Fierce Flowers (1)
S01E33 · 2003-09-23
The Fierce Flowers (2)
S01E34 · 1979-05-21
The Space Rock Concert
S01E35 · 1979-05-28
Prisoners in Space
S01E36 · 1979-06-04
Victims of the Hawk
S01E37 · 1979-06-11
Raid on Riga
S01E38 · 1979-06-18
Seals of Sytron
S01E39 · 1979-06-25
Giant Gila Monster
S01E40 · 1979-07-02
The Capture of the Galaxy Code
S01E41 · 1979-07-09
Raid on a Nearby Planet
S01E42 · 1979-07-16
Keyop Does It All
S01E43 · 1979-07-23
Peaks of Planet Odin
S01E44 · 2003-09-23
The Sky is Falling (1)
S01E45 · 2003-09-23
The Sky is Falling (2)
S01E46 · 1979-08-13
Raid on the Red Scorpion
S01E47 · 2003-09-23
Mammoth Shark Menace
S01E48 · 2003-09-23
Fastest Gun in the Galaxy
S01E49 · 2003-09-23
Giant from Planet Zyr
S01E50 · 2003-09-23
Secret Island
S01E51 · 2003-09-23
Giant Space Bat
S01E52 · 2003-09-23
Attack of the Alien Wasp
S01E53 · 2003-09-23
Decoys of Doom
S01E54 · 2003-09-23
Zoltar Strikes Out
S01E55 · 2003-09-23
The Great Brain Robbery
S01E56 · 2003-09-23
Raid of the Space Octopus
S01E57 · 2003-09-23
Silent City
S01E58 · 2003-09-23
Peril in the Pyramids
S01E59 · 2003-09-23
Rage of the Robotoids
S01E60 · 2003-09-23
The Alien Bigfoot
S01E61 · 2003-09-23
Invasion of the Locusts
S01E62 · 2003-09-23
Space Safari
S01E63 · 2003-09-23
Museum of Mystery
S01E64 · 2003-09-23
Peril of the Praying Mantis
S01E65 · 2003-09-23
The Awesome Ray Force
S01E66 · 2003-09-23
The Duplicate King
S01E67 · 2003-09-23
Defector of Spectra
S01E68 · 2003-09-23
Panic of the Peacock
S01E69 · 2003-09-23
Mission to Inner Space
S01E70 · 2003-09-23
Spectra Space Spider
S01E71 · 2003-09-23
Super Space Spies
S01E72 · 2003-09-23
Cupid Does It to Keyop
S01E73 · 2003-09-23
Tentacles from Space
S01E74 · 2003-09-23
Island of Fear
S01E75 · 2003-09-23
The Awesome Armadillo
S01E76 · 2003-09-23
Invasion of the Space Center (1)
S01E77 · 2003-09-23
Invasion of the Space Center (2)
S01E78 · 2003-09-23
Save the Space Colony
S01E79 · 2003-09-23
Charioteers of Changu
S01E80 · 2003-09-23
Vacation on Venus
S01E81 · 2003-09-23
Rockets Out of Control
S01E82 · 2003-09-23
G-Force Defector
S01E83 · 2003-09-23
Strike at Spectra
S01E84 · 2003-09-23
G-Force in the Future
S01E85 · 2003-09-23
Conway Tape Tap
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