Classic TV - Battle of the Planets
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I can say that I grew up watching g-force. At just 6 years old in 1980 I did not miss an episode of this fabulous show.
I was about 13 when it debut, lol
@@pallen49 God, you are grandpa.😂
Same with me
Iived in NY. I
I'm not sure if the show is on too early in the morning, but I have the impression that it was never on a regular schedule. Like I could never figure out when it was on. I did watch a lot of it, I just don't remember watching it on a schedule. And in my memory I always knew the show is being called G-Force. Only as a young adult did a good friend tell me it was called Battle of the planets and gatcha man in Japan.
@@joshpinchuk7061 I knew this show as Battle of the Planets and then as G-Force. I finally found out it's known as Gatchaman, I guess the G is for Gatchaman makes sense. I grew up in El Salvador where censorship on TV cartoons was transmitted without a filter and anything goes in language or suggestive scenes. Beautiful time to see G Force.
When I was a kid, this show came on at 4pm. I got off of the school bus at 4pm. I would get off of the bus and sprint to the house so I could watch the show I usually got to the house right after the theme song.. Years later when I got married, I found out that my wife did the same thing when she was a kid.
This was my introduction to anime, also. Well, it may have been "Star Blazers".
I was born in '68 and watched those here in Cleveland back then. It was 🔥.
Also Star Blazers.
I'm 53. Live in Vancouver Canada. When I was in grade 5 we used to rip home from school to watch this ....I can still draw the Pheonix from memory... LoL...right on thanks man 😃
I'll be 54 in March. I watched in Cleveland.
@@snowdog03 Hello Cleveland! LoL awesome 🙂
Great memories of watching that in the late 70's after school.
This and Starblazers was enjoyed by me as a kid.
When I was a kid I had always hoped that they would have made a line of toys for this cartoon.
they did in Japan
I remember my neighbor having rubber actionfigures of mark and princes. Im in Europe btw.
I think some toys were made. I remember a friend having Tiny's Tank, and the Phoenix ship.
My favorite cartoon as a kid. We were these guys on the playground for hours.
I was about to write the same thing. We used rubber bands for the wrist watches to transform.
I loved watching this show on the ABC after school.
Omg...loved this! Loved this cartoon. Silver Hawks, transformers, Voltron.
Watched this show as a kid - fun stuff!
One of the best cartoons ever made period and much better than some of the junk on TV now.
So true, and that's why we are all here on youtube now.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV you're also correct. You got me thinking 🤔 Johnny quest was another good cartoon. The adult or earlier version not the water down version they tried to make more kid friendly. I love the classic boat intro when it crashes on the pursuing henchmen. Good times.
I absolutely loved Battle of the Planets back in the 70s.....Hoyt Curtain's music was amazing, really powered the great animation.
I loved this cartoon as a kid! Thanks fo this!!
Loved this cartoon as a kid. It was must see TV, regardless of what format the show aired in (G-Force or Battle of The Planets).
I used to love love love seeing this cartoon as a youngster I have still have fond memories of it today I love ballad of the planets before they turned it in the g-force but it was awesome it brought the way for a lot of anime in America and it was a great hit thank you for bringing up this wonderful blast of the past it's been a nostalgia is always wonderful now that I'm soon to be 49 years old this is awesome keep what keep doing what you're doing God bless you!!!
I remember this! I was about 4-6 years old! I don't remember it being called this, though....but I definitely remember the whole aesthetic of the suits and ships...and "Tiny" and "Mark" and "Jason"...and Zoltar...
I watched this from the first episode on American TV in September of 1978.
Battle of the Planets wasn't the first anime I'd seen because I watched Speed Racer about five years earlier, but Battle of the Planets sure was the one I was totally into and the one where I looked forward to each episode.
I liked the characters, the voices, the action sequences, and certainly the theme music.
Battle of the Planets is the animated series where the intro played at the start of each episode seemed so important that I had to watch it every time.
Still, today, the image of the Sun cresting the Earth's horizon as the orchestra strikes up feels special.
This was my favorite cartoon in the 70's. I wished they had made costumes for kids from the cartoon.
I think Princess was my first "crush" as a very young lad!😆
Battle of the Planets and G-Force were friggin' awesome!
The first five years of my life were obsessed with George Reeves’ Superman and Gigantor!
The theme song still hits me til this day!
In 1990 I bought a used 1980 Red 2 door Pontiac Phoenix LJ 2.8 V6 Coupe which I aptly named The Fiery Phoenix from the G-Force Battle of the Planets cartoon which I had watch in my Senior year of High School in 1982.
If you liked Battle of the Planets as a kid you need to get or see the Gatchaman Collectors edition. It has been remastered and redubbed and has all 105 episodes. Everything makes since. Sadly it is out of print and only available second hand. A must see.
The opening music just gives me chills
I remember that show also, but you forgot one...Starblazers (Space Battleship Yamato).
But I did love Battle of the Planets, especially when they activated the firey phoenix. It was almost the equivalent of the blazing sword on Voltron. 😀
How could you forget the 2013 Gatchaman Japanese live action film?
I remember getting up and having to watch it at something like 5am on a cross channel on a rabbit ears antenna on channel 8 with some serious tweaking when it stopped being played on channel 5 in the afternoons. Great memories. Now I have the box set!
I grew up in the 90’s but I remember these shows a bit
Thank you for this video. I grew up watching G Force, Star Blazers, and Force Five. I love the background info.
I would watch this before going to school.
I loved watching this when I was a kid
I loved this show!
Loved this show. Still talk to my friends about it. This and Thundar were my favorite.
Excellent choice. Great video. May I suggest Star Blazers as well. I miss the old intro with the UFO music. Keep up the good work.
I loved it as a kid but I have no desire to see it as a live action remake.
👍🏽👏🏾💯👍🏽👏🏾💯👍🏽👏🏾💯👍🏽Wooooow! Brings back the memories. Late 70s to early 80s…that’s exactly when I was watching all those Japanese anime on local TV in San Francisco or Cable Superstation TBS. Another great show was “Star Blazers”. Fun times. Asian anime is fantastic!!!!!!
Going way back to 1979, when I was 6. Here in Philadelphia, UHF channel 17, aired all Japanese shows every weekday afternoon. Ultraman '66, Space Giants, Speed Racer, Marine Boy & Battle Of The Planets. G-Force was my favorite of all the cartoons. This was the reason why I always had an interest in Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, Johnny Soko, Spectreman. Power Rangers would renew my interest in this stuff in 1993.
The few issues of the 70's comic was low quality, true. Even to us at the time. But it was awesome because it was the only way back then to "replay" or "pause" an adventure. And it let us more artistic types get a great chance at studying the designs, copying them and even improve on them. And that lead to some great cross-overs that even today haven't been topped.
Our elementary playground had this climbing monkey bars that looked like a spaceship. So we pretended it was the phoenix at recess and everyone argued who would be Jason but never could find a girl to be the princess.
Fantastic love watching cartoons on a Saturday morning
This show and the collection of Force Five (in particular (The Spacekateers) were my favorites.
The one thing I have to call you on here is about the fiery phoenix. True phoenix could turn into the fiery phoenix. But it wasn’t done in every episode. The fiery phoenix was a last ditch weapon. Once in that mode it had to remain there for 24 hours. Therefore they only use it as a last resort. One of the coolest reoccurring character with Colonel Kronos and as I recall. There was always a hint that he might be Mark’s father. Although you say in the video that we find out he actually is Mark‘s father. I don’t think it is ever actually clarified.
Although they do lead you down the path to believe that he is. The captain is a magnificent pilot and warrior. And so is Mark. I don’t even think they could’ve told you that he was his father that kind of putting a damper on the show. In the opening scene it calls and five young orphans. If Mark and his father that would change the entire dichotomy of the show
I loved the way they used to occasionally break out into a rock band to let off steam. Aaaah Saturday afternoon memories
Great video! Just one tiny thing: I watched Gigantor, Kimba and Speed Racer in pre-primetime starting in 1968/69, if memory serves. Speaking of which, thanks for the memories!
I think we are about the same age, I can remember watching it here in New Zealand at the same time :)
I am glad you are making videos again. I always like your stuff.
As a child of the late 1980s and 1990s, I'm more familiar with the G-Force version of Gatchaman that use to air on Cartoon Network's early days and still have tons of VHS tapes with said airings. Love the series mix of American sci-fi comic book heroes and Japanese tokusatsu melodrama with additional giant monsters / robots thrown in for good measure. Awesome to see you cover the US adaptation I am way less familiar with.
JonnyBaak. Thank 😊 you! You are AWESOME!!
As a young kid, Princess was my first ever crush.
Such a great show!! I never missed an episode!
First episode in the UK was the Space Terrapin - G-Force searched for the Spectra war machine's base only to realise it was the base and barely escaped by transforming in to the Pheonix form.
A great show and was very angry to find out for the u.k. version they censored tonnes of the content and just got the annoying robot to just narrate the violent plot points which were removed. I always wondered as a kid that it didn't quite fit in when the robot when on a lonesome monologue.
Excellent video and explanation;thanks a lot for all the data (unknown in Europe),but I would like to comment that when Battle of the planets tv series was seen on Catalunya(between france and spain),there were not yet available videorecorders,so I got the habit of putting the cassette player in front of the TV appliance,and…play/rec.
I still conserve some many of those tapes-one chapter by every side,of course-,but the most amazing fact of this phenomena was the epic,wonderfully powered soundtrack…wow!!
Love this show! So many awesome memories of watching this. This show has one of the best intros ever and it still gets me hyped today. Shame there weren't any toys based on this show, back in the day.
The timing is ironic. Here @ home I was sharing with nephews the same experience you just entailed. It was a whole weekend of discussion and review of all the animations mentioned here. I even adore the live action movie. Lot of changes there, drags near the end, but good overall. Long live Sandy Frank.
Go Gigantor!!
Great cartoon series saw it on boomerang in 2003 I was 19 at the time huge speed racer fan go speed racer go 🙃
This is Great I watch this on tv
Loved it as a kid!!
I used to watch this but I soon realised every epsiode was vitrually identical.
I loved Star Blazers and Force five as well.
My sister and I were in our tweens in the 70s & 80s when we'd watch episodes of BotP regularly, and became mildly addicted. We actually tried making up our own audio adventures on my shoebox tape recorder; fun times. Back then I recognized Casey Kasem and Janet Waldo's voices from other shows but today I learned from this video that Alan Young was Seven Zark Seven, and that's fantastic. I knew I liked that voice! Ever since catching The Time Machine on TV one summer afternoon I've been fond of that film and Mr. Young and Rod Taylor. And those delightfully spooky Morlocks, lol.
BotP was more than merely a fun action show with dashes of humor. When we originally watched, we were really taken with how emotional the series could get from time to time. There were, depending on which story it was, moments of genuine poignancy. I was never into anime so this kind of story telling and visual style was unique. And the emotional stuff was something I had only seen (via animation) in Bambi. Eventually as I grew older I would discover Miyazaki's feature films, and today I am exploring more anime television of the past. But BotP was impressive when the characters would be exposed to plots that were touching or sad.
Recently I learned that the Americanized show had been drastically edited to curtail heavy themes or violence. That makes total sense now in hindsight. USA kids were sometimes "shielded" from realistic depictions of war, bloodshed, mature themes, or tragedy in cartoon programs from different countries. And this censorship reminds me: I still remember when a bunch of irate mothers, back in the 1980s, went ballistic over Saturday morning violence and gun play, and the networks took action ... cutting stuff left and right from kiddie fare-- including the Bugs Bunny shows, rendering those classic shorts ridiculous with atrocious cuts and trims that made each cartoon a mess to behold. Those angry Moms were so convinced that a cartoon gun would deeply influence and affect (I refuse to use "impact" as a verb because it's the most overused word of the 21st century so far) their little darlings, but what those women _didn't_ realize is the fact that kids were (and kids still are) much more influenced by the actions and attitudes of their parents or guardians or neighbors ... more than any animated cartoon.
Okay, I've gone on long enough. Did not expect this to turn into a soap box diatribe. It did feel good releasing this, haha. Been keeping that stored in a metaphorical mental file cabinet for a long time now. :D
Thanks, Jonathan, for another enlightening video essay.
That was though I have to say, a soapbox diatribe well worth reading. 8)
An interesting point made by Stefan Molyneux about the way parents can get angry about these issues is the fact that many parents inflict a degree of casual violence, verbal or otherwise, upon their children that is quite at odds with how much said parents think they carry out, differing by more than an order of magnitude. So they don't like violence on the screen, but a lot of them have no problem doing it IRL to their own children. Worse, they lie to their children on a staggering scale, often without realising it in order to hide ignorance or self error; remember the old, "Because I said so!" (if only back then I could have responded with, "Not an argument". :D)
A child, being absolutely sure about a particular thing being true, is confronted by their parent stating a falsehood, while at the same time being told lying is bad. Contradiction much. Parents are too afraid to simply say, "I don't know", or as Richard Feynmann suggested, take advantage of their ignorance to engage with the child and together find out the answer, ie. converting personal ignorance into a shared learning experience ("Why is the sky blue? Where does the sun go at night? And so on). Such an approach also allows a child to evolve a more realistic notion of the limitations of adults, whereas parents who shield children from everything turn them as we now know into paranoid snowflakes. Oh and the ultimate irony, mothers who don't like onscreen violence, yet how many of them have ever had abortions? A whole other quagmire of issues of course, but still a contradiction at some fundamental level (tens of millions of potential lives ended since it was legalised, more then the entire toll of WW2).
And re those irate mothers, maybe it was a weird form of projection. Mothers don't know how to turn boys into men, so this sort of thing has gotten much worse as single parent households have become more prevalent, likewise in schools run now mainly by women who don't understand the young male need to expend energy, forcing them to sit still in class, declaring physically active boys to be mentally defective, giving them drugs, etc. As Christina Hoff Sommers put it, boys are now treated like broken girls.
I don't recall at the time knowing any girls who watched BotP though, so quite how that parental dynamic would play out I don't know. Could be the girls I knew at school did watch it but the topic just never came up.
Sadly though I watched BotP avidly as a child, I have no solid memory of what I thought of it at the time or how it framed my wider worldview. But I still love that intro theme. :)
@@mapesdhs597 Oh, that theme music was something special, wasn't it. Thanks for the thoughtful response. There's a lot of poor parenting going on, and always has been; but all we can do is hope that there was (and is) a healthy quantity of solid, sensible parenting as well-- to balance things out. Sometimes when I see good parenting in real life, just casually observing strangers in public places, I feel like giving the man or woman or both a medal and a pat on the back ... just as I wish I could kick blatantly dreadful parents in their bottoms when I witness something stupid or wrong that they do to their child. :)
Being born in1972 I too must have watched every episode. I loved this show!
I too was born in 1972 and saw every ep of this show and still have the VHS tapes for it.
Thanks. I remember watching this. I had some of the models too. Great fun.
Would you do one on "Space Battleship Yamato" (aka "Starblazers")?
The first anime I ever saw was Kimba the White Lion, followed by Speed Racer, Astronauts Boy, and much later, Space Giants, Star Blazers et, I first saw BOTP under the title G Force.
I love all the series, but the restored English dub as Gatchaman. I esp loved that the restoration was more serious than the sanitized BOTP.
It’s funny but this was probably one of my earliest intros to “anime”. So many memories and one of the first cartoons that dealt with death and such outside of Bambi.
Even as a little kid, the American-made scenes where the characters were visiting 7 Zark 7 in his control room looked so jarring to me. It didn't make any sense that the characters went from their fluid, dynamic movement in the rest of the show, to just standing there in static poses talking to the robot.
Great cartoon.
Very Star Wars inspired.
Loved this show as a kid and have been looking for the unedited version for years.
I truly love this version of the show as a kid...I always wanted a continuation of this version the voice cast the music were so dam good. I hated seeing it changed over and over again. I truly miss the battle of the planets version.
I loved this show as a kid ❤️
This was the only television show that I got to watch after school before I did my homework. As soon as it went off I had to turn the TV off and do my homework. But that was just fine with me
Seeing this, I just hope you do a episode on Starblazers/Space Battleship Yamato. Truly anime at its peak.
Nice to wake up to another of your videos. I feel like I hear from a childhood friend because we are about the same age and have the same tastes in pop culture.
I loved this show as a kid. I had the metal lunchbox, though it got damaged, so unlike my Superman and Hardy Boys, sadly it is no longer with me. I also used to make the Pheonix from Legos. Thanks for another trip down memory lane.
I remember that Ultraman and Space Giants being pretty peculiar and entertaining in a strange way.
What a fantastic video! Thanks for making this. 👍👍👍. I grew up watching Battle Of The Planets and loved it. I had one of the die cast space ships too. It wasn’t until 30 years later that I found out about GATCHAMAN. After much searching I finally obtained The GATCHAMAN Blu Ray Box set...It blew my mind. Astounding stuff, and I couldn’t believe it was over 40 years old.
What a good time to be a kid! Do you remember "Marine Boy" at all? Of all the Japanese imported cartoons I see reference of, I never see it mentioned.
Loved Marine Boy! Oxy-gum!
@@NimbleArt saw Marnie boy on a bootlegged website good cartoon series 🙃
Marine Boy and his Oxygum!
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Great work on this video!!! I wish. they had a book about these anime shows
My brother and I would pretend to be Mark and Princess while we bounced on our trampoline. Good times in the 70's.
I always wanted a little den like 7Zark7 had 😆
Great Vid. Wish you mentioned Ronnie Shnell as the voice of Jason.
Thank you for this. BotP was my favorite tv show as a kid.
Let's hope we get that live action movie and some new figures that don't disappoint. 👍
Wow your channel is awesome, regards from an English boomer.
Much music from the Japanese show Gatchaman WAS in Battle of the Planets
This was the first anime I ever watched as a kid. It looked freaky to me, but now I appreciate how different it was.
Funny how the teams colors are like Voltron team colors.
There is a live action version of Gatchaman.
I remember G-Force , not specifics but the general gist of the show . When adaptions and altered versions appeared later , I didn't watch more than a few episodes before noticing too many changes so , I wouldn't continue to watch . The 70s , G-Force version is the only one I reflect on fondly . If you need an instruction manual to keep track of changes it's not worth following .
Where I lived it was called G-Force and ran every afternoon after school, and was mixed in with the Bugaloos. I watched it but it got super redundant fast, so I got kind of bored of it based on that.
Janet Waldo was on I Love Lucy
Much cooler than Voltron.
Now, do Star Blazers!
There is a Japanese live-action Gatchaman movie, but I've never seen it.
Please consider doing a video on the anime series called Space Battleship Yatamoto, or what i grew to love it as by the American name Star Blazers!
Yamato
@@snowdog03 Yes, sorry even auto correct can get it wrong sometimes.
There is a live action gatchaman movie, it's not very good but it's a oddity one could watch.
I had a huge toon crush on Jason.
oh yes!
I always think George Lucas stole or got the idea from G-Force for The Empire Strikes Back when Darth Vader talks to the Emperor from these scenes 6:29