One of the rare moments when a program can be called terrible by today's standards, but completely brilliant in its own strange way... takes me back years, thank you so much for uploading!
I used to watch this show so late at night...does anyone remember which episode the girl gets eaten or taken by a giant flower thing? I know it's not very specific...but i never saw the second part and its been about 12 years haha
@SuperAdventures No in the early 80's they ran the show amongst others, in the morning around 7-8 am, if i remember right i think they used to run two episodes back to back. This in turn would make it just about impossible to make it to school on time....had to run all the way!
@SuperAdventures Ah, I see, then you grew up watching the earlier English adaptation of this show, "Battle of the Planets", in which the team was also named "G-Force". This version here, despite being produced in the late '80's, is what '90's-era kids grew up watching on Cartoon Network. People confuse the two English adaptations..........a lot as you can see by the video comments!
@enzedborn Yup, played in pretty much every episode to fill in the originally silent moments in the Japanese soundtrack. Boneheaded decision by the producers.
@randomnes454 Episode 25, "The Rock Robot". Adapted from Gatchaman Episode #25, "Magma Giant, The Emperor From Hell" which I'm sure you can find here on YT.
I prefer this version as opposed to Battle Of The Planet's. This just brings back so many memories from my child-hood! ha going to buy the dvd's so good! <3
@xionblades By painful, do you mean the rest of the voice acting, the character name changes or the constant drumbeat? If the former, then the rest of the voice cast does a great job IMO...not so much in this ep because it was the third episode dubbed, so they were still getting warmed up. But yeah, Cam Clarke and Barbara Goodson (Agatha June & Peewee) are the stand-outs of this small voice acast. This was one of Cam's earliest roles, after Max Sterling, before TMNT's Leonardo. :)
@Zufield Think its catchy now, try hearing it for 84 more episodes! Boneheaded decision by the production team, which tried to add filler music to almost every silent part of the soundtrack, when they didn't have the time to do it properly (dubbing 85 episodes in 3 months must've been quite a task).
@Zufield Episodes 18 and 85 were the "pilot episodes" for this adaptation, and replaced all of the Japanese Gatchaman music with original music from series composer Dean Andre. Unfortunately for most of 18 and part of 85, that meant variations of the same filler track (i.e disabling instruments here and there). Unaired, pre-production versions of the pilot eps (also on my account) include a radically different soundtrack that was left on the cutting room floor.
@alprazolammy LOL yeah, the techno backbeat is one of the main reasons why G-Force: GoS didn't achieve the popularity that the previous "Battle of the Planets" dub did. Other reasons include the changing of the character names and terms (which as you can see by the comments section on all of my G-Force vids, confuses Battle of the Planets fans) and what many consider inferior voice acting and theme music compared to Battle.
I feel so nostalgic! Wow, great stuff will never fade away. I'd wish new cartoons were a little bit like this one. Thanks for the flash back! God, how old am I!!! And I still love that drum beat on the soundtrack, so characteristic.
i used to watch every episode! from beginning to end! love the show! brings back memories!
when i heard a movie was coming out i was excited thinking it was going to be like the cartoon! but when i heard it was going to be with rats or whatever i was disappointed! why cant they do a movie like this like they do with all the other shows!
Man, I don't know how old I was growing up, but we used to dress up as G-Force for Halloween and it was usually our play time fun too. It definitely was G-Force as kids, I'm not sure if I remember it back then being called anything else, but over the years I've come to find out of the whole Gatchaman chronology of the footage used for the episode and such. I do have a Gatchaman DVD and one G-Force one, it would be great to see all the G-Force eps get released!
well there truly are some arguments but i some what agree with twilightLink77 but the truth is that japan is the only original and thats that. The usa edit sucked because they didn't want to expose their kids to the action. Japan lets their kids watch more adult things and not worry bout it. Any ways due to not wanting to expose the kids of usa they edited to ..... this G force. But of course i suggest looking for a subbed or dubbed un edited version of gatchaman the original. I learned japanes
Oh my God! Crazy!! I forgot about this soooo much. I've been watching Gatchaman lately and I forgot a lot about G-Force (which I watched in the 90's when Cartoon Network showed it). I was surprised to hear a little bit of the Gatchaman music playing in the background.
@SuperAdventures i don't find the drum beat annoying man. its fine, at least for me. oh well, guess we all have diif tastes. :) thanks for the upload.
@kro2488 Me too-- I always remembered this as being the first anime I ever saw, before even Dragon Ball Z, Gundam Wing, Big O, Tenchi Muyo, and all of them. And it was only until relatively recently that I learned that this, along with Battle of The Planets, was a recut and redub of the original Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. In ANY incarnation, classic.
@ricogoldstar But I mean't that G-Force: Guardians of Space stick close Science Ninja Team Gatchaman while Battle of the Planets have edited way too much.
Yes, BotP fans need to stop wearing those nostalgia goggles or need to catch up on the show (whose episodes are readily available here on YT under the title "BATTLE OF THE PLANETS", not G-Force), because BotP was one of the most bowdlerized anime dubs of all-time. It almost completely lacked the violence, death and hand-to-hand combat from the original Gatchaman, which was all covered up with slick voice acting, music and of course 7-Zark-7, soccer-mom-in-a-tin-can.
@TwilightLink77 I have read the IMAGI, the one who made Astro Boy is going to make this cartoons into a live-action movie. Gatchaman is the title of the movie. It is going to be shown next year. What are your thoughts on this?
The original dub was called "Battle of the Planets". The only thing BotP & G-Force share in common are the name of the protagonists ("G-Force"), the name of the ship ("Phoenix") and having been dubbed from the same show (Gatchaman). Otherwise they are two completely different takes on the same show. "G-Force" wasn't, and isn't a cheap knock-off of BotP. Part of the reason it exists was to correct many of Battles flaws (massive editing, lack of violence/death/action).
When I was a kid and watched this originally, the name of the characters were Mark, Jason, Princess and Kee-Op. I can't remember the pilot's name. The voices were obviously different as well.
@rboesen1970 , I knew this show under the name "Battle of the Planets" with the characters known as Mark, Jason, Princess and Kee-Op, and Tiny (the name you couldn't remember) along with 7-Zark- 7 plus the music was a lot better then the music from this intro.
This is the first episode for Gatchaman, Battle Of The Planets & "G-Force". The episodes that I'm posting up were "pilot" episodes that were put together by the producers of "G-Force" before they got the OK to dub the rest of the series. They were picked from G-Force's 85-episode order (specifically, Episodes 18 & 85) due to their original "Gatchaman" episodes containing strong content. The pilots contain new music and more varied voice acting, which wasn't carried over to the rest of its eps.
Barbara Goodson also voiced Pee-Wee. Pretty impressive that she voiced 2 of the 5 "G-Force" members, with distinct voices too. Truly a talented actress and a long-time veteran.
Dirk Daring was one of Cam Clarke's earliest animated roles; after Max Sterling in "Robotech" but BEFORE Leonardo in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"!
Naturally, both of these voice actors were the stand-outs in the very small pool of voice actors used in "G-Force".
I believe that "G-Force' was a "non-union" project, in that none of its voice actors were listed in the closing credits. Unless you had a good ear, few would've recognized Clarke and Goodson, much less other VA's such as Sam Fontana (Ace Goodheart), Jan Rabson & Gregg Berger (both alternated the roles of Hoot Owl, Dr. Brighthead and Computor) and the late Bill Capizzi (Galactor), also a "Robotech" veteran.
Yeah, they often picked voice actors with youthful, yet commanding voices to voice anime protagonists..........still do in fact.
I believe Sam Fontana (Ace) does VO's for commercials now, though I'm still trying to confirm it. The only other notable animated voice-over role he did was Reed in the short-lived, often lampooned mini-series "Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos", also from 1986.
Tony Oliver (Rick Hunter) still is pretty active, though moreso on the creative/producing side of dubbing
Nah, they aren't one in the same. Sam Fontana wasn't a very prolific VA. I'd say this was his biggest voice acting role, TV-wise before he fell off the face of the earth......or at least started doing VO work for commercials,
"G-Force" itself isn't very popular; most children of the '70's & '80's remember its predecessor, "Battle Of The Planets (same show, different English translation) and often dislike this one. In the U.S, it only got a couple of runs on Cartoon Network in 1995.
G-Force, Guardians of Space, gatcha man is all the same show .gatcha man was the Original from japan then it was americanized put into english and called g-force .then some gerk did a butcher job on it and called it Guardians of Space epic fail compared to g-force
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I don't like this intro...It is not the intro I remember. plus the show was called Battle of the Planets not G-force Guardians of Space. they were Princess , Tiny, K-op, Mark , Jason.....
.not Derk Daring or Ace good heart ( or what ever his name is)
I used to watch this but I see they've overdubbed and changed the characters names over the first English dubbed version I used to be addicted to back in the 70's. Of course, I'm sure the original Japanese version is superior but Americans, apparently, don't like to read subtitles.
its to bad none of the shows have any [CC] close captioning. so we can hear them i am talking for the ppl who are deaf or hard of hearing this would be great thing for all the videos if they can pls thanks sk
there was a toon back in the day one of the team picked up a staff that was big very big he spen it around and it became small in his hands and only he could use it
Awesome! Loved watching BOTP and G-Force as a kid. Figures the G-force, or I should say G-farce, for today's generation are a bunch of agent hamsters or gerbils! These were the days of real animation.
SuperAdventures, I have been trying to figure out for YEARS why I can't find G-force (not that I've been looking that hard, apparently)...but it turns out that I was looking for Battle of the Planets!!! THANKS!
"G-Force" was a redubbing done by Ted Turner that was released a few years after Battle of the Planets. Sandy Frank's work on the material, while damaging in some respects, was nowhere are dumbed down as this >:( Sorry, longtime BotP fan......
Dumbed down? Do you mean this ("G-Force") or "Battle Of The Planets"?
Both adaptations have their ups and downs, and BotP is the one that's most remembered and has more of a fanbase. I just wish that people would stop mistaking "G-Force" for "Battle of the Planets". Same show,different dubs. Wikipedia has LOTS of info on both, I know so because I wrote the damn Wiki article on "G-Force"!!!
Thank you indeed for posting this but this episode must have been redubbed with different voices in the mid to late 80s or 90s because the names & voices are completely different.
The voice of Mark-was played by Casey casem and "pewee" was named Kiop,"Hooty" was named Tiney & the guy in blue was "Jason" and the Stegasaur Robot was origionally called the Space Terrapin and that was the origional title of this episode
Check Wikipedia to find out more about the differences. There exist 3 different English dubs for "Gatchaman": "Battle Of The Planets" (1978, with Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop & Tiny), "G-Force:Guardians Of Space" (1986, THIS ONE) and a straight English dub of Gatchaman (2005, no changes from the original Japanese)
It happens more often than not, believe me. So many people mistaken "G-Force" for "Battle Of The Planets" that its gotten annoying. Makes sense though: Same show, different English adaptation.
And yes, in Battle, the youngest member of the team (in the Battle version, known as Keyop) was re-imagined as a test-tube subject with a verbal tic. In all other versions, he was just a normal, yet cocky, pre-teen boy. Don't know why they did that.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpt....yup Kiop DID infact have a strange way of communicating with his fellow team mates.
In short the 1980s remake redubbing with newer voices & subsequent renaming of the Battle of the planets series to G-force was a disaster on many levels!
I doubt there was anything more disastrous than 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1 making up for the minutes of violence and destruction that were cut out of EVERY Gatchaman ep adapted for Battle Of The Planets. And the segments in which the G-Force members actually appeared alongside Zark or in the "Ready Room" in horrible, crudely drawn American animation (clearly different from the original artwork)? Total blasphemy. Battle was literally all style, no substance.....or violence for that matter.
OH YEA! I remember this back in 1994-1995. It was just when I was getting sick of power rangers (especially after the infamous "Wedding Episode"). This thing was the perfect replacement, and I loved it (though some episodes were a little creepy, like the plants that ate women, and the stolen brains).
Though it seemed somewhat repetative, I liked it WAY better than Power Rangers, ironically it was much more mature than MMPR!
You know, just watching half-way in, I think I take some of that back.
Dr Brighthead just flippantly brings up this whole "Galactor" thing from out of nowhere, and only now when there is quantifyable damage. One would think there ought be a better introduction to this, with us knowing when, how and why galactor came to Earth and when and how Dr. Whitehead discovered this, and how he got G-Force started in the first-place... Now I want to see the original Japanese version to see if it better.
That's more or less how the original Japanese version went about introducing the antagonist and the protagonists as well. "G-Force: Guardians Of Space", give or take a couple of things (Americanized names and terms, repetitive synth music, added dialogue) is a close translation of the original "Gatchaman", while the opposite can be said for the earliest English translation known as "Battle of the Planets" (1978). Look up "Gatchaman Episode 1", u should be able to find it easily here.
Oh my god, this was one of the best carttons of the time. I still remember the episode where they had some robot that re-grew jets when they were shot off, and the one where theyre in a ruined city and the girl picks up a baby's body which disintegrates in her hands. Pretty raw stuff for a cartoon.
you can keep your stupid battle of the planets. G-force doesn't shy away from the dark stuff unlike PC I was scroung through to find this gem.
dusktiger112 2 days ago
I like this! THank you for sharing! BTW, Notice how this episode's monster looks like MOgera from 'THe Mysterians'(1957)?
NUKETOMIC 3 weeks ago
I grew up watching these episodes in Germany,lol
obydude 3 weeks ago
@obydude we would also play the episodes we seen on tv at school recesses...
obydude 3 weeks ago
@obydude But i remember the cartoon showed in the late 70's early 80's..
obydude 3 weeks ago
@obydude and when i watched it,the lill boy would make some kind of chirping noise before each sentence..
obydude 3 weeks ago
G-Force, Along with Lady Lovelylocks and several other cartoons from the 1980s, will be missed.
brandonefron2064 1 month ago
One of the rare moments when a program can be called terrible by today's standards, but completely brilliant in its own strange way... takes me back years, thank you so much for uploading!
chokkathunda94 3 months ago
Ace Goodheart? Dirk Daring? Pathetic new theme song?
God damn it Sandy Frank.
alopexau 3 months ago
I used to watch this show so late at night...does anyone remember which episode the girl gets eaten or taken by a giant flower thing? I know it's not very specific...but i never saw the second part and its been about 12 years haha
thewendybirdy 4 months ago 2
@thewendybirdy Episode 39, "The Monster Plants" and Episode 40, "Those Fatal Flowers" were the two-part eps you're talking about.
SuperAdventures 4 months ago
@SuperAdventures Thank you!!! :D
thewendybirdy 3 weeks ago
@thewendybirdy lol, man, thanx, I remember that part ONLY... Was looking for this like ages :D
Zentai88 4 months ago
I used to be late for school so that i could watch these episodes and see the endings....lol man those were the days hehe.
Evolution8R 4 months ago 2
@Evolution8R I take it you watched the show when it was airing really late at night, right?
SuperAdventures 4 months ago 2
@SuperAdventures No in the early 80's they ran the show amongst others, in the morning around 7-8 am, if i remember right i think they used to run two episodes back to back. This in turn would make it just about impossible to make it to school on time....had to run all the way!
Evolution8R 4 months ago
@SuperAdventures Ah, I see, then you grew up watching the earlier English adaptation of this show, "Battle of the Planets", in which the team was also named "G-Force". This version here, despite being produced in the late '80's, is what '90's-era kids grew up watching on Cartoon Network. People confuse the two English adaptations..........a lot as you can see by the video comments!
SuperAdventures 4 months ago
THIS DIALOGUE OH GOD.
THEY CAN FLY!!!!!! :O
RunikaMori 5 months ago
I use to think this cartoon was so weird as a kid. Mainly cause of that SAME music that always played in the background.
enzedborn 5 months ago
@enzedborn Yup, played in pretty much every episode to fill in the originally silent moments in the Japanese soundtrack. Boneheaded decision by the producers.
SuperAdventures 5 months ago
@randomnes454 Episode 25, "The Rock Robot". Adapted from Gatchaman Episode #25, "Magma Giant, The Emperor From Hell" which I'm sure you can find here on YT.
SuperAdventures 6 months ago
I'm thinking this was more like 1977
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QueeniePheny 8 months ago
I prefer this version as opposed to Battle Of The Planet's. This just brings back so many memories from my child-hood! ha going to buy the dvd's so good! <3
jonnyjonnyjonyy 8 months ago
Well at least cam clarke's awesome voice will make watching this less painful.
xionblades 8 months ago
@xionblades By painful, do you mean the rest of the voice acting, the character name changes or the constant drumbeat? If the former, then the rest of the voice cast does a great job IMO...not so much in this ep because it was the third episode dubbed, so they were still getting warmed up. But yeah, Cam Clarke and Barbara Goodson (Agatha June & Peewee) are the stand-outs of this small voice acast. This was one of Cam's earliest roles, after Max Sterling, before TMNT's Leonardo. :)
SuperAdventures 8 months ago
i loved this as a kid lol. didnt realize how cheesy the animation was back in the day.
realdad32 8 months ago
i love this show!!
i remember this as a kid
speechless.... ;)))))
buhrrito 9 months ago
the voices don't seem to be the ones i remember?
leonio10 9 months ago
1986? was this a 1980 episode?
Preliminimal 10 months ago
That "filler" BGM track is catchy.
Zufield 11 months ago
@Zufield Think its catchy now, try hearing it for 84 more episodes! Boneheaded decision by the production team, which tried to add filler music to almost every silent part of the soundtrack, when they didn't have the time to do it properly (dubbing 85 episodes in 3 months must've been quite a task).
SuperAdventures 11 months ago
@SuperAdventures Exactly the reason why I said it was "catchy."
Didn't it play through an entire episode once?
Zufield 11 months ago
@Zufield Episodes 18 and 85 were the "pilot episodes" for this adaptation, and replaced all of the Japanese Gatchaman music with original music from series composer Dean Andre. Unfortunately for most of 18 and part of 85, that meant variations of the same filler track (i.e disabling instruments here and there). Unaired, pre-production versions of the pilot eps (also on my account) include a radically different soundtrack that was left on the cutting room floor.
SuperAdventures 11 months ago
@SuperAdventures that fuckin music never seemed to stop....i still hear it in dreams to this day!!!!
alprazolammy 11 months ago
@alprazolammy LOL yeah, the techno backbeat is one of the main reasons why G-Force: GoS didn't achieve the popularity that the previous "Battle of the Planets" dub did. Other reasons include the changing of the character names and terms (which as you can see by the comments section on all of my G-Force vids, confuses Battle of the Planets fans) and what many consider inferior voice acting and theme music compared to Battle.
SuperAdventures 11 months ago
@SuperAdventures i didn't think the voices were that bad tho....trust me, i've heard worse!
alprazolammy 11 months ago
@SuperAdventures i remember when pee wee's car crashed they still kept playing that damn music even tho he was bleeding to death!!!!
alprazolammy 11 months ago
how dare they used this title for a bunch of stupid CGI Rats
Bigstarrocker9 11 months ago
best cartoon ever invented
bajeboi 11 months ago
HAVE YOU BROUGHT THE CREAM?
ShadowxXxXxXxXcod 11 months ago
I remember Kee Op - "RRRRROOOT TOOT TOOT"
and TINY addicted to those SPACE-BURGERS!
bluenotejazz 1 year ago
I feel so nostalgic! Wow, great stuff will never fade away. I'd wish new cartoons were a little bit like this one. Thanks for the flash back! God, how old am I!!! And I still love that drum beat on the soundtrack, so characteristic.
FoxxxyMortensen 1 year ago
i have this on video i remember when about 4 i used to continously watch episodes 1 2 3.love it still to this day
MrIAMpeanut 1 year ago
this was the better of all the tv edits for sure.
smileyofhumpalot 1 year ago
same in Australia & tiny was thepilot & 7 zok 7 was the robot
jayfromoz 1 year ago
i used to watch every episode! from beginning to end! love the show! brings back memories!
when i heard a movie was coming out i was excited thinking it was going to be like the cartoon! but when i heard it was going to be with rats or whatever i was disappointed! why cant they do a movie like this like they do with all the other shows!
loneblu69 1 year ago
i remember watching this as a kid and when i heard about a movie called g- force i thought it was this but no it was them damn rats
fearmeforiamgod1 1 year ago
I watched G Force in 1979/80 when I was in kindergarden. Why are all of these from 1986?
nevcore 1 year ago
@nevcore
Gatchaman first came to UK screens as Battle of the Planets, in the 70s.
it returned in the late 80s, in the form of G-Force: Guardians of the Universe.
these are two distinct series, although based on the same original concept.
yomammascan 1 year ago
Battle of the Planets! G-Force! it's all good! youtube needs to ban that gerbil POS movie in EVERY way!
ultimatemegadeath 1 year ago
Oh God! Agata June is so fucking HOOOOOOOT!
blues2oo 1 year ago
LOLLLLLLLLL WE HAVE NO IDEAR WHO THEY ARE LOL
zacktheninja300 1 year ago
I remember that as well rboesen. The pilot was Tiny. That show was money!
jhendrx 1 year ago
Man, I don't know how old I was growing up, but we used to dress up as G-Force for Halloween and it was usually our play time fun too. It definitely was G-Force as kids, I'm not sure if I remember it back then being called anything else, but over the years I've come to find out of the whole Gatchaman chronology of the footage used for the episode and such. I do have a Gatchaman DVD and one G-Force one, it would be great to see all the G-Force eps get released!
NMAfreak 1 year ago
I remember this show in the 90s when I was a kid, this show was the shit. Sucks I was to young to appreciate the show, loved this show!
keebe2006 1 year ago
@keebe2006 , dude- your NEVER too young to recognize the good stuff!
ultimatemegadeath 1 year ago
is this the uk version or was the name g-force in america 2 i only know of battle of the planets which is the same thing
rudorot65 1 year ago
I used to love this, and have the full series on DVD, did anyone else actually fancy Princess? It was the obscenely short dress that did it, lol.
RichXbox360 1 year ago
me 2 i havnt watch that show in years
Chaos2ThaWorld1 1 year ago
does anyone know where I can watch the ADV uncut dub
I like uncut dubs
MrSubzero97 1 year ago
this was the first episode i had seen and it is still the best series around! need to try and get it on dvd =D
BurningSunrise 1 year ago
Funny how it melts the lighthouse with that dude inside of it. "Great Scott!"
reinforcedpenisstem 1 year ago
well there truly are some arguments but i some what agree with twilightLink77 but the truth is that japan is the only original and thats that. The usa edit sucked because they didn't want to expose their kids to the action. Japan lets their kids watch more adult things and not worry bout it. Any ways due to not wanting to expose the kids of usa they edited to ..... this G force. But of course i suggest looking for a subbed or dubbed un edited version of gatchaman the original. I learned japanes
IozawaCop 1 year ago
Does anybody recall an episode where the Phoenix is shot down in battle and has to be rebuilt?
kvnstaub 1 year ago
love that drums background music....not on the original gatchaman or battle of the planets
ediesedgwick82 1 year ago
Man, I miss this, I remember singing to the beat of the G force theme when I was a kid
Aileflyer 1 year ago
86 ???? this must be 80-82
SalvandoaIsmael 1 year ago
one of my favorite cartoons as a kid
crunk617 1 year ago
Did he just say Great Scott?
LordDragonClaw42 1 year ago
wow i can't believe this i finally found g force oh wow thank you so much for uploading
delano2004 1 year ago
1:44 - you can see where Toho got the inspiration for Kiryu in the Godzilla franchise. Which film did he appear? was it Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla?
dangnammit 1 year ago
I think you mean Mogera who debuted in The Mysterians (1957) and was later re-introduced in Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla (1994).
taker68 1 year ago
Oh my God! Crazy!! I forgot about this soooo much. I've been watching Gatchaman lately and I forgot a lot about G-Force (which I watched in the 90's when Cartoon Network showed it). I was surprised to hear a little bit of the Gatchaman music playing in the background.
namibean 1 year ago
Most of the Gatchaman music was retained for "G-Force", except that "G-Force" filled in silent parts of the soundtrack with that annoying drum beat.
Apart from that and the changed names, its a really close adaptation of Gatchaman, editing only the most extreme violence.
SuperAdventures 1 year ago
@SuperAdventures i don't find the drum beat annoying man. its fine, at least for me. oh well, guess we all have diif tastes. :) thanks for the upload.
N6600 1 year ago
wow so old school
reaperson7 1 year ago
ROFLMAO nice to reminiscing the past! totally old school!
Jiwu 1 year ago
wow talk about old school
acidblasta 2 years ago
Awsome memories. Too bad Sandy Frak's trademark for this series expired like three years ago.
I remember watching this version as a kid.
spikeriley 2 years ago
this is what i remember watching on cartoon network ages ago, before dbz was past the saiyan saga in america lol
kro2488 2 years ago
@kro2488 Me too-- I always remembered this as being the first anime I ever saw, before even Dragon Ball Z, Gundam Wing, Big O, Tenchi Muyo, and all of them. And it was only until relatively recently that I learned that this, along with Battle of The Planets, was a recut and redub of the original Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. In ANY incarnation, classic.
DorianMichaelsIII 2 years ago
This is definitely NOT the ORIGINAL! This version is a SUCKY redubbed KNOCK OFF! Blasphemy, Sacrilege!
ricogoldstar 2 years ago
@ricogoldstar How dare you say that this is the only dub before the ADV dub that is close to the original.
TwilightLink77 2 years ago
When di I EVER say this was the ONLY DUB. Nowhere in my comments did I say that. The ORIGINAL version was called
G-Force "Battle Of The Planets", and it came out in the 70's. As I stated B4, this version IS NOT the ORIGINAL.
ricogoldstar 2 years ago
@ricogoldstar But I mean't that G-Force: Guardians of Space stick close Science Ninja Team Gatchaman while Battle of the Planets have edited way too much.
TwilightLink77 2 years ago
Yes, BotP fans need to stop wearing those nostalgia goggles or need to catch up on the show (whose episodes are readily available here on YT under the title "BATTLE OF THE PLANETS", not G-Force), because BotP was one of the most bowdlerized anime dubs of all-time. It almost completely lacked the violence, death and hand-to-hand combat from the original Gatchaman, which was all covered up with slick voice acting, music and of course 7-Zark-7, soccer-mom-in-a-tin-can.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
@TwilightLink77 I have read the IMAGI, the one who made Astro Boy is going to make this cartoons into a live-action movie. Gatchaman is the title of the movie. It is going to be shown next year. What are your thoughts on this?
Sweetmervs 1 year ago
The original dub was called "Battle of the Planets". The only thing BotP & G-Force share in common are the name of the protagonists ("G-Force"), the name of the ship ("Phoenix") and having been dubbed from the same show (Gatchaman). Otherwise they are two completely different takes on the same show. "G-Force" wasn't, and isn't a cheap knock-off of BotP. Part of the reason it exists was to correct many of Battles flaws (massive editing, lack of violence/death/action).
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
When I was a kid and watched this originally, the name of the characters were Mark, Jason, Princess and Kee-Op. I can't remember the pilot's name. The voices were obviously different as well.
rboesen1970 2 years ago 7
@rboesen1970 The pilots name was tiny.
ricogoldstar 2 years ago
@rboesen1970 , the pilot's name was "Tiny" Funny, considering he was so fat. lol
IsaiahM33 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 Thats right hearing the name Ace did not ring a bell for me,and KeeOp had a strange way of talking.
brownhulk2000 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 , I knew this show under the name "Battle of the Planets" with the characters known as Mark, Jason, Princess and Kee-Op, and Tiny (the name you couldn't remember) along with 7-Zark- 7 plus the music was a lot better then the music from this intro.
Astraldragon1 1 year ago
@Astraldragon1 Same footage, different show. Check Wikipedia.
SuperAdventures 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 : I believe the pilot was Tiny.
dmwong7 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 I think it was Tiny
Potrimpo 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 Pilot was Tiny if memory serves.
Agriking 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 his name was hoot-owl, I used to love the show as a kid.
1971tallica 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 That was Battle of the Planets. It was the first American redo of Gatchaman. Not nearly as good as it cut a lot of the Anima parts.
MrZhangfi 1 year ago
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@rboesen1970 That was Battle of the Planets. It was the first American redo of Gatchaman. Not nearly as good as it cut a lot of the Anima parts.
MrZhangfi 1 year ago
@rboesen1970 tiny harper
tomuko6 7 months ago
@rboesen1970 - Yes, I entirely concur, the pilots' name was Tiny !
You remember, "TRANSMUTE !! " and their ship would become the Phoenix.... !
That might be the first version, Battle of the Planets, I will search further. Chau
LeKey69 5 months ago
@rboesen1970 yes, I concur most certainly, it was Mark, Princess, Tiny, Kee-Op, and Jason.
Battle of the Planets was the original and it is so much better than Guardians of Space.... Chau
LeKey69 5 months ago
@LeKey69 The 2nd Girl mentioned in Battle of the Planets and another girl mentioned in G-Force are very pretty.
brandonefron2064 1 month ago
Wait, I thought this was the first episode. I'm confused.
HumanDaikon 2 years ago
This is the first episode for Gatchaman, Battle Of The Planets & "G-Force". The episodes that I'm posting up were "pilot" episodes that were put together by the producers of "G-Force" before they got the OK to dub the rest of the series. They were picked from G-Force's 85-episode order (specifically, Episodes 18 & 85) due to their original "Gatchaman" episodes containing strong content. The pilots contain new music and more varied voice acting, which wasn't carried over to the rest of its eps.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
OMG! It's Cam Clarke as Dirk! And Barbara Goodson as June!
HumanDaikon 2 years ago
Barbara Goodson also voiced Pee-Wee. Pretty impressive that she voiced 2 of the 5 "G-Force" members, with distinct voices too. Truly a talented actress and a long-time veteran.
Dirk Daring was one of Cam Clarke's earliest animated roles; after Max Sterling in "Robotech" but BEFORE Leonardo in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"!
Naturally, both of these voice actors were the stand-outs in the very small pool of voice actors used in "G-Force".
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
I agree. Cam Clarke is one of my favorite voice actors (Max Sterling FTW!). I didn't know Barbara Goodson also played Pee Wee.
HumanDaikon 2 years ago
I believe that "G-Force' was a "non-union" project, in that none of its voice actors were listed in the closing credits. Unless you had a good ear, few would've recognized Clarke and Goodson, much less other VA's such as Sam Fontana (Ace Goodheart), Jan Rabson & Gregg Berger (both alternated the roles of Hoot Owl, Dr. Brighthead and Computor) and the late Bill Capizzi (Galactor), also a "Robotech" veteran.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
Speaking of Robotech, Ace sounds like Rick Hunter. I know it's not him though, I'm just saying it sounds like him.
HumanDaikon 2 years ago
Yeah, they often picked voice actors with youthful, yet commanding voices to voice anime protagonists..........still do in fact.
I believe Sam Fontana (Ace) does VO's for commercials now, though I'm still trying to confirm it. The only other notable animated voice-over role he did was Reed in the short-lived, often lampooned mini-series "Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos", also from 1986.
Tony Oliver (Rick Hunter) still is pretty active, though moreso on the creative/producing side of dubbing
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
Hmmm, what else has he done besides those two? Because if those are his only two credits, it might've just been a pseudonym for Tony Oliver.
HumanDaikon 2 years ago
Nah, they aren't one in the same. Sam Fontana wasn't a very prolific VA. I'd say this was his biggest voice acting role, TV-wise before he fell off the face of the earth......or at least started doing VO work for commercials,
"G-Force" itself isn't very popular; most children of the '70's & '80's remember its predecessor, "Battle Of The Planets (same show, different English translation) and often dislike this one. In the U.S, it only got a couple of runs on Cartoon Network in 1995.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
i remember being disturbed by the violence in this show when I was a small child
it was the first cartoon I ever saw that had killing in it
Ironzealot7531 2 years ago
What's up with the names? Those aren't the names I remember! I miss those care free days!
Randiy11 2 years ago
Starblazers was WAAAAYYYY better!!! But I still liked this :)
jmpsgirl 2 years ago
G-Force, Guardians of Space, gatcha man is all the same show .gatcha man was the Original from japan then it was americanized put into english and called g-force .then some gerk did a butcher job on it and called it Guardians of Space epic fail compared to g-force
valdarmort 2 years ago
thanks this is awesome! can't wait for capcom vs. TATSUNOKO it will be sick!
TravisTuchdown 2 years ago
cool it has like 80 episodes
redsomister 2 years ago
esta serie la pasaba cartoon network hace 16 años mazo y yo la veia era casi un bebe jeje
Ricardopumas100 2 years ago
scandinavia is one of the worlds greatest powers?
scorpirus 2 years ago
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I don't like this intro...It is not the intro I remember. plus the show was called Battle of the Planets not G-force Guardians of Space. they were Princess , Tiny, K-op, Mark , Jason.....
.not Derk Daring or Ace good heart ( or what ever his name is)
Astraldragon1 2 years ago
No. This show IS called "G-Force: Guardians of Space". The show you're looking for is "Battle of the Planets". Same footage, DIFFERENT SHOWS.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
this brings back memories, i almost want to cry.
Lontavius1986 2 years ago
i know back when you had no worries and just enjoyed life as a kid
mccclarren 2 years ago
I remember this, as a kid i loved watching it. The first anime series I ever watched back then getting into anime. :D
cassandramalfoy 2 years ago
This is THE G-Force, not those stupid CGI rats!
TheNewEmphinix 2 years ago 19
@TheNewEmphinix AMEN! Damn You Disney and you Prissy little Miley"AppleHead"Cyrus and The Queer Brothers Damn it I Mean The Jonas Brothers.
MegaDside 1 year ago
Thank goodness they did something about Peewee's voice! I hated his stuttering in Battle of the Planets!
Kanna172003 2 years ago
I used to watch this but I see they've overdubbed and changed the characters names over the first English dubbed version I used to be addicted to back in the 70's. Of course, I'm sure the original Japanese version is superior but Americans, apparently, don't like to read subtitles.
Cambodia69 2 years ago
Panty shot
7:04-7:05
Overdoseplus 2 years ago
I love this show, but the dialogue is so funny sometimes.
"It's not terrorists. It's an alien from space named Galactor! But G-Force can stop them! They're teenagers that know science! And they can fly!"
And everyone just accepts what he says without question.
Uejji 2 years ago
its to bad none of the shows have any [CC] close captioning. so we can hear them i am talking for the ppl who are deaf or hard of hearing this would be great thing for all the videos if they can pls thanks sk
darian1968 2 years ago
the drama conveyed in this show was pretty dramatic.
or so i thought at the time for a so called "carttoon"
this the orginal "heavy meatal of anime" akira not whithstanding.
1019drummer 2 years ago
there was a toon back in the day one of the team picked up a staff that was big very big he spen it around and it became small in his hands and only he could use it
manntown6666 2 years ago
Is it true they're making a new, up-to-date version of G-Force? I know they're making the film but what about the television series?
VVxFan 2 years ago
Dude, that g-force film is about guinea pigs :(
BigNastyCurve 2 years ago
No no no no no!! Not that G-Force! I heard from one of my mates they were making a new series! I take it it isn't true...
VVxFan 2 years ago
have u seen the gotchaman 2000 is kick ass
bigeddy74 2 years ago
I was 9 when I watched this show.
TheNewEmphinix 2 years ago
Duuude, so many memories... But I used to watch it in Spanish xD
daftfritz 2 years ago
good i think i was 9 when i wached this toons :))
Crushworok 2 years ago
OMG i rember watchin this when i was in middle school back in the late 80s
petew11 2 years ago
Even though some fans didn't like this version but atleast this version stick close to the original series' storyline.
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renarsChozha 2 years ago
Awesome! Loved watching BOTP and G-Force as a kid. Figures the G-force, or I should say G-farce, for today's generation are a bunch of agent hamsters or gerbils! These were the days of real animation.
piramismons 2 years ago
Man how I have missed this.
Pt018 2 years ago
The best!!!...
hanielhf 2 years ago
SuperAdventures, I have been trying to figure out for YEARS why I can't find G-force (not that I've been looking that hard, apparently)...but it turns out that I was looking for Battle of the Planets!!! THANKS!
a8u1t7m 2 years ago
where have you been G-force was and still is one of my favorite cartoons!
4life1971 2 years ago
"G-Force" was a redubbing done by Ted Turner that was released a few years after Battle of the Planets. Sandy Frank's work on the material, while damaging in some respects, was nowhere are dumbed down as this >:( Sorry, longtime BotP fan......
ConcreteTG 2 years ago
Dumbed down? Do you mean this ("G-Force") or "Battle Of The Planets"?
Both adaptations have their ups and downs, and BotP is the one that's most remembered and has more of a fanbase. I just wish that people would stop mistaking "G-Force" for "Battle of the Planets". Same show,different dubs. Wikipedia has LOTS of info on both, I know so because I wrote the damn Wiki article on "G-Force"!!!
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
Thank you indeed for posting this but this episode must have been redubbed with different voices in the mid to late 80s or 90s because the names & voices are completely different.
The voice of Mark-was played by Casey casem and "pewee" was named Kiop,"Hooty" was named Tiney & the guy in blue was "Jason" and the Stegasaur Robot was origionally called the Space Terrapin and that was the origional title of this episode
darthsideous1968 2 years ago
Check Wikipedia to find out more about the differences. There exist 3 different English dubs for "Gatchaman": "Battle Of The Planets" (1978, with Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop & Tiny), "G-Force:Guardians Of Space" (1986, THIS ONE) and a straight English dub of Gatchaman (2005, no changes from the original Japanese)
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
Thanks for clearing my head. I thought I was going nuts, maybe mixing memories from two different shows.
As for the voices, didn't Kiop have some sort of really odd, almost machanical studder?
DrFruikenstein 2 years ago
It happens more often than not, believe me. So many people mistaken "G-Force" for "Battle Of The Planets" that its gotten annoying. Makes sense though: Same show, different English adaptation.
And yes, in Battle, the youngest member of the team (in the Battle version, known as Keyop) was re-imagined as a test-tube subject with a verbal tic. In all other versions, he was just a normal, yet cocky, pre-teen boy. Don't know why they did that.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpt....yup Kiop DID infact have a strange way of communicating with his fellow team mates.
In short the 1980s remake redubbing with newer voices & subsequent renaming of the Battle of the planets series to G-force was a disaster on many levels!
darthsideous1968 2 years ago
I doubt there was anything more disastrous than 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1 making up for the minutes of violence and destruction that were cut out of EVERY Gatchaman ep adapted for Battle Of The Planets. And the segments in which the G-Force members actually appeared alongside Zark or in the "Ready Room" in horrible, crudely drawn American animation (clearly different from the original artwork)? Total blasphemy. Battle was literally all style, no substance.....or violence for that matter.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
Thanks for posting! i used to watch this show when I was a kid!!!
jaxhead 2 years ago
Haven't seen this in ages.... This anime, along with Voltron, Robotech, and Gundam were my faves for some reason.
beyondthegrave2005 2 years ago
i grew up watching this! had the g force lunch box! lmao
navarro31 2 years ago
lmao!!!! omg!!!! i havent seen this cartoon in a very long time
dominic970 2 years ago 2
DAMN the good old times
LaDonaBambi 2 years ago
Hold on tight, Aggie! I'm going down to get pee-wee!
OgnarPliskin 2 years ago
0:15
deadly enemies from space, Zoltar
LOL
Conficker09 2 years ago
zoltar looked gay lol
Regal07 2 years ago
OH YEA! I remember this back in 1994-1995. It was just when I was getting sick of power rangers (especially after the infamous "Wedding Episode"). This thing was the perfect replacement, and I loved it (though some episodes were a little creepy, like the plants that ate women, and the stolen brains).
Though it seemed somewhat repetative, I liked it WAY better than Power Rangers, ironically it was much more mature than MMPR!
DChatc 2 years ago
You know, just watching half-way in, I think I take some of that back.
Dr Brighthead just flippantly brings up this whole "Galactor" thing from out of nowhere, and only now when there is quantifyable damage. One would think there ought be a better introduction to this, with us knowing when, how and why galactor came to Earth and when and how Dr. Whitehead discovered this, and how he got G-Force started in the first-place... Now I want to see the original Japanese version to see if it better.
DChatc 2 years ago
That's more or less how the original Japanese version went about introducing the antagonist and the protagonists as well. "G-Force: Guardians Of Space", give or take a couple of things (Americanized names and terms, repetitive synth music, added dialogue) is a close translation of the original "Gatchaman", while the opposite can be said for the earliest English translation known as "Battle of the Planets" (1978). Look up "Gatchaman Episode 1", u should be able to find it easily here.
SuperAdventures 2 years ago
About that Gatchaman/G-Force led to the creation of Sentais especially Power Rangers.
TwilightLink77 2 years ago
Music at 5:35 is the shit :)
mjoe1111211 2 years ago
the music at 5:35 is the original opening theme music from the japanese version "Gatchaman."
Hayabusa449 2 years ago
Why did Galactor always want uranium?
cmh047 2 years ago
he used it as lipstick?
mrshorin 2 years ago
this was the cartoon that enabled my futer
NeneLindo13 2 years ago
Oh my god, this was one of the best carttons of the time. I still remember the episode where they had some robot that re-grew jets when they were shot off, and the one where theyre in a ruined city and the girl picks up a baby's body which disintegrates in her hands. Pretty raw stuff for a cartoon.
ChewySatisfaction 2 years ago