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  • i was 8 when it came out what a classic

  • Correction: Battle of the Planets came out in 1978.

  • @Renagade70

    Gatchaman came out in 1972.

  • I'm telling you right now... This was a Bad-ass cartoon back in the day. Awesome...

  • 6 people need to go back to school!!

    Best cartoon ever!!

  • "FIVE INCREDIBLE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SUPERPOWERS!!!" complete LIES. They didn't have any damn superpowers! Every time the programme came on I sat enraptured waiting for the superpowers to start and there never were any! Except for that totally effing lame spinning human pyramid thing they did. THAT was their superpower?! Feh. Well, they had super capes, at least. Nice spaceship, though. One of our pals Steven got called Steven Dork Steven.

  • I loved this show. Too bad the original was totally bastardized and ruined by Sandy Frank to fit lame American broadcast standards.

    What was up with American studio execs' obsession with throwing in annoying, unfunny sidekicks like that fucking 7 Zark 7?!

  • @demoskunk They wanted to jump on the Star Wars craze and wanted their own "R2-D2". I was 5 yo in the 70's and enjoyed the show. Today I'm more a fan of the tv theme.

  • @Graffitti74 That's exactly right. I read about the history of the show, and it's pretty fascinating. I was 5 in '79, loved the show then, and also still love the theme song. It's epic.

    Today, I love watching Condor Joe be such a violent, angry loner in the original :) I'm glad I saw this show in whatever version when I was a kid because it has influenced my drawing style and inspired me to be an animator.

  • Correction: 70s cartoon.

  • love the cartoons from the 70's 80's and mid 90's cartoons from now are so full of shit i wonder kids from now are so confused HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:)

  • Keyop and 1 Rover 1 were my main men in this one. Back in the day.

  • @ciasion12 This cartoon was aload of old crap, and tosh and Banaman was billions of times better than this old crap.

  • Holy frig! I thought the name of this sounded familiar.Never saw much of it, but it sure was imbedded into my memory XD Sweet old toons.

  • Is that a flaming stork at the end or what??

  • @usmc7242 flaming phoenix

  • @usmc7242 that the Phoenix man! Get wise...

  • Gatchaman (this thing had so many AKAs) <<< man i used to hate this anime, watched it cos nothing else was on, might watch the movie tho, it actually looks alright, Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X) & DBZ was my thing.

  • This was from the 70''s in Japan LOL and remade in the 80's Americanized LOL and again in 90's

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  • @MasterLupin03 To annoy twats like you apparently, you troll!!!

  • 1:12 PANTY SHOT IN A KIDS CARTOON... LOL

  • @aussieguy6908 alot more in the japanese version, trust me

  • @aussieguy6908 The 70's were awesome.

  • Battle of the Planets, with the campest space-villain in history. Zoltar with his pink lipstick and 70's Glam-rock costume getting ready to rock out at Glasto.

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  • @MasterLupin03 Ready for another shock ? It's not real...

  • @firestormmike07 That may be so - but he scared the shite outta me..!!!!  Oh no, - sorry, that was Gary Glitter, my bad...

  • PEACE TO EVERYONE I MISS MY CHILDHOOD I LOVED THIS...............

  • Looking back it is very obvious that Sandy Frank was trying to cash in on the whole Star Wars phenomenon....his invention of 7-Zark-7, adventures taking place in outer space (when everything actually happened on earth), the added disco tracks & the voice of Casey Kasem. If you're a fan of Battle of The Planets then I highly recommend watching "Gatchaman" as there is so much more to the characters & their overall mission.

  • I am now 23 of 105 episodes into it's 1972 original "Gatchaman" series & I have to admit, Sandy Frank really butchered the hell out of it with 1978's "Battle Of The Planets." I was 11 at the time & I too was a fan but after watching "Gatchaman" I now feel as though a part of my childhood was PLAYED.

  • @MrNckissfan lol love your statement! the original is brilliant!

  • oh the memories.....*sigh

  • my grandpa like your showe

  • lol i remember this show i use to watch it as a kid

  • Keyop was a retard. The prime sentinel was cool though. Was this sponsored by nVidia? ;o)

  • @3Deity I've long wondered if they got their name from Star Blazers - Princess Invidia, of the Comet Empire (Season 2). In SB, Prince Zordar's daughter, in Yamato, his lover (not sure of her Yamato name though)

  • @3Deity Keyop had tourettes before swearing was invented.

  • Always loved this music!

  • Ha, it was actually 70s! Galaxies beyond space indeed, lol. People really didn't know what a galaxy was in those days did they!

  • 7 Zark 7, gotta love that as in hitch hikers guide Zark is a swear word implied to mean fuck.

    so they're watched over by 7 fuck 7. A robot who hates himself

  • This and Superfriends were my favorite cartoons when I was a kid.

  • this was my s$!*

  • Epic horn section.

  • @Gulftastic Best part of the theme is at :57 to 1:10. So flippin sweet with the strings and horns. Gets me everytime.

  • Battle of the Planets really did rock!!:)

  • holy crap, I forgot about G force, I remember talking like kip all the time, drove my parent crazy. thanks for posting this and reminding me I'm getting old.

  • "G-Force - fearless young orphans protecting earth's entire galaxy."

    Earth's entire galaxy? What the hell were the writers smoking when they made this?

  • I won a plastic game thing at Hampstead Fair that you strapped to your wrist - used to watch this and then run around the garden talking into it. I was COOL as you like!

  • at :44 "From beyond space." What the hell does that mean ? How can anything in the universe be from beyond space????

  • @MrBeautifulba1 Its not real mate... anyway does anyone really know and who cares I only like the tune lol

  • @defcon5i WHAAAAAT ??!! IT'S NOT REAL ???? Holy Shit !!! Damn!! I can't believe it. I thought it was real. Once again my beliefs are shattered against the wall of reality. First Santa Claus, Then my religion, and now Battle of the Planets.

  • Well, I'm too excited to go to bed now. Great.

  • OMG - TOTALLY - keeyop prrrprrr - sorry - nostalgia kicking in there!

  • This show was the fuckin shiznit! I LOVED that ship.

  • i remember wondering where zoltar got the money to build all those monster robots

  • why is it allways orphans? whats wrong with the rest of us?.....XD

  • if there looking for new idears for films he,s 1 loved this

  • 0:33 Seaman xD

  • fucking brilliant!

  • Used to love this....TRANSMUTE !!!

  • they don't make cartoons like they used to.

  • @MsCreepyChan

    its anime rather than cartoons.

  • "Alien galaxies from beyond space." I'm glad there's no holes in the science area! :)

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  • Ahhh, the first anime I remember from the late 70's. I always hated that little robot that looks like R2D2. Come to find out, he was added to the American version to cover up the violent scenes........the good stuff in other words.

    Right after this was Popeye. Good old days of 5 channels. What did we ever do????

  • @Peabodicle Oh, I know what you mean I too used to love watching that show and yip, I remember Popeye coming on after that as well. Man I miss the old cartoons.

  • Respond to this video... Thanks ferm. I've been wanting to see the G-Force gang again for QUITE SOME TIME and you made it happen. Really takes me back to those good old feelings on Saturday morning with a bowl of cereal in hand. THANKS ALOT. YOU ROCK! Now can you find any GRANDIZER episodes, please?

  • Rrrrrrrrrtootoo, Rrrrrrrrrtootoo, Keyop.

  • @mcskillby pmsl!

  • @mcskillby LOL I always thought it was spelled "agggggggt oot oot" .. or maybe that was Twiki. .. or the cat from Mr Rogers, idk, I get those 3 mixed up all the time.

  • @jordinyc - I don't know about the cat, but Twiki said; "Biddy biddy biddy, hiya Buck." or something like that, or was that the thing that he had hanging from his neck, Dr........???? something or other.

  • Definitely in my top 5 of all time great cartoons.

  • Protecting Earth's entire galaxy!

    Wo, that's a big job for 5 orphans.

  • @H110orWin296 which sadly they didn't succeed at. seeing as galactus destroys earth. next time we shouldn't outsource to orphans.

  • @Fektthis

    what?when was this? anyway I swear Jason was a trip was a cocky smart mouthed bad man. Also i remember when princess was trying to come onto Mark and Mark was like girl I don't like you like that I was like damnnnn

  • is theres attacks from alien galaxies from beyond space, where are these galaxies locatedzomg???

  • oh the memories just come flooding back!!! AWSOME!!!

  • Loooooooooved this as a kid.

  • One of my all time favorites

  • I always remember playing this as a kid. My two best friends always bagsied Mark and Jason first..so i always ended up being either the fat one, or a girl...

  • @HMonsterxx

    As the only girl who liked to play G force in like the 5th/6th grade, I was always Agatha June, but I was the real leader because whenever I kissed my neighbor (who always got to play Ace Goodheart), he would start rubbing dirt on his face and lose interest.

  • Fkn loved this as a kid.

  • "...protecting Earth's galaxy...!"

  • My fave cartoon as a kid

  • "Alien galaxies from beyond space.." ???? WTF?

  • @kickballjedi LOL! that real made me laugh also. It's so funn to hear stuff from 20 to 30 years ago because they knew nothing like we know now. Beyond Space?!?! Really?!?! LOL!

  • Awesome intro-Star blazers got me here-Thanks 4 posting-I watched this as a kid but could never remember what this was called. Like starblazers desslok I always thought the bad guy in this was cool.

  • @rainbirdeleven

    1972 - Gatchaman

    1974 - Space Battleship Yamato

    1978 - Battle of the Planets (censored and dubbed Gatchaman)

    1979 - Star Blazers (censored and dubbed Space Battleship Yamato)

  • @RX78 A Actually star blazers wasn't that bad a dub, commpared to the lousy dub Gatachaman got. They did kind of de-japan-ify it a bit, but I cant really blame them, America in the 1970s wasnt ready yet for the idea idea of a WW-II era japanese warship being heroic. Other than that, Star blazers did get a pretty good dub it wasnt TOO butchered.

  • Now it just looks like big cocks spurting off[the spaceships]and weird helmets.or is that just me?but i saw knickers

  • Goosebumps!

  • God, I forgot how corny the English narrator for this was. Gotta love the days we violently Hulk-smashed different animes together into a confusing mass of... something.

    I had a lot of episodes of on tape, watched them to death. But the only episode I really remember is the one with a titanic bat-like battleship that could create hurricane winds with and fire massive wide-beam lasers from the front edges of its wings.

  • fu king awesome!

  • Best intro ever

  • classic cartoon series.

  • >Sandy Frank

    oh lord no!!!!!

  • G-Force. Truly epic.

    @nestorpitbulljackson - spot on, the best cartoon theme intro ever.

    Oh to be transmuted back to the eighties!

    On second thought - threat of imminent destruction, crap clothes, crap food, dubious music. I'll stay here where I can occasionally wear my rose-tinted specs.

    Then again - nothin's changed! Gimme my childhood back...

  • "4 incredible people with sew-per powers"

  • thumbs up if you are here because of Futurama.

  • @kurva2 Guilty...lol

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  • i always thought when i read "Sandy Frank" that this weird jewish girl i knew when i was young would grow up to be this big importer of anime... @__@

  • I rank this up there with the "Superman" theme! Awesome! Thanks for posting!

  • Coolest opening theme of any cartoon!!

  • This will always be G Force to me

  • i had such a boner for Princess when i was 9...circa 1980

  • Now we have iCarly...yaaaay! :( :( :(

  • Battle of the Planets and Speed Racer were my introductions to anime, thought I've never seen the Japanese version of either.

  • Fuck 7 Zark 7. I used to watch this all the time as a kid !

  • First Anime in North America :O

  • @SonicTheHedgehogZone ewww hahaha

  • @SonicTheHedgehogZone And Australia.

    Along with Starblazer's.

  • @SonicTheHedgehogZone And the UK. Went out on BBC1 IIRC.

  • "From alien galaxies beyond space!"

  • 5 people are in league with Zoltan...

  • @UniverseAndI

    zoltar

  • @TEHTYMEKITTEH1

    You are, of course, correct. Somehow in my mind I must have combined Zoltar with his "Eagle Riders" version, "Lukan". Still, I suspect the Luminous One's involvement.

  • @TEHTYMEKITTEH1

    I still cant find the episode where he unmasked himself.

  • WHAT A TUNE!!!

    

  • I first saw this way back in 1979, when Tulsa, OK was one of the first cities in the ENTIRE USA to get cable television with many extra channels. It was because of the oil boom in that time frame!

  • Sandy Frank rocks!

  • Best theme of any show ever! After school, Saturday mornings, home sick from school...just awesome!

  • Wow, I never noticed her panties til now....

    And i have watched this hundreds of times

  • cant wait for thismovie..it'll be fucking awsome''

  • pretty chauvinistic to say this is 'earth's entire galaxy.'

    

  • Classic 80's my ass. I used to watch re-runs in the late 70's. I had to get up at 6AM to watch it. I remember watching it till 6:30 and playing Atari til 7. Then I had to get ready for school.

  • Hmm, it seems miniskirts aren't too practical in zero-gravity

  • So glad i was a teenager through the 80's loved it.

  • Stroke of genius...this cartoon was overwhelmingly cool in its day and time, particularly if you were of a young age. The Phoenix is the coolest plane....ever.

  • i always thought the narrator sounded like he was introducing a late night talk show

  • 80's Cartoon? I remember this back in 78 (ok, round it off, it's the 80's)

  • @Jazzy9964

    1972 - Gatchaman

    1978 - Battle of the Planets (edited version of Gatchaman)

  • @tomtom7071 WTF?????!!!

  • yes

  • I love this series.Did you know that they had an another version of Gatchaman?Besides (Battle of the Planets,G- Force).It was called Eagle Riders and it came out in the 90's.Their names were Hunter Harris,Joe Thax, Kelly Jennar, Mickey Dugan, and Ollie Keeawani. There also was a Gatchaman Ova that came out in the 90's also.Their names were (Ken,Joe,June,Jimmy,and Rocky).

  • 1:10 is better ;)

  • @700gsteak 1:11 is PERFECT :)

    wow, what a trip back in time this is. next to Astroboy, and Inspector Gadget, (then Transformers a bit later, which completely took over!) this would've been my all-time favourite cartoon as a kid! even seeing their ship was a spin-out...I lost count of how many times I drew that!

    stellar stuff!

  • @superflea72 I swear Youtube changes the timing to mess with us. Now 1:11 is right and 1:10 makes me look like I'm a.. a.. How dare you frame me youtube!!!LOL.

    Astroboy, inspector Gadget and Transformers huh? Then you must also know Peter Russell Clark, Boris Breakfast Club (not near enough videos of him on YT), Agro the fly eater and upside down, upside down!!! The showsthat I used to think dragged on and on and stopped me from watching my fav cartoons but now I remember with fond memories. :)

  • @700gsteak lol, Peter Russel Clarke - where's the cheese? ;)

    have you seen the vids on YouTube of his outtakes to that show where he's swearing and stuff? what a cracker, he was an Oz legend - a real character. and yes, I'm from that era hehe. if you like old cartoons and are up for a really cool blast from the past - check out Roger Glover's Butterfly Ball...

  • I can only remember the guy with the fucked up voice

  • OMFG!!! Winning!!!

  • after watching gatchaman on YouTube...I can't stand watching battle of the planets...yes it was cool back in the day...but damn they took out alot of shit...and with was up with the robot...I know they added him in as filler for the good stuff they took out but come on...really...did they really need a robot as filler:(

  • @danramirez420 Gatchaman can be seen on YouTUBE?! :D

  • Man this is takin' me WAY back. I wasn't even in kindergarten yet. U never forget the best things in life. 8)

  • Tiny the pilot, he was cool

  • 7zark7 ftw!

  • Anytime I feel like I need to kick some ass I watch this!

  • so ....................... star warrrs

  • 70s cartoon, carried into the 80s in re-runs

  • @jimjr155 Yes, I remember this. It started around 1978 or possibly '79 and carried into syndication(rereuns) from 1980. I was like in 8th grade when it first came out. I liked it a lot. I still love the music introduction to this show. What a great era that was! This is a nice video! Thanks for uploading and sharing it here! Fantastic memories for me!

  • @kenpalmer1965 heh, i actually didn't upload it, but yeah, the sentiments go to fermanagh76

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  • one of my favorite carttons ! started thinking about finding this when the hampster movie came out named G-Force...lol, thank you internet 8^)

  • I parked my butt in front of the TV and watched this after school every day circa 1980. Always liked the intro.

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  • I always thought mark was cute but with the uniform on only. 

  • where exactly are the from if they are from beyond space ?

  • ATTACKS FROM ALIEN GALAXIES FROM BEYOND SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @aachelabelaaron Hey. Those are the worst kind.

  • @1acroyear1 ain't THAT the truth! o.O

  • sweet ringtone if you could get that dude to STFU.

  • @theksoni1

    Just get it off the end of the show. It's the same music, without the talking.

    /watch?v=IGuNjzwSPyg

  • @theksoni1

    These are good too:

    /watch?v=hChD6yZv4H8

    /watch?v=7PxyL1U5MR4

  • how many memories does this bring back????

  • @koffeebrwn way to many good ones..

  • alien galaxies from beyond space? lol? /win.

  • Now this is he one that I remember growing up too.

  • I watched this every morning when I was 7. This song really energized me! When the fiery phoenix came to life I was like, "awww yeah"! Not until a few years ago did I realize this was my first japanime!

  • I used to love this show! This and Starblazers were my 2 favorite shows I had to see before I went out to play after school back in the 80's!!!

  • After seeing the original Gatchaman series on here, this show has lost its appeal for me.

  • The 4 dislikes? Shotgun suicide now please...

  • 4 people here had a bad childhood.

  • Thumbs up if you thought princess was a babe when you were going through puberty. Click and hold on 1:11 There's a bit of manga porn going on there for sure. lol

  • man this brings back memories , I remember watching this show when I was kid

  • One of the most exciting musical intros in TV history.

  • I remember this used to come on UK TV early in the morning.

  • G-Force the series Battle of the Planets man this was the cartoon of all cartoons. The intro was and still is so awsome and Mark, Jason, Princess, Kyop, and Tiny the unforgettable G-Force team. Can't forget 7 Zark 7 and his robot dog 1 Rover 1 and Susan 7 Zark 7's computer voice assistant. There's also Dr Anderson the director of Centre Neptune and no one can forget Zoltar and the computerized Lumanus Leader and Zoltar's incompatent generals. G-Force dedicated, inseperable and invincable.

  • Man . . . flashback.