Battle of the Planets: the Movie -part 1/7-

[xcaliber69]

I am now 42 years old, and remember watching this like it was yesterday.

[wayne5009]

i used to love this when i was a kid . brings back memories

[strumpeteer]

What a shame. It's just not the same without Alan Young for 7-zark-7.

[zatoichiyojimbo24]

man i first saw this in reruns in the 90s. This anime was the shit

[SpardaAlucard1]

Gatchaman is better than this, ima 90's kid and I'm grateful my dad showed me the original

[2199]

notice how at one point he is not wearing gloves while reading the book but has one on while talking to Zark.

[tudgefunnel]

Is it true Michael Anthony (Van Halen) played bass on a few episodes?

[Artfryne]

kasey kasem was all over the 70's toons

[brianmh34]

This was a cool show, it beats the crap out of some of those Hannah Barbera cartoons that ruled the saturday morning line ups....

[psyckid008]

This was a fun show before He-Man came along and ruined cartoons in the 80s until Batman came along and fixed everything.

[Padata3000]

that opening music can't be from '78, when was this really made??

okay now Ive read the 'see more' bit...sorry

[dngillikin]

@Padata3000 Around the turn of the millennium, Sandy Frank had plans to re-exploit the BotP franchise, with the idea of putting the violence that was cut in the '70's back in. To test out the idea, Sandy Frank's people also redid "Rescue of the Astronauts" and "invasion of Space Center", and cut together this "movie version".

There were also plans to recast the voices and adapt the unadapted episodes as "Battle of the Planets: The New Adventures of G-Force. Nothing came of the project.

[azzapair]

Worst voiceovers ever! Love the originals! Travesty.

[Astraldragon1]

I like Alan Young vocing 7-Zark-7, better then this David guy. plus the intro music is terrible..they should have stayed with the original music.. gezz how can they screw up a great Cartoon.

[ThreeCatsScratching]

The robot in the beginning has a very Mogera look to it

[jtjohn03]

Does anybody know if the robot dog had a name?

[X0oMALKAVo0X]

@jtjohn03: I'm almost ashamed I know this from memory: 1-Rover-1 ^^

[seuin6]

@X0oMALKAVo0X 7 Zark 7

[gavindj03]

@jtjohn03

the dog was 1-rover1. sad that i actually know that lol!

[smidsyonfire]

I thought these graphics were fantastic back in 1978... I still think they're fantastic now. really well made for its time. Much better than most of the stuff today. The 7-Zark-7 aftermarket addition thing never blended in too well from a quality point of view.

[vdeferens]

I'll be a motherboard!

[UnanimousDelivers]

35 years later I find out that everything I liked about BOTP as a kid was (a) added after the fact and (b) totally ruins the show. I now know that in the original version, Gatchaman, people die by the hundreds, the lead team member has real emotions, the kid is a regular human and not some inarticulate cyborg, rather than have 1/2 of it described to you by an effeminate robot you actually SEE the entire episode, but most of all, there are ACTUAL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS!

[dj4monie]

@UnanimousDelivers Welcome to Censorship in America, especially with Children's Television in the 1970's. They made Warner Bros take all the explosions and violent endings out of Roadrunner cartoons, they put the Robot in place of the Human Torch with NBC's Fantastic Four, they made them dumb down Starblazers which was in Syndication like BOTP. I could go on, but you get the point,

[dj4monie]

@UnanimousDelivers Welcome to Censorship in America, especially with Children's Television in the 1970's. They made Warner Bros take all the explosions and violent endings out of Roadrunner cartoons, they put the Robot in place of the Human Torch with NBC's Fantastic Four, they made them dumb down Starblazers which was in Syndication like BOTP. I could go on, but you get the point. They broke away from it slightly with Robotech (aka Macross, etc) but not really...

[harveydents]

I'M CASEY KASEM and I'M PLAYING MARK THIS WEEK ON THE COUNTDOWN!

[noelie3166]

he might have had a cold that week so they had to use someone else lol

[samueljh3]

What happened to Alan Young's voice for 7 Zark 7?