Cartoon Resource entry #054A - Battle of the Planets (1978)

BATTLE OF THE PLANETS 

ORIGINAL JAPAN AIRDATES: Oct 1, 1972-Sep 29, 1974 as ‘Science Ninja Team Gatchaman’ on Fuji TV
ORIGINAL US AIRDATES: Sep 1, 1978-May 12, 1980 in syndication
RERUNS: 1980-1982 in syndication, Apr 25-Sep 26, 2004 on Boomerang
EPISODES: 85
ANIMATION BY: Tatsunoko Productions, Ltd.
ENGLISH DUB PRODUCED BY: Sandy Frank Entertainment
ORIGINAL DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS: Sandy Frank Entertainment (1978-2007)
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS: Tatsunoko Productions, Ltc. and Sentai Filmworks



SUMMARY:
Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop and Tiny are members of the G-Force team, a group of teenagers that fight off alien invaders led by Zoltar and the Great Spirit from the evil Planet Spectra.  G-Force is advised by Chief Andersen.  Battle of the Planets was the first English dub of Gatchaman.  Because of children's television standards at the time, mostly all of the fighting scenes, violence and death were cut.  Many other scenes were also cut and replaced with US animated scenes of 7-Zark-7, a robot who narrates each episode and communicates with G-Force.  Also, since Star Wars was out at the time, Battle of the Planets played heavily on the space and aliens aspect.  Many adventures took G-Force to other planets when in Gatchaman they fought all their battles on Earth.  Plus Keyop could only speak a few words.  Battle of the Planets also skipped many episodes, including the last four due to the violence and death in them.  Battle of the Planets aired in syndication from 1978 until 1982 and introduced many to the world of anime.

EPISODE GUIDE
The (G000) number is the original Gatchaman episode number.  Many episodes were skipped in this English dub of the series.
#01 G001 Attack of the Space Terrapin
#02 G002 Rescue of the Astronauts
#03 G003 The Space Mummy
#04 G004 The Space Serpent
#05 G005 Ghost Ship of Planet Mir
#06 G006 Big Robot Gold Grab
#07 G007 Ace From Outer Space
#08 G008 Fearful Sea Anemone
#09 G009 Jupiter Moon Menace
#10 G010 A Swarm of Robot Ants
#11 G011 Space Rocket Escort
#12 G012 Beast With A Sweet Tooth
#13 G014 Perilous Pleasure Cruise
#14 G015 The Thing With 1,000 Eyes
#15 G016 Microfilm Mystery
#16 G017 The Alien Beetles
#17 G018 A Whale Joins G-Force
#18 G021 Mad New Ruler of Spectra
#19 G022 The Sea Dragon
#20 G023 Magnetic Attraction
#21 G024 The Musical Mummy
#22 G025 The Fiery Lava Giant
#23 G026 The Bat-Ray Bombers
#24 G027 Race Against Disaster
#25 G030 The Ghostly Grasshopper
#26 G031 The Galaxy Girls
#27 G032 Curse of the Cuttlefish Part I
#28 G033 Curse of the Cuttlefish Part II
#29 G035 Demons of the Desert
#30 G036 Siege of the Squids
#31 G037 Orion, Wonderdog of Space
#32 G039 The Fierce Flowers Part I
#33 G040 The Fierce Flowers Part II
#34 G041 The Space Rock Concert
#35 G042 Prisoners In Space
#36 G043 Victims of the Hawk
#37 G044 Raid On Riga
#38 G045 Seals of Sytron
#39 G046 Giant Gila Monster
#40 G047 The Capture of the Galaxy Code
#41 G048 Raid On A Nearby Planet
#42 G049 Keyop Does It All
#43 G051 Peaks of Planet Odin
#44 G052 The Sky Is Falling Part I
#45 G053 The Sky Is Falling Part II
#46 G054 Raid of the Red Scorpion
#47 G055 Mammoth Shark Menace
#48 G057 Fastest Gun In the Galaxy
#49 G058 Giant From Planet Zyr
#50 G059 Secret Island
#51 G060 Giant Space Bat
#52 G061 Attack of the Alien Wasp
#53 G062 Decoys of Doom
#54 G063 Zoltar Strikes Out
#55 G065 The Great Brain Robbery
#56 G067 Raid of the Space Octopus
#57 G068 Silent City
#58 G069 Peril In the Pyramids
#59 G070 Rage of the Robotoids
#60 G071 The Alien Bigfoot
#61 G072 Invasion of the Locusts
#62 G073 Space Safari
#63 G074 Museum of Mystery
#64 G075 Peril of the Preying Mantis
#65 G076 The Awesome Ray Force
#66 G077 The Duplicate King
#67 G079 Defector To Spectra
#68 G080 Panic of the Peacock
#69 G083 Mission to Inner Space
#70 G084 Spectra Space Spider
#71 G086 Super Space Spies
#72 G087 Cupid Does It To Keyop
#73 G088 Tentacles From Space
#74 G089 Island of Fear
#75 G090 The Awesome Armadillo
#76 G091 Invasion of Space Center Part I
#77 G092 Invasion of Space Center Part II
#78 G093 Save the Space Colony
#79 G095 Charioteers of Changu
#80 G096 Vacation On Venus
#81 G097 Rockets Out of Control
#82 G098 G-Force Defector
#83 G099 Strike At Spectra
#84 G100 G-Force In the Future
#85 G101 Conway Tape Tap

SKIPPED GATCHAMAN EPISODES IN BATTLE OF THE PLANETS
G013 The Mysterious Red Sand 
G019 Speed Race From Hell 
G020 A Critical Moment For the Science Ninja Team 
G028 The Invisible Devil 
G029 Gallack X, the Demon Man 
G034 The Evil Aurora Operation 
G038 The Mysterious Mechanized Jungle 
G050 Trachadon, the Dinosaur Skeleton 
G056 The Bird Missile of Bitterness 
G064 A Christmas Present of Death 
G066 The Devil’s Fashion Show 
G078 Mortal Combat! 5,000 Fathoms Under the Sea 
G081 Duel On Galactor Island 
G082 Aim At the Crescent Coral Reef!
G085 That’s G-4 
G094 Angler, the Electric Devil Beast
G102 A Reversal! Checkmate X!
G103 G-2's Risks Death 
G104 The Evil Grand Black Hole Operation
G105 Earth's Destruction! 0002

ENGLISH DUB VOICE ACTORS
Alan Dinehart (1918-1992) as Chief Anderson and Tiny
Casey Kasem (1932-2014) as Mark
Keye Luke (1904-1991) as Colonel Cronos, the Great Spirit and Zoltar
Ronnie Schell (1931) as Jason
Janet Waldo (1919-2016) as Princess and Susan
William Woodson (1917-2017) as the Announcer
Alan Young (1919-2016) as Keyop and 7-Zark-7