Cartoon Resource entry #054B - G-Force (1986)

G-FORCE

ORIGINAL JAPAN AIRDATES: Oct 1, 1972-Sep 29, 1974 as ‘Science Ninja Team Gatchaman’ on Fuji TV
ORIGINAL US AIRDATES: Sep 1986 (test run) on TBS Superstation; Jan 2, 1995-1997 on Cartoon Network
RERUNS: Jan 9-Mar 5, 2000 on Cartoon Network, 2004 on Anime Network
EPISODES: 85
ANIMATION BY: Tatsunoko Productions, Ltd.
ENGLISH DUB PRODUCED BY: Turner Entertainment
ORIGINAL DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS: Turner Entertainment (1986-2007)
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS: Tatsunoko Productions, Ltc. and Sentai Filmworks


SUMMARY:
Ace Goodheart, Dirk Daring, Agatha Jun, PeeWee and Hoot Owl "Hootie" are members of the G-Force team, a group of teenagers that fight off alien invaders led by Galactor and Computor.  G-Force is advised by Dr. Brighthead.  G-Force was the second English dub of Gatchaman.  Turner Entertainment purchase the rights to Gatchaman and re-dubbed the series in English as G-Force.  This dubbed version is closer to the original series, keeping in mostly all of the fighting scenes, violence and death, so no need for 7-Zark-7.  Instead of skipping many episodes like Battle of the Planets, the first 87 episodes were dubbed, except two.  The last eighteen episodes were not dubbed due to finanical reasons.  The only complaint about G-Force is the music, which is the same monotone techno drum beat used throughout all the episodes. G-Force originally aired for a week in 1986 on TBS Superstation.  In 1995, Cartoon Network ran the entire series for the first time.

EPISODE GUIDE
The (G000) number is the original Gatchaman episode number.  Many episodes were skipped in this English dub of the series.
#01 G001 The Robot Stegosaur
#02 G002 The Blast at the Bottom of the Sea
#03 G003 The Strange White Shadow
#04 G004 The Giant Centipoid
#05 G005 The Phantom Fleet
#06 G006 The Micro-Robots
#07 G007 The Bad Blue Baron
#08 G008 The Secret of the Reef
#09 G009 The Sting of the Scorpion
#10 G010 The Antoid Army
#11 G011 The Mighty Blue Hawk
#12 G012 The Locustoid
#13 G013 The Deadly Red Sand
#14 G014 The Rainbow Ray
#15 G015 The Giant Jellyfish Lens
#16 G016 The Regenerating Robot
#17 G017 The Beetle Booster
#18 G018 The Whale Submarine (Pilot)
#19 G019 The Racing Inferno
#20 G020 The Mightiest Mole
#21 G021 Race of the Cyborgs
#22 G022 The Fiery Dragon
#23 G023 The Mammoth Iron Ball
#24 G024 The Neon Giant
#25 G025 The Rock Robot
#26 G026 The Secret Sting Ray
#27 G027 The Anirobot
#28 G028 The Invisible Enemy
#29 G029 The Project Called ROCK-E-X
#30 G030 The Attack of the Mantis
#31 G031 The Sinister STAR-ONE
#32 G032 The Giant Squid
#33 G033 In The Tentacles' Grip
#34 G034 Operation Aurora
#35 G035 The Sun-Bird
#36 G036 The Deadly Sea
#37 G037 The Particle Beam
#38 G038 The Dinosaur Man
#39 G039 The Monster Plants
#40 G040 The Fatal Flowers
#41 G041 Killer Music
#42 G042 Swan Song Prison
#43 G043 Human Robots
#44 G044 The Shock Waves
#45 G045 The Case of Kalanite
#46 G046 The Deadly Valley
#47 G047 The Super-Z-20
#48 G048 The Camera Weapon
#49 G049 The Mechanical Fang
#50 G050 The Skeleton Curse
#51 G051 Wheel of Destruction
#52 G052 The Secret Red Impulse
#53 G053 The Van Allen Vector
#54 G054 The Vengeance
#55 G055 The Micro-Submarine
#56 G056 The Bird Missile
#57 G057 Battle at the North Pole
#58 G058 The Super Laser
#59 G059 Mystery of the Haunted Island
#60 G060 G-Force Agent 6
#61 G061 Dream of Danger
#62 G062 The Snow Devil
#63 G063 The Strange Strike-Out
#64 G064 A Deadly Gift
#65 G065 The Iron Beast
#66 G066 When Fashion was Fatal
#67 G067 The Proto Monster
#68 G068 Radioactive Island
#69 G069 The Devil's Graveyard
#70 G070 Mummy Mania
#71 G071 The Abominable Snowman Cometh
#72 G072 Plague of Robots
#73 G073 The Mammothodon
#74 G074 The Secret of the Power
#75 G075 The Crab Robot
#76 G076 The Reverser Ray
#77 G077 Shock Waves
#78 G078 Battle on the Ocean Bottom
#79 G079 Stolen Identity
#80 G080 The Mind Control Machine
#81 G082 Force of Mega-Robots
#82 G083 The Flame Zone
#83 G084 Web of Danger
#84 G085 The Secret of G-4
#85 G087 Galactor's Deadly Trap

SKIPPED GATCHAMAN EPISODES IN G-FORCE
G081 Duel On Galactor Island
G086 Galactor's Monopoly Operation
G088 Iron Beast Snake 828 
G089 Lay a Trap In the Crescent Base! 
G090 Matangar, the Armored Iron Beast 
G091 Completion of the Plan To Destroy the Crescent Base 
G092 The End of the Crescent Base 
G093 Counterattack! The Underground Torpedo Operation
G094 Angler, the Electric Devil Beast 
G095 The Combined Ninjas, Giant Demon Man 
G096 Storm Galactor's Headquarters! 
G097 Leona 3, the Spaceship With No Tomorrow 
G098 Grape Bomber, the Spherical Iron Beast 
G099 The Wounded G-2 
G100 Gatchaman, 20 Years Later 
G101 The Sniper Group Heavy Cobra 
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
Gregg Berger (1950) as Computor, Hootie and Dr. Brighthead (most episodes)
Cam Clarke (1957) (credited as Jimmy Flanders) as Dirk Daring and Red Impulse (except episodes #39-40)
Bill Capizzi (1937-2007) as Galactor
Sam Fontana as Ace Goodheart

Barbara Goodson (1949) as Agatha Jun and PeeWee
Norm Prescott (1927-2005) as the Opening Theme Narrator
Jan Rabson (1954) as Computor, Hootie and Dr. Brighthead (some episodes)

No comments:

Post a Comment