Star Blazers - Quest for Iscandar 01 (1/3)

Course when I meant cartoons in syndication, I'm referring to the half-hour formatted types made specially for it, as prior to that, you only had namely a mixture of theatrical shorts, repeats of prime-time/Saturday morning standbys like The Flintstones, or those cartoons produced for syndication that were usually 5-7 minute shorts that would be shown either together or as part of a locally-produced kids' show that once was a cornerstone of American TV that faded by the end of the past century.

Seemed like by the middle of the 80's, we started seeing that boom in companies doing half-hour animated programming for syndication that hadn't quite existed the same way before, and what has changed the shape of weekday programming for the next couple decades (though it fizzled out by the end of the 90's thanks to a other outlets like cable.

And yeah, it is quite a coincidence if that was where they got the name for that music publisher.

Griffin-Bacal was Hasbro's ad agency. Their next TV project was "The Great Space Coaster" as Sunbow Productions. Their dealings Hasbro go as far back as Romper Room, which got them in trouble with Action for Children's Television for "host selling" Hasbro toys. Some of the credits for G.I. Joe and Jem music have copyright Wildstar Music in them, hmm...

I suppose Star Blazers was Griffin Bacal's early shot at the syndicated tv market, which they eventually profited on for Hasbro Toy series.

I often wonder if the involvement on doing this inspired them to form Sunbow Productions in the end?

my uncle and i would watch every episode together after school.
i love this show.

This show ruled...trying to save earth from Gamilon (what about the Comet Empire) and finding Trelena! Fire the wave motion gun Wildstar!!!! LOL...

Amen to that! I'm glad to hear that there are others who feel childrens television today lacks quality. My son is already a fan of He-man, Gummi bears, and Voltron. I hope he grows up appreciating animation as an art form, not just cheep entertainment.

I used to get up at 5am on a school day just to watch this! Kids today have NO IDEA how much this stuff meant to us growing up. With their cutsey little girly shows or that god-awful CGI crap they keep spitting out. True, some of it is okay, but it just lacks feeling and depth to me. I encourage my own daughter to watch the old-school cartoons as much as possible. Thank god for Boomerang, old VHS tapes, and YouToube for keeping these great cartoons alive for another generation!

Yup, I would RUN home every day from school in order to catch this show. Why didn't the local television station play it half an hour later? lol. I don't think they ever knew just how loyal a following this show had!

It is so great to know that I was not the only one who was busting ass to make sure I got to the TV in time to see this! This was the best cartoon I watched, and 20 plus years later, I still love this. And you are right - you COULD not miss one episode....

Star Blazers was dubbed by Griffin-Bacal Advertising out of NY

For all of their CGI graphics, its faceless, nameless, without feeling or soul. THAT'S the difference. You see, Star Blazers moved you. Fat Albert moved you. Tarzan (the Filmation version) and the Super 7 moved you. Even dubbed shows like Battle of the Planets look like Emmy Award material compared to today's stuff.

You think any kids today are running home from school to catch Spongebob or Ben-10? Or going to bed early on Friday because they can't afford to miss Digimon on Saturday? NOPE.

Amen to that, even now as the beginning of this video plays. the theme song gives me goosebumps because i remember that feeling i got when it came on, you grabbed you hit the house, grabbed whatever afternoon snack you ate and hit it to the front of the TV to watch your favorite shows for 2 hrs or so, did your homework afterwards then if you had time head outside. Hearing that guy with the deep voice at the beginning narrating to bring you up to date and that chick singing really takes me back!

It is total crap. No plot, no storyline, no emotional attachment to the characters; just a moneygrab to entice kids to buy more of their stuff from the mall.

We lived in a simpler time but a much BETTER time. You watched your favorite cartoons, did your homework, then went outside and played with your friends until dinner time. I still wax poetic about Saturday mornings and what a pleasure it was to get a bowl of cereal and watch your favorite shows. Too bad they had to end...

exactly, the crap that is on today that they consider to be "action cartoons" are absolute trash. And even some of the old standards like Transformers they managed to ruin by making it too kid friendly! i would damn near kill myself getting home to watch Starblazers as a kid. You damn near felt that the world really was gonna blow up or something if they didn't make it. i am 38 and still wish it came on TV now, because i would watch it just like the kid i was growing up in brooklyn NY!

You're not kidding. One of the most underrated cartoons of its time. Back in the day when America's standards and practices pushed safe and hugable cartoon characters who taught kids not to hit, this was one of the very few shows where folks didn't come back fresh as new when their plane was shot down.

The folks who made this are probably embarrassed as hell at the Digimon/Chaotic crap that's put on today.

You know, episode 11 of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has a nice tribute to Star Blazers. Both Captain Avatar and Leader Desslok make an appearance.

I still remember this show from when I was a kid. I loved it. In fact this show was what motivated me to learn how to program the VCR at age 8.

one of the greatest cartoons ever made...you could never missed a day or you were screwed!

I think it was actually dubbed by a company in NYC.

I used to watch this toon on the westside(NYC) at a place called Project Firststep a place for homless and runaway teens to go eat shower wash clothes and they had a tv many days i got into FIGHTS to keep JERK from changing the channle

oh well i love original japanese version more.

very true lol. but no tv back then either ;) Actually one of the reasons the bolar wars wasnt aired over here was because there wa a strong push to get the show off the air because it was still too violent, besides the fact bolar wars sucked anyways ;0

aww come on kids in medievil age saw lot worse stuff like this.

I agree, BEST EVER!