The BEST episodes of Battle of the Planets

Every episode of Battle of the Planets ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Battle of the Planets!

Battle of the Planets follows the adventures of the teenage-hero team G-Force. Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop, and Tiny travel in The Phoenix to battle the evil forces of Zoltar from Planet Spectra. G-Force is guided by Chief Anderson and 7-Zark-7, but also receives help from Colonel Cronos, President Kane, Susan, and even 1-Rover-1. They are based in Center Neptune, which is far beneath the sea off the west coast of the United States.

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Peril in the Pyramids
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#1 - Peril in the Pyramids

Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 11/5/1979

An Egyptian temple disappears from Earth. 7-Zark-7 finds the temple has reappeared on Alpha 3 and sends G-Force there undercover to investigate. While there, a woman mistakes Keyop as her missing son, Ali.

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Decoys of Doom
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#2 - Decoys of Doom

Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 9/24/1979

Humanoid decoys of the G-Force team are created to be used as bait in a trap for Spectra. The "real" Mark swaps places with his decoy and is captured by Spectra. Mark must signal the team and lead G-Force to the Spectra base.

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G-Force in the Future
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#3 - G-Force in the Future

Season 1 - Episode 84 - Aired 5/5/1980

Mark takes the eccentric scientist Dr Gorky, to the scout a location in the arctic as a possible site for Future World, a concept city to be powered by geothermal energy.

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G-Force Defector
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#4 - G-Force Defector

Season 1 - Episode 82 - Aired 4/21/1980

When the team is called to assemble, Jason has an accident is unable to join the team, leaving them at a disadvantage as they face Zoltar's attack.

Rockets Out of Control
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#5 - Rockets Out of Control

Season 1 - Episode 81 - Aired 4/14/1980

After watching the launch of a rocket ship, Chief Anderson leaves with Secretary Clayborne. But it turns out that Secretary Clayborne is an impostor.

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Super Space Spies
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#6 - Super Space Spies

Season 1 - Episode 71 - Aired 2/4/1980

G-Force travels to a distant planet called Paradise Island, where Spectra has set up a a base from which it is attacking and pollution the water reservoirs of Earth.

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Spectra Space Spider
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#7 - Spectra Space Spider

Season 1 - Episode 70 - Aired 1/28/1980

Stellar City is suffering a terrible drought, so sends supplies to the city by cargo planes. But the is airlifted supply convoy is attacked by a weapon created by Dr. Streker, who was fired from Center Neptune.

Panic of the Peacock
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#8 - Panic of the Peacock

Season 1 - Episode 68 - Aired 1/14/1980

A giant mechanical peacock constructed by Spectra invades Earth, while Mark is kidnapped and his memory surpressed!

Directors: David E. Hanson
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The Duplicate King
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#9 - The Duplicate King

Season 1 - Episode 66 - Aired 12/31/1979

Spectra targets one of the richest countries on Earth, the small country of Beldania. G-Force is dispacted out to talk and protect the monarch, but right from the start things seem wrong. Sneaking into the palace at night, to avoid detection, they find the palace bobby-trapped and full of dangers. When they finally find the monarch, they find an imposter in his place.

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The Awesome Ray Force
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#10 - The Awesome Ray Force

Season 1 - Episode 65 - Aired 12/24/1979

Galactor develops a ray that causes the members of G-Force to revert to their civilian clothing.

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Peril of the Praying Mantis
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#11 - Peril of the Praying Mantis

Season 1 - Episode 64 - Aired 12/17/1979

Spectra launches it's latest attack, but when the team is called together Tiny cannot be reached so the team has to attempt to fend off the attack without him.

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Museum of Mystery
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#12 - Museum of Mystery

Season 1 - Episode 63 - Aired 12/10/1979

Princess has lost her shoe and cannot transmute. Upset and at a loss on how she can now be a part of the team, or any help at all, she enters a contest to be a spokesperson for a major company, and inadvertantly is captured by Spectra.

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The Space Safari
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#13 - The Space Safari

Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 12/3/1979

G-Force shoots down Zoltar. He escapes his ship and the team chases him through the forests of Planet Lukadia. Zoltar has the entire forest rigged with traps.

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Invasion of the Locusts
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#14 - Invasion of the Locusts

Season 1 - Episode 61 - Aired 11/26/1979

In Spectra's latest attack, they send locusts to devour Earth's food supplies. Professor Chambers contacts G-Force and they send Keyop back with him to South America. They are attacked by the locusts and forced to crash land in the Amazon. G-Force must rescue them and stop the Giant Locust from destroying the Earth.

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Prisoners in Space
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#15 - Prisoners in Space

Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/28/1979

Tiny's van breaks down and he is picked up by a Prison van on its way to Barracuda Island, a maximum securty prison. Spectra's gains control of the prison and Zoltar has promises freedom to the prisoners if they will join Spectra. The G-Force team must rescue Tiny and keep the prisoners from escaping.

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Defector to Spectra
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#16 - Defector to Spectra

Season 1 - Episode 67 - Aired 1/7/1980

Greg, working within the central security agency, seems to be turning traitor for Spectra. Meanwhile, Zark has slipped his fozdic, and cannot perform his duties.

Rage of the Robotoids
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#17 - Rage of the Robotoids

Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 11/12/1979

Jason rescues a girl in a cab who is attacked by strange robotic manniquins. Upset that Mark doesn't trust the girl, Jason goes to talk with her, only to find Mark may be right. As a series of attacks terrorize the city, G-Force split up and head into the city to try and track down the attackers and stop them. Matters are made worse as one by one, the members of G-Force start disappearing...

The Alien Bigfoot
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#18 - The Alien Bigfoot

Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 11/19/1979

Spectra is using Bigfoot to keep people from getting too close to their latest base in Tibet. They are working on the "Inter-Frequency Disruptor", which affects ships guidance systems, causing them to crash. Keyop takes off for Tibet on his own and is captured by Spectra. He must lead G-Force to the Spectra base and escape before it's destroyed by G-Force. Zoltar is unmasked in this episode!

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Zoltar Strikes Out
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#19 - Zoltar Strikes Out

Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 10/1/1979

Spectra creates a huge bomb, hidden somewhere in the city. Chief Anderson's suspicions lead him to send G-Force undercover to the baseball stadium.

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Silent City
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#20 - Silent City

Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 10/22/1979

This episode takes place on planet Exor. One of their island cities is surrounded by an impenetrable wall of radiation created by a Spectra bombing attack. Chief Anderson believes the city is a Spectra base and sends G-Force to check it out. The team goes into the city, but they are only able to withstand the radiation for one hour. They are attacked by a Spectra Mecha once they are inside the city. Can G-Force escape the Mecha and solve Spectra's latest plot before their time runs out?

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Giant Space Bat
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#21 - Giant Space Bat

Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 9/10/1979

Spectra shoots down a pilot who observes the testing of their latest weapon, a Bat mech with a Force Ray. Mark finds the pilot, but the he is unable to tell what he saw.

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Siege of the Squids
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#22 - Siege of the Squids

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1979

A cargo ship is destroyed, but the only witnesses, fisherman and his sons, are reluctant to tell G-Force what they know.

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The Ghostly Grasshopper
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#23 - The Ghostly Grasshopper

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1979

What at first appears to be an exceptionally high powered typhoon hits the world's largest water reserve center in cosmic city. For some unexplained reason, the weather control missiles which could have deflected the storm, were never launched. Chief Anderson tries to convince the leaders that the storm was no accident of nature, while G-Force investigates some unusual activity and a possible Zoltar connection.

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Demons of the Desert
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#24 - Demons of the Desert

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1979

G-Force flies to Abura, to help their friend the sheik Tabul, whose uncle seized control of the country during his absence.

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Orion, Wonder Dog of Space
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#25 - Orion, Wonder Dog of Space

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1979

Spectra causes a worldwide drought on Earth. Orion, goes out on a dangerous mission with Dr. Backster, who has created a way to melt water from part of the polar caps to relieve the drought. When Dr. Backster discovers a secret Spectra base and is captured, he sends Orion to alert G-Force.

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