The BEST episodes of Battle of the Planets season 1
Every episode of Battle of the Planets season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Battle of the Planets season 1!
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.
#1 - 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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#2 - 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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#3 - Charioteers of Changu
Season 1 - Episode 79 - Aired 3/31/1980
Princess is sent to the Himalayas alone to investigate some mysterious charioteers.
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#4 - Invasion of Space Center (2)
Season 1 - Episode 77 - Aired 3/17/1980
Spectra's missiles hit the research center, with Mark, Princess and Chief Anderson trapped inside.
#5 - Invasion of Space Center (1)
Season 1 - Episode 76 - Aired 3/10/1980
Spectra attempts to discover the location of a major research center in order to launch an attack on it.
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#6 - Tentacles from Space
Season 1 - Episode 73 - Aired 2/18/1980
G-Force investigates Professor Stark who may have given his soil protein formula to a Spectra agent.
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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.
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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!
#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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#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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#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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#12 - 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.
#13 - Peaks of Planet Odin
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/23/1979
7-Zark-7 has a hunch that Spectra is about to unleash a scheme on Planet Odin and sends G-Force there. The chief of that planet turns out to be intent on capturing Colonel Chronos and working with Zoltar who will give him a great new weapon.
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#14 - The Sky is Falling! (1)
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/30/1979
Tom, Mark's old friend from the academy, tells him that he has seen Mark's father on Odin, and Mark goes to Riga without telling Chief Anderson. Meanwhile the rest of G-Force is sent to Odin to try and stop the X-3, a doomsday weapon created by Spectra.
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#15 - 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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#16 - 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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#17 - The Fierce Flowers (2)
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/14/1979
G-Forced attempted burning the flowers, but it only resulted in the flowers releasing more spores. Princess who was captured by a flower is still missing her fate is unknown.
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#18 - 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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#19 - Raid of the Space Octopus
Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 10/15/1979
Zoltar attacks Earth's power plants with a tentacled mech, but when G-Force attacks, the Phoenix experiences malfunctions.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Attack of the Alien Wasp
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 9/17/1979
Mark while flying his jet encounters Colonel Chronos, who was believed to be dead, and follows him back to his secret base, where he gives Mark documents revealing the location of Spectra's Earth headquarters.
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#22 - Mammoth Shark Menace
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 8/13/1979
Zoltar releases a poisonous pollutant into the ocean which is killing all the fish in the ocean. G-Force has to stop the him before the Earth's entire ecosystem is destroyed.
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#23 - 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.
#24 - 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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#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.