The WORST episodes of Battle of the Planets
Every episode of Battle of the Planets ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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!
#7 - 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...
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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?
#10 - 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.
#11 - The Great Brain Robbery
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 10/8/1979
Spectra attacks the Artificial Brain Center on Earth and steals a top-secret "Brain of Evil". The Team tracks down the stolen brain, only to be attacked by the Brain Mecha and then Spectra Pirates! G-Force returns with a piece of the Mecha to Center Neptune, and then attends the Annual Robot Show the next day, just in time to watch Spectra steal the new "Fembot" to use as a body for the Brain of Evil. Mark sneaks into the Spectra base while the rest of the team goes after the Brain Mecha.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Secret Island
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 9/3/1979
There have been many planes and ships disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle. Mark and Princess are sent to Shipwreck Island in the Triangle to investigate. They discover a Spectra base and their latest weapon, the Whirly Knife. Mark summons the team, but can they stop the latest Mech from Spectra ?
#17 - Giant from Planet Zyr
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 8/27/1979
A team of scientists on Earth develop the Jet Cutter, a new laser to powerful enough to cut through a new indestructible metal that Spectra has developed. But Spectra uses a giant humanoid mech to steal the Jet Cutter. G-Force travels to Zyr to try and find the giant and recover the laser.
#18 - Fastest Gun in the Galaxy
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 8/20/1979
Spectra agents bring a man who was released from 30 years in prison back to planet Spectra. The ex-prisoner was an expert marksman and Zoltar wants him to operate Spectra's newest weapon, a vehicle mounted gun. G-Force goes to Spectra to investigate.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Raid of the Red Scorpion
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 8/13/1979
The Luminous One commands Zoltar to destroy Earth's entire energy capability. Zoltar uses a 'scorpion' mech to go on a rampage, starting by destroying Earth's most important research facility.
#21 - The Sky is Falling! (2)
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 8/6/1979
With Mark still missing and the X-3 doomsday missile already have been launched and detonated, the only chance to save the Earth is if G-Force can launch Spectra's other X-3 missile to counteract the effects of the first missile.
#22 - 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.
#23 - The Awesome Armadillo
Season 1 - Episode 75 - Aired 3/3/1980
Colonel Two takes over command of Spectra from Zoltar and launches an attack on Earth.
#24 - The Conway Tape Tap
Season 1 - Episode 85 - Aired 5/12/1980
Spectra steals the Conway tapes. Mark and Princess are trapped on a Spectran spy ship and taken to planet Spectra. They recover the Tapes and try to escape, but are captured by Spectra. Jason, who has followed them without orders, rescues them and they must battle their way through the Spectran defenses to escape.
#25 - 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.