The WORST episodes of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
Every episode of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers!
Welcome to The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers guide at TV Tome. Produced and created by Robert Mandell, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers has a fantastic concept. In 2086, two peaceful aliens journey to Earth seeking help. In return for Earth's assistance, the aliens share the plans for the planet's first hyperdrive, allowing mankind to open the doors to the stars. With this new technology in hand, a team of unique individuals are assembled to protect Earth and its allies. These courageous pioneers - committed to the highest ideals of justice - set out to preserve law and order across the new frontier. The show began airing in September 1986 as a series of sixty-five 30-minute cartoons, running five days a week. Since then, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers has reached cult status, sparking a loyal following. This visionary series combines elements of Westerns, space opera and a sword and sorcery style of fantasy. The well-developed plotline and captivating characters, which pushed the boundaries of children's programming in the '80s, are sure to excite loyal fans as well as a new generation of science fiction and animation enthusiasts. The series was one of the first anime-style shows to be created, storyboarded, voiced and produced in the United States and was animated in Japan by the famed Tokyo Movie Shinsha. This action-packed cartoon series also features the vocal talents of the late Jerry Orbach, Bob Bottone, Laura Dean and Earl Hammond. Galaxy Rangers Ho!
#1 - Space Sorcerer
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/22/1986
Niko gets a distress call from Ictar, a Basuti. The last Space Sorcerer has taken over their planet and is forcing them to dig for Starstones. The Rangers confront him and he disappears in a cloud of smoke, vowing revenge.
#2 - Ariel
Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 12/1/1986
Niko's mentor Ariel needs her help, back in Xanadu where Niko was raised as an orphan. The Megamind is loose, and takes Zach. When Niko and Ariel arrive, The Megamind puts them in a surreal landscape made up of Sphinxes and rabbit holes, and they must find their way to the center of the maze and the Megamind.
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#3 - Fire and Iron
Season 1 - Episode 61 - Aired 12/5/1986
Rancit and his gang are threatening farmers to stop the monorail going through. The Rangers are sent to help a woman whose husband was put in hospital. Doc is doing some espionage then gets tied to the monorail with dinky music playing in the background.
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#4 - Rusty and the Boys
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 12/2/1986
Q-ball's new android, Rusty, is quite a sight. Doc is sent to accompany her on her first mission on Basut. There Larry sees Rusty. Larry wants her, but due to a spell go wrong, she only has eyes for Doc. Rusty is eventually destroyed saving Doc's life. He repairs her, but her love is gone.
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#5 - Queen's Lair
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/17/1986
The Queen has built a cannon that can destroy a planet, and is trying to hold the League hostage with it. The Rangers are sent in to work with the resistance group on the planet and destroy the weapon. The resistance group is lead by Wirwar, whose family is held hostage by the Queen and who tries to free them by handing the Rangers to the Queen. Despite that, they succeed in destroying the Queen's weapon but have to escape in a ship which they discover only has five minutes worth of oxygen.
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#7 - Don Quixote Cody
Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 11/28/1986
Wildfire has "Don Quixote Syndrome" and thinks he's Wyatt Earpp, Phis Morris and his gang are the Clanton brothers, Doc's Doc Holiday, and Niko is a dancehall girl named Louise. Meanwhile, Phis Morris wants Cody's bluefire generator, a shield that can disable any ship that tries to lock on tractors. Note: Name of Cody's ship is the Buchanan and the AI is Roberta (RB).
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#8 - Tortuna Rock
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 12/4/1986
Video queen, Eve Whiner, takes her crew to shoot a music video on the outlaw planet of Tortuna. Promising to make Geezi the Pedulont a video king, Geezi shows the humans the best locations inside Tortuna City. But trouble awaits as Brappo and his gang of alien outlaws kidnap Eve and her crew in an attempt to sell them to the Queen of The Crown. The Galaxy Rangers ride into town to rescue the trapped humans. While the Rangers shoot -it out with the outlaws, Eve shoots the wildest music video this side of the galaxy.
#9 - Psychocrypt
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/30/1986
The Queen of the Crown uses her half of the Eliza Foxx psychocrystal to lure Zachary Foxx to her Pyschocrypt, a facility in a remote area of space. Zachary is captured and used to create the most power psychocrystal ever. Against orders from Commander Walsh, the rest of the Series 5 team must track down Zach with the help of Geezi the Pedulant and rescue him from the clutches of the Queen.
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#15 - Progress
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/23/1986
The Rangers receive a distress call from a planet with more water than land, so they, and the dolphins, Icarus and Winter, are sent to investigate. Three aliens have restarted an abandoned factory that was polluting the one major land mass, which is making the planet's aquatic natives sick.
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#16 - Heart of Tarkon
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/15/1986
Doc and Niko are sent to Maya's homeworld Tarkon, to prevent a treaty between King Spartos, Maya's father and the Queen of the Crown. In the midst of all this, the mystery of the Heart, a giant computer hidden away in a mountain, is introduced. While Niko investigates the computer with the help of an ancient Shaman, Doc gets to play dress up and even use those fencing lessons he took at Miss Abercrombie's charm school.
#17 - Games
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/9/1986
Lazarus Slade is supplying the General with warriors for his games by kidnapping. He grabbed Doc off an automated space station, and Goose is sent undercover to find out what's going on. Maya has survived the games thus far, and switches sides to help Goose and Doc put Slade and the General out of commission. The General becomes fascinated with Gooseman, believing him to be a metamorph, and the perfect candidate for his cloned army.
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#20 - Tower of Combat
Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 12/8/1986
The General, an evil alien warlord, is back. He has perfected a matter transportation device to collect an army of lifeforms to serve him. The General tests his device by stealing Doc, Zachery, Zozo and Waldo from the bridge of the BETA battle cruiser, The Laredo. The General sends his challenge to BETA. BETA must send two champions to a specific destination. There the champions will battle their way to the top of a tower. At each level of the tower the champions will face a tougher adversary. If they survive, The General's prisoners will be set free. If the BETA champions fail, they will serve The General in his army. Goose and Niko take up the challenge and arrive at the tower to face The General's most dangerous games.
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#21 - Mistwalker
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1986
Zach and Zozo are sent to Biste-Fenokee to check up on Audra Miles, an anthropologist studying a aboriginal species on a world where nature is in complete control and technology doesn't operate properly.
#23 - Galaxy Stranger
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/14/1986
A blond, stubbled man in black appears in Frontier looking for Jacob Laramie, who has hired Stingray as muscle to push ranchers and farmers off their land to use as grazing land for his Bovo 9 cattle. Goose, the man with no name, confronts Stingray and Darkstar.
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#24 - Horsepower
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 11/27/1986
Doc and Niko are drawn to a planet in the Empty Zone by a mysterious psychic force. The natives of the world believe Voyager to be a god called Hopi who will help them survive the radical weather changes. It turns out the Queen has a weather control device station on the planet.
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