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!

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Space Sorcerer
star
3.25
64 votes

#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.

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Ariel
star
5.00
1 votes

#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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Fire and Iron
star
5.33
3 votes

#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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Rusty and the Boys
star
6.00
1 votes

#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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Queen's Lair
star
6.06
64 votes

#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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Sundancer
star
6.50
2 votes

#6 - Sundancer

Season 1 - Episode 64 - Aired 12/10/1986

Continuation from previous episode.

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Don Quixote Cody
star
6.50
2 votes

#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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Tortuna Rock
star
6.50
2 votes

#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.

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Psychocrypt
star
6.52
64 votes

#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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One Million Emotions
star
6.72
95 votes

#10 - One Million Emotions

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/19/1986

The Rangers are in charge of security at an intergalactic art show where a Poe mutant Sensation doll is stolen. The doll is dangerous to humans, indeed to everyone but a Poe, as it holds the emotions of the artist.

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Phoenix
star
6.75
116 votes

#11 - Phoenix

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1986

En-route to Kirwin, Zachary Foxx and his family find themselves fighting for their lives.

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Smuggler's Gauntlet
star
6.89
70 votes

#12 - Smuggler's Gauntlet

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1986

A genetic enhancer called ""Supertrooper Juice"" is stolen from the Longshot Research Facility.

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Tune-Up
star
6.94
96 votes

#13 - Tune-Up

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/20/1986

Q-ball's lab is studying a slew of alien devices, where Buzzwang and little Zach are assigned to do an inventory - except one of the devices isn't quite as inert as it was supposed to be.

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Tortuna
star
6.98
43 votes

#14 - Tortuna

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/15/1986

The Rangers search for Eliza's psychocrystal.

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Progress
star
6.98
95 votes

#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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Heart of Tarkon
star
6.98
63 votes

#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.

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Games
star
6.98
64 votes

#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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Ghost Station
star
6.98
65 votes

#18 - Ghost Station

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/8/1986

A large space station appears near Earth.

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Wildfire
star
6.99
95 votes

#19 - Wildfire

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/1986

On a transport-ship carrying unstable isotopes, the Rangers get a distress call from the infamous Cody ""Wildfire"" Carson.

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Tower of Combat
star
7.00
2 votes

#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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Mistwalker
star
7.00
98 votes

#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.

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The Ax
star
7.00
33 votes

#22 - The Ax

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/1/1986

Nimrod grabs the Rangers out of hyperspace, and makes them play his version of the most dangerous game, without their badges. They have to make do as normal, human Rangers.

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Galaxy Stranger
star
7.00
32 votes

#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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Horsepower
star
7.00
31 votes

#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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Rainmaker
star
7.00
31 votes

#25 - Rainmaker

Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 11/24/1986

About an inventor who creates a machine that can create rain.

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