I have decided to make a blog about the G-force, as we used to call our favorite Saturday morning cartoon (“we” being my siblings and friends in the neighborhood
When I was little I used to love Battle of the Planets…I thought it was a great show…recently, I guess it has been a few years in the making but the original Japanese series was dubbed and released on DVD…I was confused at first because the title was different but I started buying them…hopefully I plan to get the whole series…but in the course of my research trying to find what I could not find on the store I found out some interesting things about this series.
This is some of what Wikipedia had to say: "Battle of the Planets (1978) is the first Westernized adaptation of the 1972 Japanese animated television series known as Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman. Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the Battle of the Planets adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment. The adaptation is generally faithful to the plot and character development of the original Gatchaman series, but significant additions and reductions were made in order to increase appeal to the North American juvenile television market of the late 1970s.
In 1986, Gatchaman was re-worked in the US as G-Force: Guardians of Space by Turner, with a good deal of the original content that had been edited out of Battle of the Planets put back in to the show. It followed the plot of the original Gatchaman much more faithfully than Battle of the Planets because of this. However, the lack of Hoyt Curtin's original score and inferior voice acting prevented this series from attaining the high praise given to Battle of the Planets."
I remember seeing this “version” and being confused because the names were not the same. Apparently Sandy Frank Entertainment would not release the rights to the names and such so when Turner acquired the series, they had to come up with their own.
Check out http://www.chronicsite.com/gatchaman/ if you are interested on this fun series…
P.S. Rumor has it there is a movie on the works but if they do make one...I am so there to watch it the second the office box opens...LOL
