Battle of the Planets

I really fancied the princess :)

The first soap-opera for kids.

the last episode featured Mark (the leader) confronting his long lost father.

it gave Young and the Restless a run for its money!

I loved this cartoon as a kid, I was 8 years old when it aired.
It came on the heels of Star Wars, and everyone in entertainment was tryin to fill the void (Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rodgers).
Originally, the show took place entirely on Earth, but American translators (if you can use that term to describe them) took the show, and made it "intergalactic".
I always thought the Japanese are a little bit "robot controlled plane" happy. Everything was remote or robot controlled, I thought it was absurd, but later learned that was the work of American censorship, LOL. This show was horribly butchered, but I still love it.
Note: 7-Zark-7 looks suspiciously like R2-D2. Keyop make R2-D2 like noises in all his dialog, almost as if the guy doing his voice studied Star Wars, and copied the sounds. The female member of the team is named "Princess". The opening scrolls the Title just like Star Wars does.
Do people really fly to the moon in a Boeing 747?

I want to meet the genius that wrote the dialog for 7-Zark-7: "Here comes Princess on her 'Galacti-cycle'."
Or the genius that invented the newly discovered planet Zarkadia, hiding convieniently behind Venus, and look; they have Humans just like us, and they fly in 747s just like us, they have chain link fences, and automobiles exactly like Earth does, and until today, neither planet knew the other existed! Here come the robot planes to be decimated and show how powerful this monster is... lucky thing they evacuated the city right before it was demolished... thanks for the clarification 7-Zark-7, I almost cried at the horrible death and destruction...
I laughed like crazy when the Phoenix breaks Earth's atmo, and Mark says "I'll never get used to that first Hundred Million Miles" (The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 92 million miles).

I still love this cartoon, even at cheese factor 10...

I always thought this was a sophisticated cartoon. The music was awesome for a cartoon. G Force was an awesome name too.

You are right Nasindor, this show was great and I remember it at that tender age of 8 when the first wave of, as it was called then Japanmation came to Amercia.
Lets forget the cheese factor and look at some that this show did that was never seen before on amercia TV let alone a cartoon. ZOLTAR.
I still remember the biggest climax of the show. Which was the unmasking of Zoltar. Beside my brother, my friends and myself always wanted to see under that mask. ever though it got cut somewhat, when Zoltar was unmasked, he was really a SHE. That was the biggest surprize that any of us had seen. We talked about that show for months.
They would never do anything like that agian. A main charcter that was Transexual. Come on, you can't make this stuff up. Or can you.
Ah the memories.