well, I'm a nineties kid, raised in a post-socialist country, so this show arrived to us in the nineties ;o) But it was definitely a part of my childhood.
Took me waaay too long to remember the name of this show. I only watched it a few times as a kid, but it seemed so awesome at the time. Good thing TH-cam/Google remember everything.
I used to watch this show every day on TV...man can you imagine having youtube back then and being able to watch every episode on repeat all day long fml!
All of the 80's rolled up into 1:31. I remember this and Visionaries being two of my favourite things as a kid and suddenly disappearing much to my dismay.
I can't front, I totally drank the Kool-Aid for this show. I had the XT-7 AND the Interceptor toys AND was aiming them both at the screen every single shiow as well as with the 3 VHS-exclusive videos. If 3D made such a huge comeback, interactive-combat shows can't be that far behind. Nostalgia's a hell of a drug.
I just did a search for Captain Power because it popped into my head after 22 years. This brought back all those feelings of pretending to be Scout in my back yard and trying not to get digitized. Thanks for posting!
Actually it got great ratings among kids and adults. Season 2 was written. However Mattel shut their studios down after season 1 and the toy was kind of dead by then (plus was under pressure from parent groups for violence in the show). Writers/directors then went on to do Bablyon 5 I think.
GOSH!!! Thanks for uploading this! I have the entire series on VHS...priceless treasures...and the animation in the series was way ahead of its time...I even have the toys which are awesome and kept in glass shelves in my home...I just simply love my childhood!
You guys cannot possibly imagine how long i have been looking,searching for this...i couldn't remember the shows name,nor the cast...oh,the old memories!!!I was just a child when i watched this...this video made my day,let me tell you that..
I remember when this series came out. My parents got me the captain planets white spaceship and a couple of vhs episodes. I used to sit there zapping away at the screen. Damn I miss being a kid.
I still remember when Sauron got folded by Blaster like a papercup... and then Blaster gets creamed by Cap and company, after which Sauron comes back fully recovered and then gloats as Blaster lays prone on the ground...
for those that think this looks shit they may want to look on the wipedia entry for the show. you may be surprised at who worked on the show and what the plans were. for a kids show in the us at the time this show was pretty grim and dark
OMG!!!!!!!! I was about 4-5 when I saw this (in Poland) now I'm 27 and still love this show. Hope that this will rise again. Good thing that I have all these episodes on vhs still :)
AHHHHHHHHHH! I was looking for this for ages! Best thing on TV since Star Treck! Thank you our Saint of eternal Awesomeness! so much memories....so much time since I last saw this..
this show was so awesome, it came on skychanel way back when, i have the series on dvd, it still holds up if your a child of the 80's and nostalgia kicks in :P, to bad they don't have stuff like this any more for today's youth, one of the reasons that kids now are of there rockers, if you ask me
+Victor Hernandez Those CG robots were pretty cutting-edge back then. I remember my dad brought home a VHS tape from the Siggraph animation festival that had a sequence featuring them set to some pretty rad 80's tunes.
I believe that was Sven Thorsen, the only decent actor in the series.He was the most epic henchman of our childhood,even was a badass barbarian in Conan
@@bugraerkan2663 I would say that Jessica Steen has also done well for herself as an actor, and even early in her career here she was pretty darn good. As for Sven Thorsen, of course this is him! This is actually how he usually looks in movies and on TV, I believe, with the facial hair.
Well, too bad. This is how the world works. You've got no choice. I'm all for original ideas, but the sake of reboots is to bring something back into the modern age. They have to modernize it though, otherwise it'll be called outdated. Unfortunately critics and old fans can't accept most modernizations.
@@robertnrobretual2749 Good stories are always being retold over and over again in different ways, though. Mythology, folklore, fairy tales and William Shakespeare's works are a good example of that. As long as a Captain Power reboot is done in an exciting, entertaining way that feels different and resonates with people, I would love to see it happen. For years, I have wanted to see someone reboot Captain Power and turn it into a movie.More original ideas are fine and always welcome but I do think that the time is right for a Captain Power reboot, especially with the technology and visual effects available of today.
He also played the mighty Thorgrim in _Conan the Barbarian_ and a henchman in _George of the Jungle_ (who said "Oh, see the monkey!" in his Swedish accent). 😀
I remember having the gun that turned into a rifle and a pistol. And I had the VHS tape and the aircraft that you would shoot at the screen of your television. I loved this show!
Thanks...really awesome memories in childhood, finally back in time. No need too much things for being happy, just a little piece of the past, sometimes.
As a ten year old, there were two reasons for me to watch this show on german TV: It had this cool flying, bird-like villain, and it had Jessica Steen. It was almost the crappiest thing that could happen, but I was completely into it.
Not bad graphics and effects for the 80's....imagine if they rebooted it and bring it to the present....man this show would be number 1 till the year 2040
this was good stuff. Cool toys. The animated VHS videos were quite good too. Man kids today have it rough - our shit in the 80's rocked and it aint rocked like it since.
Their leader is a Captain....when the flyer dude is a Major lol. A Major outranks a Captain lol. I guess the shows producers didnt pay attention to Army Rank structure....
@@leongiblin It's the same for any military force in most countries and in history too. The only exception is between forces: a captain in the navy outranks a major in the army.
This brings back the memories. They really had great FX (remember this flying Sauron monster or whatever his name was) fot that time and also intricate miniatures on that show! The ending credits with the camera flying through the miniature and those flickering bars is also very very cool... I'd buy the DVD in a heartbeat!
Captain Power, the original Faceman from The A-Team! Then you have Lord Dredd, just Darth Vader without his mask on! Just another Star Wars rip off show!
I was 3-to6 yr. old when I watched that in Poland. (born 1983) I must Say that this was the best s-f I ever saw. You all must know that C-P. wasn't series made to become a S-F series, they originaly made this to sell toys, they never thought that Captain Power will make such an impression. Glad that I have all the eps. ;)
Well, the writers and actors did the best job they could, so I think they must have hoped to make some kind of lasting impression. They didn't have to try as hard as they did.
Ahh, this brings back memories of my childhood. I would sit in front of the old Panasonic TV in my little chair and watch episodes of Captain Power, Voltron, Thundercats, GoBots, Transformers, He-Man, G.I. Joe, C.O.P.S., Silverhawks, etc. while eating Chips Ahoy Chewy's and drinking milk. The 80's were a great time for cartoons.
Been trying to remember the name of this show for about a decade. Luckily, today I Googled "robot pterodactyl" and found it. Life is now complete. This blew my fucking mind when I was 5 years old. Now I'm 29 and it's still incredible.
I loved this.. had a hand held fighter jet toy w/ infrared laser from this show.. was the coolest toy I had growing up cause it was the only toy I had that would allow me to be interactive with the Saturday night line-up..
Holy! I 4got all about this show. Man, this brings back memories. How easily entertained I was back then. I even remember Photon & Laser Tag series. hahahaha
i was 10 and when chase died i cried for a solid hour vowing then and there not to care about a tv character.,...who else had deep feelings for the soldiers of the future?
Yes, Jennifer's death hurt. It felt so much like death in real life: just so shocking and unfair. I think I always felt especially empathetic with this character because of where she came from and what she had to overcome. She was admirably strong and competent, and in the end, truly heroic, but she was also a sweetie and a cutie, and perhaps the most "human" of them all. In a way, she was proof that humanity could be saved, and gave everything she had to the cause. 😢 The dead do not suffer, though, and I felt for Power, too. I never thought I'd see him so afraid and cry like that, but Jennifer was special to him. Part of this tragedy was that he never got to express his feelings for her, aside from his pride in her and how happy and grateful he was that she was with the team. But death is often unexpected, and we know how they felt about each other. At least Jennifer got to express her feelings out loud at the end.
Yezzz...only the 80's child will understand the coolestness of capt power!!
Yes, especially if you had the toys to play along with the story. I had lord Dred's tank.
well, I'm a nineties kid, raised in a post-socialist country, so this show arrived to us in the nineties ;o) But it was definitely a part of my childhood.
True..
decades have passed and yet that girl will always be hot in my mind
My heart was broken when she blew up the base :(
I want to cry.
Watching this in 2019 it's amazing.
I remember watching this on my VCR in Portugal back in 1990.
Hello. It's 2019. She still is.
She’s on Heartland now and still very hot
Jim Tiberius she’s on heartland on Netflix and still very hot
Holy shit I've been trying to remember the name of this show for years it just disappeared was starting to think I imagined it
I've never heard of this show and I was wondering why no one has ever mentioned. ITS BECAUSE YOU ALL FORGOT!
This was the crappiest show ever, and I loved it.
Peter Pansen I actually have distinct memories of watching this as a kid. I think I just cherry picked the things I liked and ignored the rest lol
I just like the use of outdated 80's tech used in the future. It's like they didn't even try to make any futuristic stuff.
Peter Pansen me too!
Next to Sledge Hammer, pure gold :)
was delicious garbage 😊
Took me waaay too long to remember the name of this show. I only watched it a few times as a kid, but it seemed so awesome at the time. Good thing TH-cam/Google remember everything.
it crushed my childhood to find out captain power now sells real estate...
+Ty Guy: That is sad.
+Ty Guy ...yea....Real Estate that use to belong to Lord Dread! BOOYAH!!!!!!
AudioAndroid childhood recovered!
Not anymore. He just signed on to be Capt. Power again. Orginal creators too.
So he sold lord dread's house and then comes back years later to kick his arse. That is devotion.
I used to watch this show every day on TV...man can you imagine having youtube back then and being able to watch every episode on repeat all day long fml!
Captain Power... My idol when I was an elementary school student... :) Missing it soooo much... :')
my greatest show when I was kid
I loved this when I was a kid. So epic.
I was trying to remember this damned show for 3 months and now I found it!!! AWESOME!!! GO CAPTAIN POWERS!!
All of the 80's rolled up into 1:31. I remember this and Visionaries being two of my favourite things as a kid and suddenly disappearing much to my dismay.
So good show. I was really sad when it got cancelled.
I can't front, I totally drank the Kool-Aid for this show. I had the XT-7 AND the Interceptor toys AND was aiming them both at the screen every single shiow as well as with the 3 VHS-exclusive videos. If 3D made such a huge comeback, interactive-combat shows can't be that far behind. Nostalgia's a hell of a drug.
I just did a search for Captain Power because it popped into my head after 22 years. This brought back all those feelings of pretending to be Scout in my back yard and trying not to get digitized. Thanks for posting!
I got SOOOO excited for this as a kid. I still have the toys all these years later and remember the the girl was a pilot in armageddon
This actually had potential, could've been an epic franchise and a response to Super Sentai.
Actually it got great ratings among kids and adults. Season 2 was written. However Mattel shut their studios down after season 1 and the toy was kind of dead by then (plus was under pressure from parent groups for violence in the show). Writers/directors then went on to do Bablyon 5 I think.
Someone should reboot Captain Power and make a movie out of it. I could definitely see it working if it's done in the right way by the right people.
THIS SHOW WAS AMAZING.
OMG----10 million times!!!! i used to watch this vid everyday when i was a kid.
GOSH!!! Thanks for uploading this! I have the entire series on VHS...priceless treasures...and the animation in the series was way ahead of its time...I even have the toys which are awesome and kept in glass shelves in my home...I just simply love my childhood!
they REALLY need to bring this back.
DUDE! it's Sven Thorsen, I forgot he was in this. DAMN I feel old..lol. blast for the past for sure.
You guys cannot possibly imagine how long i have been looking,searching for this...i couldn't remember the shows name,nor the cast...oh,the old memories!!!I was just a child when i watched this...this video made my day,let me tell you that..
I remember when this series came out. My parents got me the captain planets white spaceship and a couple of vhs episodes. I used to sit there zapping away at the screen. Damn I miss being a kid.
I still remember when Sauron got folded by Blaster like a papercup... and then Blaster gets creamed by Cap and company, after which Sauron comes back fully recovered and then gloats as Blaster lays prone on the ground...
for those that think this looks shit they may want to look on the wipedia entry for the show. you may be surprised at who worked on the show and what the plans were. for a kids show in the us at the time this show was pretty grim and dark
OH MAN. I used to watch this show all the time. I'd record them and just watch them over and over again. And dude, the toys!
Yes!! So many memories, thank you!
I don't care this looks awesome
Oh it was an awesome show
you think this is awesome...the Toy was interactive with the video!!
@@kardez506 these kids today will never know how much fun this show was.
Best Show ever.
OMG!!!!!!!! I was about 4-5 when I saw this (in Poland) now I'm 27 and still love this show.
Hope that this will rise again.
Good thing that I have all these episodes on vhs still :)
Amazing! The greatest thing I've ever seen. How could you not love it?
power rangers + terminator??
+lonesome0spirit basically, whats cooler than that when you're a kid?
awesomeness to the max, lol in my generation, better than the "gadget" generation
+lonesome0spirit
Inspired by Terminator, definatly.
Power Rangers?
pffft ... Power Ranger WISH they where Captain Power!
"Power On!"
+Disposable Hero Power rangers based on super sentai series from japan anyway, also this is like american version of Uchuu Keiji Gavan
gavan? really?? gavan = space sheriff
ah, the memories. Too bad the second season got canceled.
AHHHHHHHHHH!
I was looking for this for ages!
Best thing on TV since Star Treck!
Thank you our Saint of eternal Awesomeness!
so much memories....so much time since I last saw this..
this show was so awesome, it came on skychanel way back when,
i have the series on dvd, it still holds up if your a child of the 80's and nostalgia kicks in :P, to bad they don't have stuff like this any more for today's youth, one of the reasons that kids now are of there rockers, if you ask me
This was a show way ahead of it's time.
+Victor Hernandez Those CG robots were pretty cutting-edge back then. I remember my dad brought home a VHS tape from the Siggraph animation festival that had a sequence featuring them set to some pretty rad 80's tunes.
Tank was the coolest..
I believe that was Sven Thorsen, the only decent actor in the series.He was the most epic henchman of our childhood,even was a badass barbarian in Conan
@@bugraerkan2663 I would say that Jessica Steen has also done well for herself as an actor, and even early in her career here she was pretty darn good. As for Sven Thorsen, of course this is him! This is actually how he usually looks in movies and on TV, I believe, with the facial hair.
POWER ON! This show needs to be remastered and re-relased on blu-ray
WOW this takes me back, used to watch this as a kid right when i got home from school lol.
Thank you Woolie. I've been wondering for over a decade what that show I used to watch was called.
looked at the intro today and i think its still better than power rangers.
this shit's gonna have a reboot
NO. MORE. FUCKING REBOOTS!!
Deal. With. It. Kiddo.
No. It's time for new ideas. That's what's so refreshing about watching the old stuff, even if it's cheesy. If we keep doing reboots, we'll regret it.
Well, too bad. This is how the world works. You've got no choice. I'm all for original ideas, but the sake of reboots is to bring something back into the modern age. They have to modernize it though, otherwise it'll be called outdated. Unfortunately critics and old fans can't accept most modernizations.
@@robertnrobretual2749 Good stories are always being retold over and over again in different ways, though. Mythology, folklore, fairy tales and William Shakespeare's works are a good example of that. As long as a Captain Power reboot is done in an exciting, entertaining way that feels different and resonates with people, I would love to see it happen.
For years, I have wanted to see someone reboot Captain Power and turn it into a movie.More original ideas are fine and always welcome but I do think that the time is right for a Captain Power reboot, especially with the technology and visual effects available of today.
Have very fond memories of watching this show as a kid. Can't wait for the December 2011 DVD release!
oh my gosh my childhood...nice to know people still remeber this old show.
Always wondered why Tigris of Gaul in Gladiator looked familiar, now I know! Lt. Michael "Tank" Elis... Sven Thorsen.
He also played the mighty Thorgrim in _Conan the Barbarian_ and a henchman in _George of the Jungle_ (who said "Oh, see the monkey!" in his Swedish accent). 😀
0:10 "Earth, twenty one fourty seven...the legacy of the metal wars....where men fuck machines...and machines won..."
Lol
que weon mas tarado... was a joke... you dumb fuck
I remember having the gun that turned into a rifle and a pistol. And I had the VHS tape and the aircraft that you would shoot at the screen of your television. I loved this show!
Thanks...really awesome memories in childhood, finally back in time.
No need too much things for being happy, just a little piece of the past,
sometimes.
Well shit.
This was way cooler when I was 9 years old. I hate when I try for some nostalgia and get kicked in the balls.
+cameron O this is still awesome. I don't know what you're talking about.
How was that a kick in the balls? Other than the film quality, that was awesome.
Classic Game Room sent me here! xD
One minute and thirty seconds of pure awesome.
YESSSS!!! Wow I remember vividly watching this show as a kid in the 90's. lassuc awesomeness
I had the jets and stuff for all this!! haha I remember shooting the jets at the t.v. only to gain a maximum of 25 points! Ahh the 80's!
Just remember when the girl member died in battle, my heart so sad.... i was 9yo
As a ten year old, there were two reasons for me to watch this show on german TV: It had this cool flying, bird-like villain, and it had Jessica Steen. It was almost the crappiest thing that could happen, but I was completely into it.
I loved this show, got huge fans all the way from Zimbabwe
This some 80's style shit.
Not bad graphics and effects for the 80's....imagine if they rebooted it and bring it to the present....man this show would be number 1 till the year 2040
especially with special effects and technology we have today....
I am still surprised no one have done it already, considering the current resurgence of all possible properties form the last few decades.
born in '82. watched the show, had the action figures, and was always fascinated by the "interactive" VHS game.
damn! I'd been looking for the name of this show for ages! this is probably my first memory ever of a TV show, I was like 4.
Any body remember the cool hit counter song the gunships used to make by pressing the rear red buttons...that was epic!!!
In addition....the 2 evil robots used to scare the crap out of me...lol
I remember me and my brother cheating by covering the hit sensor on our gun ship toys ....lol
i want a remake =)
The design still look good on these power suit after 22 years
this was good stuff. Cool toys. The animated VHS videos were quite good too. Man kids today have it rough - our shit in the 80's rocked and it aint rocked like it since.
So awesomely bad. I love it. PEW PEW!
No token black guy? This show must really be old.
Scout is black, my guy
That's the reason it got canceled
Better times.
WOW!! I used to love this show, i even had captain power bed sheets. Good old times
I used to watch this when i wasa kid, mostly for the coop purple laser effects. Ty for reminding me of this show, because i couldnt remember its name.
Their leader is a Captain....when the flyer dude is a Major lol. A Major outranks a Captain lol. I guess the shows producers didnt pay attention to Army Rank structure....
Why would they? It's not the Army.
@@leongiblin It's the same for any military force in most countries and in history too.
The only exception is between forces: a captain in the navy outranks a major in the army.
@@Theduckwebcomics Yes, but then again captain in not technically a rank. The rank is commander. Captain means a commander with a commission.
SIIIIIIPS!!!!!!!!!!
I eagerly blasted my TV screen for hours with the interactive toys. I was a hero then winning the war of the future. I miss that childhood feeling.
Thanks this brings back happy memories :)
this need to be remade!
No it doesn't.
I watched this religiously when I was a child, maybe 11-12 year sold. But dear god, it looks crappy now.
This brings back the memories. They really had great FX (remember this flying Sauron monster or whatever his name was) fot that time and also intricate miniatures on that show! The ending credits with the camera flying through the miniature and those flickering bars is also very very cool...
I'd buy the DVD in a heartbeat!
I've been remembering bits and pieces of this for over a decade, finally I remembered the name. Sure looks different in color.
Well..this looks freaking epic....
Dafuq Sips lol
Old guys like awesome shows from the early 90s
MeMosh This show was made in 1987. I remember 5 years and seeing this, reflecting at that age on how stupid and cheap looking it was.
+MeMosh 80s show homey. I was 8 or 9 and had the toys. You could duel with the jets or fight the cheesey cgi flying robots on the show.
I cannot believe my eyes. This brings back such old memories. I pretended I was Captain Power when I was 10. Oh, man...
I've been looking for this for so long... Thank you!
So Power Rangers was a better Captain Power rip off?
Mixey no. Power rangers is repurposed footage of a Japanese show that has been around since the sixties.
str8dominican
More like 70s. Himitsu Sentai Goranger aired in 1975.
Mixey I always thought Power Rangers were the real life Voltron.
Captain Power, the original Faceman from The A-Team! Then you have Lord Dredd, just Darth Vader without his mask on! Just another Star Wars rip off show!
I loved this... and it still kick ass.
This is done so believable for its time, that was freaking me out as a child.
Talk about a nostalgia trip.
So many memories.
I was 3-to6 yr. old when I watched that in Poland. (born 1983)
I must Say that this was the best s-f I ever saw.
You all must know that C-P. wasn't series made to become a S-F series, they originaly made this to sell toys, they never thought that Captain Power will make such an impression.
Glad that I have all the eps. ;)
Well, the writers and actors did the best job they could, so I think they must have hoped to make some kind of lasting impression. They didn't have to try as hard as they did.
Ahh, this brings back memories of my childhood. I would sit in front of the old Panasonic TV in my little chair and watch episodes of Captain Power, Voltron, Thundercats, GoBots, Transformers, He-Man, G.I. Joe, C.O.P.S., Silverhawks, etc. while eating Chips Ahoy Chewy's and drinking milk. The 80's were a great time for cartoons.
Been trying to remember the name of this show for about a decade. Luckily, today I Googled "robot pterodactyl" and found it. Life is now complete. This blew my fucking mind when I was 5 years old. Now I'm 29 and it's still incredible.
Forerunner of digital entertainment... I had that Captain Power headset. 1987... hope Occulus Rift brings THIS.
this was one of my favorite series. thanks for uploading =)
I love this tv series..
I used to watch it when I am still a kid.. Wow!!!
today, as it was 24 years ago, the ability to shoot and be shot by my television has so much appeal I'd buy these toys all over again.
Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future! Mankind's Last Hope! The Power Of The Future Is In Your Hands! Power On!
I loved this.. had a hand held fighter jet toy w/ infrared laser from this show.. was the coolest toy I had growing up cause it was the only toy I had that would allow me to be interactive with the Saturday night line-up..
Wow. Thanks for the trip in the "way back machine"
I used to watch this but forgot about it till now.
Holy! I 4got all about this show. Man, this brings back memories. How easily entertained I was back then. I even remember Photon & Laser Tag series. hahahaha
i was 10 and when chase died i cried for a solid hour vowing then and there not to care about a tv character.,...who else had deep feelings for the soldiers of the future?
Yes, Jennifer's death hurt. It felt so much like death in real life: just so shocking and unfair. I think I always felt especially empathetic with this character because of where she came from and what she had to overcome. She was admirably strong and competent, and in the end, truly heroic, but she was also a sweetie and a cutie, and perhaps the most "human" of them all. In a way, she was proof that humanity could be saved, and gave everything she had to the cause. 😢 The dead do not suffer, though, and I felt for Power, too. I never thought I'd see him so afraid and cry like that, but Jennifer was special to him.
Part of this tragedy was that he never got to express his feelings for her, aside from his pride in her and how happy and grateful he was that she was with the team. But death is often unexpected, and we know how they felt about each other. At least Jennifer got to express her feelings out loud at the end.
I remember playing the VHS TV game with the "gunship" controller. Some of the best times I had as a child.
I miss all the memories
my god....my hero since 80'....tq for upload