Starfleet Episode 2 of 24
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- X-Bomber was renamed Star Fleet and dubbed by English speaking actors for broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV. The show was broadcast there on Saturday mornings, first airing on October 23, 1982,[4] the day before Star Wars aired for the first time on British television. Due to its broadcast slot, the advertisements shown before, during and after each episode frequently included children's Public Information Films. The series was also broadcast as such on first-run syndication in the United States. Drawing heavily on diverse influences such as Star Wars, Japanese Anime and Gerry Anderson's various "Supermarionation" series, the show ran for twenty-four half-hour episodes (twenty-five in Japan - the eighteenth episode, titled Bloody Mary's Promotion, was not included in the English version, as it consisted mainly of flashbacks). The English version's theme song was composed by Paul Bliss,[5] and was later covered by Queen member Brian May and Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen. This was released under the name "Star Fleet Project". The screenplay was adapted for English by Michael Sloan, who in later years would create the popular TV series The Master and The Equalizer. Actress Denise Bryer ("Commander Makara") and editor Tony Lenny both went on to collaborate with Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr making another memorable sci-fi series, Terrahawks.
I had the full VHS box set growing up and must've watched the whole series a dozen or more times. I had entirely forgotten about it... and now I'm crying while watching the whole series.
You're a goddamn saint.
For all the young people watching, THIS is what we had in 1985. Would be in front of the TV on Sat Mornings to watch it. The first anime to ever hit The UK shores. Memories abound :)
this is not the first the UK had a bunch of Japanese animation on TV. but saturday mornings in the UK and the states up until 1999 was awesome. I'm going to be 50 soon find myself watching old TV shows and cartoons from 5 decades ago or more. There is just nothing i enjoy at on TV at this time, even a large majority of the new Japanese animation is not to my liking.
cant really use the term Anime on this, but god damn Hercules' chad chin
Sundays for me..
Wrong. The UK had at least Marine Boy and Battle Of The Planets (both actual anime) on our telliies years before this turned up. This isn't a cartoon of any sort - it's a puppet show. If anything, more of a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson homage. But it is pretty damn good.
@@Kashi-K Barry Hercules, what a name, doc.
The music in this series is outstanding
I watched every episode as a kid apart from the finale, when I got dragged to my uncles house, I was gutted about it and never knew how it ended for over 20 years when I bought it on VCD :D
same
I had a story similar to yours i missed the last two episodes it destroyed me as a kid. I lived in star fleet wished i was aboard the x bomber
Weird. Exactly the same thing happened to me. We had a VCR, but my parents insisted on using it to record Grease.
Ha ha, coincidence me too- I watched it religiously on a Saturday morning but missed the final episode as had to do a sponsored walk with cubs! I recorded it on audio cassette as we didn’t have a video. Only saw it 35 years later on DVD 🤣
So many childhood memories I remember I was always glued to the telly watching this 💗💗😊😊
Such brilliant happy memories.
Released in 82 in the UK. Every Saturday morning 10am I think, for what seem like forever, loads of episode.
I was totally hooked on the storyline. Was a massive Star Wars fans as well of course, this was the best next thing.
The ginger gene is strong in 2999.
The puppet makers must have had a big delivery of ginger nylon thread.
wow.. just had a load of hidden memories unlocked. Loved this when I was little but almost forgotten about it until now 👍
Fubar Bundy me too!
Yep, this and Jaycee and the Wheeled Warriors were my jam.
What year did this aire? It didn't play in my area.
@@dangoodall1253 Robotech was mine
@@lopony7944 I think it was shortly after the first Starwars film... 77 or 78 ? (I remember the "x-bomber" as it seemed a copy of the x-wing fighters.
now that's a blast from the past, i used to love this show
Thank you so much for this
1980s were the best
I’ve never forgotten the words to the end theme. Somethings always stay with you.
Brian Mays cover version of the end titles song is epic, give it a watch folks
Brian may and Eddie Van Halen. Got the 12" vinyl!
It is, my favourite song!
That song is how I got here!
@@KingCasual1986 I believe the story behind it is that his kid really liked the show. So May was like "Sure okay i'll cover this."
@@Destinystrike that kid is definitely Brian May’s son!
The voice of Commander Makara, Denise Bryer, was Nicholas Parsons Missus.
Saturday and Sunday mornings in the mid 1980s, watching this on The Superchannel. Talk about memories.
I just received the newly model kit for big dai-x, what a blast from pass😂😂😂
Wow!!!! This really does bring back Fantastic memories!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗
Man, I forgot how Commander Makara is such a Karen. How I missed this show.
There should have been a crossover episode with Terrahawks: with Cy-Star getting with Captain Orion; Hercules with Kate Kestrel; and Sergeant Major Zero with Lamia, the F-ZERO-1! Zelda would initially see Makara as the daughter she never had....but they'd end up having a cat-fight!
This outclassed thunderbirds or any other puppet show at the time -
The music and soundtrack was epic with perfect slice of anime ..
it made Saturday mornings special oh and lamia was ❤❤❤❤
Saturday mornings 1982 in Central TV.
Never seen or heard of it. But watching this show? I freakken love it. Good show.
I Like the ship designs. Pretty good music too. I'm surprised that the writing is this good.
This was Sunday morning for me, brother and sister 40 years ago in UK.....makes me feel we were all very lucky, in on the ground floor for anime, before it was a thing 😂
I had no clue this even existed!!!.....totally eating this up!!.....thank you!!!...SUBSCRIBED!
Send a message out across the sky, alien raiders just passed Gemini
Who will come and save us now? Who can defend us from the power?
@@capturedbyalyssa Starfleet Starfleet
Space Pilot Hagon Sir
Space Pilot John Lee
AND I’M BARRY HERCULES!
YEAH!!!!!! Lol I busted out laughing at that. What a great entrance.
The bloke who's voicing The General. Is definitely channeling his inner. James Robertson Justice 😄
You gotta love how the chick is driving a jeep across a moon and she has the wipers on.
I never saw this series before.
I like it.
What fun.
Great music!!!
WOW I've never seen this before.
This is really cool 👍
The Doctors eyebrow game is strong 💪🏿 🤣
This stuff was on the Brittish tv network 'super channel' which, amongst 'sky channel' we luckily recieved also in the Netherlands back in the early 80-ies...
Along with Robotech my favourite obscure 80-ies sci-fi cartoon/ series
I've always been convinced that Hercules was modelled on British actor Tony Osoba in terms of his looks.
Looks like the guy who played keyboard in Level 42 if you ask me
NOT THE LASER MEMORY DISIMALITOR! Ha defo remember this a a kid, the ship designs and graphics were awesome for the time as was the music both incidental and theme tunes not to metion the sound effects and writing.
I remember seeing it in the 80’s, but never knew the name of it. I wasn’t really interested in it either. Though I could’ve sworn there was a movie of it too.
This brings back memories, especially as I had forgotten the name.
Does this series just slap the word "Laser" onto everything?
I'm 11 Again! Childhood memories 😂🤣😅👍🙏
Thank you
Lamia is so cute and brave.
That is some funky assed music
Does anyone know if there are any channels that discuss this program because every retro channel that I know have never heard of Star Fleet. Retroblasting, Michael Mercy, and many more have no recollection of it at all. The X Bomber and Dai-X are awesome and I always wanted toy's of them.
Matt Leuty try Gerry Anderson channel
@@jayh9529 I'll check it out, thanks for replying. All the best to you!
I remember and i LOVE it 😀
www.sfxb.co.uk/
@@billcarson9565 thanks mate
Commander Mc Kara"No more f ups Orion".
They want to know about F-Zero one? They could've just bought a Super Nintendo. 😁
the reason there was no second set of episodes that were in demand by itv...well sadly the studios were they made starfleet had burned down and all the puppets were burned
Those pilots must use the same shooting range as Stormtroopers...🤣
I watched this show religiously when I was little. Unfortunately in South Africa they only broadcast the first 12 episodes.
wow, that's soo bad to do for a kids show!
Another funny fact is that the first twelve episodes were themselves the only ones aired in japan in the 1980s, long until the DVD came along!
This is mostly because the series bombed so hard in its native country, that the next dozen episodes aired outside of Japan first, also in the 1980s!
I'm sure last time I looked at this video late last year the picture quality was better than this. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. Now I decided to watch all the way through anyway (good thing it is properly formatted as a 4:3 video as it fits nicely on the 4:3 monitor I have here with a bigger screen than my laptop) and so far it seems very well produced but the voice acting lets it down. Some of the wooden voice acting I don't mind, and some of it is actually funny in itself, but the voices of the villains I think and PPA went too far in the kids' program voice direction and are just over-the-top ridiculous. I don't know if the original voice acting is a lot better as I don't understand Japanese and even if I did I don't know if the emotion would come across in the same way. Anyway I'm surprised the program has sort of gripped me. Now I want to know what F01 is, though I'm pretty sure it is just a room in the physics building of the university I just started at.
this was one of my favs as a kid, still have a 500 piece puzzle of the two bad guys. I also wonder if Dangioh took inspiration from this show, lots of similarities.
Commander Makara was hot!
A strangely dark type of hot about her 🤔 lol
SPOILER ALERT : I really wish they had an episode where the Ocean Fleet fought the actual Imperial Fighters and Motherships. I think Ocean Fleet (or their model fighters at least) made an appearance in the final episodes.
Captain Carter gets seriously £$%^&*d up!
Is that Kirk Lazarus from Tropic Thunder? ......🤣
I wonder if any of the original props exist? I've seen some of the production photos and the xbomber was massive for close up shots.
The original props themselves were sadly destroyed in a fire, but photos of them have survived.
lol ok ok for the people that dont know i still watch it i have it on dvd
I watched when I was a kid but got it mixed up with Thunderbirds Go!
Thunderbirds Go?
Can you please make a BitChute account and upload all these episodes up there as well. TH-cam is cancer and I'd love to watch these elsewhere.
Hercules with the bad attitude, go figure.
EDF! EDF!
Anyone else thinking Gerry Anderson? :-) I thought this was Terrahawks...
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Yaeh! Well the imperial force is gonna find out what F01 is, that's what!!
Js the best way Love you so Japan
How I am gotta watch this video without subtitles, hm?? 😓
is it me, or for a puppet, lamia`s beautiful.
Estaria bueno en castellano
Didn't Gerry Anderson do part of this?
Nope.
No, It was Japanese but they were heavily influenced by Gerry Anderson.
I'd prefer to watch this with the japanese dub ; (
It's good but why not just use GnBots cheatz?
The realism is let down only by the disproportionate number of gingers.
Evil dolls
used to love saying "Commanda Macahrrah".......Say it with me guys..."Cammanda Macahrrah"
Commander Adama ?
Commander Makara, as a character, was originally named Bloody Mary in the original Japanese version, X Bomber. Her international name is borrowed from that of a Hindu mythology spirit.
@@SlapstickGenius23 huh... interesting !!