AboutMike Hensel Expertise I will try and answer all questions dealing with television...show names, plots, actors, roles, networks, etc...US shows primarily; not real knowledgeable on TV from other countries...I lean heavily into past, more so than current, television...and, my knowledge dealing with "reality" shows is limited, due to the fact that I really can't stand the genre (my apologies to all the "Reality" fans out there...)
Experience Years of watching and cataloging television shows
Expert: Mike Hensel Date: 4/29/2008 Subject: tv cartoon
Question I can't remember the name of a cartoon. The plot was that the earth was either dying or in some kind of major trouble. An old ship was restored and was designed so it could fly in space. The crew of the ship only had a few years to travel to another planet for a answer to the worlds problems or something like that. Sorry for not having more details. I hope you can help me. It came out in the late 70's I believe.
Answer David, your description is enough for me to know what you are looking for...
The show you remember was called, "Star Blazers", which was syndicated in 1979...
It's the English-dubbed version of "Space Battleship Yamoto", a Japanese cartoon aired in Japan in 1974...
The English version tells the story of Earth being bombarded by radioactive bombs sent by the Gamilons, an alien race who wants our planet for themselves. The radiation forces the humans underground, but it's seeping into the Earth, and within a year, the Earth will die...
A mysterious space probe is found on Mars. In the probe, blueprints for a faster-than-light engine are discovered, and a message from Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar who has a device called the Cosmo DNA, which can cleanse Earth of its radiation. The catch is that someone from Earth will have to go get it...
The inhabitants of Earth find the ruins of the Japanese battleship Yamato and turn it into a massive spaceship; the Argo; which is fitted with with a warp drive using Starsha's blueprints and a new, incredibly powerful weapon called the "wave motion gun" that fires out the bow. A small group of soldiers, called the Star Force, take the Argo on its nearly year-long trip to Iscandar to retrieve the device, battling the Gamilons along the way...
