japense cartoon

[gods-son-10]

can anyone tell the name of the cartoon in which they flew space crafts of some sort but the suits they wore had like birds head as the helmet ,the beak of the birds head sat like the peak of a baseball cap with a blue visor ,i think there were four of them and they wore different colour suits.it must of been on air around about the early tomid eighties.

thanks

[epstein]

Sounds like Battle Of The Planets

[LeMarchand]

I'd second that, and add that it was an Americanized version of the much longer, more violent and 7-Zark-7 free anime "Gatchaman".

[Joe Shmoe]

It definately sounds like Battle Of The Planets to me. Did it have a robot narrating the story? and a little guy called Keyop who brrkding each time he spoke?

[Joe Shmoe]

Sorry I meant to say Keyop used to say Brrkding every time he spoke.

[littleoldme]

That's the one, Joe. The robot narrator was 7 Zark 7 who, as LeMarchand rightly says, did not appear in the Japanese original. He was added by the Americans to cover the parts they'd had to remove for excessive violence - the original Science Ninja Gatchaman was certainly not suitable for kids as it stood, so 7 Zark 7 (and his robot dog, 1 Rover 1) hid the bits where the editor had got heavy.

BTW, the conclusion to the series was never shown - the last few episodes of SNG being so violent that we would have been left with 7 Zark 7 and little else. According to the wonderful www.tv.cream.org , Jason (head goodie) went mad, swore like a 20-stone docker and went round hitting everybody before being machine-gunned in the head, while Zoltar (chief baddie and hermaphrodite - his female self being explained away in the US as his "sister") committed suicide by diving into a pit of molten lava. Lovely.

[rebby]

Definitely Battle of the Planets although its sometimes known a G-Force too. I only remember one of the characters, I think he was called Tiny and wore a green suit - the other characters always took the p*ss out of him

[Joe Shmoe]

rebby that was keyop!