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The version of Battle of the Planets released in the United Kindom was the same as its American original.
The complete eighty-five episode series was purchased by the UK's national BBC network and all were aired. The full series airing took a long time however. It premiered on the BBC on September 3, 1979 and finished on July 20, 1985. Liberal amounts of reruns were shown and the series bounced around from from weekend to daily weekday airing, never really finding a stable schedule. It took nearly the full term of the contract to air all eighty-five episodes, as the series was licensed from September, 1979 to October, 1985.
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Here are the eighty-five episode titles with their UK BBC premiere dates. The BBC's airing order is different than any other. All of the episodes were released in one DVD box set, the first country to do so for the series.
Attack of the Space Terrapin 1 (9/3/79)
Rescue of the Astronauts 2 (9/10/79)
Big Robot Gold Grab 6 (9/17/79)
The Jupiter Moon Menace 9 (9/24/79)
Space Rocket Escort 11 (10/1/79)
Microfilm Mystery 16 (10/8/79)
The Musical Mummy 24 (10/15/79)
The Fiery Lava Giant 25 (10/22/79)
Race Against Disaster 27 (10/29/79)
Siege of the Squids 36 (11/5/79)
Orion, Wonder Dog of Space 37 (11/12/79)
The Space Rock Concert 41 (11/19/79)
Peaks of Planet Odin 51 (10/4/80)
Prisoners In Space 42 (11/21/80)
Seals of Sytron 45 (11/28/80)
Capture of the Galaxy Code 47 (12/5/80)
Raid On A Nearby Planet 48 (12/12/80)
Keyop Does It All 49 (12/19/80)
Curse of the Cuttlefish Part I 32 (12/22/80)
Curse of the Cuttlefish Part II 33 (12/23/80)
Museum of Mystery 74 (12/24/80)
Mission To Inner Space 83 (12/26/80)
The Fierce Flowers Part I 39 (12/28/80)
The Fierce Flowers Part II 40 (12/29/80)
Super Space Spies 86 (12/30/80)
Vacation On Venus 96 (12/31/80)
Space Safari 73 (1/2/81)
Silent City 68 (9/5/81)
The Alien Bigfoot 71 (4/3/82)
Cupid Does It To Keyop 87 (4/10/82)
Decoys of Doom 62 (12/21/82)
Peril In the Pyramids 69 (12/22/82)
G-Force In the Future 100 (12/23/82)
Island of Fear 89 (12/24/82)
Panic of the Peacock 80 (12/27/82)
Save the Space Colony 93 (12/28/82)
Invasion of the Locusts 72 (12/29/82)
Giant From Planet Zyr 58 (12/30/82)
A Swarm of Robot Ants 10 (7/26/83)
Beast With A Sweet Tooth 12 (8/2/83)
The Space Mummy 3 (4/16/84)
The Space Serpent 4 (4/17/84)
Ghost Ship of Planet Mir 5 (4/18/84) |
Ace From Outer Space 7 (4/19/84)
Fearful Sea Anemone 8 (4/20/84)
Perilous Pleasure Cruise 14 (4/23/84)
The Thing With 1,000 Eyes 15 (4/24/84)
The Alien Beetles 17 (4/25/84)
Magnetic Attraction 23 (4/26/84)
The Galaxy Girls 31 (4/27/84)
Victims of the Hawk 43 (5/7/84)
Raid On Riga 44 (5/28/84)
Mad New Ruler of Spectra 21 (7/24/84)
The Sea Dragon 22 (7/31/84)
The Bat-Ray Bombers 26 (8/7/84)
Demons of the Desert 35 (8/14/84)
Fastest Gun In the Galaxy 57 (8/21/84)
Giant Space Bat 60 (8/28/84)
Zoltar Strikes Out 63 (9/5/84)
Rage of the Robotoids 70 (9/12/84)
The Awesome Ray Force 76 (9/19/84)
Giant Gila Monster 46 (10/22/84)
The Sky Is falling! Part I 52 (10/23/84)
The Sky Is falling! Part II 53 (10/24/84)
Raid of the Red Scorpion 54 (10/26/84)
Mammoth Shark Menace 55 (10/29/84)
Attack of the Alien Wasp 61 (10/30/84)
The Great Brain Robbery 65 (10/31/84)
Raid of the Space Octopus 67 (11/2/84)
Peril of the Preying Mantis 75 (4/1/85)
The Duplicate King 77 (4/2/85)
Tentacles From Space 88 (4/3/85)
The Awesome Armadillo 90 (4/4/85)
Rockets Out of Control 97 (4/5/85)
G-Force Defector 98 (4/8/85)
Invasion of Space Center Part I 91 (4/9/85)
Invasion of Space Center Part II 92 (4/10/85)
Strike At Spectra 99 (4/11/85)
The Conway Tape Tap 101 (4/12/85)
Defector To Spectra 79 (6/5/85)
Spectra Space Spider 84 (6/12/85)
A Whale Joins G-Force 18 (6/29/85)
The Ghostly Grasshopper 30 (7/6/85)
Secret Island 59 (7/13/85)
Charioteers of Changu 95 (7/20/85)
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The UK was wealthy in merchandise options. Kids in the UK had tons of merchandise to choose from - original comics, activity books, die-cast toys, electronic gun toys, video games and even episodes on early videotape releases. For a look at some of the merchandise released in the UK, click here.
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