My brother and I used to run home after school in the fall of '79 to watch this. We loved this series so much; it was unlike any other cartoon we had seen. I wish there was a soundtrack album of the music
There are several soundtracks of the music. I made a playlist of some of it for my own enjoyment, but there is a lot out there - ua-cam.com/video/V5cSGXmLYSw/v-deo.html
OMG I remember fighting with my little sister to watch this after school 😂 I loved this show and Battle of the Planets. So glad you've uploaded this one so I can enjoy again!
This show was the man reason I rushed home from school too watch along with G force 78 throughout 86 till college 😆 lol great shows hope my grandkids get a chance to watch.
There are several UA-cam videos of orchestras and bands playing the Uchu Senkan Yamato/Starblazers themes, including the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force Band. Search for "Space Battleship YAMATO" Themes ⚓ Japanese Navy Band
6am - 6:30am, never missed an episode for 2 years then they started doing reruns. A few years later, it was replaced with Robotech Macross Saga, never missed an episode of that either... All I remember is other cartoons were garbage by comparison.
I also went home every day anticipating this show. It was the first animation that didnt insult the intelligence of boys. The mechanical details of the machines in this show captured my imagination. I still get chills watching some of these scenes. Superb show!
Nostalgia ahoy! Before leaving for school, this and the sanitized Battle of the Planets were my morning jam. It was a fun time for a young science fiction fan.
I remember this show from the early 80s. I rushed home everyday afterschool to watch it at 330 pm. This video appears to be the restoration that Voyager Entertainment did in the early 90s. Originally it was sold on VHS and ported over to DVD at the turn of the century. They did a really nice job of cleaning up the video and audio. But the second season wasn't given the same level of care though. That could be a limitation from the sources that were available. Almost everything made for TV back in the 70s onwards was recorded straight to analog video designed for broadcast (with DTV they would switch to digital sometime at the turn of the century). So at the time when Voyager Entertainment released it on VHS, they probably only had access to analog masters that were 25 years old at the time. Analog degrades with age and being recopied. The highest quality videos are of the original source material from Japan, under the title Space Battleship Yamato. You would also see how much had to be edited out for the western version that is Star Blazers.
Yes, I enjoyed watching the subtitled Japanese 'originals' - so different than the US, and better in some ways, and some ways, not as good "emotion-wise' as the US release. (IMO)
This was popular in Australia, I think just because you could actually see our continent in the shots of Earth, which you NEVER see in American media. It was the big thing inbetween earlier Battle of The Planets (sanitised Gatchaman) and later Robotech (sanitised Macross). We also had 80's Astroboy. I dunno if that was sanitised, but I don't remember him using his butt-guns outside of the credits, or recharging anally, like in the manga.
"Toy Galaxy" fan? If not go hit his channel, you'll love it. I was also watching as kid in Aus. I used to make really bad models of the G-Force ship from 2nd hand legos. 🤓
I loved this stuff- I had a Battle Of The Planets lunchbox in elementary school, and two years ago, my brother got me a Keyop action figure for Xmas. Oh yeah- I’m 50. And my brother is 58. 🤣👍🏻
Outside of "Battle of the Planets", I use to run from Clint P. Russell, and J. Leslie Patton both middle school 5th to 6 grade level middle school, from G. Force to the Yemato and the Star Force I just had to watch every storyline and love it so much that I'm trying to get the DVDS for both and the models, I've got to have them.
I binged the entirety of Season 1 when I was about 23, around 2000, 2001 whereabouts, and: Man, I was BLOWN AWAY by what a good series it was. I had expected nothing, and walked away with everything. It's difficult to find; I taught myself Japanese and went to Japan and still found it hard to find -- amidst so many updated versions and remakes, the original is hard to find. Save those tapes!
Captain Avatar was such a great father figure…. When he died, I remember being so upset… Really felt the loss for days… This show was extremely realistic about war…. And had very adult themes… which was oddly appealing to me as a a twelve year old back in n 1979…
I watched this in the morning before going to school. I actually bought a model battleship and submarine, then Frankenstein them together to create this ship. I used a wood burning pen to melt the opening in the front for the ship for the wave motion cannon.
This was and still is my favorite show in the afternoon I would go to the air and space museum and pretend that the aircraft carrier was the argo thank you guys for the great memories 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I absolutely love this show with all my heart! Same - I would rush home to NEVER miss an episode. If you missed one, you were crushed!!!I was so excited for the updated 'remake' but was sorely disappointed with Season 2, and what they did with Gatlantis/Comet Empire
Watched this as a young kid and just loved it. I'd kitbash Starblazers-looking spaceships from various model parts and junk, and imagine my own battles and adventures. Now computer technology has caught up, and I can load up Space Engineers and build, fly, and fight with realistic looking UNCF ships, including shock cannon and wave motion gun mods. Probably for the best I didn't have this computer as a kid. I'd have never left my room.
I just have to add now that I have watched the whole thing that I used to watch this when I was a child. It was my favorite show and I used to draw and this influenced my drawing style for years. I drew space battles and my gun smoke and explosions, thrusters and stuff was all Star Blazers. Love the Space Battle Yamamoto tie in that I knew nothing about until years later. This is very nostalgic for me. Still a big fan and I even liked the Live Action movie!
LOL! "We jumped thousands of lightyears..." Yeah, all the way from the Moon to Mars. At most, a distance of about 24 light minutes. I knew this was wrong even when I was a kid, watching Star Blazers for the first time. You think somebody might have checked the dialog.
WUAB 43 ran this at 6:30 a.m. & I would get up to record the audio off the TV with my tape recorder right against the speaker. I ran out of tapes... All I have left was 1 minute from a Comet Empire episode. No idea which one.
This has everything! A great story, look and a great score. But for some inexplicable reason they screwed up the live action movie. Well I don’t think it should’ve been done as a standalone movie to begin with.
Agreed - I was hugely disappointed in the Live Action Movie. Just make the series we all love - WHY do you have to screw with it? Same with the Yamato 2199 Animation. They totally screwed up (in my opinion) Season 2, the Comet Empires. UGH.
I just now realized that when they show the gamalon head quarters they play the same sound effect as the background sound when they enter the alien area in “Forbidden Planet”….that same droning electro sound.
Still R.I.P. to Leiji Matsumoto. ☠️⚔️☠️ I actually placed several homages to his work (especially Starblazers/Yamato) in my own series. In particular, the first character you meet is named "Leijimoto". Later on, indeed, you meet "Starshaa". #WeWillReturn 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
Yeah - the "Official" VCR Tapes are not that clear - i recall it being fuzzy on channel 29 when I would originally watch it. I bet these VCR tapes were duped from a fuzzy tape to begin with -
@@JerryScullion , the original Japanese broadcast was from a 16mm dupe off the 35mm negative of season 1. The US release was another generation down because they made all these edits, then you have videotape. For the Japanese Blu-Ray they went back to the 35mm negative for season 1. No US remaster was ever done at best you had a DVD copy of the VHS tapes. And since season 2 and 3 were done natively on 16mm they never bothered to remaster those in Japan they are only on DVD. But the first two features did make it to 4K scans and 4K UHD discs.
@@matthewgaudet4064 Thanks, Matthew - that pretty much sums up why I can never find any really good transfers of the show, best I've seen was in original Japanese
This show I never watched when I was younger.... But looking at it now.... It sounds a lot a cross between Battlestar Galactica & Crusade (spin off show of Babylon 5). And even a little bit of Mission Genesis/Deepwater Black
the only bad part is that episode 2 gave a breif history of tje yamato. but the tv censors told the tv stations they had to edit it out of the episode. because they thought they would offend Americans.
I remember this series. However, I had to find the Japanese anime version. Because, the American version would cut anywhere from 45 seconds to 2 minutes 😮
I wonder why they ended up calling the ship the Argo instead of keeping the name Yamato. If it was to Americanize it.....then they shouldn't have referenced it as the Yamato at all.
I think, broadly speaking it was an effort at localization. The name "Yamato" is multilayered and freighted with enormous meaning and importance in Japanese culture, principally being tied to the murky beginnings of the Japanese people - something pretty important to ancestor worship. I think they tried to interpret some of that meaning by naming it the "Argo" which in Western culture was the ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their crusade to save their home by retrieving the golden fleece - in that sense, you can see the obvious story parallel.
It was just the name of the people on the Yamato (argo). The crew and those who traveled on the earth ships were referred to as the star force. Like Marine Corps, Army, Navy.
Man I love this show. Used to rush home from school in order to watch it at 330 every afternoon!
Me as well, hated that anything would make me miss an episode!
me too :)
used to watch it on cable tv. IIRC wpix11 used to broadcast it.
It does have that classic space epic feel to it
Philadelphia channel 29 for me. Great memories of this show.
@@hoos3014 Same! I think it came on at 3:00. I wish YT would 'allow' me to upload the rest of the season, but it won't.
Star Blazers and Spider-Man were the best things about school days.
Sad
My brother and I used to run home after school in the fall of '79 to watch this. We loved this series so much; it was unlike any other cartoon we had seen. I wish there was a soundtrack album of the music
There are several soundtracks of the music. I made a playlist of some of it for my own enjoyment, but there is a lot out there - ua-cam.com/video/V5cSGXmLYSw/v-deo.html
Watched every day, but it was on super early in morning, so I watched every day before school on a little bw tv in my bedroom.
It was very different from the non stop Hanna Barbara remakes of Scooby Doo :)
OMG I remember fighting with my little sister to watch this after school 😂
I loved this show and Battle of the Planets. So glad you've uploaded this one so I can enjoy again!
Yeah this was THE After -school show to watch - and you didn't DARE miss an episode, because you'd never know how 'yesterday's' episode concluded!!
@@JerryScullion yep, I really loved that about the show! Thanks again :)
Loved Battle of the Planets. Seen it a million times. John Boy was great!
This show was the man reason I rushed home from school too watch along with G force 78 throughout 86 till college 😆 lol great shows hope my grandkids get a chance to watch.
Same
It would be on at 7pm in Seattle on local TV. I’d watch it before getting on the bus.
The music is one of the best qualities of this cartoon. Really captures the mood.
You can find the music from the show on UA-cam.
There are several UA-cam videos of orchestras and bands playing the Uchu Senkan Yamato/Starblazers themes, including the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force Band. Search for "Space Battleship YAMATO" Themes ⚓ Japanese Navy Band
God, I walked home real quick to make sure I saw every episode. 🙂
Me too - a fast 45 min walk home from school to make it by 3:00
We used to have to catch early morning before school, around 79-80.😃
6am - 6:30am, never missed an episode for 2 years then they started doing reruns. A few years later, it was replaced with Robotech Macross Saga, never missed an episode of that either... All I remember is other cartoons were garbage by comparison.
I also went home every day anticipating this show. It was the first animation that didnt insult the intelligence of boys. The mechanical details of the machines in this show captured my imagination. I still get chills watching some of these scenes. Superb show!
Way to much evaluation bro
@@TheGameHHH2000too, bro
Raced home from middle school to watch this on Channel 29 in Philly in early/mid 80s.
I get goosebumps watching the intro. Amazing!
Loved this as a kid , but looking back , I should have known they would have succeeded , they totally had the funk on their side.😂
It was a great show. I watched it in the mornings on WCIX 6 out of Miami while I was in Davie. Must have been 1979.
Nostalgia ahoy! Before leaving for school, this and the sanitized Battle of the Planets were my morning jam. It was a fun time for a young science fiction fan.
Same. My parents hated it. Too much violence they claimed.
I remember this show from the early 80s. I rushed home everyday afterschool to watch it at 330 pm.
This video appears to be the restoration that Voyager Entertainment did in the early 90s. Originally it was sold on VHS and ported over to DVD at the turn of the century. They did a really nice job of cleaning up the video and audio. But the second season wasn't given the same level of care though. That could be a limitation from the sources that were available. Almost everything made for TV back in the 70s onwards was recorded straight to analog video designed for broadcast (with DTV they would switch to digital sometime at the turn of the century). So at the time when Voyager Entertainment released it on VHS, they probably only had access to analog masters that were 25 years old at the time. Analog degrades with age and being recopied.
The highest quality videos are of the original source material from Japan, under the title Space Battleship Yamato. You would also see how much had to be edited out for the western version that is Star Blazers.
Yes, I enjoyed watching the subtitled Japanese 'originals' - so different than the US, and better in some ways, and some ways, not as good "emotion-wise' as the US release. (IMO)
Sunday was the 50th anniversary of the original Japanese broadcast!
This was popular in Australia, I think just because you could actually see our continent in the shots of Earth, which you NEVER see in American media. It was the big thing inbetween earlier Battle of The Planets (sanitised Gatchaman) and later Robotech (sanitised Macross). We also had 80's Astroboy. I dunno if that was sanitised, but I don't remember him using his butt-guns outside of the credits, or recharging anally, like in the manga.
"Toy Galaxy" fan? If not go hit his channel, you'll love it. I was also watching as kid in Aus. I used to make really bad models of the G-Force ship from 2nd hand legos. 🤓
I loved this stuff- I had a Battle Of The Planets lunchbox in elementary school, and two years ago, my brother got me a Keyop action figure for Xmas. Oh yeah- I’m 50. And my brother is 58. 🤣👍🏻
Thank u for this I was 8 when this classic came out.
This brought back memories from long ago, I loved watching this show every day after school. Thanks for uploading and sharing.
Oh man. I watched this show getting ready for school in the late 70’s when I was in high school.
Outside of "Battle of the Planets", I use to run from Clint P. Russell, and J. Leslie Patton both middle school 5th to 6 grade level middle school, from G. Force to the Yemato and the Star Force I just had to watch every storyline and love it so much that I'm trying to get the DVDS for both and the models, I've got to have them.
We had this followed by Speed Racer on channel 34 Oklahoma. I would try not to miss an episode.
I binged the entirety of Season 1 when I was about 23, around 2000, 2001 whereabouts, and: Man, I was BLOWN AWAY by what a good series it was. I had expected nothing, and walked away with everything. It's difficult to find; I taught myself Japanese and went to Japan and still found it hard to find -- amidst so many updated versions and remakes, the original is hard to find. Save those tapes!
Captain Avatar was such a great father figure…. When he died, I remember being so upset… Really felt the loss for days…
This show was extremely realistic about war…. And had very adult themes… which was oddly appealing to me as a a twelve year old back in n 1979…
I used to sing the song when I was a kid. Love this show
Phil Tonken was the voiceover artist that read the opening and closing narrative for Star Blazers
I have fond memories of this show and Heavy Metal magazine from back then.
迫力満点！其れから実に素晴らしい！
Used to draw this ship on paper vs enemies soo much playing pencil battles
I watched this in the morning before going to school.
I actually bought a model battleship and submarine, then Frankenstein them together to create this ship.
I used a wood burning pen to melt the opening in the front for the ship for the wave motion cannon.
This show made me late for school…loved it!
This was and still is my favorite show in the afternoon I would go to the air and space museum and pretend that the aircraft carrier was the argo thank you guys for the great memories 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I absolutely love this show with all my heart! Same - I would rush home to NEVER miss an episode. If you missed one, you were crushed!!!I was so excited for the updated 'remake' but was sorely disappointed with Season 2, and what they did with Gatlantis/Comet Empire
I can still sing the entire intro and outro, after all these years.
This brings back a lot of memories.
Thanks man. My GF is from Japan and she informed me about this. Except for the real translation (as per her), this is awesome.
Watched this as a young kid and just loved it. I'd kitbash Starblazers-looking spaceships from various model parts and junk, and imagine my own battles and adventures. Now computer technology has caught up, and I can load up Space Engineers and build, fly, and fight with realistic looking UNCF ships, including shock cannon and wave motion gun mods. Probably for the best I didn't have this computer as a kid. I'd have never left my room.
Wow you are scary
Everyday after school on ch 29 out of Philly when I grew up in Maryland as a kid.
I'm outside Philly as well, and it was a mad rush from sophomore high school to make sure I didn't miss an episode - those cliffhangers!!!
I remember the ship and the character faces and the intro song, I know I watched this all the time as a kid. But I can't remember the story, lol.
ＳFアニメ宇宙戦艦ヤマトパート１が放送開始したのは、１９７４年１０月６日。当時僕はまだ３歳で東京都三鷹市に住みました！然し乍ら同番組が放送開始した１９７４年は、怪獣特撮映画🎬ゴジラ対メカゴジラが公開した年でした！
classic, luv the live action movie as well. great share.
I just have to add now that I have watched the whole thing that I used to watch this when I was a child. It was my favorite show and I used to draw and this influenced my drawing style for years. I drew space battles and my gun smoke and explosions, thrusters and stuff was all Star Blazers. Love the Space Battle Yamamoto tie in that I knew nothing about until years later. This is very nostalgic for me. Still a big fan and I even liked the Live Action movie!
Yes!! I loved this show!!
LOL! "We jumped thousands of lightyears..."
Yeah, all the way from the Moon to Mars. At most, a distance of about 24 light minutes. I knew this was wrong even when I was a kid, watching Star Blazers for the first time. You think somebody might have checked the dialog.
That bothered me too as an eighth grade science fiction fan.
Yeah, some sloppy science. But the sound effects of the shock cannons makes up for it!
There’s a great video of the Japanese Navy band performing this theme. Epic.
This is still the only show I would wake up for at 7:30 in the morning…….and I’m 56…..
Thank you for sharing!
This was made before they knew the Yamoto was in several pieces. There was full hull separation when she sank
All lies!!!😂
WUAB 43 ran this at 6:30 a.m. & I would get up to record the audio off the TV with my tape recorder right against the speaker. I ran out of tapes... All I have left was 1 minute from a Comet Empire episode. No idea which one.
WGN Channel 9 in Chicago played it the same time.
Channel 43, Plays Favorites!
@Mrshoujo In the 70's, I used to record TV theme songs the same way. So that I could listen to them whenever I wanted. 😊
I can never forget the words to the theme.
This, and Ulysses 31. Best cartoon theme music.
懐かしいね～！
'Our Pluto base on gamilon' 😂
Ah, the memories...
OUR Star Blazers! 🚢🌠
This has everything! A great story, look and a great score. But for some inexplicable reason they screwed up the live action movie. Well I don’t think it should’ve been done as a standalone movie to begin with.
Agreed - I was hugely disappointed in the Live Action Movie. Just make the series we all love - WHY do you have to screw with it? Same with the Yamato 2199 Animation. They totally screwed up (in my opinion) Season 2, the Comet Empires. UGH.
I didn't watch it when it was first on TV but I did later on and I still like it
Best days of my life and i never knew it.
実に素晴らしい！其れから気分爽快！
I just now realized that when they show the gamalon head quarters they play the same sound effect as the background sound when they enter the alien area in “Forbidden Planet”….that same droning electro sound.
スターブレイザーズシーズン１は、ＳFアニメ宇宙戦艦ヤマトパート１の北米版です！
So close to farewell to space battleship Yamato.
My ❤ this cartoon I rushed for home to see it my love for this cartoon and search for a battle of the planets my childhood❤❤❤❤
Captain Cosmic after school in late 70s on KTVU Channel 2 Oakland/San Francisco station. Was anyone else there too?
Juggled the TV antenna to watch it in Southern Oregon.
I watched this while stationed in Haway 1984-86
*¡enjoyed at 3:21 pm Pacific Standard Time on Friday, 18 November 2022!*
I wish you would group more episodes like this please
Boy, I should just make one giant episode dump in one vide op- maybe I'll try that
Still R.I.P. to Leiji Matsumoto. ☠️⚔️☠️ I actually placed several homages to his work (especially Starblazers/Yamato) in my own series. In particular, the first character you meet is named "Leijimoto". Later on, indeed, you meet "Starshaa". #WeWillReturn
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This quality reminds me of streaming it from Toonomi back in the very late 1999s or early 2000s when they started streaming shows on their website.
Yeah - the "Official" VCR Tapes are not that clear - i recall it being fuzzy on channel 29 when I would originally watch it. I bet these VCR tapes were duped from a fuzzy tape to begin with -
@@JerryScullion channel 13 out of LA when I would watch
@@JerryScullion , the original Japanese broadcast was from a 16mm dupe off the 35mm negative of season 1. The US release was another generation down because they made all these edits, then you have videotape. For the Japanese Blu-Ray they went back to the 35mm negative for season 1. No US remaster was ever done at best you had a DVD copy of the VHS tapes. And since season 2 and 3 were done natively on 16mm they never bothered to remaster those in Japan they are only on DVD. But the first two features did make it to 4K scans and 4K UHD discs.
@@matthewgaudet4064 Thanks, Matthew - that pretty much sums up why I can never find any really good transfers of the show, best I've seen was in original Japanese
This show I never watched when I was younger.... But looking at it now.... It sounds a lot a cross between Battlestar Galactica & Crusade (spin off show of Babylon 5). And even a little bit of Mission Genesis/Deepwater Black
You are a legend
Fun memories.....
I'm with you on that one brother 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Made sure to scrub the timeline from right to left when I finished. i'm kind that way.
満足！
the only bad part is that episode 2 gave a breif history of tje yamato. but the tv censors told the tv stations they had to edit it out of the episode. because they thought they would offend Americans.
スターブレイザーズシーズン１は、SFアニメ宇宙戦艦ヤマトパート１の海外版です！
100% correct and I thought Paramount was planning a remake around 2010 did that ever happen?
スターブレイザーズは、ＳＦアニメ宇宙戦艦ヤマトの海外版です！
We all have this in common guys ! 👍
ボリューム満点！其れから満足！
I remember this series. However, I had to find the Japanese anime version. Because, the American version would cut anywhere from 45 seconds to 2 minutes 😮
ダイナミック！其れからデリシャス！
Pluto is not far from Earth but Mars is thousands of light-years from earth. Hmmm
Song was corny, but what a great show! I loved Battle of the Planets too!
I FOUND MY PEOPLE!!!!!!
haha - you're among friends! :)
I guess this means that in 2199 Pluto is considered a planet again???
Please be kind and rewind
ＳFアニメ宇宙戦艦ヤマトパート１が放送開始した１９７４年は、トヨタクラウン４ドア🚪ハードトップが誕生した年でした！
I wonder why they ended up calling the ship the Argo instead of keeping the name Yamato. If it was to Americanize it.....then they shouldn't have referenced it as the Yamato at all.
I think they had to 'explain' what it was, initially, so we had some context as to what was sunk and why, and then 100% never mention it again! :)
Do you wish they just left it as Yamato?
I think it’s because the name Yamato can embody the Japanese imperialism as of WW2.
I think, broadly speaking it was an effort at localization. The name "Yamato" is multilayered and freighted with enormous meaning and importance in Japanese culture, principally being tied to the murky beginnings of the Japanese people - something pretty important to ancestor worship. I think they tried to interpret some of that meaning by naming it the "Argo" which in Western culture was the ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their crusade to save their home by retrieving the golden fleece - in that sense, you can see the obvious story parallel.
Just realized the error in calculated distance. Saying they traveled light years from the moon to mars. Hmmmm…ok.
ah, that pesky law of physics! :)
Mars is thousands of light years from Earth😂 well it’s a kids show.
And its distance (in light minutes) depends on relative orbital positions.
@@GlobalCalligraphic-oo1wq no duh!
It's 24 light minutes from Earth.
This & Battle of the Planets
I used to build Lego ships 😂
宇宙戦艦ヤマトは、旅客機に例えると株式会社全日本空輸のエアバスＡ３８０型旅客機みたい！
yey
切れ味抜群！
切れ味最高！
What year was this ? Damn
I just hate it when they say "spacebattleship"
on the bridge of a spaceship 😑🖖🏼
スターフォースは、どう言う意味ですか？
It was just the name of the people on the Yamato (argo). The crew and those who traveled on the earth ships were referred to as the star force. Like Marine Corps, Army, Navy.
TORSCK
FORETIORCK