Episode
Battle of the Planets: Race Against Disaster
Overview
Jason enters a continental auto race with a fellow driver named Lucy. However, Lucy is not all she seems to be. Although used by Spectra to infiltrate G-Force via Jason, Lucy is not able to compete her mission because she has grown fond of Jason. This is quite a feat, especially after the revelation that she is a robot!
Details
- Series
- Battle of the Planets
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1978-09-22
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Race Against Disaster is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Battle of the Planets. It aired on 1978-09-22. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 4: Siege of the Squids
A cargo ship is destroyed, but the only witnesses, fisherman and his sons, are reluctant to tell G-Force what they know.
Episode 6: The Space Rock Concert
The Team is relaxing at a Dirty Name 5 concert when Spectra appears! The entire band is kidnapped and forced to play. Their music is used as a sound weapon, literally shaking apart whatever it is directed at. The G-Force team have to rescue the band and stop Zoltar from succeeding in his plan.
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Episode 3: Raid of the Space Octopus
Zoltar attacks Earth's power plants with a tentacled mech, but when G-Force attacks, the Phoenix experiences malfunctions.
Episode 7: Decoys of Doom
Humanoid decoys of the G-Force team are created to be used as bait in a trap for Spectra. The "real" Mark swaps places with his decoy and is captured by Spectra. Mark must signal the team and lead G-Force to the Spectra base.
Episode 2: The Fiery Lava Giant
On Space Island, a colonized asteroid, a Lava Giant suddenly appears and goes on a rampage.
Episode 8: Attack of the Alien Wasp
Mark while flying his jet encounters Colonel Chronos, who was believed to be dead, and follows him back to his secret base, where he gives Mark documents revealing the location of Spectra's Earth headquarters.
Episode 1: Giant from Planet Zyr
A team of scientists on Earth develop the Jet Cutter, a new laser to powerful enough to cut through a new indestructible metal that Spectra has developed. But Spectra uses a giant humanoid mech to steal the Jet Cutter. G-Force travels to Zyr to try and find the giant and recover the laser.
Episode 9: The Thing with 1,000 Eyes
G-Force travels to planet Riga to look into the mysterious disappearance of an investigating team.
Episode 10: Panic of the Peacock
A giant mechanical peacock constructed by Spectra invades Earth, while Mark is kidnapped and his memory surpressed!
Episode 11: A Whale Joins G-Force
Spectra sends a mechanical whale to Earth. The Mecha attacks Bay City and G-Force goes after it. The Team interrupts the Spectra ship as it attacks some whales and Keyop promptly adopts a baby whale that survived. G-Force must locate the Spectra base and stop Zoltar before he destroys all of Earth's whales!
Episode 12: Peril of the Praying Mantis
Spectra launches it's latest attack, but when the team is called together Tiny cannot be reached so the team has to attempt to fend off the attack without him.
Episode 13: Fastest Gun in the Galaxy
Spectra agents bring a man who was released from 30 years in prison back to planet Spectra. The ex-prisoner was an expert marksman and Zoltar wants him to operate Spectra's newest weapon, a vehicle mounted gun. G-Force goes to Spectra to investigate.