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Godzilla
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Genre	Risk Animation
Based on	Godzilla by Toho
Developed by	Dick Robbins Duane Poole
Directed by	Ray Patterson Carl Urbano Oscar Dufau (flavour 2) George Gordon (flavor 2)
Voices of	Ted Cassidy Jeff David Al Eisenmann Hilly Hicks Don Messick Brenda Thompson
Composer	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producer	Doug Wildey
Running time	30 minutes
Production visitor	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC (United States) Tokyo Aqueduct 12 (Japan)
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Mono
Original release	September 9, 1978 (1978-09-09) – Dec eight, 1979 (1979-12-08)

Godzilla is an American animated monster television set series produced by Hanna-Barbera, in association with Henry One thousand. Saperstein. The series aired on NBC in 1978 in the United States with the title The Godzilla Power Hour and on Telly Tokyo in Japan. The series continued to air until 1981, packaged with other series nether various titles.^[1]

The Godzilla Power Hour consisted of half-hour episodes of Godzilla and Jana of the Jungle . A full of 13 original episodes were produced in 1978, with the first eight airing as part of The Godzilla Ability Hour.^[two] In November 1978, the show was expanded to xc minutes with the addition of Jonny Quest reruns and retitled The Godzilla Super 90. Split off into its own half-hour, the bear witness aired for a few months in 1979 as The Godzilla Bear witness, so equally The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour for about of 1980, before another repackaging as The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour with the Funky Phantom in late 1980, so The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour until its cancellation in 1981.^[three]

The series acquired the retronym of Godzilla: The Original Animated Serial for its DVD release.^[iv]

Premise [ edit ]

The series follows the adventures of a squad of scientists on the Calico, a hydrofoil research vessel, headed past Captain Carl Majors. The rest of the crew include scientist Dr. Quinn Darien, her nephew Pete Darien and her research banana Brock Borden. As well along for the ride is Godzooky, the "cowardly nephew" of Godzilla and Pete's best friend, in a comic foil role in the show. Godzooky can effort to fly using the pocket-size wings under his artillery. Whenever Godzooky tries to breathe fire, he usually just coughs up fume rings.

The group often call upon Godzilla by using a special signaller when in danger, such equally attacks by other giant monsters. Godzooky is also able to roar to summon Godzilla. Godzilla's size in the blithe serial shifts radically, sometimes within a single episode or even a single scene. For example, Godzilla's claws can wrap around a large ship, and only minutes later the team of scientists fit rather neatly on Godzilla's palm. In addition, Godzilla's trademark atomic breath is altered so he breathes simple burn down. He can likewise shoot light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation beams from his eyes much like Superman's heat vision.

Voice cast [ edit ]

Jeff David as Captain Carl Majors^[v]
Brenda Thompson as Dr. Quinn Darien^[v]
Hilly Hicks as Brock Borden^[five]
Al Eisenmann as Pete Darien^[5]
Don Messick every bit Godzooky^[5]
B.J. Ward as Jana of the Jungle^[5]
Michael Bell as Dr. Ben Cooper^[5]
Ted Cassidy as Montaro/Godzilla (vocal effects)^[5]

Production [ edit ]

In regard to the origin of the series, Joseph Barbera came up with the idea of licensing Godzilla. He explained in a 1990s interview "My job back then was to dig upwardly new characters, new ideas, new shows, and I had wanted to do Godzilla for awhile. I liked the monster thing, and the way it looked, and I thought we could practise a lot with information technology. And so I contacted Henry Saperstein, who was a very good friend and we got talking about it. Then there was an executive at the network who wanted to get into the act, and urged the states to lighten the storyline upward. So, I came up with the graphic symbol Godzooky, who was similar his son. The show had a sort of father-son relationship, which we had done before on shows like Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy and Jonny Quest .^[6]

Barbera likewise explained why the show had little violence and deviated from the source fabric. "The problem with the testify was simply this: When they start telling you in Standards and Practices, 'Don't shoot any flame at anybody, don't step on any buildings or cars,' then pretty presently, they've taken away all the stuff he represents. That became the trouble, to maintain a feeling of Godzilla and at the same fourth dimension cut down everything that he did. We managed to get a fair evidence out of it. It was OK. Godzooky kind of got the kids going."^[6]

Episodes [ edit ]

Season 1 (1978) [ edit ]

Flavor 2 (1979) [ edit ]

Circulate [ edit ]

Godzilla originally aired in these following formats on NBC:

The Godzilla Power Hr (September ix, 1978 – October 28, 1978)
The Godzilla Super 90 (Nov iv, 1978 – September ane, 1979)
Godzilla (September 8, 1979 – November 3, 1979)
The Godzilla/Globetrotters Run a risk Hour (November 10, 1979 – September 20, 1980)
The Godzilla/Dynomutt 60 minutes (September 27, 1980 – November 15, 1980)
The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hr (November 22, 1980 – May 16, 1981)
Godzilla (May 23, 1981 – September 5, 1981)

The Godzilla Ability Hour consisted of half-hour episodes of Godzilla and Jana of the Jungle . A total of 13 original episodes were produced in 1978, with the get-go eight airing equally part of The Godzilla Power Hour. In November 1978, the evidence was expanded to xc minutes with the addition of Jonny Quest reruns and retitled The Godzilla Super ninety.

For the second flavor showtime in September 1979, the testify was separated from its packet programs and aired in its ain half-hour timeslot as just Godzilla. The original program was to keep it every bit part of another 90-minute arc, simply it was to be paired up with episodes of The New Shmoo and The Thing . The planned title was Godzilla Meets the Shmoo and The Thing.^[7] However, these plans dissolved and the show was simply aired on its own in its own half-hour timeslot. Hanna-Barbera would pair episodes of The New Fred and Barney Show with the Shmoo and the Thing instead as both Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo and Fred and Barney Encounter the Thing . Ii months later, episodes of Godzilla and The Super Globetrotters were packaged together equally The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour which ran until September 20, 1980.

On September 27, 1980, after 26 one-half-hour episodes, the show went into reruns and Godzilla was one time again teamed up with other Hanna-Barbera characters: the outset was The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour (likewise actualization in this series were reruns of 1971's The Funky Phantom ), which ran until November 15, 1980, followed by The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour which ran until May 16, 1981. On May 23, the bear witness returned to the half-hr format as Godzilla and the last regular showing aired on September 5, 1981 (to be replaced past The Smurfs , which would last iii times as long as Godzilla did). Throughout the 1980s until the late 1990s, the serial rested in limbo (with the exception of a express VHS videocassette release of 2 episodes). Since 1993, it has been rebroadcast on TNT, Drawing Network and Boomerang, likewise as on Retro Tv for a brief fourth dimension on Saturday mornings between 2015 and 2016.

Dwelling house media [ edit ]

The outset 13 episodes from the first season were released on DVD, in iii dissever volumes titled Godzilla: The Original Animated Serial. Volume i contains the first four episodes, Volume 2 contains the side by side four and Volume iii contains the last 5.^[4]

	Episodes	Company	Release date
Godzilla: The Original Animated Series—Volume ane	4	Archetype Media/Sony Wonder	June 6, 2006 (2006-06-06)
Godzilla: The Original Animated Series—Volume 2	4	Classic Media/Sony Wonder	June 6, 2006 (2006-06-06)
Godzilla: The Original Blithe Series—Volume 3	5	Classic Media/Sony Wonder	October ii, 2007 (2007-10-02)

As of November 9, 2011, all episodes from the first season became bachelor for streaming on Netflix and Hulu. The 2nd-season episodes of Godzilla have never been officially released on any home media format.

Starting August 9, 2022, Toho on their official Godzilla YouTube aqueduct has released the series in a fix of three parts per episode.

Spoofs [ edit ]

In response to the Y2K hype, Cartoon Network created a short – "Godzilla vs. the Y2K Bug" (1999) – in which the Calico is attacked by a giant personified, talking Y2K Bug. The Godzilla calling device turns out to be useless this time, considering Captain Majors forgot to update the embedded microchip.^[8]
Dr. Quinn Darien appeared as Dr. Gale Melody, a music expert, in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Police episode "Shoyu Weenie" voiced by Grey DeLisle.

References [ edit ]

^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 379–383. ISBN 978-1476665993 .
^ Woolery, George Due west. (1983). Children'due south Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981 . Scarecrow Printing. pp. 122–124. ISBN 0-8108-1557-v . Retrieved 14 March 2022.
^ Perlmutter, David (2022). The Encyclopedia of American Blithe Boob tube Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 247–251. ISBN 978-1538103739 .
^ ^a ^b Aiken, Keith (April 5, 2006). "Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla Comes to DVD". SciFi Japan . Retrieved July xviii, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^{due east} ^f ^g ^h Perlmutter 2022, p. 248.
^ ^a ^b Ryfle 1998, p. 209.
^ The Horrorworld Reporter Forrest J. Ackerman. Famous Monsters of Filmland #156. Warren Publishing. August 1979. p.88.
^ Godzilla vs. The Y2K Bug

Sources [ edit ]

Kalat, David (2010). A Disquisitional History and Filmography of Toho'southward Godzilla Serial (2nd ed.). McFarland. ISBN 9780786447497 .
Ryfle, Steve (1998). Japan's Favorite Monday-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of the Big 1000 . ECW Printing. ISBN 1550223488 .

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