I caught a few episodes of this on the web, and it is far from great animation for being a show from 1979. There was way better animation produced even in the 60's and 50's. The animation is sparse and primitive. The voices often didn't match the mouth animations, The littlest kid hero spoke indecipherable gibberish most of the time and in my opinion is the most annoying cartoon character I have ever seen. And greatest irony of all the shows title 'Battle of the Planets' is completely misnamed. Hardly any actual battles were even seen! Most action happened off camera! We seen the hero approach the bad guy looking quite determined, then the camera would shift to his fellow team members racing to the scene, and then back to the hero with the bad guy running away and escaping from the scene. No blows actually fell. None of the heroes actually fired a gun or even held a gun. Once though I seen the girl hero throw a yo-yo type weapon on a long string and hit the bad guy with an electric shock. That's the only tool I seen in all the 5 episodes I watched. Then the shows ended with the heroes wrapping up by saying that the galaxy has been saved again for another day. I nominate this for the most limpest battle show ever! I don't plan to watching a sixth episode!
Review of Battle of the Planets
