Godzilla

1978
Godzilla

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 The City In The Clouds Jan 01, 0001

A freak cyclonic storm sucks both the Calico and Godzilla, the latter of whom unsuccessfully attempted to rescue the hapless ship from the vortex, into an amazing futuristic city that floats above the clouds, unseen by the surface world. The human looking cloud dwellers befriend the Calico crew, but the latter soon learns that the cloud city is repeatedly menaced by a giant, electricity spewing flying monster they call the Power Dragon. Godzilla defends the city, sending the Power Dragon fleeing back to the clouds. Awed by Godzilla, and realizing that the Kaiju King can protect the cloud city from the Power Dragon, the leader of the floating metropolis attempts to steal the signal device from Capt. Majors. Taking the Calico crew captive, the leader offers to return them to the surface in exchange for Godzilla's permanent servitude to the sky city, but they refuse. Later, the Power Dragon attacks the city again, and Godzilla battles the winged kaiju once more, this time sending th

EP2 The Cyborg Whale Jan 01, 0001

A robotic whale has been developed by unknown parties working for the government for the purpose of undersea plankton mining, and Brock and Pete are aboard doing a test drive (the whale is not truly a cyborg as the title of the episode proclaims, but is actually a robot; see the comments below). However, when the Cyborg Whale is struck by lightening during an unexpected thunderstorm, the robot's computers are damaged, and the device runs amok, heading on a deadly collision course with Honolulu. Although Godzilla is called to the rescue, he is unable to use his full power against the Cyborg Whale for fear of harming Brock and Pete, who are trapped inside, and the robotic cetacean's built-in weaponry fends off the Big G's attempts to halt it without damaging it. Finally, Brock and Pete manage to open the robot's porthole and are flown to safety by Godzooky. Thus, just before it reaches the coast of Hawaii, Godzilla is able to bring his full power to bear on the robot, and as a resu

EP3 Microgodzilla Jan 01, 0001

As the Calico sails through a strange pink mist, a tiny fly is affected by the mysterious cloud and begins growing larger. When Godzilla is called to their aid, he drives the giant fly away but is also exposed to the mist himself in the process. Godzilla begins to grow smaller and smaller, and the crew also realize that wherever the fly is, it must be growing increasingly larger. To save Godzilla from shrinking into oblivion, and to protect themselves from the repeated attacks of the giant fly, Dr. Darian struggles to come up with an antidote by analyzing small samples of the pink mist. Godzilla eventually shrinks to the point that he is attacked by a mouse aboard the ship (how did it get aboard, and didn't the Calico crew ever see it before?), and as he continues shrinking even further, the crew loses track of his whereabouts. Later, the miniaturized Kaiju King is forced to battle a spider who ultimately webs him up (this arachnid, unlike Spiega, accurately spins its web from its p

EP4 Pacific Peril Jan 01, 0001

A series of violent undersea earthquakes are causing large amounts of underwater volcanoes to appear in the Pacific Ocean depths, and this prompts the Calico to investigate. Traveling inside one of the volcanoes, the crew is menaced by a herd of large fire breathing reptiles who appear to thrive on the molten lava within. Godzilla is called to free the crew from the volcano, but another earthquake opens a fissure in the Earth that traps the Kaiju King deep within the planet's crust undersea. Meanwhile, the crew manages to evade the fire lizards and discover the source of the earthquakes, a fallen Jupiter Probe rocket, which has become imbedded within two coastal tectonic plates. Going aboard the rocket, the crew attempts to utilize it to return to the surface, but are unable to activate its damaged engines. Godzilla finally bursts free from the earth's crust and enters the volcano in time to save Godzooky from the fire lizards. The Big G then brings the rocket containing the Cali

EP5 The Beast Of Storm Island Jan 01, 0001

When the Calico is accidentally beached on an atoll called Storm Island, Capt. Majors, Dr. Darian, and Brock fall under the hypnotic control of the gigantic bipedal cobra-like kaiju called Axor, who uses this power to dominate the entire human population of the island. Axor acquires this ability from power enhancing vapors generated from within the interior of the monster's mountainous lair, and because of this power, Godzilla is unable to defeat Axor, and also falls under the beast's hypnotic thrall. Pete and Godzooky manage to escape from Axor, and flee to the monster's lair, where they too are exposed to the vapors, and it enhances their physical abilities to extraordinary levels. Utilizing these new abilities, they escape from entrapment in the pit where the vapors issue forth, and the newly empowered Godzooky finds that he is powerful enough to hold his own in battle with Axor (the Little G is finally able to breathe real fire rather than settle for mere puffs of smoke). How

EP6 Moonlode Jan 01, 0001

A lunar eclipse causes a violent moonquake [although how this happens is beyond me, since unlike the Earth, the moon is geologically dead and doesn't have quakes], which releases a hibernating, energized monster that lands on the Earth in the Pacific Ocean. Utilizing his gravitational powers, the moon monster creates a giant whirlpool that imperils the Calico and its crew. Calling on Godzilla, the Big G battles the moon monster and ultimately hurls the creature back into space, where he's recaptured by the moon's gravity (that was one hell of a feat, even for Godzilla!).

EP7 The Golden Guardians Jan 01, 0001

An archeological expedition in India is attacked by a giant golden animated Oriental statue, and this incident prompts an investigation by the Calico crew. Arriving in the Indian city of Kali-Noor, the crew discover that several giant golden guardian statues are being animated and controlled by a xenophobic Indian high priest utilizing a supernatural power object called the dreamstone, who is determined to scare away any outsiders to the sub-continent, whom he believes will covet the city's ancient treasures. Godzilla is called upon to battle one of the Golden Guardians, only to be immobilized by mystical beams of energy from the living statue's eyes, which encase the King of the Monsters in a shell of gold, thereby placing him in suspended animation. Although the Calico crew manages to shatter the dreamstone, this doesn't simply cause the Golden Guardians to become immobile once more, but instead results in the statues running amok. When the crew realize that the energy beams

EP8 Calico Clones Jan 01, 0001

When the Calico is sent on a top secret mission to a government controlled oil field, the crew is captured by an evil scientist called Votrang [why the government sent the Calico crew instead of the CIA or the Navy SEALS is beyond me, as is the fact that they would take Pete and Godzooky on such a dangerous mission in the first place, considering society's current attitude against youth as helpless innocents; this made about as much sense as all of those token women characters added into period film adaptations of various novels written in the 19th and very early 20th centuries simply to allow for romantic tension with the male characters in the script, including the several film versions of The Lost World produced through the decades; then again, this series was geared towards younger audiences, which may explain this conundrum]. Votrang utilized his scientific genius to create sentient but subservient clones of the entire crew, including Godzooky, to replace the real crew in the h

EP9 Ghost Ship Jan 01, 0001

While sailing the Pacific, the Calico crew discover what appears to be a World War II submarine encased in ice, and they summon Godzilla, who frees the old vessel by means of his fiery breath. The crew of the submarine is discovered to be alive and in suspended animation, and after 60 years on ice, they are awakened by the Calico crew. The submarine crewmen incorrectly believe that the war is still going on, causing them to inadvertently release a torpedo, which heads towards the Calico. Godzilla intercepts the torpedo and brings it underwater, but it explodes before he can safely dispose of it, stunning the King of the Monsters in the process. The resulting shock waves disturb a giant octopus, which comes to the surface and grabs the submarine in its tentacles. Godzooky manages to revive Godzilla, who grapples with the octopus and returns it to its underwater cavern, and then sealing it inside with his laser beam vision. Finally, the submarine crew is taken back to civilization

EP10 The Macro Beasts Nov 17, 1979

Pet and Brock go with Godzooky to an island but a new Volcano appears and they become trapped in visor when the volcano erupts and starts to close treating to crash them Godzooky cries out and Godzilla emerges from the water and arrives on the island to save the three of them then take them back to the Calico and then Godzilla takes the Calico far away form the Volcano and return to the ocean. Later on Pet and Brock spot a group of Seas Horses that where as big as real horses (That's want Pet said) then they spot a giant jellyfish so Brock and Quinn take the Mini-copter and checks out the volcano Quinn spots purple stuff poring out of the Volcano into the water. They are soon attacked by a Giant Manta Ray and hit the back propeller causing them to fall but luckily Godzilla shows up to save then and dose battle with the Manta Ray and forces it away. Later on Quinn and Brock took a Mini-Sub and Quinn took some of the purple stuff they where attacked by a Giant Crab but escaped but not be

EP11 Valley Of The Giants Jan 01, 0001

While searching for the headwaters of the Mitibu River, a group of workers are suddenly attacked by a colony of giant ants that appear out of a crevice in a nearby mountainside, forcing the men to flee. Investigating the incident, the Calico crew journey within the crevice and discover a hidden valley where giant insects dominate, and an inconvenient earthquake seals the fissure and traps the crew within. Dr. Darian discovers that when sunlight is filtered through the strange clouds that surround the valley, a chemical reaction occurs in the insects that vastly increases their size. Menaced by the valley's giant ants and bees, Godzilla is called, and he quickly dispatches the bees. After hurling away a tank-sized beetle that attacked the crew, Godzilla finds himself in battle with the king of the valley's population of giant insects, an enormous spider (spiders are actually arachnids, not insects, but the two are nevertheless close relatives). Godzilla is defeated when he is bitt

EP12 Island Of Doom Dec 01, 1979

An evil paramilitary organization calling itself COBRA has acquired a series of ICBM missiles, and threatens to launch them on all the major cities in the world unless the United Nations accedes to their demands for world domination. The Calico crew discovers the secret island base of COBRA, and are taken prisoner by the organization. They still manage to summon Godzilla to the island, and upon arriving, the Kaiju King battles and defeats the organization's large military arsenal. Upon reaching COBRA's nuclear reactor, Godzilla destroys it, thereby ending the organization's threat, and after rescuing his human allies, they see to it that the villains are arrested by a United Nations Task Force.

EP13 The Deadly Asteroid Dec 08, 1979

Temperatures across the Earth begin dropping to unusually low levels, and the Calico crew travel to the North Pole to investigate a UFO sighting, which they suspect to be connected to the temperature aberrations in some way. The crew then discovers that numerous icebergs are present, and the water levels are dropping at an alarming rate due to the freezing of the oceans. The source of the problem is also discovered hidden in one of the icebergs, which turns out to be a spaceship containing an advanced race of cold temperature dwelling, semi-humanoid hostile aliens referred to as the Ice People, who hail from the frigid asteroid Frios. By using their ultra-sophisticated magnetic wave generators, the Ice People declare to the Calico crew their intentions to direct Frios to Earth, thereby causing the planet to enter a new Ice Age to make the world more palatable to the aliens for future conquest [actually, bringing such a large asteroid near the Earth would cause far more damage than a
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Released: 09 September 1978 Ended
Producted By: TOHO
Country: United States of America
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Godzilla is a 30-minute animated series co-produced between Hanna-Barbera Productions and Toho in 1978 and aired on NBC in the United States and TV Tokyo in Japan. The series is an animated adaptation of the Japanese Godzilla films produced by Toho. The series continued to air until 1981, for a time airing in its own half-hour timeslot until its cancellation.

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xamtaro "Scooby Doo at sea with Giant Monsters". That effortlessly sums up this animated adaptation based on the famous Godzilla franchise. This is Godzilla, stuffed into every 70s cartoon cliché you can think of. Yet despite its unoriginal premise, dated production values, and formulaic nature, Hannah Barbera's GODZILLA does showcase some tremendous monster fights with an old school charm. Here is how the formula works. Bunch of perpetual travellers and their goofy talking animal friend stumbles onto this week's plot and our new creature of the episode. They get into a scrape, creature appears. Bunch fends off creature with the help of Godzilla. They get chased around a bit by human (or humanoid) foes and somehow the plot device to summon Godzilla becomes useless. Finally they get some convenient twist that allows them to once again summon Godzilla, just as the big monster re-emerges. Giant monster battle ensues, Godzilla wins, and the bad guy would have succeeded if it were't for those meddling kids. Minus off the giant monsters and it is your typical Scooby Doo plot. Instead of travelling in the Mystery Machine, our bunch consisting of no nonsense leader Captain Majors, science exposition person Dr Quinn, her assistant the token African American Brock, irritating kid Pete and the Godzilla's goofy cousin Godzooky, all travel in the research vessel Calico. These characters are as one dimensional as executed from cartoons of the era. Their dialogue serves only for exposition purposes, literally explaining the plot to each other, or for comedy purposes; especially when it comes to Godzooky. Godzooky is Scooby Doo, right down to his cowardly demeanour, his interactions with the crew, even his voice. Credit goes to the voice actors who do rather well given the material they had to work with and the overall juvenile tone.On the production side, this cartoon suffers from bad cases of off-model artwork, recycled animation, and the now-infamous ever-changing scale of the monsters and backgrounds. Art detail ranges from hilariously bad and flat to the occasional impressive level of detail (mostly in the reused stock footage). The infamous scale issues have monsters like Godzilla seemingly changing size at random. At one point, the whole Calico ship can fit in Godzilla's palm, the next scene shows him having to hug the ship with both arms to carry it. Or perhaps a scene where Godzilla walks up to an airport control tower to smash it. The next scene shows him stomping his foot down on not just the control tower (which was previously shown to be up to Godzilla's waist) but a couple of plans parked on the runway too!. Despite these glaring shortcoming, there are some particularly awesome episodes and edge back to the spirit of the Godzilla movies. And in some ways, this is an improvement over some of the more horrid Godzilla movies like Godzilla Vs Megalon.For starters, there's Godzilla himself and the monster fights. Yes, they replaced Godzilla's roar, and yes the monster fights sound like grown men making beastial noises at each other. But damn if they weren't awesomely storyboarded. When our titans clash, the entire scene rumbles and shakes with every gargantuan blow, the ground trembles with each giant step. At close-ups, Godzilla's own roar rattles the screen with his sheer power. Animation allows more mobility for the characters compared to actors in suits, and this cartoon makes good use of the animation medium, delivering fantastic fight sequences that would have been near impossible to pull off in live action with rubber suits. All this is set to powerful background music, some of which are reused from previous Hannah Barbera productions, but used here to good effect. Godzooky is also an improvement from the live action movies' "Minila", Godzilla's supposed dim witted, possibly deformed, son.For every cartoony episode, you have those that return to the live action film's nuclear power cautionary tale. For every crappy monster design like that cyclops thing, you have designs that illicit pure terror like the Breeder beast. Some episodes deal with isolated incidents while in others the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. Then, the series closes on a powerful high note with Godzilla taking on heavily armed military forces like in the original Japanese classic.Compared to other cartoons of its time, Godzilla does stand out among the better ones. As a Godzilla production, it is right there in the middle. It has its flaws, but it has some good redeeming factors as well. While it may not hold up to today's standards, Godzilla would no doubt fascinate kids and anyone's inner child with majestic monster mayhem.
AaronCapenBanner Hanna Barbara produced animated series based on the character of Godzilla(though not a continuation of the Toho film series) sees Godzilla helping out the crew of the research vessel the Calico after they save its little friend Godzooky from some calamity(though what kind was never revealed) by either using a signaling device to call Godzilla, or Godzooky using its own voice if needed. The crew(Captain Carl Majors, Dr. Quinn Darien, Pete & Brock) are often in trouble, and need his help quite frequently! Plots vary in quality; some have a degree of imagination, others are entirely silly and illogical. Highly episodic series ran for two seasons, and only the First is on DVD.
Aaron1375 I saw this show as a kid and it just never appealed to me all that much even though I was a big Godzilla movie fan and I still am. This show just really outlines a problem in my book, us Americans strange need to make Godzilla into something he is not. We never make him look like the Japanese version, we mess with how strong he is and we generally seem to want to name stuff Godzilla when they just are not Godzilla. Even the movie which was rather bad at least got his roar right, this does not even do that. They add a stupid monster named Gadzooky too which is a real annoyance, but then again the Japanese do have a baby Godzilla that would be seriously lame in "Godzilla's Revenge". Still the idea of Godzilla being summoned like an attack dog or something is rather lame too, though they sort of did that in "Godzilla vs Megalon", however in most of the movies even where he is good he comes of his on accord. The fights in this series are sorely lacking as well as I find it rather pathetic that the fights in the live action movies are better, more epic than a cartoon show. I mean it is animation, you are not bound to the laws of physics and stuff you can do anything and most of the battles are horrible. And why does Godzilla always blow fire in America, in Japan it is a radioactive breath, here he always breaths fire, he is not a dragon, but then the fact they remove his cool back plates and make his head bigger he does look more like a dragon than Godzilla and Gadzooky most certainly looks like one.
ultramatt2000-1 I saw this show when I was a small kid. I remember that Godzooky was cute and funny. And I thought that Godzilla was a dragon. This was in the mid 80's or something, before I watched GODZILLA VS GIGAN in the early 90's. The bad thing about this show, was that it was a disappointment to fans! His roar is done by Ted Cassidy. It is rumbley, grating, and stupid! Godzooky was voiced by Don Messick. His laugh sounded like, Scooby-Doo! Nowadays, my brother is annoyed by the show, because of the little boy's redundacy. Hey, a lot of you fans who is reading this will know that he is annoying as Ichiro from GODZILLA'S REVENGE (1969), or Goro Ubuki from GODZILLA VS MEGALON (1973). Now I know that Godzooky files, and he is Godzilla's nephew. So, that means Godzooky's father is Rodan! And Rodan and Godzilla are brothers! Godzooky is a hybrid! Anyway, the show would look cool if they shown cartoonizations of King Ghidorah, Gigan, Megalon, Mothra, Rodan, Hedorah. That would be cool. It would be great that they re-released the show, only this time replace the stupid roars of Godzilla and Godzooky with Godzilla and Minya's roar from the movies. That would be great for Cartoon Network, or the Sci-Fi channel in honor of Godzilla's 50th Anniversary. Happy 50th Anniversary Godzilla! Let GODZILLA FINAL WARS (due out in Japanese theatres, December 11th) break a leg!