Fred Silverman
Director
Mighty Orbots (1984)
Season 1
Earth: the 23rd century. A time of robots and aliens. And of destruction and terror! Can the Galactic Patrol, defender of the United Planets, stop the evil computer Umbra? You bet they can!
Released Sept. 8, 1984
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Anime: Mecha, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Keywords: tmdb.robot, tmdb.23rd-century, imdb.outer-space, imdb.robot, imdb.female-robot, imdb.giant-robot, imdb.combined-giant-robot + 2 more, imdb.robot-sci-fi, mdblist.anime-dub
Production Companies: InterMedia Entertainment Company, Tokyo Movie Shinsha, TMS Entertainment, MGM/UA Television
Network: ABC
S1E1 - Magnetic Menace
Two musicians working for Umbra use their music to summon a Magnetic Monster on Earth. The Orbots must unite to stop it before it destroys the planet.
Sept. 8, 1984, midnight
S1E2 - The Wish World
Ohno begins to doubt her worth because she's ""just an Orbot."" Shadow agent Plasmus turns her into a human at her request, but when Mighty Orbots is needed on a rescue mission, Ohno finds she can't change back and as a result, can't activate Mighty Orbots!
Sept. 15, 1984, midnight
S1E3 - Trapped on the Prehistoric Planet
Deciding that Mighty Orbots is too powerful for his agents to defeat, Umbra has his agent Metanllis, who has the power to control minds, lure them to the planet Evilon with a stolen defense satellite. There, its prehistoric monsters will surely destroy the robot heroes. Meanwhile, a giant meteor is flying toward Earth, which will be devastated with both the defense satellite and Mighty Orbots unable to stop it!
Sept. 22, 1984, midnight
S1E4 - The Dremloks
Sept. 29, 1984, midnight
S1E5 - Devil's Asteroid
Umbra creates Tobor, a giant robot that looks like Mighty Orbots, and has it run amok. Soon the Orbots are sentenced to Devil's Asteroid, the Alcatraz of space, for Tobor's crimes.
Oct. 6, 1984, midnight
S1E6 - Raid on the Stellar Queen
Rondu and Dia leave for a summit meeting onboard the Stellar Queen, which is taken over by space pirates. Mighty Orbots speeds to the rescue, but the pirates of misused the Stellar Queen's anti matter engine, and soon it'll explode and wipe out the entire sector!
Oct. 13, 1984, midnight
S1E7 - The Jewel of Targon
Bo finds what she thinks is a giant jewel on the planet Targon. But when they bring it back to earth, a giant dragon-like monster hatches from it.
Oct. 20, 1984, midnight
S1E8 - The Phoenix Factor
Oct. 27, 1984, midnight
S1E9 - Leviathan
Nov. 3, 1984, midnight
S1E10 - The Cosmic Circus
Nov. 17, 1984, midnight
S1E11 - A Tale of Two Thieves
Nov. 24, 1984, midnight
S1E12 - Operation Eclipse
Dec. 1, 1984, midnight
S1E13 - The Invasion of the Shadow Star
Shadow scientist Werag invents a weapon that destroy an entire solar system and gives the Galactic Patrol a short time surrender. Meanwhile, fearing that they're about to be replaced, the Orbots decide to prove their worth by teleporting to the Shadow Star and saving the world, but find it more heavily guarded than they thought. Rob follows, but is captured. Can Shadow be stopped in time?
Dec. 15, 1984, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 390 min.
Released: Sept. 8, 1984
Last Air Date: Dec. 15, 1984, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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