Space Sentinels (intro/outro)

[@WrestleTheDecibel]

Thank god this is on here, I was beginning to think I'd dreamt the whole thing

[@SteveA308]

So funny

[@alexanderbuckley2797]

Same 😂

[@ConanMcDonnell]

I used to love this show as a kid. The fact that a holographic entity could transport earthlings across space and grant them astounding powers, but somehow still needed a maintenance robot, kind of passed me by.

[@imanihekima1659]

I used to watch this after school on BBC1. I'm struck by how esoteric the stories for children's television could be, drawing liberally upon mythology and sci-fi. Not only American shows but in the UK we had series such as The Tomorrow People, Children of the Stones, The Changes and so many others. The music by Yvette Blais and Jeff Michael (aka jazz musician/producer Ray Ellis and Filmation's Norm Prescott) is truly remarkable - talk about advanced harmony!

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

The Box of Delights, Dark Season, Round the Twist. The BBC used to do fantastic childrens live action fantasy. Then there were the Australian shows like Girl From Tomorrow and Escape from Jupiter. The early 90's CGI...

[@lonster3000]

Another Saturday morning classic from the 70's!

[@johnmunro4952]

ah good....i didn't dream this.

[@samholden2256]

The giant computer face used to scare me as a child.

[@gwizthegreatofficial]

Sam Holden you too?!?

[@artytoons]

Voices of George DiCenzo (Hordak and Bow on "She-Ra", John Blackstar on "Blackstar") as Hercules and Sentinel One. Dee Timberlake (Venus on "Rickerty Rocket") as Astrea, Evan Kim (Loo in "The Kentucky Fried Movie's" "A Fistful of Yen "segment, Dirty Harry's police partner Al Quan in "The Dead Pool") as Mercury. Lou Scheimer (Filmation producer) as M.O.

[@mustafajackson9430]

I really enjoyed most of Filmations Animation back in the day.

[@GazzaAyrton]

The memories that are just flooding back warms my heart 🥰

[@timepoet77]

I have this series on DVD. It's really good.

[@Zeab70]

The baseline from ending credits is DOPE! Sample time!

[@concerned1]

Zeab70 TV sound like Roni Size.

[@stackbundles2663]

been looking for a remix can't find 1

[@jimmytrice9755]

Do anybody know who made the music?

[@GazzaAyrton]

Was thinking the same thing. With some good headphones that beat is banging ✊🏿

[@imanihekima1659]

@@jimmytrice9755 The music was by Yvette Blais and Jeff Michael (aka jazz musician/producer Ray Ellis and Filmation's Norm Prescott).

[@TheLSK]

The ending theme always gave me the feeling of travelling somewhere and the creeps at the same time. I still haven't quite understood what that kind of music in a kids cartoon was supposed to represent.

[@rayssonation]

Part of NBC's Saturday Morning schedule for the 1977-1978 season. That was the first animated cartoon from Filmation to feature an all diversity cast. Yes, Isis was a SOUL SISTER!!!

[@SurgeCess]

Before my time, but definitely ahead of my time.

[@flametop93]

Wow! Mad intro and outro music - I can just about remember it but it's much more "Logan's Run" than I'd thought. Gripping stuff !!

[@thingfish000]

It's very 70s.

[@psychofred2]

Wow! I knew that I didn't just imagine Sentinel 1! This show actually existed!

[@bigdoggtheinfamousone9300]

Same here bro it took me years to find this long lost childhood memory

[@lonniedavenportii1764]

Many centuries ago, three carefully-selected young earthlings were transported from their native lands to my faraway world. Here they were granted astounding powers, and eternal youth, then returned to Earth. Their mission to watch over the human race, helping the Good in it to survive and flourish. In the course of history, their names have become legend: Hercules, empowered with the strength of a hundred men; Astrea, able to assume any living form; (and) Mercury, the amazing athlete who can match the speed of light. Working together with me, Sentinel One, and my maintenance robot, MO. These teenage guardians form the greatest team the world has ever known: The Space Sentinels

[@sudo_nym]

We heard it.

[@UHUO]

way ahead of its time

[@scottmcphee2076]

I haven't seen this show since 1981. I was beginning to think it never existed.

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

loved this as a kid

[@manuelbrown8733]

So this was basically Power Rangers Funky 70s Edition?

[@TributesToRome.YouTube]

This reminds me of when I was a Greek/Roman demigod sent to fight mythical beasts on other planets to gain immortality, in my past-life, except that I wore a tunic and Greek/Roman armour. We had a Titan War on Mars too.

[@microcosom4492]

Astria taught me how to shapeshift!

[@TowDow3]

whenever i pick stuff up and throw it, it never makes that sound.

[@leeosborne3793]

That's because you don't have the strength of a hundred men.

[@TheLSK]

The theme on the closing credits was just more than a little bit creepy.....

[@cheritripp9470]

That was one of the few superheroes cartoons in that silly year when the committee voted for less violent Saturday morning shows.

[@neonsuntan]

I remember watching it when i cam home from school so that would make it about 1979.

[@richallenxbox1976]

I used to watch this!

[@paulduckett6496]

Just eating my spangles and Texan bar while watching this

[@alecris33]

love it...

[@qmcsing]

Watching this in 2024 on KZbin….

[@Loverboy19691]

@MITOGEN Thank you for telling getting back to me about the yera, i appreciate it!

[@UBZUKki]

Sentinel 1 Heavy

[@chrisrj9871]

I'd say this could be well worthy of a reboot, but then again I haven't even watched it. It just looks rebootable by now.

[@namelessjedi2242]

I think they kind of did and it was called Power Rangers 😆

[@chrisrj9871]

@@namelessjedi2242 - puke

[@gwizthegreatofficial]

That’s the face you see before you meet Jesus

[@AdeBamforth]

It's like a Scientology exposé.

[@victoreremita2627]

That music's trippy as fuck. The guy who composed it must have been on some serious shit.

[@superrobofan]

Precursor to Zordon and Alpha from Power Rangers?

[@johnstaton894]

I think so. Wanna did work for Filmation, before creating his own production company. As I recall, he composed the theme for He-Man.

[@johnstaton894]

Saban. Not Wanna. I hate auto correct.

[@alecris33]

Love it!!!

[@what-uc]

0:30 Wheeee!

[@MITOGEN]

@Loverboy19691 It first came out in 1977, can't remember what year it was shown here in the UK though.

[@leeosborne3793]

It can't have been long after. I remember it from when I was about 4 or 5, and I was born in 1974.

[@tonyandthewhoniverse8527]

And sentinel one who looks very much like Norman tebbit

[@KPCarter2000]

They only had 13 episodes...i have it all on DVD

[@battywattywoo]

What's the name of the episode in which Astraea got kidnapped, and had to be rescued, please? I remember finding that one exciting.

[@djwho75]

Still this show have a creepy music

[@Loverboy19691]

I remember watching this series, but what year did it come out, 1978 or 79?

[@GazzaAyrton]

The credits for these titles say 1977 so I'd run with that.

[@GazzaAyrton]

I was 5 😱.

[@radulfrbrunn4438]

Why did these 70s shows always feel the need to add a quirky little character as "comic relief"? This one has Mo; there's 7-Zark-7 in Battle of the Planets and I wish I could forget Bat-Mite and Scrappy Doo.

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

Largely to add exposition…though in the case of 7 Zark 7, they did it because the original source material was much more adult and violent They’d work round edits with that robot

[@jimmytrice9755]

Who made the intro music?

[@Grendelkhan100]

I enjoyed the series, starting when it was The Young Sentinels (hence the Y motif on their belts). Like most Filmation things it was hardly original, as it aped DC's Green Lantern Corp (which aped EE Smith's Lensmen). Still, decent show, apart from the typical lame jokes.

[@bobbybickert]

I'm surprised that you and I are the only ones who made comments about the show's original title. (I wonder if they changed it to Space Sentinels because of the popularity of Star Wars?) They only changed the opening titles. They didn't change dialogue in the show like "Here come the Young Sentinels.".

[@concerned1]

Was this before He Man?

[@namelessjedi2242]

Yes

[@qmcsing]

About 7 years before He-Man….

[@Sr_Galletapixelada]

O.o

[@robertoaguirrematurana6419]

Power Rangers is an obvious rippoff of this.

[@freshPrinceOfBelfairs]

The outro music is fucked up.

[@jamiefoyers2800]

Tarzan, Battle of the Planets and Space Sentinels. You couldn't get a better bunch of kids cartoons growing up and with all the Looney Tunes, Tom and jerry too. Now look at what we've got. A bunch of cry baby liberal lefties who'd baulk at the thought of watching something so "ancient" and "out of touch". They just don't make these cartoons like the used to do they?!.

[@namelessjedi2242]

Yeah, today those darned liberals might want to make a cartoon with a black female lead or an Asian included for representation!