I was on the wikipedia page, and I saw Starblazers listed as airing on Jetix, as well as some other networks, in the 1990s!
Did I miss it? Maybe it just wasn't on in my area or country, or wikipedia is demented.
http://us.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=10088562
(some need to go up 1 or down 1)
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This aired in the Boston area, where I grew up on WSBK Channel 38 around 1979-80. I was in the sixth grade at the time and it was very popular with us guys. We would have "battles" at recess. Star Blazers against the Klingons. Anyways, they only showed the episodes on the trip to Iskandar and the battle with the Comet Empire. Never seen the third story.
shareThat was around the time that I saw it as well, and I was in 6th grade too!
We got WSBK on cable, and I think WPIX (NY) also showed StarBlazers.
It was on at 7 am, but my school bus arrived at 7:20 or so, so I often missed the ends of episodes. My friend later on the route would inform me of what I missed in the last minutes.
Then I think I could catch the ends on wpix after school.
(I just saw some Iscandar ones on youtube, for the first time since then, over 25 years!)
...I guess wikipedia could have some misinformation about this being on Jetix. big surprise
Actually, StarBlazers was on Channel 56 in Boston not 38. 56 had that crazy-voiced announcer that would cover the kids' programming from 2-5 PM, Uncle Dave, IIRC.
shareI remember the first time I saw it I was 5. So it deffinately aired in the Philadelphia market in 1980.
For sure I know it aired on Channel 17 or 48 (cant remember which) Philadelphia at 3:00pm during the summer of 83 and 84. I remember getting out of the pool so I could watch both the quest for iscandar and the comet empire.
I remember seeing it on cable as a kid in the 80s, around 83-84. Pretty sure it was on Superstation TBS at the time.
shareI grew up in the Seattle Area and remember watching the show in 70 and 80 before school. It was on KSTW 11, which at that point was an independant channel. After the Comet Empire season was done, they pretty much stopped airing the show and most of my friends growing up either never saw it, or didn't remember it.
A few years ago, I managed to get my hands on one of the DVD's which was great to see the show again after such a long time.
I remember seeing it broadcast in Northern California, Sacramento area, when I was in second grade... it was on an independent station over the airwaves... so that had to have been, um, around 82 or 83 or something...
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Yup, KSTW 11 showed it weekday mornings at 7am. I think I was in 6th grade and was hooked for a short while. I don't really remember it beyond 7th grade though.
shareIt was channel 29, WTAF (now WTXF, Fox29).
It varied for times; 2:00pm, 2:30pm, and finally 3:30pm. I hated the earlier times, cause I didn't have a VCR at the time!
It ran on WTAF Channel 29 in Philadelphia from around 1979 to 1983. It ran initially at 8:30 in the morning, and then at 3:30 and later 2:30 in the afternoon, usually in the summer months. Its final run was during the summer of 1983 at 7:30 AM. I'd come home from my morning paper route and watch it on my crappy B&W TV, but by then I knew every episode by rote, as did all my friends. Channel 29 only aired the first two seasons. We heard about the 3rd season, but never saw it.
I saw it on either UHF Channel 44 in the Tampa Bay, Florida area between 1979-1984 or TBS. I can't remember if we needed cable--if we did, then it was TBS. WOR didn't show it; WGN didn't either which would have left TBS. We watched the whole series on Satruday Mornings before the other cartoons (6:30 am). Finally there are other people who know what the hell the Argo and Wave Gun mean. DESSSLOK, DESSSLOK DESSSLOK!
I made it Ma...TOP OF THE WORLD!!!
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It used to be shown in the New York area on WNEW (Channel 5) from 1979 to 1982 at around 3pm. My friends & I didn't have VCR's then, so we used to run home to see it.
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That's impossible. The third series was not produced in the US until 1985. If it had been done in succession with the first two, they would've retained the original cast (and I think everyone would've been happier).
-There is no such word as "alot."
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I remember watching it on network TV. One of the local ABC affiliates in Grand Rapids, MI, near where I live played it every weekday afternoon at 4pm, back around 1979-1980 or so. Me and one of my friends used to even try to build the Argo/Yamato and any vehicle we saw out of LEGOs. We were absolutely devoted to this show as kids.
shareI watched this every day after school on channel 20 in the Washington DC area. I would be very upset if for some reason I had to miss an episode. I think it aired around 4pm. I remember the first two seasons but I don't think that channel 20 showed the third season. Anyone else from the DC area remember?
Oh, Captain 20 was the BEST!!!
I'm not from the DC area, but I pretty much had the same routine: rushing home after school to watch Star Blazers. My area carried seasons 1 and 2, but not season 3: The Bolar Wars. It wasn't until much later when I finally got the chance to watch season 3 on VHS. Animation was good, but it was disappointing when they got different voice-actors to do the characters. To this day, it still irks me whenever I watch it.
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Here in Cleveland, Ohio, my brother and I were in 9th and 10th grade and we'd watch it on Channel 43 at 7:00 a.m. before the bus came. I sooo remember watching this because right before the show started, there was a show called "PTL" which was the Praise the Lord show with a Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. This was before their huge scandal and I remember my brother and I making so much fun of how weird we thought they were (her bad make-up and singing, etc.). My mom would yell at us for making fun of it--said it was not nice. Boy, did we have the last laugh on her when the scandal broke! Anyway, it was a great fore-runner to all the anime shows that followed, in my opinion.
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