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Hi all! [QUOTE]I'm wondering if one of Gatchaman's sponsors was a cake-making company! [/QUOTE] One of the major sponsors for the series was Morinaga, a candy company. [QUOTE]Frankly, to me the Gatch episode seems to be very much a retred of the original Sugar Beetle ep. I wonder if that's why they skipped this for Guardians of Space. [/QUOTE] No, this episode was skipped for far more practical reasons. Fred Ladd knew from the beginning that G-Force was going to run 85 episodes total. After the two pilot episodes were produced from episode #'s 18 and 87, episodes selected by Turner's people, that left 83 episodes to do for the regular series run. So, Fred started at episode #1 and went forward from there, with episode #18 fitting into that run nicely. When it came down to the final few episodes, episode #81 was skipped simply because the English translation of the script was not available (By the early 1980s, Tatsunoko could only locate about 85 of their translations. They had the same problem when ADV did their dubs and asked for Tatsunoko's translations). Once they produced episode #'s 1~80, 82~85, and 87 they had completed the 85 episode run of the series and production stopped. Nothing sinister, no forethought as to whether an episode would cause problems or was similar to something that had aired earlier, just a luck of the draw on what came next in line and had a translation available when they were working their way through the run. Like I said, it was all done for practical reasons. James

Ah sweet! She's bringing the battle flag! :D I love that thing.

Currently I'm sitting at the keyboard with a music CD running, trying to generate enough ordinariness to keep the dog from climbing the wall behind me. Border collies and fireworks are a very bad combination. At the current rate--quarter to midnight and the noise is going strong out there--I'm going to be resorting to the acepromazine and he can just spend the rest of the night gorked out of his little doggy mind. :stoned:

If you can catch it in 3-D, do so; it's very well done. However, it'd be thoroughly enjoyable even without the 3-D effects. Fabulous soundtrack, too. I'm looking forward to the DVD release! :D

Owl and owlet--that one's really cute. And truly, he needn't worry about the little squirt's parents rejecting it because he handled it: if he can get it back into the nest, they'll accept it. Most parent birds are happy to get their straying children back, smell notwithstanding. If it peeps like Baby, it's "Welcome home!" It's only when the chick has been down long enough to be really weak that things go sour: the parents may give up on it because it's beyond their ability to revive. Besides, Ryu might find chopping up mousie four times a day rather off-putting. ;) (I worked raptor rehab in undergrad. Six-thirty AM feeding shift, baggie of thawed mice in the fridge and bucket of shrieking baby barn owl on the scale. It didn't help that the "house brand" of mice smelled exactly like the hot dogs Mom used to feed us as kids. Seriously. :sceptic:)