Pretend you are the main scriptwriter (or series planner, or whoever) for BotP. It's 1978, and you have plenty of time to get this Japanese show suitably altered for what Action for Children's Television thinks are the sensibilities of American children. You intend to maintain continuity when it comes to recurring characters, and not to talk down to the audience if you can avoid it. Proper characters that you would not be embarrassed to talk about in mixed company. And your people will read actual science books. Here are the caveats, folks: 1. Keep the BotP production order. 2. Keep the names. 3. Yes, keep Zark. (Your people are still doing things this way: some of them are watching the episodes and timing the dialogue for the others, and working out what to edit.) Let's have some fun. (I'll make my contribution as soon as I have some time to write it.)

UW, are you asking for synopsis, scripts, or narrative?

Well, I was going for a sort of production diary or notes on the new characters. But I'm not wedded to that. If anyone wants to make up a new backstory or re-do your favorite (or least favorite) episode with the new version, go right ahead. Mine would be something like this: 'The youngest character acts like the kid he is, but we're not allowed to keep him that way, so we have to think of something to do with all the lip movements and teasing.' Okay, that's off the top of my head, but that's about what I'd have with mine. This could be fun for everyone.

Dfinitely the first for me would be to retain the current BotP voice cast - easily IMHO the best of the incarnations. Then I'd approach Tatsunoko for any additional animation required. As for the rest.... thinking thinking thinking

If I'd been involved in making BOTP in 1978, I'd have pushed for a whole lot more episode continuity and story arcs (though I know the networks didn't like that sort of thing and wanted stand-alone eps) and, knowing me, more angst and drama (since violence was a no-no).

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And I would keep the voice cast, but add a few more people to it so that two-thirds of the villains are not voiced by Alan Young.