Sinister: birthdays, 80's kid show and content

[Mark Hester]

Idleberry, I think the cartoon you are thinking of is "Battle of the 
Planets".  It was Japanese, hence the similarities to Pokemon.  The little 
robot (7 Zark 7) was not on the spaceship, though, it was in an undersea 
base called Center Neptune.  The voice was provided by Alan Young and every 
so often a message came through from a robot called Susan (who lived on 
Pluto) with a voice even sexier than the Cadbury's Caramel bunny and 7 Zark 
7's antennae would respond in a priapic fashion.  7 Zark 7 didn't do very 
much apart from pace up and down and every so often he was able to fly by 
means of a cape on his back which assumed a sort of concertina shape, as the 
fancy took him.  The commader of the group on the spaceship (who were called 
G-Force) was actually a Dr. (or possibly Professor) Anderson, who wore a 
white labcoat and had glasses which didn't have the bits that go on your 
ears (sorry, don't know the technical term for these), maybe they were 
pince-nez, who knows?  There were five people in G-force, called Mark, 
Jason, Princess, keop and Tiny (who, ironically, wasn't).  They all piloted 
different vehicles, these being, respectively,  a plane (which started off 
with a propeller but then changed into a jet when Mark waved his watch in 
front of his face in a dramatic fashion and said "Transmute!"), a sportscar, 
a motorbike, a weird stilted vehicle and the spaceship itself (which the 
other vehicles all slotted into...there were lots of similarities with 
Thunderbirds and Gerry Anderson should sue).  The spaceship was called the 
Phoenix.

Every episode was sent fighting against a caped, masked character called 
Zoltar who came from the planet Specter.  Somehow or other, Zoltar or one of 
his cromies had managed to secrete a large robotic machine of mass 
destruction inside the Taj Mahal/Great pyramid/Mount Rushmore (delete as 
appropriate) which would emerge and wreak havoc of Godzillaesque 
proportions.

Oh and Mark was voiced by Keye Luke, who was also Number One son in the 
Charlie Chan movies.

I'll stop being sad now,
Mark.
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at 
http://profiles.msn.com.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
    +---+  Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list  +---+
    To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe
    send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
    majordomo at missprint.org.  WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister
 +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students"  +-+
 +-+  "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list"  +-+
 +-+       "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper        +-+
 +-+   "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000   +-+
 +-+       "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named       +-+
 +-+           Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000           +-+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+