"Robotech" (1985) TV series

Director:

Robert V. Barron

Writers:

Gregory Snegoff (staff writer) &
Robert V. Barron (staff writer) ...

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Animation | Sci-Fi

Plot:

An alien ship crashes on Earth and the tech and secrets it bears lead Earth into three destructive interplanetary wars.

Plot Keywords:

Giant Robot | Robot | Spacecraft | Transforming Robot | Space War

Cast

Katy Amaizo	...	Claudia Grant (1 episode, 1985)
Jean-Claude Ballard	...	Narrator (1 episode, 1985)
Cam Clarke	...	Maximillion Sterling (1 episode, 1985)
Lara Cody	...	Kim Young, Jason (1 episode, 1985)
Greg Finley	...	Henry Gloval, Anatole Leonard (1 episode, 1985)
Rebecca Forstadt	...	Lynn Minmei (1 episode, 1985)
Ted Layman	...	Exedore (1 episode, 1985)
Wendee Lee	...	Vanessa Leeds (1 episode, 1985)
Michèle Lituac	...	Lisa Hayes (1 episode, 1985)
Iona Morris	...	Claudia Grant (1 episode, 1985)
Tony Oliver	...	Rick Hunter (1 episode, 1985)
Dan Woren	...	Roy Fokker (1 episode, 1985)

Also Known As:

Robotech (Argentina) [es]

Runtime:

Argentina:30 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (1985) | Dolby Digital (2004 restoration)

Certification:

Finland:K-7 (DVD) | Canada:PG (TV rating) | Argentina:Atp | USA:TV-Y7

Company:

Harmony Gold

Trivia:

The decision to create this series came from Carl Macek who was disappointed at the crude alterations made to "Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman" (1972) in the creation of "Battle of the Planets" (1978). He wanted to import an anime series of his own and have it faithfully translated for the Western market. However, the best series he could obtain, "Chôjikû yôsai Macross" (1982), had only 36 episodes, which was far too few for the standard 65-episode syndication package that the North American TV market demanded. To fix that problem, Macek decided to acquire two similarly-themed series, "Chôjikû kidan Sazan Kurosu" (1984) and _"Kikô sôseiki Mosupîda" (1983)_. He then connected the series as a grand epic of succeeding generations of characters in the series that are forced to fight three successive wars over an alien energy source called Protoculture that the enemy is desperate to capture.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Monster Squad (1987)

Soundtrack:

Look Up! (The Sky is Falling)

AWESOME!

My brother and I used to watch Robotech when we were kids. Now that they have it on video I'm poised to get it because I thought that it was such a beautiful cartoon. It's very well animated and the plot lines are very well written. I always thought that Robotech would go on past 1985 but since it didn't this is as good as it gets. My hats off to the people who keep Japanese Annime alive and well into the next Millenium.