Challenge of the GoBots

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This article is about the TV series. For the video game it inspired, see Challenge of the GoBots (video game).
Challenge of the GoBots
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On-screen title card.
Network Syndication
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Original release October 29, 1984December 13, 1985
Run time 22 minutes
Starring Lou Richards
Bernard Erhard
Arthur Burghardt
Frank Welker
Bob Holt
Marilyn Lightstone
Ike Eisenman
Leslie Speights
Morgan Paull
Brock Peters
Peter Cullen
Rene Auberjonois
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Patrick S. Feely
Joe Taritero
Producer(s) Kay Wright
Mitch Schauer
Lois Hanrahan
Ray McDonald
Iwao Takamoto
Lew Saw
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Alan Burnett
Tom Ruegger
Jeff Segal
Jeff Segal
Kelly Ward
Director(s) Oscar Dufau
Carl Urbano
Art Davis
Volus Jones
Don Lusk
Rudy Zamora
Alan Zaslove
Ray Patterson (supervising)
Gordon Hunt (voices)
Second title card
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Mini-series' title card.

Challenge of the GoBots is an American animated sci-fi action-adventure television series produced Hanna-Barbera for syndication on stations that took part in The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming block (although the preceding miniseries aired in syndication outside of the block). It ran from 1984 to 1985, airing 65 episodes in total that spanned one season. The TV series is an adaptation of Tonka's toyline, which was intended as direct competition to Marvel/Sunbow's adaption of Hasbro's The Transformers, even to the point where Hanna-Barbera combated Marvel/Sunbow's The Transformers: The Movie in 1986, with its own theatrical movie, GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords.

Two warring sentient robotic factions, the peaceful Guardians and the evil Renegrades, take their fight from their homeworld of GoBotron to Earth, where both sides find human allies.

Production

Development

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, which for the miniseries, he was credited for conducting and composing, whereas for the series proper, he was credited with arranging and composing. In the case of Paul DeKorte he was credited as music director then music supervisor.

Episodes

The series is rife with continuity errors and not even the most thoroughly researched order could avoid some of these issues.

Title Original air date
1x01 October 29, 1984
1x02 October 30, 1984
1x03 October 31, 1984
1x04 November 1, 1984
1x05 November 2, 1984
1x06 September 23, 1985
1x06 September 24, 1985
1x07 September 25, 1985
1x08 September 26, 1985
1x10 September 27, 1985
1x11 September 30, 1985
1x12 October 1, 1985
1x13 October 2, 1985
1x14 October 3, 1985
1x15 October 4, 1985
1x16 October 7, 1985
1x17 October 8, 1985
1x18 October 9, 1985
1x19 October 10, 1985
1x20 October 11, 1985
1x21 October 14, 1985
1x22 October 15, 1985
1x23 October 16, 1985
1x24 October 17, 1985
1x25 October 18, 1985
1x26 October 21, 1985
1x27 October 22, 1985
1x28 October 23, 1985
1x29 October 24, 1985
1x30 October 25, 1985
1x31 October 28, 1985
1x32 October 29, 1985
1x33 October 30, 1985
1x34 October 31, 1985
1x35 November 1, 1985
1x36 November 4, 1985
1x37 November 5, 1985
1x38 November 6, 1985
1x39 November 7, 1985
1x40 November 8, 1985
1x41 November 11, 1985
1x42 November 12, 1985
1x43 November 13, 1985
1x44 November 14, 1985
1x45 November 15, 1985
1x46 November 18, 1985
1x47 November 19, 1985
1x48 November 20, 1985
1x49 November 21, 1985
1x50 November 22, 1985
1x51 November 25, 1985
1x52 November 26, 1985
1x53 November 27, 1985
1x54 November 28, 1985
1x55 November 29, 1985
1x56 December 2, 1985
1x57 December 3, 1985
1x58 December 4, 1985
1x59 December 5, 1985
1x60 December 6, 1985
1x61 December 9, 1985
1x62 December 10, 1985
1x63 December 11, 1985
1x64 December 12, 1985
1x65 December 13, 1985

Cast

Merchandise

Home media

Reading material

Toys

The purpose of the TV series was to promote the fact that there was already a whole range of toys out there already for kids to buy, with the far simpler name of GoBots.

Video game

In 1987 Europe, Reaktor published an 8-bit scrolling shoot-em-up video game developed by Tony Crowther and Ross Goodley also called Challenge of the GoBots, which was released on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum home computers.

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