Space Stars

Space Stars
Network	NBC
Production company	Hanna-Barbera
Distributor	Taft Broadcasting
Original release	September 12–November 21, 1981
Starring	Gary Owens Alexandra Stoddart Steve Spears Frank Welker Darryl Hickman David Hubbard B.J. Ward Michael Winslow Mike Road Virginia Gregg Sparky Marcus Don Messick Lennie Weinrib Keene Curtis
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producer(s)	Gerard Baldwin Oscar Dufau
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Len Janson Chuck Menville Kathleen Barnes David Wise
Director(s)	Ray Patterson George Gordon Rudy Zamora

Space Stars is an American animated sci-fi anthology television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1981, airing 11 episodes that spanned one season.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Segments

• Space Ghost
• Teen Force
• The Herculoids
• Astro and the Space Mutts
• Space Star Finale

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Episodes

Episode	Original air date
1x01 Space Ghost: "Microworld" Teen Force: "Nebulon" The Herculoids: "The Firebird" Space Ghost: "Planet of the Space Monkeys" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Will the Real Mr Galaxy Please Stand Up" Space Star Finale: "Polaris"	September 12, 1981
1x02 Space Ghost: "The Starfly" Teen Force: "The Death Ray" The Herculoids: "The Ice Monster" Space Ghost: "The Antimatter Man" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Reverso" Space Star Finale: "Dimension of Doom"	September 19, 1981
1x03 Space Ghost: "City in Space" Teen Force: "Prison Planet" The Herculoids: "The Snake Riders" Space Ghost: "The Toymaker" Astro and the Space Mutts: "The Education of Puglor" Space Star Finale: "Worlds in Collision"	September 26, 1981
1x04 Space Ghost: "Nomads" Teen Force: "Trojan Teen Force" The Herculoids: "The Invisibles" Space Ghost: "The Space Dragons" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Wonder Dog" Space Star Finale: "Mindwitch"	October 3, 1981
1x05 Space Ghost: "Eclipse Woman" Teen Force: "Decoy of Doom" The Herculoids: "The Energy Creature" Space Ghost: "Attack of the Space Sharks" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Menace of the Magnet Maniac" Space Star Finale: "Magnus"	October 10, 1981
1x06 Space Ghost: "Time Chase" Teen Force: "Elektra's Twin" The Herculoids: "The Purple Menace" Space Ghost: "The Haunted Space Station" Astro and the Space Mutts: "The Night of the Crab" Space Star Finale: "The Crystal Menace"	October 17, 1981
1x07 Space Ghost: "Time of the Giants" Teen Force: "Uglor's Power Play" The Herculoids: "The Buccaneer" Space Ghost: "The Sorceress" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Rock Punk" Space Star Finale: "The Olympians"	October 24, 1981
1x08 Space Ghost: "Space Spectre" Teen Force: "Ultimate Battle" The Herculoids: "The Thunderbolt" Space Ghost: "The Big Freeze" Astro and the Space Mutts: "The Greatest Show Off Earth" Space Star Finale: "Endangered Spacies"	October 31, 1981
1x09 Space Ghost: "Devilship" Teen Force: "The Space Slime" The Herculoids: "Return of the Ancients" Space Ghost: "The Deadly Comet" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Jewlie Newstar" Space Star Finale: "The Outworlder"	November 7, 1981
1x10 Space Ghost: "Spacecube of Doom" Teen Force: "Wordstar" The Herculoids: "Space Trappers" Space Ghost: "The Time Master" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Galactic Vac is Back" Space Star Finale: "Uglor Conquers the Universe"	November 14, 1981
1x11 Space Ghost: "Web of the Wizard" Teen Force: "Pandora's Warp" The Herculoids: "Mindbender" Space Ghost: "The Shadow People" Astro and the Space Mutts: "Rampage of the Zodiac Man" Space Star Finale: "The Cosmic Mousetrap"	November 21, 1981

Cast

• Gary Owens as Space Ghost
• Alexandra Stoddart as Jan
• Steve Spears as Jace
• Frank Welker as Blip and Cosmo
• Darryl Hickman as Kid Comet
• David Hubbard as Moleculad
• B.J. Ward as Elektra
• Michael Winslow as Plutem and Glax
• Mike Road as Zandor, Tundro, Zok, and Igoo
• Virginia Gregg as Tara
• Sparky Marcus as Dorno
• Don Messick as Astro, Gloop, and Gleep
• Lennie Weinrib as Dipper
• Keene Curtis as the Narrator

Legacy

In the 1988 episode of Fantastic Max episode "The Big Sleep," Space Ghost has a cameo flying the Phantom Cruiser, which is in the same redesigned look introduced in Space Stars.

In Freak Show," a 1996 episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Commander Andy hijacks Space Ghost's talk show, with one of his request being a toy replica of the Phantom Cruiser, but not the "crappy Eighties version" from Space Stars.

In the 2020 film Scoob!, there's an arcade cabinet at the Funland Arcade that has a Space Stars arcade machine.

In "Girl, You My Friend!," a 2024 episode of the Jellystone! reboot series on Max, Elektra is the star of her own show.

Merchandise

Home media

On October 8, 2013, the Warner Archive Collection released a three-disc DVD set called Space Stars: The Complete Series.