Lost TV gems: Space Stars 10-10-81 Space Ghost & Teen Force

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Published 2021-10-05
10-10-81 episode of the rarely seen Space Stars cartoon featuring Space Ghost & Teen Force, along with segments featuring the Herculoids and others. Duped direct from 16mm to Beta1. The BetaGems channel also has "Cartoon Lost & Found: Adam West October 1989 pilot, complete show," "1989 USA Cartoon Express & Nickelodeon Cartoons TV ad," "1989 King Koopa's Kool Kartoons on Fox Kids Club, longlost Mario Bros show," "1989 Secret Saturday Cartoon Show, Karate Kid & Camp Candy," and "Cartoon Theme Songs with Gary Owen & Bob Denver 1988 TV."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online.

Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.
All Comments (21)
  • @tcroshon70
    This is when Saturday mornings were great!!
  • @Musicradio77Network
    This episode can be found on the DVD release of “Space Stars” and it was digitally remastered and restored, and this one is a unrestored 16mm kinescope print from 1981 which was one of the last of the kinescope film prints before it went into master video tape during the 1980’s. They stop doing kinescope prints by around 1988 or so.
  • @marcburroughs2969
    Awesome! One of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons. Summertime was the best time back then, no school and Saturday morning cartoons!
  • @khayreemccauley4493
    OMG I almost forgot about this right here....... My childhood is on overdrive lol
  • @hobodivine5776
    Thank you for sharing, this variety program is chock full of tropes!
  • @DavidBDavis-lz7bt
    I've said it before, but I'd love to see DC Comics give Space Stars the Future Quest treatment, in a mini series. Space Ghost and The Herculoids have already been established, and the others would fit in easily enough. Maybe one day.
  • @garycarpenter6433
    This was the best show growing up next to the Super Friends and other heroes
  • @mom369222
    I know there was another one, not with the Teen Force, but with Space Ghost, a Crystal Cyborg, everything it touches becomes Crystal, and if not returned to its natural form in one hour, it remains crystal, forever
  • @mikedski9698
    Space Stars! A Galaxy Of Heroes Team Together In A Interstellar Battle Against Evil! Blast Off On Adventures As Big As The Cosmos Itself! Race! Poised On The Edge Of Time With Space Ghost And His Young Friends! And Somewhere Deep In Space, Super Danger Threatens Kid Comet And The Teen Force! Now Get Set For Action, Adventure, Fun On Hanna Barbera's Space Stars!
  • @divermike8943
    Oh! It's Saturday morning 1960s all over again. Just need some Captain Crunch Cereal, with crunchberries of course. Can't image how I DON"T have diabetes given the breakfastes I ate as a child.
  • @MackeyDeez
    I so remember waking up to see this on Saturday mornings
  • @jbsmooth2k7
    Man! Do I miss being a kid growing up in the 80s with this cartoon and the many others. M a nostalgia rat🐀.