G-Force: Guardians of Space

G-Force (Guardians of Space)
Title screen
Created by	Turner Program Services King Features Entertainment Sparklin' Entertainment
Directed by	Fred Ladd
Starring	Sam Fontana Cam Clarke Barbara Goodson Jan Rabson Gregg Berger Bill Capizzi
Country of origin	United States Japan
No. of episodes	85 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Fred Ladd
Running time	22 minutes
Release
Original network	TBS (1986); Cartoon Network (1995-1997, 2000); The Anime Network (2004)
Picture format	full-frame
Original release	1986

G-Force: Guardians of Space (1986) is the second American animated television adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (1972), following Sandy Frank Entertainment's initial 1978 effort Battle of the Planets and preceding ADV Films' 2005 attempt, known merely as Gatchaman. With G-Force, Sandy Frank Entertainment collaborated with Turner Broadcasting to create a newer, more faithful translation of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman for a new audience, and such a translation was made possible with the relaxed television standards of the 1980s, a luxury that the more Star Wars-themed Battle of the Planets did not enjoy.

An excerpt from The Best of G-Force DVD:

Five teen-age champions!

During the early-to-mid 1980s, Sandy Frank Entertainment's Battle of the Planets (or BotP) was gradually being phased off the air after a successful number of years in syndication. Television stations began relegating the show to early morning timeslots (as typically done with programming on its way off the air) before dispensing of it altogether. During this period Ted Turner's cable network TBS (then known as "SuperStation WTBS") also aired the show on their channel (albeit in a slightly more edited form, with cuts for time constraints), and by 1984, WTBS was more or less the exclusive home of BotP before they too dispensed of it around 1985, effectively ending the lengthy run of Battle of the Planets on U.S television.

...
Wikipedia