Galaxy Rangers
| The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers | |
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| Genre |
Space Western Action/Adventure |
| Created by | Robert Mandell |
| Voices of | Robert Bottone Alexander Marshall Maia Danziger Corinne Orr Laura Dean Jerry Orbach Earl Hammond Ray Owens Hubert Kelly Doug Preis Henry Mandell |
| Composer(s) | Phil Galdston, John Van Tongeren, Peter Wetzler |
| Country of origin | United States Japan |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Abe Mandell |
| Producer(s) | Robert Mandell Bob Chrestani |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Gaylord Entertainment Company (Production), Tokyo Movie Shinsha (Animation) |
| Release | |
| Original network | First-run syndication |
| Original release | September 14 – December 11, 1986 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers is a Japanese-American animated Space Western television series created by Robert Mandell and Gaylord Entertainment Company. It was broadcast in syndication between 1986 and 1989. The series combines sci-fi stories with traditional wild west themes. It is one of the first anime-style shows produced mainly in the United States, although the actual animation was done by the Japanese animation studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha. At the time it aired, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers was considered a revolutionary children's show.
The show is set in the future, some time after the year 2086, when two aliens from the planets Andor and Kirwin travel to Earth to search for allies against the expansionist Crown Empire led by the Queen of the Crown. In return for the help, the two aliens gave mankind construction plans for a hyperdrive device. After this key event in human history, interstellar travel flourished and a huge number of colonies emerged in distant star-systems. Alongside the growth of human activities in space, criminal activities also grew, and the new colonies required defense against various threats, including the Crown Empire. A group known as "BETA" (Bureau for Extra-Terrestrial Affairs) was founded to cope with these tasks, with a "Ranger" division being a part of it.
Most of the colonies portrayed in the show specialized in either agriculture or mining "star stones". Many of the planets on the show have names that evoke ideas of a Western setting, Nebraska, Mesa, Ozark, and Prairie being a few.
BETA is shown to be the major military and exploratory arm of Earth. The organization's headquarters are on Earth. BETA sustains several bases on and around Earth, such as the Longshot Research Facility in the Grand Canyon and the BETA space station in Earth's orbit.
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