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1965–1966
30m

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Prince Planet was sent from his home planet Radion to study the people of Earth and help them in their fight against evil. His power comes from a pendant he wears, which can only be recharge... Read allPrince Planet was sent from his home planet Radion to study the people of Earth and help them in their fight against evil. His power comes from a pendant he wears, which can only be recharged by energy transmitted from Radion.Prince Planet was sent from his home planet Radion to study the people of Earth and help them in their fight against evil. His power comes from a pendant he wears, which can only be recharged by energy transmitted from Radion.

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Fond Memories

I remember watching this show after school in Hollywood, Florida back in the early 1970s. Along with Kimba (which I recently saw on DVD at Walmart) and Speed Racer, Prince Planet was one of my favorites. I remember making a medallion like his with a big "P" on it. It was two-sided with a full power "P" on one side and a lowered powered "P" on the other. I used a marker to color in the power levels. I would run around pretending to fight villains and getting weaker as my power level dropped. The show was cute, innocent, but had a great message about faith in others, acceptance, and friendship. These things are severely lacking in today's cartoons.

kumanoken

FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF IMPORTED ANIME

Unlike most of the anime that made its way to the states back in the 1960's, I never saw this one as a kid. I first saw it via a terrible quality VHS tape obtained at a convention in the 1990's and finally saw decent prints of it recently since a couple of episodes are included on the Something Weird Video STARMAN discs. Basically the adventures of a benevolent teen alien hero who has come to Earth to pretty much save us from ourselves, this series has a real charm which is sorely lacking in most cartoons produced nowadays. However, I have found that most of the old anime shows that we used to watch back in the days are simply too primitive to hold the interest of most contemporary children. Oh well, it's fun stuff, and now you know where to find a couple of episodes.

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Prince Planet - Domo Arigato to the producers and animators

As a boy growing up in Melbourne, Australia in the 60's / 70's, probably the best shows on TV I remember were Prince Planet, Astro boy and Marine Boy. Nothing comes even close to it these days ( except for the digitised Starship Troopers chronicles. When I was in Japan in '97, I came across a T-shirt store in Tokyo that had a picture of Prince Planet on its T-shirts. I'm kicking myself that I didn't buy a half dozen or so to bring back to good old Oz. Japanese animation has always facinated me. Prince Planet was one of the best in those early days. The theme song is still in my mind, as well as the lyrics. One of the local video stores here has some early Japanese animation. Prince Planet and Astro Boy are part of their collection.The good old days....................

edsan6

Vague Memories

I used to watch Prince Planet in Miami around '70 or '71. My friends and I were obsessed with it. I have asked many people around my age if they ever watched the series, and get a lot of puzzled looks. I don't really remember too many details about the pendant itself, but I do remember he encircled it with his index fingers and thumbs to activate his powers. His worst foes were the Warlock whom I recall as kind of resembling the Joker from Batman, and Quagmire who was a huge man in a black suit that would fling a saw blade at our hero. One time the blade boomeranged and sawed Quagmire's head off, and he regenerated a new head. Does any of that ring a bell with anyone?

diva4jesus

I thought I was alone....

I remember Prince Planet on TV in Chicago in the mid-70s. My best friends and I were all in love with the main character. I have never met another person who remembers this show, so I'm glad to have found this information! I'd started thinking I was losing it!! :) I used to watch this along with Battle of the Planets and Speed Racer. I wish they would make some comebacks on Boomerang! these were great shows with good characters and usually some morally uplifting message. The Banana Splits were on around the same time, and those have started showing up on cable - Boomerang. I love to see those now and sort of relive the halcyon days of my childhood!

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One of many (and one of the first) Japanese anime television series that became popular beginning in the 1960's. Anime, based on the Japanese-style of manga comic books and novels, had a characteristic animation style that usually featured round faces, overly large eyes, choppy animation (apparently due to lower frame rates than 24 or 29.96 fps which is typical for historically smooth animation), inaccurate visual speech patterns, and unusual facial expressions that accompanied short vocal outbursts of surprise or anger. Anime, because it was Japanese dubbed into English, did not have well synchronized audio-video in its speech, similar to the soon to come at the time big martial arts movies featuring greats such as Bruce Lee. Other anime series from this time-frame that also share most if not all of the above animation traits include Astroboy, Speed Racer, and Kimba the White Lion, among others. Many of those same animation styles can also be found in Japanese-based video games including the Final Fantasy series of video games.