''Space Strikers'' (, lit ''20,000 Leagues in Space'') is a 1995
animated
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television series based on the 1870
Jules Verne
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His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
novel ''
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
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''. Episodes center around the crew of the spaceship ''
Nautilus
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'', led by
Captain Nemo
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, in an attempt to liberate Earth and other planets from the control of Master Phantom. The series later premiered in France on
M6 on March 8, 1995 and later aired in the United States on
UPN
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from September 10 to December 3, 1995. Action sequences were shown in "Strikervision"
3-D.
Ownership of the series passed to
Disney
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in 2001 when Disney acquired
Fox Kids Worldwide
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, which also includes
Saban Entertainment
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.
Plot
''Space Strikers'' has a single continuous plot running through all twelve episodes. In the Future the universe is inhabited by humans and a variety of other
spacefaring
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species. They are under threat from the mostly-robotic armies of Master Phantom, a human
cyborg
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wolf, an anthropomorphic dolphin, a
Cupid
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-like creature, and a variety of robots.
Due to their previous friendship and shared academy training, Captain Nemo and Master Phantom attempting to outwit each other is recurrent theme in the show.
Strikervision
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3D computer graphics
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for many of its spacecraft.
Voice cast
*Norman Blackmore
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Les Doolan - Dacar
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Jimmy Flinders - Captain Nemo
*HF Guilford
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Orville Ketchum - Admiral Maalko
*Ruth Lazar
*Kellie O'Connell
*Harry Pitts
*Nick Scott
*
Reed Waxman
Uncredited
*
Mary Kay Bergman
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Richard Epcar
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Music
In addition to Ron Wasserman composing original music for this series, Shuki Levy also co-composed for this series, recycling some of the music from ''
Starcom: The U.S. Space Force'' which he would later reuse for the English dub version of Season 1 of ''
Digimon Adventure''.
Episodes
Season 1
References
External links
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