History Trivia / BattleOfThePlanets

* TalkingToHimself:
** Keye Luke is both Zoltar and the Luminous One, as well as voicing Colonel Cronus. Meanwhile, Alan Dinehart not only voiced Tiny, but also Chief Anderson and President Kane.
** Aside from Princess, Creator/JanetWaldo voiced Zoltar's sister Mala, the Pluto warning robot Susan, and many other female roles.
** Due to the limited batch of voice actors in general, all of them could be heard voicing bit parts at different times in the series, when the secondary batch of actors (Oppenheimer, Jolliffe, Fischer, etc.) were otherwise unavailable.

** Sandy Frank had also considered doing a remastered and redubbed ''BOTP'' (titled ''Battle of the Planets: The New Adventures of G-Force'') in 2004 with Ocean Studios providing the voices, as well as CGI versions of the Zark segments. There were to be 32 episodes culled from the original run of the series, with the 20 unadapted Gatchaman episodes added to the order, for a total run of 52 episodes. However, due to concerns of it being too expensive, this idea quickly died. Only one episode ("The Sea Dragon") was completed, but was never aired, and has only been shown at select Gatchaman fandom gatherings at the San-Diego Comic-Con. It is unknown who voiced the G-Force members in the redub. In the little that is known about this version, Keyop's status as being "genetically-engineered from a single cell" was dropped in favor of him being a regular human boy like the original Jinpei, and he lost his speech impediment.

** The green Spectra commander went through a fast turnover himself, being voiced by Creator/AlanOppenheimer in the first episode, but by Keye Luke in the second. This was apparently due to the fact that several episodes after the pilot were translated out of order, as Tatsunoko had sent them to Sandy Frank in a mixed-up order. Thus, the second episode was actually produced as the sixteenth, and it is likely that they had forgotten that Oppenheimer had previously voiced the character (or that it was even intended to ''be'' the same character, as scripts for the first dubbed episode called the commander "Okto" while the script for the latter episode refers to him as "Commander Gorok").

** The green Spectra commander went through a fast turnover himself, being voiced by Alan Oppenheimer in the first episode, but by Keye Luke in the second. This was apparently due to the fact that several episodes after the pilot were translated out of order, as Tatsunoko had sent them to Sandy Frank in a mixed-up order. Thus, the second episode was actually produced as the sixteenth, and it is likely that they had forgotten that Oppenheimer had previously voiced the character (or that it was even intended to ''be'' the same character, as scripts for the first dubbed episode called the commander "Okto" while the script for the latter episode refers to him as "Commander Gorok").

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sandy Frank Entertainment had drafted scripts for completely original episodes of the adaptation, including one called ''Zark Double Zark''. But as they would have required new animation for the entire episodes and due to Sandy Frank already fulfilling their 85 episode quota for syndication, the ideas were scrapped. Janet Waldo insists that there was a voice-over session done for ''Zark Double Zark'', although the tapes would appear to have been lost or destroyed.

* RealLifeRelative: Mason Alan Dinehart, the assistant voice director, is the son of Alan Dinehart (Tiny's VA and voice director).

* TheOtherDarrin: Tiny was voiced by Ronnie Schell in the first episode, while Jason was voiced by a different actor that may have been David Jolliffe. When it came to the series proper, Schell was recast as Jason while Alan Dinehart[[note]]Who is sometimes credited as "Alan Dinehart Jr." on fansites, owing to him being the second in line in the family. However, he opted to credit himself as "Alan Dinehart" while his own son, Mason Alan Dinehart (Alan Dinehart III), was generally credited under "Alan Dinehart Jr.". The younger Dinehart acted as assistant voice director and also filled in for voicing background characters.[[/note]] voiced Tiny.

** Alex Ross had stated that one plan for the Top Cow series was to reveal that there was a previous version of G-Force that had went missing in action. Because of the series' cancellation, that plot point never happened, although another planned idea was a bit more controversial: Sandy Frank had wanted the creative team to kill off or at least retire the existing G-Force (in the scrapped two-issue mini series ''Endgame''), so they wouldn't have to keep paying royalties to Tatsunoko for using the characters' likenesses.

* TalkingToHimself: Keye Luke is both Zoltar and the Luminous One, as well as voicing Colonel Cronus. Meanwhile, Alan Dinehart not only voiced Tiny, but also Chief Anderson and President Kane.

** Aside from Princess, Janet Waldo voiced Zoltar's sister Mala, the Pluto warning robot Susan, and many other female roles.

** They do have the streaming rights for Battle of the Planets, as it can be seen on Hulu in North America.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Say what you will about editing, the voice acting here seems better than the later English dubs. It features the voices of Keye Luke, Creator/AlanYoung, and Creator/CaseyKasem.
** [[TheJetsons Janet]] [[JosieAndThePussyCats Waldo!]] Aside from voicing Princess, she performed the roles of several women and children in the show. [[note]]Although some specific roles were given to either Takayo Fischer, or Wendy Young (Alan Young's daughter)[[/note]]
** And Zark is [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Scrooge McDuck!]]: Alan Young, who was also Wilbur on'' [[Series/MisterEd Mr. Ed.]]'' He also does Keyop's various vocal tics.
** Ronnie Schell did the voice of Jason. He played a similar role in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' as "Sloane" while Alan Young voiced "Jax" in an allusion to their roles in this anime.
** The narrator is William Woodson, best known as the second WesternAnimation/SuperFriends narrator[[note]]The first was Ted Knight, who was the narrator for the first season.[[/note]].
** A few other voice actors from Creator/HannaBarbera shows could be heard at points during the run of the series, including Takayo Fischer, Alan Oppenheimer, and David Jolliffe.

** Don't forget [[TheJetsons Janet]] [[JosieAndThePussyCats Waldo!]] Aside from voicing Princess, she performed the roles of several women and children in the show. [[note]]Although some specific roles were given to either Takayo Fischer, or Wendy Young (Alan Young's daughter)[[/note]]

** They do have the streaming rights for Battle of the Planets, as it can be seen on Hulu in North America. AndTheFandomRejoiced!

** They do have the streaming rights for Battle of the Planets, as it can be seen on Hulu in North America.

** Ronnie Schell did the voice of Jason. He played a similar role in MegasXLR as "Sloane" while Alan Young voiced "Jax" in an allusion to their roles in this anime.

** The narrator is [[LaughIn Gary Owens!]]
** A few other voice actors from Hanna Barbera shows could be heard at points during the run of the series, including Takayo Fischer, Alan Oppenheimer, and David Jolliffe. Although unfortunately, they usually went uncredited for their work while the main actors received the billing in the end credits.

** The green Spectra commander went through a fast turnover himself, being voiced by Alan Oppenheimer in the first episode, but by Keye Luke in the second. This was apparently due to the fact that several episodes after the pilot were translated out of order, as Tatsunoko had sent them to Sandy Frank in a mixed-up order. Thus, the second episode was actually produced as the sixteenth, and it is likely that they had forgotten that Oppenheimer had previously voiced the character (or that it was even intended to ''be'' the same character, as scripts for the first dubbed episode called the commander "Octo" while the script for the latter episode refers to him as "Commander Gorok").

** The green Spectra commander went through a fast turnover himself, being voiced by Alan Oppenheimer in the first episode, but by Keye Luke in the second. This was apparently due to the fact that several episodes after the pilot were translated out of order, as Tatsunoko had sent them to Sandy Frank in a mixed-up order. Thus, the second episode was actually produced as the sixteenth, and it is likely that they had forgotten that Oppenheimer had previously voiced the character.

** Sandy Frank briefly approached Tatsunoko about also adapting Gatchaman II for a sequel "Battle of the Planets" series, but the negotiations didn't go anywhere and the sequel series would never see an English adaptation until ''EagleRiders''. The lackluster ratings towards the end of the ''BOTP'' run, combined with the heavy reversioning that the original Gatchaman underwent to get there, may have played a part in Tatsunoko refusing to immediately let the sequel series be licensed for the USA.

** Alex Ross had stated that one plan for the Top Cow series was to reveal that there was a previous version of G-Force that had went missing in action. Because of the series' cancellation, that plot point never happened, although another planned idea was a bit more controversial: Sandy Frank had wanted the creative team to kill off the existing G-Force (in the scrapped mini series ''Endgame''), so they wouldn't have to keep paying royalties to Tatsunoko for using the characters' likenesses.
*** The Top Cow series cut off with Jason having gone missing, with the final scene showing him appearing to betray the team to Zoltar, which caused much controversy. However, according to the artist Wilson Tortosa, the mysterious G-Force member with Zoltar was ''not'' Jason, though he was not at liberty to divulge the man's identity. Though it is unlikely Tortosa will ever reveal what was planned, theories have speculated that the man could have been Donald Wade (a one-shot episodic character stated as having been part of the team in the series [[note]]compared to the original Gatchaman, where his equivalent Mekkel was a mere scientist[[/note]]), or a member of the legendary first G-Force team.

*** The Top Cow series cut off with Jason having gone missing, with the final scene showing him appearing to betray the team to Zoltar, which caused much controversy. However, according to the artist Wilson Tortosa, the mysterious G-Force member with Zoltar was ''not'' Jason, though he was not at liberty to divulge the man's identity. Though it is unlikely Tortosa will ever reveal what was planned, theories have speculated that the man could have been Donald Wade (an incidental character stated as having been part of the team in the series [[note]]compared to the original Gatchaman, where his equivalent Mekkel was a mere scientist[[/note]]), or a member of the legendary first G-Force team.