Terrahawks
Gerry Anderson & Christopher Burr's Terrahawks, simply referred to as Terrahawks, was a 1980s British science fiction television series produced by Anderson Burr Pictures and created by the production team of Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr. The show was Anderson's first in over a decade to utilize puppets for its characters, and also his last. Anderson's previous puppet-laden TV series included Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Set in the year 2020, the series followed the adventures of the Terrahawks, a taskforce responsible for protecting Earth from invasion by a group of extraterrestrial androids and aliens led by Zelda. Like Anderson's previous puppet series, futuristic vehicles and technology featured prominently in each episode.
Seasons
1. Expect the Unexpected (1)
Air Date: 1983-10-08
Zelda attacks NASA's outpost on Mars and establishes her home, then mounts an attack on Earth, forcing the Terrahawks into battle
2. Expect the Unexpected (2)
Air Date: 1983-10-15
The Terrahawks struggle to defend against the aliens' strange powers, and find they may be forced to stop the attack at the cost of Ninestein's life.
3. Thunder-Roar
Air Date: 1983-10-22
Zelda defrosts one of her monsters, Sram, who unleashes his devastating voice against the Terrahawks.
4. Happy Madeday
Air Date: 1983-10-29
Zelda unleashes MOID, Master of Infinite Disguise, who kidnaps Hiro and impersonates him.
5. The Ugliest Monster of All
Air Date: 1983-11-05
The Terrahawks find a teddy bear-like alien adrift in a space capsule and take him back to Hawknest. However, he is actually one of Zelda's monsters and begins to wreak havoc in the base.
6. Close Call
Air Date: 1983-11-12
The Overlander is hijacked, but the hijacker, a news reporter by the name of Darrel, is a potential security hazard for the Terrahawks.
7. The Gun
Air Date: 1983-11-19
Yung-Star devises a way to make the Cubes more powerful by combining them. Zelda forms a group of them into a gun and threatens to destroy a newly constructed dam.
8. Gunfight at Oaky's Corral
Air Date: 1983-12-26
Ninestein enters an old-fashioned gun fight between one of Zelda's Cubes in the Arizona desert.
9. Thunder Path
Air Date: 1983-12-03
Zelda gives Sram another chance to defeat the Terrahawks by sending him to hijack the Overlander, an automated vehicle that delivers vital supplies to Hawknest.
10. From Here to Infinity
Air Date: 1983-12-10
An old space probe approaches Earth, but the Terrahawks worry because it was never meant to return.
11. Mind Monster
Air Date: 1983-12-17
The Terrahawks pick up a capsule in space containing only a strange vapour. However, it actually contains a gaseous monster that meddles with their minds.
12. A Christmas Miracle
Air Date: 1983-12-24
Zelda attacks Earth on Christmas Eve, convinced that the Terrahawks' guard will be down. However, Ninestein anticipates such a move, and all-out war erupts. Perhaps the Christmas spirit can even reach someone like Zelda.
13. To Catch a Tiger
Air Date: 1983-12-31
Zelda lures Ninestein with the captured two-man crew of a commercial space transporter. When the Terrahawks electronically isolate themselves from after rescuing the men, Kate has to inform Ninestein that the mission to get him back is ahead of schedule.
1. Operation S.A.S.
Air Date: 1984-09-23
Zero and Dix-Huit roll to the rescue after Kate and Stu are kidnapped by Yung-Star and Yuri.
2. Ten Top Pop
Air Date: 1984-09-30
Kate is taken hostage by Andeburr Records employee Stuart "Stew" Dapples, who is under Zelda's control.
3. Play it Again, Sram
Air Date: 1984-10-14
Kate Kestrel wins the world song contest and goes on to compete in the interstellar song contest. Zelda contends that as a resident of Earth's solar system she has a right to participate too, and challenges Kate to a sing-off on a neutral planetoid with her family and Sram as her band.
4. The Ultimate Menace
Air Date: 1984-10-21
Zelda and the Terrahawks team up to stop Zyklon, a gigantic spaceship dedicated to destroying all life in the universe.
5. Midnight Blue
Air Date: 1984-10-28
While pursuing a ZEAF, Hawkwing flies too high and is marooned in space.
6. My Kingdom For A Zeaf
Air Date: 1984-11-04
Zelda dispatches Yung-star and a new monster, Lord Tempo, to find the location of Hawknest. While traveling back in time to avoid Spacehawk, they pick up King Richard.
7. Zero's Finest Hour
Air Date: 1984-11-11
When the Terrahawks are rendered catatonic by space flowers, Zero is forced to battle for the cure on his own.
8. Cold Finger
Air Date: 1984-11-18
Zelda enjoins the help of Cold Finger, an alien who uses water and ice as weapons.
9. Unseen Menace
Air Date: 1984-11-25
Moid, Master of Infinite Disguise, transforms himself into the Invisible Man to create trouble for the Terrahawks
10. Space Giant
Air Date: 1984-12-09
A pair of miners find and capture a Sporilla and take it back to Earth to sell to a shady sideshow owner. Once it is on Earth, Zelda uses her powers to enlarge the monster into an unstoppable giant.
11. Cry UFO
Air Date: 1984-12-16
Stew Dapples becomes the eyewitness to Zelda's latest plot when he sees a UFO.
12. The Midas Touch
Air Date: 1984-12-23
Zelda deploys the alien Krell to Earth and plots the destruction of the space equivilant of Fort Knox
13. Ma's Monsters
Air Date: 1984-12-30
In this clip show, Zelda reflects on her previous attempts to kill the Terrahawks, and realises the time has come for new and more powerful monsters to be brought to the fold, whilst Cy-star has some important news
1. Two For The Price of One
Air Date: 1986-05-03
The aliens are preoccupied with the birth of Cy-star's child while the Terrahawks prepare to launch a sneak attack.
2. First Strike
Air Date: 1986-05-10
An overzealous general seizes control of the Terrahawks to mount a direct assault on Zelda's Mars base. Ninestein makes futile attempts to warn him that Zelda and her gang of monsters are too powerful to engage in direct combat. Zelda readies a counter-strike team of Sram, Yuri, Lord Tempo and Yung-star.
3. Terratomb
Air Date: 1986-05-17
Yuri seals Battlehawk inside Hawknest after Battletank picks up a bomb while investigating a ZEAF.
4. Space Cyclops
Air Date: 1986-05-24
Zelda sends a huge egg to the moon that hatches into a one-eyed monster.
5. Doppleganger
Air Date: 1986-05-31
A statue of Yung-star is found at a museum on Earth.
6. Child's Play
Air Date: 1986-06-07
It-star masterminds its first attack, attempting to destroy the Terrahawks with a bomb.
7. Jolly Roger One
Air Date: 1986-06-14
Yung-star and It-star are sent with Captain Goat to run a pirate radio ship to lure the Terrahawks into a trap.
8. Runaway
Air Date: 1986-06-21
Yung-Star runs away, but he is unknowingly carrying a 'bug' in the form of a powder inside him.
9. Space Samurai
Air Date: 1986-06-28
Tamura, a Samurai warrior from outer space, forces Zelda and Ninestein to meet on neutral ground in order to settle their dispute peacefully.
10. Timewarp
Air Date: 1986-07-05
Lord Tempo creates a time warp in order to slow down the Terrahawks' ability to react to a full-scale attack.
11. Operation Zero
Air Date: 1986-07-12
Zero is feeling out of sorts and goes in for repairs, but makes a grim discovery; Zelda and her family have infiltrated Hawknest.
12. The Sporilla
Air Date: 1986-07-19
Zelda lures the Terrahawks to Jupiter's moon Callisto by ransacking a listening post there. Once they arrive, they find themselves being stalked by the fearsome Sporilla.
13. GO(L)D
Air Date: 1986-07-26
The Zeroids find an explosive meteorite, which the human Terrahawks mistake for gold and which Zero mistakes for the god that Ninestein worships; it kills one of Ninestein's clones when it explodes, forcing another to take his place.
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Rating
5.6/10
Release Date
1983-10-08
Episodes
39 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Anderson Burr Pictures