Godzilla (1978 TV series)

Godzilla is an American animated monster television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Henry G. Saperstein.

[3] On November 4, 1978, the show was expanded to 90 minutes with the addition of Jonny Quest reruns and retitled The Godzilla Super 90.

[5] The series follows the adventures of a team of scientists on the Calico, a hydrofoil research vessel, headed by Captain Carl Majors.

Also along for the ride is Godzooky, the "cowardly nephew" of Godzilla and Pete's best friend, in a comic foil role in the show.

On November 4, 1978, the show was expanded to 90 minutes with the addition of Jonny Quest reruns and retitled The Godzilla Super 90.

For the second season beginning on September 15, 1979, the show was separated from its package programs and aired in its own half-hour timeslot as simply Godzilla.

Two months later, episodes of Godzilla and The Super Globetrotters were packaged together as The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour which ran until September 20, 1980.

Throughout the 1980s until the late 1990s, the series rested in limbo (with the exception of a limited VHS videocassette release of two episodes).

The first 13 episodes from the first season were released on DVD, in three separate volumes titled Godzilla: The Original Animated Series.

On August 9, 2021, Toho on their official Godzilla YouTube channel has released the entire series in a set of three parts per episode.