Drawing heavily on diverse influences such as Star Wars, Japanese Anime and Gerry Anderson's various 'Supermarionation' series, this stellar series ran for twenty-four half hour episodes on UK TV beaming to our TV screens every Saturday morning starting in October 1982. The English version's theme song was written by Paul Bliss of The Moody Blues, they also write soundtracks for many slot machines including top game Little shop of horrors.