Cartoons · 1984 to 1985

Voltron: Defender of the Universe

Episodes
124
Network
First-run syndication
Made by
World Events Productions with Toei
Adapted from
Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV

The one everybody means. It runs to 124 episodes and it is assembled from two Japanese cartoons that have nothing to do with each other, plus twenty episodes with no Japanese source at all, which is why no two fans agree on how long it is.

Where the sources disagree

Wikipedia’s franchise-hub page gives Lion Force as 52 episodes; its series article and its episode list give 72. We publish 72 plus 52, because that is what the episode list, Anime News Network and the 2019 Universal complete-collection set all carry.

The three blocks

The numbering runs 1 to 124, but the blocks did not reach televisions in that order, and only two of the three have a Japanese original.

  • Lion Force, part one

    Episodes 1 to 52

    Beast King GoLion, dubbed and re-edited

    Aired 10 September to 27 November 1984

  • Vehicle Team

    Episodes 73 to 124

    Armored Fleet Dairugger XV

    Aired Winter 1984 into 1985, and the air dates are disputed

  • Lion Force, part two

    Episodes 53 to 72

    No Japanese source. Newly animated by Toei for World Events Productions

    Aired 21 October to 18 November 1985

Episode guide

23 of 124 written up so far. Broadcast order comes from the canonical table, never from an entry's own frontmatter.

  1. 1 Space Explorers Captured 1984-09-10
  2. 2 Escape to Another Planet 1984-09-11
  3. 3 A Ghost And Four Keys 1984-09-12
  4. 4 The Missing Key 1984-09-13
  5. 5 The Princess Joins Up 1984-09-14
  6. 6 The Right Arm of Voltron 1984-09-17
  7. 7 The Lion Has New Claws
  8. 8 The Stolen Lion
  9. 12 Bad Birthday Party
  10. 14 Yurak Gets His Pink Slip
  11. 16 Bridge Over the River Chozzerai
  12. 18 Zarkon Is Dying
  13. 52 Final Victory 1984-11-27
  14. 73 In Search of New Worlds
  15. 74 First Day on a New World
  16. 100 Planet of the Amazons
  17. 123 The Drule's Surrender
  18. 124 The End of Hazar's World
  19. 53 Dinner and a Show 1985-10-21
  20. 58 Voltron Meets Jungle Woman 1985-10-28
  21. 70 No Muse Is Good Muse 1985-11-14
  22. 71 The Alliance Strikes Back! 1985-11-15
  23. 72 Breakin' up Is Hard to Doom 1985-11-18

Sources

Compiled by the voltronvault.com desk.