Godzilla originally aired in these following formats on
NBC: •
The Godzilla Power Hour (September 9, 1978 – October 28, 1978) •
The Godzilla Super 90 (November 4, 1978 – September 1, 1979) •
Godzilla (September 8, 1979 – November 3, 1979) •
The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour (November 10, 1979 – September 20, 1980) •
The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour (September 27, 1980 – November 15, 1980) •
The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour (November 22, 1980 – May 16, 1981) •
Godzilla (May 23, 1981 – September 5, 1981)
The Godzilla Power Hour consisted of half-hour episodes of
Godzilla and
Jana of the Jungle. A total of 13 original episodes were produced in 1978, with the first eight airing as part of
The Godzilla Power Hour. 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. The original plan was to keep it as part of another 90-minute arc, only it was to be paired up with episodes of
The New Shmoo and
The Thing. The planned title was
Godzilla Meets the Shmoo and The Thing. However, these plans dissolved and the show was simply aired on its own in its own half-hour timeslot.
Hanna-Barbera would pair episodes of
The New Fred and Barney Show with the Shmoo and the Thing instead as both
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo and
Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. 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. On September 27, 1980, after 26 half-hour episodes, the show went into reruns and
Godzilla was once again teamed up with other Hanna-Barbera characters: the first was
The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour (also appearing in this series were reruns of 1971's
The Funky Phantom), which ran until November 15, 1980, followed by
The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour which ran until May 16, 1981. On May 23, the show returned to the half-hour format as
Godzilla and the last regular showing aired on September 5, 1981 (to be replaced by
The Smurfs, which would last three times as long as
Godzilla did). Throughout the 1980s until the late 1990s, the series rested in limbo (with the exception of a limited VHS videocassette release of two episodes). Since 1993, it has been rebroadcast on
TNT,
Cartoon Network and
Boomerang, as well as on
Retro TV for a brief time on Saturday mornings between 2015 and 2016. == Home media ==