A total of 73 episodes of the show were broadcast in Japan.
Starzinger was aired in the early 1980s in Latin America under the name of
El Galáctico (
The Galactic), as part of the four-series show
"El festival de los robots", which translates to "The festival of the robots". The other shows were
Steel Jeeg,
Gaiking, and
Magne Robo Gakeen. Only 47 episodes of the original 73 were dubbed and aired. This version of the series never reached their conclusion. The Spanish theme song of "El Galáctico" was composed and sung by Chilean singer Memo Aguirre (Capitán Memo). In 2008 the Chilean company SeriesTV released a set of 24 DVDs with Festival de los Robots episodes. This set includes 24 episodes of "El Galactico" with the original Spanish dubbing. In
North America, it was aired as
"Spaceketeers" as part of the package show
Force Five. As the
Journey to the West story is not well known in the region, the characters were renamed to reference the
Three Musketeers. To also fit into the
Force Five time slot, the show had to be edit-squeezed into 26 episodes. The U.S. version puts them on a mission to the Dekos Star System, which contained evil powers changing peaceful creatures to evil mutants. The
Force Five version not only just produced 26 episodes, but this English-language version of the series never reached their conclusion. 24 episodes of the original 73 were also released to home video in
Scandinavia (mainly in
Sweden) under the original name
Starzinger. A listing of what episodes were cut out can be found at: Warfists Starzinger site in the episode section. The Swedish-language version of the series reached their conclusion.
Episode list ==Home media==