Space Sentinels

Space Sentinels (originally titled The Young Sentinels and renamed midway through its only season) is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Filmation which debuted on the NBC network on September 10, 1977 and ran for thirteen half-hour episodes. The series has been called "ahead of its time" due to its racially diverse cast of main characters.

In this series, the Roman mythological figures Hercules and Mercury are joined by Astrea, to form a superhero team to protect mankind in the then future year of 1985.

Although this series only had one season, a spin-off was developed for the Tarzan and the Super 7 animated series the following year, called The Freedom Force. Both of these shows were released together on DVD.



The Sorceress (Season 1, Episode 4)
When the North Pole vanishes, the Young Sentinels investigate and find The Sorceress is responsible. The Sorceress soon makes the Sentinels prisoners of their own imaginations and creates duplicates of them to do her bidding.

Commander Nemo (Season 1, Episode 8)
When Commander Nemo rises from the water and wages war on those who pollute the oceans, the Young Sentinels investigate, but Astraea is soon captured by the deranged sea captain and forced to turn against her friends.

Voyage to the Inner World (Season 1, Episode 9)
The dying Queen Darkari sends a machine from the Inner World to capture Astraea to siphon her brain waves, so Herc, Merc and M.O. journey to the earth's core and mount a rescue.