Series synopsis
Captain Star is a British sci-fi & fantasy animation television series that premiered on ITV1 on July 8, 1997. It ended on August 27, 1998. It was created by Steven Appleby, Frank Cottrell Boyce. It stars Adrian Edmondson, Richard E. Grant, Gary Martin and Kerry Shale.
Captain Star was an animated television series starring Richard E. Grant as Captain Jim Star, based on a comic by Steven Appleby: Rockets Passing Overhead. Only thirteen episodes of thirty-minutes each were produced and aired. The series ran on the British ITV and Canadian TELETOON networks from 1997 to 1998. The show was also later repeated on Nickelodeon UK.
Premise
Captain Star was an animated television series starring Richard E. Grant as Captain Jim Star, based on a comic by Steven Appleby: Rockets Passing Overhead. Only thirteen episodes of thirty-minutes each were produced and aired. The series ran on the British ITV and Canadian TELETOON networks from 1997 to 1998. The show was also later repeated on Nickelodeon UK.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 13 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 6 | July 8, 1997 | August 12, 1997 |
| Season 2 | 7 | July 16, 1998 | August 27, 1998 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Atomic Alarm Clock The Captain is having difficulty waking up in the mornings, so Scarlette gets him an atomic alarm clock. But when jones gives the captain a toy remote control model of the boiling hell, it turns out that the mechanism to make it run actually made the real ship run in which was sent into space!. Jones is so sorry for what happened, whats more is that mission control is history & he can't do anything about it. Untill a ship that looks like the boiling hell arrives on the planet with it's co-pilot being a student with captain star at the academy when they were young called bloater. Bloater agrees to help save mission control untill he turns his back on jones by sending him into an airlock & wanting to bring an end to the miserable mission control. Captain star stops him & when he finds jones with an 8 headed(1 head broke off)space suit, he realizes that they were always in the boiling hell!. Captain star reverts the missiles trajectory & mission control cheers in captain stars name. as fo |
July 8, 1997 |
| 2 |
Day of the Zooties When a messenger Droid comes to the planet, it offers a new brand of carpet which can do everything necessary to make you feel at home. but Captain Star hates this and with officer scarlet, they find out that this is a millitary experiment gone terribly wrong. But when the crew is brain-washed into shampooing the carpet, Captain star must make a new plan into destroying the carpet by polluting it with so much dust that it will be blinded & forced into retreat. |
July 15, 1997 |
| 3 |
The Worm Turns When jones gets bonked on the head by furniture while on his way to tell Captain Star orders, Star needs the orders badly. So Scarlet decides to use one of the worms,""Jim"" which she found in a colony that were trained under her, to go into Jones' brain and retrieve the forgotten orders. Unfortunally, Jim decides to make a nest for her eggs because she's a girl!. After failed attempts to rescue ""Jim"" with Jim-BOB-BOB, Jones will need to cry like a man to get her out along with Jim-BOB-BOB or else he could suffer serious brain damage. after crying them out, The orders are that an alien group has constructed a moon resembling that of the captain's head. |
July 22, 1997 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Rocket to Nowhere When Jones is collecting atmospheric samples for scarlet in her investigation of the planet, he hits a rocket that suposadly has the captains orders. So Captain star, Navigator black, & first officer Scarlet all go to the dark side of the planet to retrieve the rocket & it's order while jones stays behind & helps Jim-Bob-Bob clean the ship & such. When they head to the dark side, they learn of dangers such as a jelaton like atmosphere, huge mountains, & a low flying comet(but not as worse as 2 headed dogs who are good on one head & evil on the other). Jones remembers the others forgot their woolies so they head to the dark area & with their help, the team gets it's woolies & the dogs treat jones like a god or master. |
July 16, 1998 |
| 2 |
It's Written in the Stars The crew reminises about their birthdays & It turns out Captain star's B-day is actually on a different day then the crews and it was made into a special holiday. But with a day in honour of him comes with a painful sacrifice, He must resign as captain of the crew. When all of mission control & the 29 captains arrive to Captain star day, the Captain decides to enjoy the party before departing with his new ship, the ""blubberraft"" & he makes officer scarlet the new captain. But not before the planet will start to explode after a fish cake got lodged into a hole that closed earlier in the episode. With Scarlet as the captain, She must now take charge & think what the captain would do in a time of dispair. By taking apart the pipes of one of the 29 captain's ships, scarlet jams them into the planet spewing all of the planets pressure into space creating a new star which she will name after her. After the incident had been averted, a captain , Captain Brian, says that the age system & all i |
July 23, 1998 |
| 3 |
Ned Nova A spaceship containing the remains of captain star's trainer at the space academy, Ned nova, have been discovered in the belly or a slug. When Nova emerges from his sleep, He remembers that He had went into the black hole that one day where he wanted to be free from mission control. Captain star had announced that He will bring ned to mission control for questioning in the morning. The next day, he had stolen a speeder bike to which he went back into the slug to retrieve his ship the ""Merry Cheeser"". The crew (Star & Jones) decides to catch up to him and they find him back in the slug. after rescuing him and the ""Merry Cheeser"", Ned wakes up and Captain star leads him to his ship. Nova wonders why he's not taking him to Mission Control and Star says that He is just an impostor thinking he is Nova and that the real Ned Nova would be hundreds of space years older. But to me, I think captain Star knows it is the real Ned Nova but wants him to live the free life. |
July 30, 1998 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | ITV1 |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 8, 1997 |
| Last aired | August 27, 1998 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Status | ended |