About this season
Gerry Anderson & Christopher Burr's Terrahawks, simply referred to as Terrahawks, was a 1980s British science fiction television series produced by Anderson Burr Pictures and created by the production team of Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr. The show was Anderson's first in over a decade to utilize puppets for its characters, and also his last. Anderson's previous puppet-laden TV series included Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Set in the year 2020, the series followed the adventures of the Terrahawks, a taskforce responsible for protecting Earth from invasion by a group of extraterrestrial androids and aliens led by Zelda. Like Anderson's previous puppet series, futuristic vehicles and technology featured prominently in each episode.
Episodes (13)
1. Operation S.A.S.
Aired 23 September 1984 • 23 min
Zero and Dix-Huit roll to the rescue after Kate and Stu are kidnapped by Yung-Star and Yuri.
2. Ten Top Pop
Aired 30 September 1984 • 23 min
Kate is taken hostage by Andeburr Records employee Stuart "Stew" Dapples, who is under Zelda's control.
3. Play it Again, Sram
Aired 14 October 1984 • 23 min
Kate Kestrel wins the world song contest and goes on to compete in the interstellar song contest. Zelda contends that as a resident of Earth's solar system she has a right to participate too, and challenges Kate to a sing-off on a neutral planetoid with her family and Sram as her band.
4. The Ultimate Menace
Aired 21 October 1984 • 23 min
Zelda and the Terrahawks team up to stop Zyklon, a gigantic spaceship dedicated to destroying all life in the universe.
5. Midnight Blue
Aired 28 October 1984 • 23 min
While pursuing a ZEAF, Hawkwing flies too high and is marooned in space.
6. My Kingdom For A Zeaf
Aired 4 November 1984 • 23 min
Zelda dispatches Yung-star and a new monster, Lord Tempo, to find the location of Hawknest. While traveling back in time to avoid Spacehawk, they pick up King Richard.
7. Zero's Finest Hour
Aired 11 November 1984 • 23 min
When the Terrahawks are rendered catatonic by space flowers, Zero is forced to battle for the cure on his own.
8. Cold Finger
Aired 18 November 1984 • 23 min
Zelda enjoins the help of Cold Finger, an alien who uses water and ice as weapons.
9. Unseen Menace
Aired 25 November 1984 • 23 min
Moid, Master of Infinite Disguise, transforms himself into the Invisible Man to create trouble for the Terrahawks
10. Space Giant
Aired 9 December 1984 • 23 min
A pair of miners find and capture a Sporilla and take it back to Earth to sell to a shady sideshow owner. Once it is on Earth, Zelda uses her powers to enlarge the monster into an unstoppable giant.
11. Cry UFO
Aired 16 December 1984 • 23 min
Stew Dapples becomes the eyewitness to Zelda's latest plot when he sees a UFO.
12. The Midas Touch
Aired 23 December 1984 • 23 min
Zelda deploys the alien Krell to Earth and plots the destruction of the space equivilant of Fort Knox
13. Ma's Monsters
Aired 30 December 1984 • 23 min
In this clip show, Zelda reflects on her previous attempts to kill the Terrahawks, and realises the time has come for new and more powerful monsters to be brought to the fold, whilst Cy-star has some important news