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. Two For The Price of One
Aired 3 May 1986 • 23 min
The aliens are preoccupied with the birth of Cy-star's child while the Terrahawks prepare to launch a sneak attack.
2. First Strike
Aired 10 May 1986 • 23 min
An overzealous general seizes control of the Terrahawks to mount a direct assault on Zelda's Mars base. Ninestein makes futile attempts to warn him that Zelda and her gang of monsters are too powerful to engage in direct combat. Zelda readies a counter-strike team of Sram, Yuri, Lord Tempo and Yung-star.
3. Terratomb
Aired 17 May 1986 • 23 min
Yuri seals Battlehawk inside Hawknest after Battletank picks up a bomb while investigating a ZEAF.
4. Space Cyclops
Aired 24 May 1986 • 23 min
Zelda sends a huge egg to the moon that hatches into a one-eyed monster.
5. Doppleganger
Aired 31 May 1986 • 23 min
A statue of Yung-star is found at a museum on Earth.
6. Child's Play
Aired 7 June 1986 • 23 min
It-star masterminds its first attack, attempting to destroy the Terrahawks with a bomb.
7. Jolly Roger One
Aired 14 June 1986 • 23 min
Yung-star and It-star are sent with Captain Goat to run a pirate radio ship to lure the Terrahawks into a trap.
8. Runaway
Aired 21 June 1986 • 23 min
Yung-Star runs away, but he is unknowingly carrying a 'bug' in the form of a powder inside him.
9. Space Samurai
Aired 28 June 1986 • 23 min
Tamura, a Samurai warrior from outer space, forces Zelda and Ninestein to meet on neutral ground in order to settle their dispute peacefully.
10. Timewarp
Aired 5 July 1986 • 23 min
Lord Tempo creates a time warp in order to slow down the Terrahawks' ability to react to a full-scale attack.
11. Operation Zero
Aired 12 July 1986 • 23 min
Zero is feeling out of sorts and goes in for repairs, but makes a grim discovery; Zelda and her family have infiltrated Hawknest.
12. The Sporilla
Aired 19 July 1986 • 23 min
Zelda lures the Terrahawks to Jupiter's moon Callisto by ransacking a listening post there. Once they arrive, they find themselves being stalked by the fearsome Sporilla.
13. GO(L)D
Aired 26 July 1986 • 23 min
The Zeroids find an explosive meteorite, which the human Terrahawks mistake for gold and which Zero mistakes for the god that Ninestein worships; it kills one of Ninestein's clones when it explodes, forcing another to take his place.