BOB FOSTER DEAD AT 81

 

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He co-developed Road Rovers; did layouts for Yogi’s Gang, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, CB Bears, Scooby’s Laff-A-Lympics, Yogi’s Space Race, Jana of the Jungle, The New Shmoo, Godzilla (1978), Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Meatballs and Spaghetti, The Incredible Hulk (1982), Dragon’s Lair and Garfield and Friends; storyboards for Little Muppet Monsters, The New Archies, Camp Candy, Little Shop, Garfield and Friends, Superman: The Animated Series, Freakazoid!, Hercules: The Animated Series, Mickey Mouseworks, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Xiaolin Showdown, Tutenstein, Tom and Jerry Tales, and Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates; was story director for The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley; and did models for Garfield and Friends.

20TH ANNIVERSARIES

 

FRED WILLIARD DEAD AT 86

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He appeared as the Award Show Host in an episode of The Weird Al Show; Mr. Brown in an episode of City Guys; Cassandra's father Vic in several episodes of Hercules: The Animated Series; Pa Munchapper in three episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; Mr. Paulson in Teamo Supremo; Ross Darren and a speedway announcer in two different episodes of The Batman; Swindle in Transformers: Animated; Grandpa Murphy in Milo Murphy’s Law; and Pop-Pop in The Loud House. He also provided voices for The Emperor’s New School and appeared with his comedy troupe, Ace Trucking Company, in the 1974 ABC Funshine Saturday Sneak Peak preview special.

RUSSI TAYLOR DEAD AT 75

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Best known as the permanent voice of Minnie Mouse since 1986 as well as Donald Duck’s nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie since 1987. Along with their portrayal in various media, she played Minnie in Mickey Mouse Works, House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse (2103) and Huey, Dewey and Louie in DuckTales (1987), Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and Mickey Mouse (2013).

She also had a long career on Saturday mornings. Her various roles included Pebbles Flintstone and Cavemouse in The Flintstone Comedy Show; Barbie Winslow in Heathcliff (1981); Pac-Baby in Pac-Man; Hasty and Leota in episodes of ABC Weekend Specials; Gonzo, Robin and Captain Blackwig the Blue Pirette in Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies; Rex’s owner in the “Chocolate Fever” episode of CBS Storybreak; Hilda Brewski in an episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo; Amber the Fairie Dragon in an episode of Dungeons & Dragons; Grover’s Mommy in Five Sesame Street Stories; Beehonie and Donna in an episode of Kissyfur; Ralphie in Little Clowns of Happytown; Melissa, Candy and Chinook Puppy in episodes of Pound Puppies (1986); a girl in an episode of Yogi’s Treasure Hunt; Lana Lang in an episode of Superman (1988); Laura in an episode of The Smurfs; Webby Vanderquack in DuckTales and in an episode of Raw Toonage; a Louisiana Boy in an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987); Ethalyn, Emmadryl and Madame Placebo in episodes of Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears; a woman in an episode of Disney’s Aladdin; a fairy and a puppet in an episode of The Lion King’s Timon & Pumbaa; kids and voices in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat; a tour guide in an episode of The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries; Beck and an old lady in episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; Clara Cluck in Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse, where she also played Fairy Godmother and Fauna; Fauna and Winifred in episodes of Sofia the First; Lorbs, Florina and Lorb Guard in episodes of Tangled: The Series; and Young Donald in an episode of DuckTales (2017).

She also provided additional voices in The Little Rascals, Laverne & Shirley with Special Guest Star the Fonz, The Littles, Saturday Supercade, Jim Henson’s Little Muppet Monsters, The Smurfs, Dink the Little Dinosaur, Rick Moranis in Gravedale High, TaleSpin, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, What a Mess and Star vs. the Forces of Evil.

Taylor made a rare live cameo appearance in the 1984 CBS Saturday morning preview special Saturday’s The Place in a recording booth with some of her Muppet Babies co-stars.

BUZZ BLASTS CEREAL

BUZZ BLASTS CEREAL

Kellogg’s

            Toy Story became the first full-length completely computer-generated animated feature to hit theaters in 1995, pulling in an impressive box office, igniting interest in others studios for computer animation, and beginning the long-standing relationship between Disney and Pixar Studios. The film centered on a world in which toys came to life whenever people weren’t around. Woody (Tom Hanks), the pull-string cowboy doll that was once the favorite in a group of toys, found himself replaced by the newer, electronic talking Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) action figure. This led to many quarrels fueled by Woody’s jealousy until Woody came to accept Buzz and welcomed him into the group. Toy Story became a media franchise, spawning sequels, specials, books, games and even a Buzz Lightyear animated series.

            In 2002, as part of a multi-year deal with Disney, Kellogg’s released three cereals based on Disney characters. One of them was Buzz Blasts cereal, centered on the Buzz character. The timing of this release was interesting as the animated series was currently in syndicated reruns at this time and the next Toy Story sequel was 8 years away.

            Buzz Blasts featured cereal pieces in the shape of flying saucers, the Little Green Men toys featured in the movies and the cartoon, space ships and Buzz’s face. The pieces were done in Buzz’s purple and green color scheme, with all the pieces being purple and the flying saucers having an extra green ring as well as blue flecks. The cereal actually had a long life, running until 2005. The initial box featured a foil-stamped embossed logo and a game where you had to find the different space ship amongst three different fleets. At one point, a music CD with an exclusive song about Buzz was included as a premium. Another premium involved 3-D glasses to use with a new game on the back panel.  

Original back panel game.

The 3-D Glasses premium box.

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND

(UPN, ABC, October 2, 2000-January 13, 2001)

Walt Disney Television Animation, Pixar Animation Studio

MAIN CAST:

Patrick Warburton – Buzz Lightyear, LGMs

Tim Allen – Buzz Lightyear (film)

Nicole Sullivan – Princess Mira Nova

Stephen Furst – Booster Sinclair Munchapper

Larry Miller (weekday episodes) – XR

Neil Flynn (Saturday episodes) – XR, computer, X-Treme

Adam Carolla – Commander Zeb Nebula

Wayne Knight – Emperor Zurg

Frank Welker – Grubs, various

Gary Owens – Opening narration

            While working for Walt Disney Feature Animation, John Lasseter became enamored with the possibilities that computer animation could offer when he was shown the lightcycle scene from Tron. He tried unsuccessfully to have Disney make The Brave Little Toaster into a completely computer-animated film before eventually being fired and moving on to Lucasfilm.

The short that started it all.

            Lasseter went on to become a founding member of animation studio Pixar where he created short, computer-animated films to show off the Pixar Image Computer’s abilities. His 1988 short Tin Toy, which was told from the perspective of a toy—in this case a one-man band made out of tin named Tinny—and catered to Lasseter’s love of classic toys, became the first computer-generated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The short had gained Disney’s attention, and after a series of negotiations the two studios arranged to join together and turn Tin Toy into a feature film called Toy Story.

Concept art for Buzz Lightyear.

            The story was drafted by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter to have Tinny from Tin Toy pairing up with a ventriloquist’s dummy to go on a grand adventure. Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg felt the story was problematic and had them reshape it to be more of a mismatched buddy picture. Tinny, deemed too antiquated, became a military action figure before being given a space theme and named Buzz Lightyear (after Buzz Aldrin). His space suit was modeled after those worn by Apollo astronauts and G.I. Joe action figures, and colored green and purple as they were Nancy Lasseter’s favorite colors. Character designer Bud Luckey suggested that Woody (named for the material he was originally composed of) should be changed into a cowboy; a contrast of themes Lasseter liked. Eventually, they scrapped the dummy angle altogether and turned Woody into a soft pull-string doll (keeping the name as an homage to Western actor Woody Strode). The final script would be written by Stanton with Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow and Joss Whedon and  Lasseter would serve as director.

            Toy Story centered on a world in which toys would come to life whenever people weren’t around. They had their own lives, personalities and autonomy, but they loved nothing more than to be played with. The world of a particular group of toys was changed when a new toy was introduced: the electronic talking Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen); a toy based off of an in-universe popular cartoon show. Woody (Tom Hanks), the original favorite toy of young Andy (John Morris), had become jealous of Buzz and all the attention he was getting from Andy and his fellow toys. Buzz was also completely oblivious that he was a toy and believed himself to be THE Buzz Lightyear. Their squabbling resulted in Woody and Buzz ending up in the clutches of their toy-destroying neighbor, Sid (Erik von Detten). Woody and Buzz had to work together and escape in order to return home before their family was set to move away.

The ever-growing members of the Toy Story franchise.

            Toy Story opened on November 22, 1995, becoming the first feature-length film to be completely computer animated. The film was a massive success, earning $373.6 million at the box office, critical acclaim, and several awards and nominations. The film not only began Disney and Pixar’s long-standing partnership (which eventually culminated in Disney buying the studio outright), but generated interest in the technology used for the film and production of other computer-generated media.

            Toy Story has since become a franchise with several theatrical sequels, the spin-off film Lightyear, two holiday television specials, three theatrical shorts, video games, comic books, actual toys and more. While work was being done on Toy Story 2, which expanded both Woody and Buzz’s family of characters with companion toys from their respective franchises, the idea was floated of turning the Buzz Lightyear show into an actual program. Tad Stones was approached by Disney to create the series on an $8 million budget, along with Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley. Initially, they had to juggle their duties on Buzz Lightyear with their work on Hercules: The Animated Series.

Buzz and Warp Darkmatter rescuing the LGMs.

            Buzz Lightyear of Star Command centered on the space-faring exploits of Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (Patrick Warburton) as he protected the cosmos from the sinister machinations of his arch-rival, the evil Emperor Zurg (Wayne Knight, who voiced the human villain of the second movie). While on a mission to rescue three Little Green Men (or LGMs, the alien toys encountered in a claw machine in the first movie, all voiced by Warburton), Buzz’s partner Warp Darkmatter (Diedrich Bader) was lost, causing Buzz to vow to never have a partner again.

Team Lightyear: Buzz, Mira, XR and Booster.

However, fate had other plans. Buzz’s superior, Commander Zeb Nebula (Adam Carolla) issued Buzz a new partner: Princess Mira Nova (Nicole Sullivan), heir to the Tangean throne with the ability to “ghost” through solid matter and read minds. The LGMs, who served as the loyal backbone of Star Command by developing and maintaining all of their equipment, provided Buzz with another partner in the form of the robot XR (Larry Miller & Neil Flynn). The eXperimental Ranger (although called “eXpendable” by most), was originally emotionless and designed to observe and learn from Buzz. And, in the event of his destruction (which happened on every mission), the LGMs could rebuild him promptly (the first time resulted in XR gaining an annoyingly animated personality). But yet a third partner presented himself in the form of Booster (Stephen Furst), a super strong and super dimwitted Star Command janitor who desired nothing more than to become a Ranger and achieved his dream when he helped defeat one of Zurg’s schemes. Together, they became Team Lightyear. Originally, the series was going to have more of a lone-adventurer slant, but McCorkle and Schooley suggested giving it more of a buddy-cop comedic tone.

Ty Parsec.

Other members of Star Command included Ty Parsec (Steve Hytner), an old friend of Buzz who got tired of always being rescued by him and ended up being transformed into a Wirewolf (a robotic werewolf); Rocket Crocket (Phil LaMarr), leader of Team Rocket and Buzz’s chief rival; Petra Hammerhold (Nikki Cox), forced to join Star Command by her father, Senator Hammerhold (Corey Burton), to keep her away from her boyfriend, Plasma Boy (Michael Showalter), who also later became a member of Star Command; and 42 (Joy Behar), an A.I. that once possessed Buzz’s ship and was later given a robot body to help the LGMs.

Emperor Zurg.

Zurg wasn’t without his own allies. The bug-like Grubs (all Frank Welker) served the same functions as the LGMs, albeit less competently. The Brain Pods (various) were brains in jars on robotic bodies that served as Zurg’s scientists and researchers while constantly plotting their escape from Zurg’s clutches. The Hornets were Zurg’s robotic foot soldiers. They were largely ineffective and extremely expendable, constantly being destroyed by the Space Rangers. It would come to be revealed that Warp had secretly been working for Zurg all along and became Agent Z after faking his death. He gained a robotic arm that could house various attachments. 

Gravitina has Buzz on the brain (and a lot of other stuff!).

Other foes included Gravitina (Kerri Kenney), a large-headed woman that could control gravity and was in love with Buzz; NOS-4-A2 (Craig Ferguson), a robotic vampire created by Zurg that could drain anything powered by electricity as well as control any machine he bit; Torque (Brad Garrett), a career criminal that could create unstable duplicates of himself; and XL (Bobcat Goldthwait), XR’s predecessor who was initially shut down because of his villainous tendencies.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was finished long before Toy Story 2, so it was decided to hold on to it until after the film was released so as not to confuse audiences and steal the film’s spotlight. This gave the production crew a chance to work on a direct-to-video movie to introduce the concept and new characters that would also double as the series’ first three episodes. Pixar created a new short intro starring the Toy Story 2 characters settling in to watch the movie, which was otherwise traditionally animated and had the highest quality of the entire series. It was decided to have Allen reprise his role as Buzz in the film and he re-recorded over Warburton’s performance (which was restored when the movie was broken up into individual episodes, and the Pixar portion omitted). Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins was released on VHS and DVD on August 8, 2000, becoming the first spin-off of a Pixar film. The series itself hit television screens on October 2, 2000. It aired both as a feature of UPN’s Disney’s One Too weekday programming block and as part of ABC’s Disney’s One Saturday Morning programming block, effectively airing seven days a week as a result for its entire 65-episode run. Each episode ended with Buzz saying his famous line: “To infinity…and beyond!” A plan to feature parody shorts centered around other Toy Story characters was ultimately abandoned.

Electric vampire NOS-4-A2.

While Pixar did provide some animation for the series’ opening titles, featuring cameos of the Toy Story characters set to a narration by Gary Owens, the rest of the intro and the series itself were traditionally animated by Walt Disney Animation Japan, Sun Min Co. Ltd. Animation Production, Toon City, Jade Animation Intl, Sunwoo Animation Co. Ltd., Tama Production Co., Ltd., Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. and Hana Animation Co. The writing staff included Kevin Hopps, Rick Gitelson, Michael Price, James W. Bates, Bob Forward, Julia Lewald, Greg Weisman, Jules Dennis, Jess Winfield, Alexx Van Dyne, Doug Langdale, Robert Askin, Jan Strnad, Lisa Klink, Leslie Nordman, Zach Stones, Jim Staahl, Jim Fisher, Adam Armus, John Behnke, Cade Chilcoat, Nick DuBois, Nora Kay Foster, Eddie Guzelian, Rob Humphrey, Greg Johnson, Ken Koonce, Michael A. Medlock, Michael Merton, Bill Motz, Mark Palmer, Jim Peterson, Bob Roth, Gary Sperling, Elizabeth Stonecipher, and Stones. Adam Berry provided the music. In 2001, the series won a Daytime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Sound Editing – Special Class”.

Torque splitting.

Production on the series ended after 65 episodes, as was the Disney rule at the time. Buzz Lightyear continued to air on UPN until 2003 when Disney’s partnership with the network came to an end. During that time, it also aired on the Disney Channel and again from 2006 to 2008, as well as on Toon Disney from 2003-2007 before leaving United States airwaves. The episodes “Inside Job” and “Conspiracy” were taken out of rotation following the 9/11 terrorist attacks due to their dealing with assassination elements, and “Super Nova” for its allusion to drug abuse.

Storyboard of the scrapped Buzz Lightyear cartoon opening of Toy Story.

 Lasseter ended up not being a fan of the series, resulting in Pixar barring any elements of it from being used in any other Toy Story media and even disallowing the mention of the cartoon in the movies. Artwork reminiscent of the show, however, was featured at the entrance of the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters ride at Disney parks, and Lightyear director Angus MacLane would say in interviews that his film represented the live-action movie franchise that would inspire the animated series that Andy would watch. To date, only The Adventure Begins has been released on home media, as well as the episode “Planet of the Lost”. Nothing else has been made legally available, not even on Disney’s own streaming platform, Disney+. While no specific reason for Lasseter’s disdain has ever been revealed, Stone theorized he was hoping for a more action-oriented series that would match the opening scene of Toy Story 2 or the scrapped Buzz animated series Andy would have been watching in the first film.

  Mattel, who released toys for the Toy Story franchise, released two waves of figures based on the show. The first wave, called Toy Story and Beyond, featured Buzz, Booster, XR, Zurg and Warp. The Space Rangers all came with a LGM while the villains came with a Grub. The second wave, called Cosmic Clash, featured new Buzz, Booster and XR figures without LGMs, and NOS-4-A2 as their primary foe. The following year, McDonald’s included six toys based on the show in their Happy Meals. Team Lightyear, Nebula and Zurg could all be launched from a spaceship part that could be assembled to create a larger spaceship. Random House published a series of story and glow-in-the-dark sticker books that adapted various episodes, as well as a pop-up book, punch-out doll book, and coloring books. Comic strips based on the show were published in the pages of Disney Adventures Magazine and its British counterpart, Disney’s Comic.

Traveler’s Tales developed a game with Disney Interactive that was published by Activision. It was a rail shooting game that saw Buzz having to traverse various planets for three missions: a race against a criminal, a time trial, and recovering all of XR’s body parts. It featured the show’s voice cast and cut scenes comprised of clips from various episodes. Originally released for the PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Sega Dreamcast and PC in 2000, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in 2023. In 2026, Digital Eclipse and Atari would re-release the game as part of its compilation Toy Story: Retro Roundup!, which collected 9 Toy Story games and 2 based on Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, to coincide with the theatrical release of Toy Story 5.

EPISODE GUIDE:

“Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins” (8/8/00) – Buzz swears off partners after his is lost to Emperor Zurg, but ends up working with three cadets to save the Little Green Men.

“The Torque Armada” (10/2/00) – Zurg’s Hornets free Torque from prison and take him to Planet Z.

“Gravitina” (10/3/00) – Buzz and his team try to save Star Command from an asteroid field but discover it’s being directed at the base by Gravitina.

“XL” (10/4/00) – XR is used as bait for a high-tech robber, which turns out to be his predecessor XL.

“Little Secrets” (10/5/00) – Searching for a spy complicates Mira, Booster and XL’s plans to hide a secret from Buzz.

“Inside Job” (10/6/00) – Buzz teams up with Flash Flemming to stop an assassination.

“NOS-4-A2” (10/8/00) – Zurg tricks the Rangers into bringing a box back to Star Command that contains an energy-draining robotic vampire.

“The Planet Destroyer” (10/9/00) – Buzz has to stop Zurg’s new weapon from claiming its third world.

“Tag Team” (10/11/00) – Buzz teams-up with Warp Darkmatter to find out who put implants in them.

“The Main Event” (10/12/00) – Buzz and XR end up stranded on a planet battling against gladiators.

“The Return of XL” (10/13/00) – XL kidnaps XR and steals a part from him, causing XR to feel depressed and run off to Tradeworld for repairs.

“Lost in Time” (10/14/00) – Zurg uses Buzz’s trip into a Black Hole to trick him into thinking he’s wound up in the future.

“Strange Invasion” (10/15/00) – Team Lightyear ends up stranded in another dimension.

“The Taking of PC-7” (10/16/00) – Torque arranges for a jailbreak when Booster and XR escort him to prison.

“Mindwarp” (10/17/00) – Klerm kidnaps Buzz and uses his mind to create an army of Slam-Bots.

“Mira’s Wedding” (10/18/00) – Lord Angstrom arranges a marriage for Mira in order to take attention away from his plan to overthrow King Nova.

“Panic on Bathyos” (10/19/00) – Team Lightyear is sent to investigate the theft of fusion crystals on Bathyos.

“Shiv Katall” (10/20/00) – Brain Pod #13 defects from Zurg and Zurg hires infamous bounty hunter Shiv Katall to eliminate him.

“Rookie of the Year” (10/21/00) – Being nominated for “Rookie of the Year” causes Team Lightyear to fight amongst themselves and allow Zurg to steal a matter transporter from them.

“Stress Test” (10/22/00) – Buzz is forced to go on vacation.

“A Zoo Out There” (10/23/00) – Buzz has to find a group of kidnapped ambassadors.

“Root of Evil” (10/24/00) – Team Lightyear investigates reports of mutant vegetables terrorizing a planet.

“Super Nova” (10/25/00) – A mission causes Mira to gain new powers, which gives her the confidence to take on Zurg by herself.

“Downloaded” (10/26/00) – XR becomes a target when he downloads the Galactic Alliance files into himself.

“The Plasma Monster” (10/27/00) – Booster ends up battling a new recruit’s boyfriend when he becomes smitten with her.

“Wirewolf” (10/29/00) – As Buzz and Ty Parsec battle NOS-4-A2, the radiation on Canis Lunis ends up turning Ty into the Wirewolf.

“The Crawling Flesh” (10/29/00) – Zurg manages to turn all of Star Command into blob monsters.

“Dirty Work” (10/30/00) – Cosmo’s new robotic appliance is bitten by NOS-4-A2 and ends up taking over the diner.

“The Slayer” (10/31/00) – Buzz and XR team-up with Savy SL2 to take down NOS-4-A2.

“The Lightyear Factor” (11/1/00) – Zurg breaches another dimension and recruits an evil Buzz.

“Clone Rangers” (11/2/00) – Zurg creates clones of Buzz, Mira and Booster.

“Bunzel Fever” (11/3/00) – Booster must return home to cure his case of Bunzel Fever.

“Rescue Mission” (11/4/00) – Buzz is shrunk down to stop a threat that turns out to be his own team.

“Devolutionaries” (11/5/00) – Team Lightyear discovers that something is de-evolving the populace of a planet.

“Head Case” (11/6/00) – XL kidnaps XR after he’s damaged in battle.

“The Yukari Imprint” (11/7/00) – Team Lightyear has to protect an ambassador and his delegates.

“The Shape Stealer” (11/8/00) – Zurg creates an assassin that can take over other people’s bodies.

“Star Crossed” (11/9/00) – Zurg hires Mira’s ex-boyfriend to retrieve Brain Pod #57 for him.

“Haunted Moon” (11/10/00) – A ghost tries to prevent Team Lightyear from saving a planet.

“Star Smasher” (11/11/00) – Zurg takes one of the Little Green Men and plans to use his knowledge to create a devastating device.

“Stranger Invasion” (11/12/00) – Zurg invades Roswell to use it as a staging zone for his next attack on Capital Planet.

“Eye of the Tempest” (11/13/00) – Mad scientist Spyro Lepton lures Buzz into a trap.

“Revenge of the Monsters” (11/14/00) – XL and NOS-4-A2 invade Star Command to turn Ty Parsec back into the Wirewolf.

“Lone Wolf” (11/15/00) – When lack of evidence is about to allow a criminal to go free, Buzz regales his team with a story of a similar situation from his past.

“Planet of the Lost” (11/16/00) – Investigating the disappearance of ships causes Team Lightyear to become the next victims.

“Revenge of the Raenoks” (11/17/00) – Booster is captured by the Raenoks to bargain for the release of their leader, Varg.

“Enemy Without a Face” (11/18/00) – Team Lightyear ends up in the middle of a 900-year conflict.

“The Starthought” (11/19/00) – Zurg takes over Star Command’s newest ship.

“Millennial Bugs” (11/20/00) – Zurg attempts to hatch fossilized Millennial Bug eggs.

“Conspiracy” (11/21/00) – Buzz is framed for the attempted assassination of the Galactic President.

“At Large on a Small Planet” (11/23/00) – Buzz and Booster have to shrink down in order to find out who kidnapped an ambassador.

“Sunquake” (11/24/00) – Evil Buzz returns and enlists Gravitina in ruining Buzz’s reputation.

“Good Ol’ Buzz” (11/25/00) – Buzz from the future arrives to save Mira’s life.

“First Missions” (11/26/00) – Trapped in a hopeless situation, Team Lightyear tells their charge about their first meetings with Buzz to reassure him that Buzz will save them in time.

“Large Target” (11/27/00) – XR impersonates Buzz to gamble at a casino and ends up attracting a load of trouble.

“War and Peace and War” (11/29/00) – Suspicions about Guzelian’s desire to bring peace to the galaxy has Buzz working with Zurg to investigate Guzelian’s true intentions.

“Return to Karn” (12/2/00) – Mira and the President are shot down and hunted by Zurg.

“Speed Trap” (12/9/00) – Team Lightyear must stop a ship from crashing into the sun and destroying it.

“Holiday Time” (12/16/00) – Zurg steals Santa’s time-stopping device to go on a terror spree.

“Opposites Attract” (12/23/00) – Gravitina mutates Buzz’s head like hers in the hopes it will make Buzz fall for her.

“Ancient Evil” (1/6/01) – When the Little Green Men awaken space mummy Natron, Zurg wants him for himself.

“42” (1/13/01) – Buzz has to save XR and 42 from Valkyran raiders.

Originally posted in 2019. Updated in 2026.