![]() ![]() One of the few local channels my family could pick up, CKNX 8 in Wingham, Ontario, showed Thunder Sub Wednesdays at noon in the 1985-1986 season, following Transformers and The Lone Ranger on Mondays and Tuesdays at noon and preceding The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show and Blackstar on Thursdays and Fridays at noon. Somebody else narrated during the episodes. That bit of the opening title was the only thing that person did on the entire dub. Speaking of aliens, the English opening title narration was TOTALLY ripped off from the old show The Invaders and they even used what sounds like the same voice actor. This is rather different than most shows where everybody from across the cosmos conveniently speaks the same language thanks to some off-screen hand-waves or something. Aside from some short oaths via translating computers, the two sides didn't speak until the very end of the series. One other notable thing about Blue Noah was the aliens were really alien and didn't breathe the same air and were not able to speak directly to humans. Haegler actually did more to save the Earth than the entire rest of the cast. Instead, he attempted to set things right and atone for his sins before he met his end. It was Haegler and his remorse over the loss of the entire Godom race and the realization there was nothing to be gained at that point by wiping out the human race. It could be argued that Godom itself didn't save the Earth in the end. ThunderSub is not among the voice work on his demo reel. The voice actor for Colin Collins was Bruce Greenwood, who currently narrate bigfoot and UFO docudramas for Discovery Channel. On a world map shows somebody wasn't doing their geography homework). With only a few missteps along the way (identifying Japan as "Hawaii" Handled the show's complex science-fictional concepts magnificently, Might recognize the same voice actors in Thunder Sub, leading us toĬonclude Blue Noah's localization was executed by the same TV broadcast credits don't list a dub cast, but sharp-eared viewersįamiliar with the TNT's 1990s airing of tokusatsu classic Ultra Seven Television, of which Western-World owned a good chunk. Time, you might recognize Thunder Sub's distributor – Lionheart Syndication deal for Blue Noah with Western-World Television, notedįor their David Warner-Carrie Fisher Frankenstein telefilm andĬo-producing the British nuclear-war gloom-drama Threads. In the mid 1980s Nishizaki's Office Academy cut a ![]() ![]() Syndication, the show would merely be an even more obscure footnote.įortunately, a global thirst for cartoon programming would bring Thunder Sub to us. ![]()
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