Vengeance of the Gods

8.5

01

On his trip back to Earth, Ulysses' son is carried off by the Cyclops to give sight to his followers with Telemachus' life force. Ulysses destroys the Cyclops and saves Telemachus, Yumi and Numinor. In retaliation the ancient Gods then send his ship, the Odyssey, into an unknown part of space with the bulk of its crew cursed to remain lifeless, floating in mid-air until Ulysses finds the Kingdom of Hades. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/10/1981

The Black Sphere

8.7

02

Ulysses meets an old scholar named Heratos and his assistant, a young Zotrian woman named Atina. Heratos gives Ulysses a map that he says is to the Kingdom of Hades, but is actually to the Graveyard of Wrecks and Hulks which no-one has ever left alive, because the gods threatened Atina's life if he did not deceive Ulysses. While there, Telemachus finds the black sphere which contains a map of Olympus. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/17/1981

Flowers of Fear

8.0

03

The Odyssey comes across a lifeless city world. On hearing that its people had the technology to bring the dead back to life, Yumi takes Numinor to the planet to revive him. However, she learns why there is no life in the city. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/24/1981

Chronos, Father of Time

9.0

04

Ulysses is saved from a Trident attack by Chronos, the god of time (depicted with two faces like the Roman god Janus), who wants to use him as leverage to be allowed to reenter the home of the gods. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/31/1981

The Lost Planet

9.6

05

The ship passes a moon that brings Numinor back to life, since it's from his home planet of Zotra. When they investigate, the children disappear and Numinor suspects they've been kidnapped by a legendary witch. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/7/1981

Guardian of the Cosmic Winds

7.3

06

Aeolus, King of the winds, kidnaps Ulysses to provide entertainment for his daughter's birthday party. Unable to watch her father's cruel sport, she frees the captives and helps them escape. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/14/1981

The Eternal Punishment

9.3

07

Ulysses encounters Sisyphus, a king condemned to fill a crater with boulders for all eternity for having dared to want the secret of immortality. Zeus has promised Sisyphus he can leave if he makes Ulysses take his place. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/21/1981

Mutiny on Board

10.0

08

A space storm revives the companions as crazed automatons who take over the ship and try to crash it into space glaciers with the help of a trident battleship. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/28/1981

Secret of the Sphinx

9.0

09

Passing through the domain of the great Sphinx, Ulysses must answer his riddle to leave safely. His treacherous daughter kidnaps the children and plots to make Ulysses her slave. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/5/1981

Temple of the Laestrygonians

9.3

10

The Odyssey arrives on a tropical planet, where the ruling tyrant uses a magic prism to shrink them. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/12/1981

Trapped Between Fire and Ice

10.0

11

Trying to help a stranded astronaut, Ulysses tries to find a hidden base on one of the deadly twin planets Scylla or Charybdis. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/14/1981

The Seat of Forgetfulness

9.0

12

Ulysses follows a Trident carrier in hopes of learning more about the way out of Olympus, and finds himself trapped in bizarre worlds. To save the children, he will have to give up his memories. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/26/1981

Song of Danger

10.0

13

Pirates kidnap the children to force Ulysses and No-No to brave the danger of the Sirens, said to guard a map of the Olympus universe. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/2/1982

Phantoms from the Swamp

10.0

14

Coming across a piece of Zotra that could bring Numinor back to life, Ulysses and Yumi pursue it to a swamp planet where they are ambushed by monsters who can copy their forms. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/9/1982

Before the Flood

8.0

15

Ulysses and the crew land on a planet similar to prehistoric earth. They encounter a winged female named Sauria, whose people are under attack from mutant vultures called Keconopters. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/16/1982

The Magic Spells of Circe

9.3

16

1/23/1981

The Hidden Truth

9.0

17

The shapechanger Nereus calls Ulysses for help when Shark Men, servants of the gods, take over his planet. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/30/1982

Lost in the Labyrinth

8.7

18

Princess Ariadne comes upon the Odyssey, and asks for Ulysses' help in saving her lover Theseus, who has been exiled to her father's labyrinth to be killed by the fearsome Minotaur. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/6/1982

At the Heart of the Universe

8.0

19

Mercurius, the bubble-dwelling "grandson of the gods," enlists Ulysses' help in taking a jewel from the brow of the giant Atlas under the promise that it will give him the power to send Ulysses home. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/13/1982

The Magician in Black

9.0

20

Ulysses is saved from an attack by the most powerful magician in the universe who breaks the gods' curse on his crew; however, as payment for his services, demands to hunt Ulysses's best men. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/20/1982

The Lotus Eaters

8.5

21

Needing raw materials to repair the Odyssey, Ulysses travels to a world where the inhabitants are addicted to eating seeds which induce amnesia. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/27/1982

The City of Cortex

9.0

22

The Odyssey is dragged to a planet populated by machines, and governed by the tyrannical computer Cortex. One of its inhabitants, a "female" robot named Nanette, falls in love with No-No. (This is a reference to a play called No, No, Nanette). (Source: Wikipedia)

3/6/1982

Strange Meeting

8.8

23

Ulysses and the children are sent back in time and meet the original Ulysses, Telemachus and Penelope of Homer's epic. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/13/1982

Rebellion on Lemnos

10.0

24

Princess Hypsipyle of the planet Lemnos is found by Ulysses; she tells them that the women of her planet are being forced by the Shark Men to build ships for the gods. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/20/1981

Calypso

9.0

25

The Odyssey responds to a distress call from Queen Calypso, who tells him that if he saves her planet she will tell him the way back to earth. Calypso has been ordered by Zeus to betray Ulysses, but she falls in love with him and cannot carry out the gods' orders. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/27/1982

The Kingdom of Hades

8.8

26

In the final episode, Ulysses and his companions reach the Kingdom of Hades. They meet Orpheus, who seeks Ulysses' help to find his love, Eurydice, who has been taken to the Kingdom of Hades by Charon. Hades, the god of death, tells Ulysses that he must leave his companions behind if he wishes to return to Earth. He rejects the offer, which was a final test, and they all return home. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/3/1982