Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

This article is about the series. For the video game, see Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (video game).

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Opening title card
Genre	Science fiction comedy
Created by	Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley
Based on	Toy Story by Pixar
Voices of	Patrick Warburton Stephen Furst Larry Miller Neil Flynn Nicole Sullivan Wayne Knight Frank Welker Adam Carolla Diedrich Bader
Narrated by	Gary Owens (opening narration)
Theme music composer	Adam Berry
Composer	Adam Berry
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	62 [a]
Production
Executive producers	Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley Tad Stones
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production companies	Walt Disney Television Animation Pixar Animation Studios (co-production)
Original release
Network	UPN ABC
Release	October 2, 2000 (2000-10-02) – January 13, 2001 (2001-01-13)
Related
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and co-produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is a spin-off of Pixar's Toy Story franchise and presents a fictionalized account of the in-universe character Buzz Lightyear. The series was preceded by the direct-to-video film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, ^[1] and aired on UPN and ABC from October 2, 2000, to January 13, 2001, as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning and Disney's One Too programming blocks. ^[2] While the series is 2D animated, Pixar animated the CGI opening title sequence at the beginning of each episode. The program was animated by Walt Disney Television Animation (Australia) Pty., Ltd., Tama Productions, Sunwoo Entertainment, Sunmin Image Pictures, Sae Hahn Productions, Hana Animation, Jade Animation, Wang Film Productions and Toon City.

Developed by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, who would later create Kim Possible for Disney Channel, the series follows the adventures of Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear. The character first appeared as an action figure (voiced by Tim Allen) in the 1995 film Toy Story . Patrick Warburton voices the character in the television series. A video game of the same name based on the series was released in 2000.

This was the last Toy Story production for nearly a decade until the release of Toy Story 3 in 2010.

Premise

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is set in the far future. Capital Planet is the forefront of the Galactic Alliance, a peaceful union of various planets, home to various alien species that coexist in harmony. Star Command is a peacekeeping organization consisting of Space Rangers, who investigate threats to galactic peace. The primary enemy of Star Command is Emperor Zurg, an intergalactic crime boss and warlord that rules Planet Z, with an empire of heavily armed robots and slave races forced to work in opposition to the Galactic Alliance.

The series follows Buzz Lightyear, an experienced and famous Space Ranger who takes a crew of rookies under his wing as he investigates criminal activity across the galaxy and attempts to thwart Zurg's evil plots to overthrow the universe.

Characters

Star Command

Team Lightyear

• Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Patrick Warburton) is a famed Space Ranger and the leader of Team Lightyear. Buzz often suggests that his archenemy Emperor Zurg is behind every evil plot and is often proven correct. Like his Toy Story incarnation, Buzz is idealistic and a stickler for procedure, but will tell a cover story if he needs to. However, he has few people skills, and at times displays a lack of integrity.
• Mira Nova (voiced by Nicole Sullivan) is a rookie ranger and heir to the throne of the planet Tangea who possesses intangibility and telepathy. She acts as Buzz's co-pilot and second-in-command. Mira also has an estranged relationship with her father, King Nova, who disapproves of her choice of being a Space Ranger, though she still cares about him.
• Booster Sinclair Munchapper (voiced by Stephen Furst) is a frog/dinosaur-like alien from the agricultural planet of Jo-ad. He has a big appetite and incredible strength, but is sweet and occasionally naive. He is in awe of Buzz Lightyear and has encyclopedic knowledge of his prior adventures.
• XR: Xperimental Ranger (voiced alternatively by Larry Miller ^[b] and Neil Flynn ^[c] ) is a small robot who was originally emotionless and programmed to learn from Buzz, but was destroyed by Agent Z during his first mission. The LGMs rebuilt him with a slicker, more emotional personality and a variety of attachments. XR is destroyed on nearly every mission he goes on, but is easily rebuilt. He considers Commander Nebula his father due to him unintentionally signing the paperwork authorizing his creation and is always seeking his approval.

Other personnel

• Commander Nebula (voiced by Adam Carolla) is the Space Rangers' commander and Buzz's superior, whose left leg was replaced by a pegleg-like plasma cannon. He is rather short-tempered and constantly speaks with a loud voice.
• LGMs, or Little Green Men (voiced by Patrick Warburton) are small, three-eyed aliens who maintain the technology and equipment of Star Command.
• Ty Parsec (voiced by Steve Hytner) is an old comrade of Buzz Lightyear, who is fed up with Buzz always coming to his rescue. In the episode "Wirewolf", Parsec is transformed into the eponymous creature, a robotic werewolf, after being bitten by NOS-4-A2 and exposed to a radioactive rock from the moon Canis Lunis. However, he is returned to normal when Buzz Lightyear destroys Canis Lunis. In the episode "Revenge of the Monsters", NOS-4-A2 obtains a fragment of Canis Lunis and uses it to transform Parsec once more, but he is ultimately defeated and cured.
• Rocket Crocket (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is a member of Star Command and leader of Team Rocket. He has been Buzz's rival since their academy days.
• Fop Doppler (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is a Tangean like Mira. He initially joins the Rangers as a challenge to win her hand in marriage.
• Petra Hammerhold (voiced by Nikki Cox) is Senator Hammerhold's daughter. She joins Star Command when her father forces her to do so, largely to keep her from her boyfriend Plasma Boy. She was initially resentful of this, but was moved by Buzz's heroism during a crisis.
• Plasma Boy (voiced by Michael Showalter) is Petra's boyfriend, who can transform into a plasma monster. Booster competed against him for Petra's affection. Later, Mira and XR inadvertently destabilize Plasma Boy's body, but stabilize him and prevent him from exploding, after which he joins Star Command.
• 42 (voiced by Joy Behar) is Buzz Lightyear's ship. In her self-titled episode, "42", 42 gains a sentient artificial intelligence that is later transferred into a robotic body.

Villains

• Emperor Zurg (voiced by Wayne Knight): The main antagonist of the series and Buzz's archenemy. Rules an empire on Planet Z and wants to rule the entire universe while destroying Star Command. His feet double as rockets and he can transform his arms into a variety of weapons.
  • The Grubs (both voiced by Frank Welker) are Zurg's equivalents to the LGMs of Star Command, though far less competent. They perform mechanical and technical duties. The Grubs work for Zurg against their will and desire freedom, but many of them are too afraid to try to defect.
  • Brain Pods (various voices for each one) are brains in mobile jars, who serve Zurg as scientists and researchers. Although they take pride in their creations, they secretly harbor a desire to escape from Zurg's control.
  • The Hornets are Zurg's robotic foot soldiers, extremely expendable, lousy shots and always get vaporized in mass numbers by Lightyear's team. Hornets come in different models, but the most frequently seen are yellow and of average height.
• Warp Darkmatter (voiced by Diedrich Bader) is a former member of Star Command who worked as a double agent for Zurg and eventually began working for him full-time as Agent Z. His right arm is robotic with various weapon attachments and was grafted to his body after becoming Agent Z.
• Evil Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Patrick Warburton) is an evil counterpart of Buzz Lightyear from an alternate universe where he is an evil emperor instead of Zurg.
• Gravitina (voiced by Kerri Kenney-Silver) is a large-headed female villain with mental control over gravity and an ally of Zurg. She is in love with Buzz and later his evil counterpart.
• NOS-4-A2 (voiced by Craig Ferguson) is a robotic vampire created by Zurg who can drain electricity and control any machine he bites. In the episode "Revenge of the Monsters", NOS-4-A2 attempts to transform everyone in the galaxy into robots for him to feed on, but is defeated and destroyed.
• Torque (voiced by Brad Garrett) is an alien with four arms and five eyes who has commited various crimes, including terrorism, smuggling, and arson. He possesses a mechanical chest implant created by Zurg that enables him to clone himself.
• XL (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait) is XR's predecessor, who was shut down due to his villainous attitude. When he was reactivated by Zurg, XL rebuilt himself into a larger, more powerful robot with stolen parts. In the episode "Revenge of the Monsters", XL reforms and is converted into an office-managing robot capable of photocopying, collating, and other office-related functions.

Galactic Alliance

• Madam President (voiced by Roz Ryan) is the head of the Galactic Alliance. Her real name is unknown.
• Senator Aarrfvox (voiced by Jim Cummings) is a Shragorakian senator.
• Senator Banda (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is a Bathyosian senator.
• Senator Hammerhold (voiced by Corey Burton) is Petra Hammerhold's father.
• Senator Phlegmex (voiced by Frank Welker) is a slime-emitting senator.

Other

• Becky (voiced by Russi Taylor) is a little alien girl from the planet Roswell. She befriends Booster (whom she calls Pickles) when Team Lightyear's ship crashes on her planet.
• Brent Starkisser (voiced by Corey Burton) is the Galaxy's reporter.
• Cosmo (voiced by Paul Rugg) is an alien and the owner of a diner that Team Lightyear frequents. He has a mechanical arm as well as a foreign accent.
• Dr. Animus (voiced by Tony Jay) is the Galaxy's therapist.
• Ozma Furbanna (voiced by Linda Hamilton) is a naturalist on the planet Karn. She favors all animals (even the lethal carnivores) and hates to have them hurt, no matter what.
• Ed (voiced by Paul Rugg) is a courier who somehow always knows how to track down Buzz Lightyear.
• Officer Panchex (voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray) is a fish policeman who helped Buzz Lightyear fight Minister Gularis.
• Professor Triffid (voiced by Joel Murray) is a scientist from Rhizome. He cares a lot for the plants there.
• Savy SL2 (voiced by Cree Summer): Her adopted robot parents were attacked by NOS-4-A2 in "The Slayer", which lead her to hunting him down for revenge.
• Sheriff of Roswell (voiced by Stephen Root) is Becky's father and an ally of Team Lightyear.
• King Nova (voiced by John O'Hurley) is Mira's father and the ruler of Tangea. Being more tradition bound he clearly disapproves of his daughter being a Space Ranger and therefore has a complicated relationship with her as well as Buzz. But regardless of his pompous nature he still cares about his daughter and is willing to aid her.
• Santa Claus (voiced by Earl Boen) is the holiday figure, who delivers presents to all the good people in the galaxy during Christmas. He uses a sleigh powered by belief and later time manipulation to accomplish this.
• The Fixer (voiced by Ed Asner) is a trader from Trade World who sells robotic parts.
• Crumford Lorak (voiced by Jon Favreau) is a conman, informant, and criminal commonly seen on Trade World.
• Rentwhistle Swack (voiced by French Stewart) is an unscrupulous conman who will do anything for money.

Episodes

Production codes were taken from the Library of Congress.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Prod. code	Network
1	"The Torque Armada"	Don MacKinnon	Gary Sperling	October 2, 2000 (2000-10-02)	003	UPN
After Torque’s (voiced by Brad Garrett) arrest at the hands of team Lightyear, Zurg's Hornets spring Torque from a prison transport and have him brought to Planet Z. Zurg fuses a device that allows Torque to clone himself, and the criminal uses his new posse to wreak havoc in the space lanes. After team Lightyear manages to undo their trouble, they and other Space Rangers bring in Torque and his clones.
2	"Gravitina"	Victor Cook	Kevin Hopps & Tad Stones	October 3, 2000 (2000-10-03)	004	UPN
Star Command is directly in the path of an asteroid field. Buzz and the Rangers respond to the emergency and start to destroy the asteroids, but they keep on coming. The asteroids appear to be under some power source that is aiming them at Star Command. Buzz and XR take off to find the source of the asteroid attack and Mira Nova and Booster stay behind to help Star Command. The source of the attack is an evil, female, big-headed alien known as Gravitina, the Mistress of Mass and she has a big crush on Buzz, thus holding Star Command hostage unless Buzz submits into marrying her.
3	"XL"	Don MacKinnon	Rick Gitelson	October 4, 2000 (2000-10-04)	007	UPN
After a series of high tech robberies the team decides to put XR as bait to lure the robber who turns out to be a previous experimental robotic ranger XL (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait). Revenge driven, XL kidnaps Commander Nebula, and XR proves himself to Nebula by putting a stop to his manic predecessor.
4	"Little Secrets"	Victor Cook	Nick DuBois	October 5, 2000 (2000-10-05)	020	UPN
While searching for a spy, Mira, Booster and XR also have to keep Buzz from learning secrets they are keeping from him.
5	"Inside Job"	Victor Cook	Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster	October 6, 2000 (2000-10-06)	026	UPN
Buzz teams up with Space Ranger Flash Flemming to stop the assassination of the Ambassador of Gargantia. Booster feels pathetic compared to the new recruit, only to discover Flemming is actually a robot suit of Gartantian rebels seeking to kill the Ambassador.
6	"NOS-4-A2"	Victor Cook	Michael A. Medlock	October 8, 2000 (2000-10-08)	001	UPN
After Team Lightyear rescues a mysterious box from a cargo freighter that is under attack by Warp Darkmatter, they bring the box back to Star Command, unaware that they are actually falling right into Zurg's evil trap. The box contains a robotic energy vampire named NOS-4-A2 (voiced by Craig Ferguson), who was created by Zurg to destroy Star Command using his ability to control any machine he bites, including XR!
7	"The Planet Destroyer"	Don MacKinnon	John Behnke, Rob Humphrey, & Jim Peterson	October 9, 2000 (2000-10-09)	006	UPN
Zurg has created a Planet Destroying super weapon capable of destroying planets from great distances, including Mira's home world of Tangea. Now Team Lightyear has to find it, before the Alliance signs over their lives to Zurg. Mira meanwhile is strangely certain her people are still alive.
8	"The Beasts of Karn"	Steve Loter	Ken Koonce & Michael Merton	October 10, 2000 (2000-10-10)	010	UPN
A scientist on planet Karn asks for Buzz's help to stop the poaching of native animals. Booster is kidnapped by said poacher, mistaking him for a rare species.
9	"Tag Team"	Victor Cook	Greg Johnson	October 11, 2000 (2000-10-11)	016	UPN
Buzz and Warp Darkmatter discover that they were given implants years ago, so the pair team up to discover who gave them the implants and why. They encounter three scientists of an alien race who analyze Buzz and Warp's pasts to determine the utility and purpose of good and evil.
10	"The Main Event"	Victor Cook	Gary Sperling	October 12, 2000 (2000-10-12)	019	UPN
Buzz and XR find themselves on a barren planet, fighting a series of gladiators.
11	"The Return of XL"	Steve Loter	Cade Chilcoat	October 13, 2000 (2000-10-13)	008	UPN
XL kidnaps XR and steals a vital component of his. Feeling depressed and neglected, XR runs off to Tradeworld in an attempt to be properly fixed, but only runs into more trouble when XL decides to finish the job.
12	"Lost in Time"	Steve Loter	Bill Motz & Bob Roth	October 14, 2000 (2000-10-14)	002	ABC
When Buzz travels into a Black Hole, Zurg uses it to trick him into thinking he is in the future and collect all of his secrets in his latest attempt to destroy Star Command. Zurg nearly succeeds as he determines a hidden weakness on the space station, and Buzz's team manage to escape and help him break free from the illusion before Star Command is obliterated.
13	"Strange Invasion"	Don MacKinnon	Greg Johnson	October 15, 2000 (2000-10-15)	027	UPN
Team Lightyear are pushed into the unexplored regions of the galaxy by a supernova and crash on planet Roswell. Booster befriends one of the locals, Becky, forcing a prison break.
14	"The Taking of PC-7"	Don MacKinnon	Kevin Hopps	October 16, 2000 (2000-10-16)	018	UPN
Booster and XR take Torque to prison planetoid PC-7, but Torque engineers a jailbreak with the help of a personality changing helmet.
15	"Mindwarp"	Steve Loter	Elizabeth Stonecipher	October 17, 2000 (2000-10-17)	017	UPN
Klerm kidnaps Buzz and uses his mind to create an army of Slam-Bots.
16	"Mira's Wedding"	Don MacKinnon	Michael Price	October 18, 2000 (2000-10-18)	024	UPN
Lord Angstrom (voiced by David Warner) arranges Mira to wed Fop Doppler as a distraction for his plot to overthrow King Nova (voiced by John O'Hurley).
17	"Panic on Bathyos"	Victor Cook	Cade Chilcoat	October 19, 2000 (2000-10-19)	031	UPN
Team Lightyear is sent to Bathyos to find who is helping smugglers steal fusion crystals.
18	"Shiv Katall"	Victor Cook	Bill Motz & Bob Roth	October 20, 2000 (2000-10-20)	015	UPN
Brain Pod #13 defects from Zurg's service and Zurg either wants him back or destroyed. He calls on the galaxy's most infamous man hunter Shiv Katall to get the job done. When word gets to Star Command that Katall has been called, Buzz goes after him and dismisses the rest of the team. Mira doesn't like this and decides to intervene in the mission and find Katall. When the team does locate Katall, he isn't quite the villain they thought him to be.
19	"Rookie of the Year"	Victor Cook	Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster	October 21, 2000 (2000-10-21)	052	ABC
Mira, Booster, and XR are all nominated for the "Rookie of the Year" award. Zurg steals a new matter transporter whilst the three become more competitive with each other to impress Buzz the most, leaving them in more than a sticky situation.
20	"Stress Test"	Don MacKinnon	Mark Palmer	October 22, 2000 (2000-10-22)	048	UPN
After working himself too hard, Buzz is forced to take a vacation to Rhizome, forcing to give up all weaponry. Which puts Star Command in trouble when Zurg uses it as the site to launch his Hyper Death Ray at Star Command.
21	"A Zoo Out There"	Don MacKinnon	Drew Daywalt & David Schneider	October 23, 2000 (2000-10-23)	047	UPN
Ambassadors are being kidnapped from Capital Planet and Buzz must locate them.
22	"Root of Evil"	Steve Loter	Brian Swenlin	October 24, 2000 (2000-10-24)	028	UPN
Team Lightyear investigates mutant vegetables that are terrorizing planet Jo-Ad, which come from Booster's family farm. Unaware, Zurg has some help from Booster's best friend.
23	"Super Nova"	Don MacKinnon	John Behnke, Rob Humphrey, and Jim Peterson	October 25, 2000 (2000-10-25)	053	UPN
To succeed in their latest mission, Mira uses her ghosting powers to walk into a Crystallic Fusion Generator. She emerges as a glowing, hyper-active ranger. Despite her father's warnings on how dangerous this new power is, Mira begins using her new powers to the extreme, eventually falling into the temptation of taking on Zurg by herself.
24	"Downloaded"	Victor Cook	James W. Bates	October 26, 2000 (2000-10-26)	039	UPN
While trying to preserve the Galactic Alliance's supercomputer from a hit by Darkmatter, XR downloads all the Galactic Alliance files into his brain, making himself a target.
25	"The Plasma Monster"	Don MacKinnon	Michael A. Medlock	October 27, 2000 (2000-10-27)	013	UPN
While escorting a dignitary's daughter for Star Command training, the team encounters a plasma monster (voiced by Michael Showalter) who, in fact, is Plasma Boy, the girl's boyfriend. Things turn serious after a smitten Booster starts a fight with him.
26	"Wirewolf"	Steve Loter	Ken Koonce, Michael Merton, & Richard Mueller	October 28, 2000 (2000-10-28)	011	ABC
Space Ranger Ty Parsec helps Buzz fight NOS-4-A2, but a bite from the energy vampire and the radiation on Canis Lunis turns Ty into the Wirewolf. Buzz and his team face the Wirewolf as they work out how to free Ty from his newfound curse.
27	"The Crawling Flesh"	Steve Loter	Michael A. Medlock	October 29, 2000 (2000-10-29)	036	UPN
Zurg mutates all of Star Command into blob monsters, who must defeat Zurg despite their transformation.
28	"Dirty Work"	Victor Cook	Bob Forward, Ken Koonce, & Michael Merton	October 30, 2000 (2000-10-30)	023	UPN
When demand becomes high, Cosmo (voiced by Paul Rugg) orders a K-5000 Uni-appliance that multi-tasks all of the kitchen's jobs for his diner. However, when NOS-4-A2 bites it, the appliance seizes entire control of the diner. Team Lightyear, much to Buzz's chagrin, has to rely on Professor Triffid's unique genetic technologies to return the diner back to normal.
29	"The Slayer"	Steve Loter	Ken Koonce and Michael Merton	October 31, 2000 (2000-10-31)	051	UPN
Buzz and XR team up with a young street girl named Savy SL2 to track down and stop NOS-4-A2 when he goes on a monstrous predatory hunt for robots on Trade World.
30	"The Lightyear Factor"	Steve Loter	Julia Lewald	November 1, 2000 (2000-11-01)	056	UPN
Zurg accidentally opens a portal to an alternate universe and unleashes an evil, tyrannical Buzz Lightyear onto his world. Now with the evil Buzz in his dimension, the heroic Buzz must fend off the doppelgangers of his friends who want to see Buzz Lightyear destroyed while his team must find a way to survive the new rise of evil.
31	"Clone Rangers"	Steve Loter	Greg Weisman	November 2, 2000 (2000-11-02)	032	UPN
Zurg creates clones of Buzz, Mira and Booster. However the Brain Pods create the clones at Age 12. Now Team Lightyear has to deal with their villainous matches on the theme park planet Corny World.
32	"Bunzel Fever"	Steve Loter	Jules Dennis, Elizabeth Stonecipher, and Jess Winfield	November 3, 2000 (2000-11-03)	044	UPN
Team Lightyear has been running themselves ragged trying to catch Torque and XL. However Booster is asked to return home for the Bunzel harvest. Against his grandfather's advice, Booster continues the investigation, catching Bunzel fever mutating him into a feral beast.
33	"Rescue Mission"	Don MacKinnon	Alexx Van Dyne	November 4, 2000 (2000-11-04)	014	ABC
Buzz is shrunk down so that he can assist them against a threat. However, the threat turns out to be the rest of Team Lightyear, who are stuck helping Cosmo pass a health inspection from Bugs, the people who contacted Buzz.
34	"Devolutionaries"	Chris Rutowski and Don MacKinnon	Doug Langdale	November 5, 2000 (2000-11-05)	043	UPN
Team Lightyear visits Binipinardia, where they discover Warp Darkmatter is de-evolving people with a new gas. Now XR must lead his de-evolved team to take Warp down.
35	"Head Case"	Don MacKinnon	Jess Winfield	November 6, 2000 (2000-11-06)	035	UPN
When XR is damaged in a battle, XL kidnaps him while he is being repaired. Now with XL posing as XR to plant a bomb inside Star Command, XR must use XL's body to stop him.
36	"The Yukari Imprint"	Victor Cook	Cade Chilcoat	November 7, 2000 (2000-11-07)	038	UPN
Buzz and his team offer to protect the ambassador and his delegates. However Booster buys an egg, believing it will hatch into a cute pet. Unaware said egg ends up mass producing miniaturized Booster clones.
37	"The Shape Stealer"	Don MacKinnon	Story by : Greg Johnson Teleplay by : Bill Motz and Bob Roth	November 8, 2000 (2000-11-08)	040	UPN
Zurg creates an assassin capable of taking over other people's bodies and sends it after Buzz. Unfortunately, it takes control of Buzz and later Star Command.
38	"Star Crossed"	Victor Cook	Greg Weisman	November 9, 2000 (2000-11-09)	042	UPN
When one of Zurg's brain pods defects, he hires a bounty hunter, Mira's ex-boyfriend, to bring it back.
39	"Haunted Moon"	Don MacKinnon	Mark Palmer	November 10, 2000 (2000-11-10)	060	UPN
Buzz and his team fight a ghost trying to disrupt their mission to save a planet.
40	"Star Smasher"	Steve Loter	Brian Swenlin	November 11, 2000 (2000-11-11)	009	ABC
One of the Little Green Men goes missing during an attack and Zurg plans to use his knowledge to create a Flux Gravity Capacitor. With it, Zurg plans to collapse the sun Capital Planet orbits into a black hole to destroy it and Star Command completely.
41	"Stranger Invasion"	Steve Loter	Michael Merton	November 12, 2000 (2000-11-12)	050	UPN
Booster gets in trouble when he is discovered to still be in contact with Becky from Roswell, even though Roswell is still an undeveloped world. Around that time Zurg invades Roswell and takes it over, with plans to build and deploy a surprise attack fleet to conquer Capital Planet. When Buzz decides to take Booster with him to Roswell's system on a patrol mission to cheer him up, they discover this, and the two must work with Roswell's military at foiling Zurg's plan of converting the planet into a massive duplicate of Planet Z.
42	"Eye of the Tempest"	Victor Cook	Robert Askin	November 13, 2000 (2000-11-13)	034	UPN
Mad scientist Spyro Lepton (Voiced by Ryan Stiles) uses a distress signal to lure Buzz into a trap so he can enact his revenge. With his daughter's help, Buzz tries to stop the newly named Von Madman before his corrupted new form gets the better of him.
43	"Revenge of the Monsters"	Steve Loter	Nick DuBois	November 14, 2000 (2000-11-14)	045	UPN
XL and NOS-4-A2 infiltrate Star Command to turn Ty Parsec back into the Wirewolf. With NOS-4-A2 now in control of Planet Z converting most of Star Command and the Galactic Alliance into Wirewolves too, XR and Buzz must convince XL to be a space ranger again. The unlikely trio must work together in a final battle against the robotic vampire and his cybernetic werewolves.
44	"Lone Wolf"	Denise Koyama	Eddie Guzelian	November 15, 2000 (2000-11-15)	054	UPN
Because of lack of evidence, a criminal is about to walk free, making the team depressed. Buzz tells them about how in his initial years when he got depressed due to a similar incident and what inspired him to rejoin Star Command as a Space Ranger.
45	"Planet of the Lost"	Steve Loter	Jan Strnad	November 16, 2000 (2000-11-16)	061	UPN
While investigating the disappearance of ships around a planet which looks like a desert but shows a significant amount of technology, the team ends up stranded along with all the people who crashed there with Flynn (voiced by Mark Hamill) as their leader, but on detailed inspection they realize that the Shriekers that caused the crash only wanted to trap people and mystery follows.
46	"Revenge of the Raenoks"	Steve Loter	Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster	November 17, 2000 (2000-11-17)	066	UPN
Booster is taken prisoner by the Raenoks, who plan to use him for a prisoner exchange to get their leader, Varg, back. Buzz and Mira set out to rescue him, using a new cloaking device developed by the LGMs.
47	"Enemy Without a Face"	Victor Cook	Elizabeth Stonecipher	November 18, 2000 (2000-11-18)	030	ABC
Team Lightyear is caught between two races who have been at war for 900 years. Team Lightyear discovers it is actually the work of aggression-inducing parasites, which make their way into Star Command, forcing XR to save the day.
48	"The Starthought"	Don MacKinnon	Lisa Klink	November 19, 2000 (2000-11-19)	021	UPN
Star Command is given a new ship controlled by the mind of the pilot, but Zurg soon takes it for himself, with Team Lightyear and especially Mira having to work out how to stop him.
49	"Millennial Bugs"	Victor Cook	Nick DuBois	November 20, 2000 (2000-11-20)	063	UPN
Zurg steals fossilized Millennial Bug eggs and attempts to hatch them.
50	"Conspiracy"	Steve Loter	Eddie Guzelian	November 21, 2000 (2000-11-21)	033	UPN
The Gargantians pose as Buzz in an attempt to get the Galactic President assassinated during the signing of a historic peace initiative. An innocent Buzz is soon jailed for the crime and must break out of prison to find out who is setting him up.
51	"At Large on a Small Planet"	Don MacKinnon	Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster	November 23, 2000 (2000-11-23)	058	UPN
Ambassador Ursona is kidnapped while on planet Gargantia, forcing Buzz and Booster to shrink down and find him to put a stop to the Gargantian militant movement once and for all.
52	"Sunquake"	Don MacKinnon	Eddie Guzelian	November 24, 2000 (2000-11-24)	057	UPN
The evil Buzz from another dimension returns and teams up with Gravitina to besmirch Buzz's good name.
53	"Good Ol' Buzz"	Steve Loter	Leslie Nordman	November 25, 2000 (2000-11-25)	022	ABC
A Buzz from 150 years in the future arrives to help save Mira from being killed.
54	"First Missions"	Victor Cook	Bill Motz & Bob Roth	November 26, 2000 (2000-11-26)	059	UPN
While they are pinned down by Zurg's Hornets while protecting Professor Reddshift (voiced by Robert Picardo), to help boost Reddshift's confidence that Buzz will save them in time, Mira, Booster, and XR tell him the stories of when each of them first met Buzz; this inspires Reddshift to help Lightyear in a massive robot battle between Buzz and Zurg.
55	"Large Target"	Don MacKinnon	Story by : Tad Stones Teleplay by : Zach Stones	November 27, 2000 (2000-11-27)	046	UPN
During a vacation XR impersonates Booster so he can gamble at a casino, but soon attracts more trouble than he was prepared for.
56	"War, and Peace and War"	Victor Cook	Gary Sperling	November 29, 2000 (2000-11-29)	064	UPN
When the supremely powerful Guzelian tries to usher in a new era of peace, everyone is elated, except for Buzz and Zurg, who agree to work together to find Guzelian's true intentions. Both hero and villain uncover and put a stop to an impending invasion by Guzelian's race, the Heed.
57	"Return to Karn"	Victor Cook	Bill Motz & Bob Roth	December 2, 2000 (2000-12-02)	037	ABC
Mira and Madame President are shot down over planet Karn and must elude Zurg as he hunts for them.
58	"Speed Trap"	Steve Loter	John Behnke, Rob Humphrey & Jim Peterson	December 9, 2000 (2000-12-09)	029	ABC
During traffic duty, Team Lightyear finds a ship traveling towards a sun, threatening to destroy it on impact.
59	"Holiday Time"	Victor Cook	Mark Palmer	December 16, 2000 (2000-12-16)	062	ABC
Buzz and the gang must help Santa (voiced by Earl Boen) to save the holiday from the Evil Emperor Zurg.
60	"Opposites Attract"	Don MacKinnon	Mark Palmer	December 23, 2000 (2000-12-23)	041	ABC
Gravitina causes Buzz's head to swell to enormous size, like hers, hoping this will cause Buzz to fall in love with her.
61	"Ancient Evil"	Steve Loter	Jim Staahl & Jim Fisher	January 6, 2001 (2001-01-06)	049	ABC
A group of LGMs awaken the ancient space mummy Natron and Zurg insists Warp bring the mummy to him. With Warp reduced to an old man, Buzz insists on helping his old friend, and the two former partners team up to defeat the ancient evil.
62	"42"	Don MacKinnon	John Behnke, Rob Humphrey & Jim Peterson	January 13, 2001 (2001-01-13)	025	ABC
A group of Valkyrans attempt to seize control of a cargo ship. At the same time, 42 develops her own personality, and a relationship with XR.

Broadcast and syndication

The series was aired during UPN's Disney's One Too programming block from October 2000 to August 2003. One episode, "Super Nova", aired twice during its original run. It also aired on Disney Channel from June 5, 2006, to May 16, 2008, when it was taken off the air in the U.S. Two episodes, "Conspiracy" and "Inside Job", were rarely seen after the September 11 attacks. The show also aired on Toon Disney from 2003 to 2007 as well as on the network's Jetix block for a brief time in 2004.

Production

In May 2000, it was announced Walt Disney Television Animation would be producing an animated series based on the character of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story with Patrick Warburton set to voice the titular character. ^[3] 65 episodes were announced for broadcast in fall of that year, 52 of which would be broadcast on UPN's Disney's One Too while the other 13 would be broadcast on ABC's Disney's One Saturday Morning. ^[3] While the majority of the animation was done by Disney Television Animation, Pixar did provide animation for the show's opening sequence. ^[3]

Awards and nominations

• Daytime Emmy Awards

2001 – Outstanding Sound Editing - Special Class – Jennifer Mertens, Paca Thomas, Otis Van Osten, Rick Hammel, Eric Hertsguaard, Robbi Smith, Brian F. Mars, Marc S. Perlman, and Dominick Certo (won)

Video game

A video game titled Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Activision, and released for PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows, and Dreamcast in 2000. ^{[4] [5]} The gameplay revolves around Buzz chasing down the various villains from the show, and defeating them using different color coded weapons. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

See also

• Lightyear

References

1. Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 101–102. ISBN   978-1538103739.
2. " "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command". Big Cartoon Database. May 13, 2012. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013.
3. "'Toy's' Buzz Lightyear to TV". Variety. Archived from the original on December 7, 2024. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
4. "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command". September 26, 2000 – via IMDb.
5. "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Review".
6. "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command". IGN.
7. Bramwell, Tom (March 13, 2001). "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command". Eurogamer.net.
8. Petty, Michael John (June 16, 2022). "'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command' Was the Space Ranger's First Solo Mission". Collider.

Notes

1. 65 episodes, when counted with the pilot film being split into three parts
2. eps. 1–20, 23, 26, 28–29, 34, 36, 40, 43, 45–47, 52–53, 55–59, 61–62, 65
3. eps. 21–22, 24–25, 27, 30–33, 35, 37–39, 41–42, 44, 48–51, 54, 60, 63–64

External links

• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command at IMDb