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This is a list of episodes for the animated television series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. The introduction to the series, the direct-to-video film The Adventure Begins (which featured Tim Allen as the voice of Buzz Lightyear), was first released on August 8, 2000. The series itself premiered with "The Torque Armada" on October 2, 2000 and ended with "42" on January 13, 2001.

Officially, there are a total of 65 episodes.[1] This is likely due to the fact that The Adventure Begins was also split into three televised episodes (which featured Patrick Warburton as the voice of Buzz Lightyear) and aired alongside the series.[note 1] However, several online sources don't include The Adventure Begins in the total, stating that there are a total of 62 episodes instead.

The following list is ordered by release dates from the initial USA airings, ignoring production code order due to there being no strict internal continuity. However, it is interesting to note that while there is a total of 66 production codes, some of them (specifically 005, 012, 055, 065) are unaccounted for. The Adventure Begins, being produced after the rest of the series, also has no production code.[note 2]

At present, there are no plans to release the series on home video or digitally.

Episodes[]

No. Title Orig. airdate Prod. code Network
The Adventure Begins August 8, 2000 Direct-to-video
When renowned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear loses his partner Warp Darkmatter in a confrontation with the Evil Emperor Zurg, he vows to never have another partner again. Unfortunately, when Zurg invades the Planet of the Little Green Men and takes control of their Uni-Mind, Buzz is forced to act. Aided by the unlikely combined efforts of the princess-turned-rookie Mira Nova, the janitor Booster Munchapper, and the prototype robot ranger XR, the four must thwart Zurg's plan to enslave every free mind in the galaxy before it's too late.
01 "The Torque Armada" October 2, 2000 003 UPN
After Team Lightyear apprehends Torque, they are assigned to one of the most boring routine missions: patrolling Tanker Alley. Meanwhile, the Evil Emperor Zurg has Torque freed and provides him with a device that can make duplicates of himself, in exchange for Torque's aid in neutralizing Team Lightyear and destroying Capital Planet.
02 "Gravitina" October 3, 2000 004 UPN
A continuous stream of asteroids keeps battering Star Command, threatening to destroy it. Mira and Booster stay behind to help with evacuation efforts, while Buzz and XR track down the one behind the attack. It turns out that Gravitina, a tyrannical despot who has the power to manipulate gravitational forces, is behind it... and she has a big crush on Buzz.
03 "XL" October 4, 2000 007 UPN
After a series of burglaries in the latest advancements in robotics, Team Lightyear discovers the one responsible is XL, the robot ranger prototype created before XR, who was deactivated for his violent behavior. Now that he's back, and outfitted with new robot parts, he wants revenge on the one responsible: Commander Nebula.
04 "Little Secrets" October 5, 2000 020 UPN
Team Lightyear visits Rhizome to test our their new security system. As a parting gift, they are given small electro-plants, but Booster switches out his plant for a different one without telling anyone. He isn't the only one keeping a little secret though, as both Mira and XR have their own secrets to hide—all while there's a spy loose on Star Command.
05 "Inside Job" October 6, 2000 026 UPN
Team Lightyear meets a new Space Ranger by the name of Flash Flemming, who tags along when they are tasked with handling security for Ambassador Ursona Major from Gargantia. Unfortunately, Flemming's presence heightens Booster's insecurities, which only makes matters worse with the terrorists trying to assassinate the ambassador.
06 "NOS-4-A2" October 8, 2000 001 UPN
Annoyed at XR's constantly flippant behavior, Commander Nebula tasks Buzz with an evaluation report that will determine XR's future as a Space Ranger. Meanwhile, the cargo that Team Lightyear recently recovered turns out to contain an energy vampire called NOS-4-A2, who finds the perfect minion in none other than XR.
07 "The Planet Destroyer" October 9, 2000 006 UPN
Zurg's latest weapon destroys Tradeworld and Tangea, Mira's homeworld, and he threatens to do the same to other planets in the Galactic Alliance if they don't surrender to him. But Mira can still sense that Tangea is alive, and asks the rest of Team Lightyear to trust her judgement so they can locate the real source behind Zurg's so-called "Planet Destroyer."
08 "The Beasts of Karn" October 10, 2000 010 UPN
Team Lightyear travels to Karn to find out why they lost contact with research scientist Dr. Ozma Furbanna, who has made it her life's work to study the local wildlife despite its dangers. Unfortunately, Booster is captured by con artist Rentwhistle Swack, who has been poaching animals and selling them to hunters, and mistook Booster for one. Team Lightyear and Dr. Furbanna must work together to find Booster—and the rest of the captured wildlife—before it's too late.
09 "Tag Team" October 11, 2000 016 UPN
After a failed attempt to arrest his former partner, Warp Darkmatter, Buzz discovers that they've had implants in their necks since their Space Ranger Academy days. The two reluctantly decide to team up to track down the ones responsible, who turn out to be three scientists named Era, Eon and Epoch from a technologically advanced species called the Chlorm, studying the differences between good and evil.
10 "The Main Event" October 12, 2000 019 UPN
Buzz and XR respond to an emergency distress call that sends them to the planet Sentilla 6, looking for a downed cargo ship full of dangerous explosives, and are attacked by Torque in the process. Little do they know they are merely fighting for the amusement of con artist Rentwhistle Swack and his client, the wealthy Norbert Klerm, who decides to up the stakes by luring none other than the Evil Emperor Zurg to the planet too.
11 "The Return of XL" October 13, 2000 008 UPN
After escaping from prison, XL steals the one component that makes XR different from him—his AFD. Feeling worthless without it, despite not even knowing what it is, XR ditches his team and runs off alone to Tradeworld. There, he tries to track down a replacement AFD and eventually runs into the Fixer. Unfortunately, the Fixer is working for XL and sends XR straight to him.
12 "Lost in Time" October 14, 2000 002 ABC
When Buzz gets sucked into a black hole trying to defeat the Evil Emperor Zurg, he wakes up a thousand years into a future where evil is no more and Star Command is obsolete. Eventually, Buzz finds new purpose regaling youngsters with stories of the past, but little does he know it's all a ploy, created by Zurg to get him to reveal all of Star Command's secrets.
13 "Strange Invasion" October 15, 2000 027 UPN
While rescuing a tour shuttle caught in the path of a supernova, Team Lightyear crash-lands on the planet Roswell. Buzz and Mira are taken captive, a damaged XR is offline, and a little girl tries to keep Booster as a pet. All while the Roswellian military tries to keep the existence of "aliens" a secret from the locals, though not everyone is convinced.
14 "The Taking of PC-7" October 16, 2000 018 UPN
Booster and XR's attempt to deliver Torque to the prison planetoid PC-7 goes awry when Torque breaks free and takes control of the prison with his clones. To make matters worse, Madame President and the prison warden, Yung, are taken captive by Torque and the corrupt security system. Mira and Buzz must break into the prison to save everyone, but the situation isn't as cut-and-dry as it seems.
15 "Mindwarp" October 17, 2000 017 UPN
Klerm kidnaps Buzz and downloads his skills and moves into his new line of fighting robots, the Slam-Bots, and brainwashes Buzz into thinking he is an office employee, Flip Faxtoner. Mira, Booster, and XR go to Compu-Klerm to rescue their captain and have to face off against an army of Slam-Bots.
16 "Mira's Wedding" October 18, 2000 024 UPN
Mira is forced into an arranged marriage with another Tangean noble, Fop Doppler, but the wedding turns out to be a ruse by Lord Angstrom, who is working with the Grounders to take over the palace. Team Lightyear comes to the rescue, and together with Fop they defeat Angstrom and the Grounders.
17 "Panic on Bathyos" October 19, 2000 031 UPN
Team Lightyear is sent to Bathyos to investigate suspicious activity in the fusion crystal mines and suspect security chief Panchax is responsible. However, the real culprit turns out to be Minister Gularis, the head of the Bathyosian council, and Buzz and Panchax have to team up to stop him when he fires a missile at Capital Planet that will flood the planet and turn it into another Bathyos.
18 "Shiv Katall" October 20, 2000 015 UPN
Zurg sends for the galaxy's most infamous hitman, Shiv Katall, to find and terminate a recently defected Brain Pod 13. Buzz goes after Shiv alone, leaving his team out. The team finds out after going after Shiv that Buzz is Shiv himself, going to escort the Brain Pod to freedom. Unfortunately, Zurg finds out the truth about Shiv's true identity when the team is captured by another person who claims to be Shiv Katall... 
19 "Rookie of the Year" October 21, 2000 052 ABC
After successfully fighting off an invasion of Hornets at a political summit, Mira, Booster and XR have been selected as potential candidates for the "Rookie of the Year" award. Team Lightyear is assigned to two missions; to be reinforcements in case Zurg strikes again, and to guard a matter transport ray the LGMs are working on at a moon. Now the three Rookies must learn to put aside their competitive streaks to get the ray back.
20 "Stress Test" October 22, 2000 048 UPN
Buzz, after being overworked and pulling shifts nonstop, seems to have lost his mind after a recent encounter with Hornets, leading him to believe that Zurg was up to something. After much prodding from Nebula, Buzz is sent to Rhizome for a vacation. Just as he's about to fully enjoy himself, trouble brews on the horizon as Zurg prepares a new weapon to destroy Star Command.
21 "A Zoo Out There" October 23, 2000 047 UPN
One by one, various ambassadors of the Galactic Alliance are being kidnapped off the face of Capital Planet. Surprisingly, Zurg is not behind it all, so Team Lightyear must try to find out who is behind the kidnappings. But with a twist, Team Lightyear also find themselves kidnapped, and taken to an uncharted zoo run by the Chlorm, who have kidnapped everyone to become caged exhibits in their zoo!
22 "Root of Evil" October 24, 2000 028 UPN
Team Lightyear visits Jo-Ad to investigate mutant vegetables that are coming alive once exposed to heat, and discover Zurg has taken up residence beneath the fields and is pumping mutagents into the soil. Booster's best friend Buster betrays them to Zurg, but has a change of heart and helps the team stop the emperor.
23 "Super Nova" October 25, 2000 053 UPN
After saving a ship by ghosting into a crystallic fusion chamber, the energy becomes part of Mira and empowers her abilities. She begins to crave more energy and builds her addiction, despite everyone warning her about its dangers. She then goes to Planet Z to take on Zurg by herself with her new power, but Zurg sets a trap for her and the team. Luckily, everyone manages to escape and Mira overcomes her addiction once and for all.
24 "Downloaded" October 26, 2000 039 UPN
During an impending crisis, XR downloads all the files of the Galactic Alliance into himself. Despite being ordered to delete the files due to the potential risk it carries, XR pretends to do so, but realizes his mistake after he contacts Booster's favorite supermodel, Vicki Vortex, whose phone is listed in the files, unaware that she was dating Zurg at the time. Zurg, upon learning what has happened, places a bounty on XR's head to retrieve the files for himself. Now, Team Lightyear has to protect XR from the villains who have come to collect this bounty and keep the files safe.
25 "The Plasma Monster" October 27, 2000 013 UPN
While transporting a senator's daughter, Petra Hammerhold, to the Academy, 42 is attacked by a plasma monster and crashes on an uninhabited planet. There, the plasma monster is revealed to be Petra's boyfriend, Plasma Boy. An infatuated Booster becomes jealous, but when Plasma Boy's life is in danger he must put aside his personal feelings and do his duty as a Space Ranger.
26 "Wirewolf" October 28, 2000 011 ABC
Ty Parsec, an old friend of Buzz's, reluctantly receives help from Team Lightyear when NOS-4-A2 feeds upon an energy facility upon the planet of Canis Lunis. They manage to drive the energy vampire away, but not without a price.
27 "The Crawling Flesh" October 29, 2000 036 UPN
Zurg mutates Buzz and Mira into a blob-like monster and uses them to infect all of Star Command so he can take over. The Rangers must adapt to their new form to defeat the emperor.
28 "Dirty Work" October 30, 2000 023 UPN
Cosmo orders a new energy-powered kitchen appliance to cook all sorts of meals in a matter of seconds for his diner. This attracts the attention and appetite of NOS-4-A2, who eventually takes over the appliance and diner. Meanwhile, Team Lightyear tries to escort a vegetation geneticist, Professor Triffid, back to Rhizome from a lecture when they intercept a call from the diner. Triffid and Team Lightyear work together to stop NOS-4-A2 and return things to normal. 
29 "The Slayer" October 31, 2000 051 UPN
NOS-4-A2 escapes from PC-7 and was last seen on Tradeworld. Buzz and XR go over to capture the energy vampire, but come across an unlikely heroine named Savy SL2, who possesses a deep despise for NOS-4-A2. The rangers and Savy team up to pursue the energy vampire, but XR ends up being kidnapped. Savy and Buzz locate the energy vampire and shut him down and rescue XR in the process.
30 "The Lightyear Factor" November 1, 2000 056 UPN
Zurg accidentally creates a portal to an alternate universe and meets an evil Buzz Lightyear. He and Evil Buzz team up to destroy Star Command, but the good Buzz, Team Lightyear, and the alternate Team Lightyear save the space station and destroy Zurg's ship. The alternate universe, which had been ravaged by Evil Buzz, begins to rebuild, and Evil Buzz appears to be dead... until the last scene, where it's revealed he survived the explosion.
31 "Clone Rangers" November 2, 2000 032 UPN
After Zurg takes samples of DNA from Buzz, Mira and Booster with his small Hornets, posing as mosquitoes, he uses them to create clones of Team Lightyear. However, in his rush, the Clone Rangers emerge as children rather than adults. The clones venture out to battle Team Lightyear, but Buzz and the team manage to win the fight against them.
32 "Bunzel Fever" November 3, 2000 044 UPN
During a pursuit of Torque, Team Lightyear receives a call from Booster's parents on Jo-Ad. They expect him to be home for the bunzel harvest. When Booster declines, his grandfather warns him of the supposed mythical "Bunzel Fever" which will strike Booster if he doesn't return home. The more Booster ignores this warning as the team pursues Torque, the more the fever will strike...
33 "Rescue Mission" November 4, 2000 014 ABC
Buzz is sent by Star Command to answer a distress call by Professor Samsa, an insectoid-like creature whose race and queen are in danger by some powerful threat that is determined to destroy them all. Meanwhile, the rest of Team Lightyear is sent to help Cosmo clear out the bugs for a health inspection for his diner. However, it turns out that the bugs are Samsa, his queen and his race, and they have shrunk Buzz down to their size to help them fight off the threat--Team Lightyear and Cosmo themselves!
34 "Devolutionaries" November 5, 2000 043 UPN
When Team Lightyear receives a distress call from Binipinardia, little do they suspect that whatever was being protected on that planet has the ability to de-evolve people, and that Warp Darkmatter is there on orders, harvesting the gas to weaponize it.
35 "Head Case" November 6, 2000 035 UPN
After getting injured in a battle with the Vulturans, XR is sent to Mahambas 6 to recover. But XL kidnaps XR in the process and poses as XR to infiltrate Star Command to plant a bomb within the space station's fusion core. XR manages to get to Star Command, recover his own body, and stop the bomb.
36 "The Yukari Imprint" November 7, 2000 038 UPN
While Team Lightyear picks up a senator for a peace conference with the Raenoks and Bathyosians, Booster buys a pod that hatches into dozens of destructive creatures known as Yukaris. Meanwhile, the Bathyosian senator is replaced by Crumford Lorak, who is working for the Raenoks in an attempt to gain Bathyosian defense secrets.
37 "The Shape Stealer" November 8, 2000 040 UPN
Zurg sends his newest creation, the Shape Stealer, to track down and destroy Buzz, by taking control of various people and using them to attack the Ranger. Team Lightyear evade the assassin's every attempt, but the tables turn when the Shape Stealer takes control of Buzz himself. Eventually, Mira manages to eject the Shape Stealer out of Buzz's body and saves him.
38 "Star Crossed" November 9, 2000 042 UPN
When one of his Brain Pods defects, Zurg hires Grounder bounty hunter Romac to bring him back. However, it turns out Romac is Mira's ex-boyfriend, and he eventually switches sides and helps Team Lightyear and the Brain Pod to escape from Planet Z.
39 "Haunted Moon" November 10, 2000 060 UPN
Team Lightyear is called in to help with an apparent ghost problem on a moon where a rocket is being constructed to shift the course of a comet that threatens to collide with a planet. The true nature of the hauntings is revealed when Buzz ends up deep inside the comet.
40 "Star Smasher" November 11, 2000 009 ABC
Buzz is sent by Commander Nebula to attend and review over the latest inventions the LGMs have concocted, when the Hornets attack the space station by surprise before retreating. It is not until later that one of the LGMs is missing, and Zurg plans to use the LGM's knowledge to create his own version of a Flux Gravity Capacitor, or a giant trash compactor. The team must rescue the LGM and prevent Zurg from completing his plan.
41 "Stranger Invasion" November 12, 2000 050 UPN
Zurg takes over Roswell so he can use the trans-spacial warp to launch a secret attack fleet against Star Command, and Buzz and Booster have to work with the Roswellian military to stop him.
42 "Eye of the Tempest" November 13, 2000 034 UPN
A distress call turns out to be a trap so that Spyro Lepton, a former Star Command scientist driven to near madness by his own cryborg project, can enact revenge on Buzz. However, Spyro's daughter Bonnie has taken a shine to Buzz and helps Team Lightyear overcome Lepton. The last thing Lepton is happy about is his daughter being interested in Lightyear, so he decides to do something about it.
43 "Revenge of the Monsters" November 14, 2000 045 UPN
Sometime after Ty Parsec turned into the Wirewolf, he is discharged from the Space Ranger Corps by Nebula due to being a security threat. But things worsen as NOS-4-A2 and XL infiltrate Star Command and use a piece of the Canis Lunis moon to turn Ty into the Wirewolf again. The two kidnap him and take him to Planet Z to use him as a weapon to turn everyone else into wirewolves. Luckily, XR, Buzz and a newly reformed XL all work together to restore everyone to normal. 
44 "Lone Wolf" November 15, 2000 054 UPN
Buzz tells Team Lightyear a story from early on in his career, about how he was so disillusioned with the justice system, it made him quit Star Command. However, Buzz cannot turn a blind eye to the suffering of gas harvesters underneath the boot of the gas baron Vartkes. Once a Space Ranger, always a Space Ranger.
45 "Planet of the Lost" November 16, 2000 061 UPN
While on a routine mapping mission, Team Lightyear is stranded on a planet with other survivors. Any sort of technology attracts creatures the locals call Shriekers, and their leader, Flint, is especially vociferous over banning technology. Something strange is going on, though, and Team Lightyear is determined to get to the bottom of it.
46 "Revenge of the Raenoks" November 17, 2000 066 UPN
The Raenoks kidnap Booster, in the hopes that they can exchange him to get Varg back from the Galactic Alliance. However, no one counts on just how many people want to rescue Booster, nor do they count on Varg breaking out of prison himself, with XR as a hostage.
47 "Enemy Without a Face" November 18, 2000 030 ABC
Team Lightyear is caught in a gravity field coming from a strange planet, and before long, they are separated into teams of two: Buzz and Booster, and Mira and XR. The team finds themselves caught in a fight between the Beletor and Krnozians, who have been at war for 900 years. They eventually resolve the conflict, but unbeknownst to them, two starfish-like parasites, eventually dubbed "squishies" by XR, attach to Mira and Booster, causing them to behave impulsively and aggressively. 
48 "The Starthought" November 19, 2000 021 UPN
King Nova presents Star Command with a new ship operated by thought called the Starthought, insisting that only a Tangean mind can pilot it. Mira takes it out for several test runs, but Zurg lures Mira into a trap and steals the Starthought. Team Lightyear sets out to recover it, but it turns out that Zurg himself is piloting the Starthought...
49 "Millennial Bugs" November 20, 2000 063 UPN
Zurg and the Hornets raid the Museum of Natural History in order to steal a display of fossilized Millennial Bug eggs and in the process, hire Dr. Furbanna to help hatch the eggs. Team Lightyear must convince Ozma that Zurg means to use the Bugs to attack Capital Planet. 
50 "Conspiracy" November 21, 2000 033 UPN
Buzz is framed for having attempted to assassinate the president of the Galactic Alliance. When his prison transport is fired down, he escapes determined to find the real culprits. But to make matters worse, Commander Nebula dispatches Buzz's former teammates after him to bring him to justice.
51 "At Large on a Small Planet" November 23, 2000 058 UPN
Ursona Major wants to open up a pizzeria on his homeplanet and invites Buzz and Booster for a tour around Gargantia, but the people grow quickly frightened due to the size differences between outsiders and Gargantians. Things worsen when the Gargantian Militant Movement kidnap the ambassador to prevent the restaurant from opening up, so Buzz and Booster decide to shrink down to size to deal with the criminals and save the ambassador and in the process, regain the faith and trust of the Gargantians.
52 "Sunquake" November 24, 2000 057 UPN
The evil Buzz from the alternate universe attempts to ruin the good Buzz's universe with the help of Gravitina, who uses her powers to cause sunquakes which send fireballs hurtling towards Star Command and Capital Planet. Buzz and Mira sneak aboard Evil Buzz's base and set the self-destruct, then escape with Gravitina. Evil Buzz seemingly falls to his death, though is later shown to have survived.
53 "Good Ol' Buzz" November 25, 2000 022 ABC
The team gets a surprise while thwarting Torque's latest attack: a 150-year old Buzz Lightyear from the far, far future! The old Buzz explains that he has come back to the past, with the help of a time-traveling device he designed himself to save Mira from dying. The trouble is, much to everyone's frustration, the old Buzz does not remember at what point Mira was supposed to die. On top of that, they crash-land on a planet with giant worms. Things only worsen from there...
54 "First Missions" November 26, 2000 059 UPN
While Booster, Mira and XR protect Reddschift from Zurg's forces, they tell him stories of how they first met Buzz to reassure him that he will soon be to their rescue.
55 "Large Target" November 27, 2000 046 UPN
Team Lightyear finishes up a mission and they go on vacation on the resort planet, Mahambas 6. While they're there, XR disguises himself as Booster to gamble, due to a ban on robots within the casino. But this backfires after he cleans house and flirts with crime boss Keno Kentrix's girlfriend. In rage, Keno places a contract on whom he thinks is Booster's head. Booster, XR, and eventually Buzz and Mira face Keno and capture him.
56 "War and Peace and War" November 29, 2000 064 UPN
A super-powered being by the name of Guzelian preaches an end to all conflicts and promotes peace throughout the galaxy. Zurg's forces and Star Command take apart all their weapons and defenses, welcoming Guzelian's peace. Only Buzz and Zurg aren't convinced, and form a temporary alliance to find answers.
57 "Return to Karn" December 2, 2000 037 ABC
Buzz, Booster and XR find themselves with Dr. Ozma Furbanna once more on Karn while Mira accompanies Madame President and her assistant, Smoltz, to a conference. However, Zurg attacks their ship, and they're forced to crash land on Karn and keep low to avoid Zurg by maintaining radio silence. However, it is revealed that Zurg was looking for them AND the rest of Team Lightyear, and now they have to fight off Zurg to protect Madame President. 
58 "Speed Trap" December 9, 2000 029 ABC
Delegated to traffic duty after a failed diplomatic meeting with the Porcelons, Team Lightyear spots a large freighter going faster than the speed of sound that does not respond to any calls. It also crashes into San de Soleil, destroying the resort moon. The ship then heads toward the sun, and if Team Lightyear does not stop it, it could create a supernova strong enough to wipe out the solar system. They board the ship, only to find it is deserted, save for Care-Bots, cleanliness-obsessed robots determined to clean and disassemble anything that they consider garbage.
59 "Holiday Time" December 16, 2000 062 ABC
It is the Holiday for the whole galaxy and everyone is celebrating except for one person: the Evil Emperor Zurg. Zurg has somehow been helping prisoners to escape from PC-7, sabatoging Star Command's ships, and stealing Buzz's newspaper...all in a second! Meanwhile, there is a man who claims he is Santa Claus who has been persistently asking for Team Lightyear's help, and it is only when he tells Buzz a story relating to his cat, that Buzz believes him and gets his rookies to help save the Holiday. Santa needs Buzz to help him save Christmas from Zurg, who stole it from everyone with the aid of Santa's Chrono-Disrupter, a device that can stop time.
60 "Opposites Attract" December 23, 2000 041 ABC
Believing the size of her head is what stands between herself and Buzz, Gravitina shoots Buzz with a ray that transforms his head into a giant "lightbulb head" like hers. The rest of his team go to Gravitina's world in an attempt to find out how to undo the effect but are captured. Buzz comes to their rescue and overpowers Gravitina, and Mira learns how to shrink Buzz's head back to its normal size.
61 "Ancient Evil" January 6, 2001 049 ABC
Team Lightyear have been assigned to find and bring home a group of LGMs who have gone missing from an archeological expedition on the mysterious planet of Planet X. Little does the team know that the LGMs accidentally awakened Natron, a space mummy who ruled the galaxy thousands of years ago until he was sealed away by the Protector, and Zurg wants Warp to find Natron and bring him to the evil emperor. But Natron has other plans and drains Warp's life force, leaving Warp as an old man. Team Lightyear, Warp and the LGMs have to work together to successfully stop Natron and his reign on Capital Planet and return Warp's youth.
62 "42" January 13, 2001 025 ABC
The team faces off against the fierce Valkyrans when they try to board a cargo ship and take control. But the warriors manage to sneak away with a device that allows them to phase in and out of a dimensional warp, even allowing them to remain invisible. Luckily, though, the LGMs invent a machine that can detect ships when they are in a warp, and so, Team Lightyear decides to put it to good use. Unbeknownst to Buzz, Mira, and Booster, the machine somehow gives sentience to Star Cruiser 42, much to the delight of XR. However, XR and 42 are captured by the Valkyrans, and it's now up to Team Lightyear to rescue them.

Broadcast and syndication[]

As previously mentioned, there are a total of 65 episodes, which aired simultaneously on two different networks. 52 episodes[note 1] were exclusive to UPN's Disney One Too children's programming block, which aired from Monday to Friday afternoons at 4:00pm EST, and on Sunday mornings at 10:00am EST. 13 episodes were exclusive to ABC's Disney One Saturday Morning children's programming block, which aired on Saturday mornings at 10:30am EST.[1][2] The first episode, "The Torque Armada," first aired on UPN on October 2, 2000. The last episode, "42," first aired on ABC on January 13, 2001. Due to the episodes airing on different networks, some sources have incorrectly split them across two separate seasons.

Including their initial broadcasts, episodes continued to air on ABC and UPN during the following dates:

  • UPN: October 2, 2000 – August ??, 2003[2][3]
  • ABC: October 14, 2000 – September 8, 2001[4]

Reruns aired on three separate Disney-owned networks during the following dates:

  • Toon Disney: August 31, 2003 – August 11, 2007[5]
  • Jetix: February 16, 2004 – August 11, 2007[6]
  • Disney Channel: June 5, 2006 – May 16, 2008[7]

Opening variations[]

Because of its connection to the film Toy Story, the character Buzz Lightyear serving as the inspiration for one of the film's protagonists, a Buzz Lightyear action figure, the episodes have several opening scene variations made by Pixar before the actual theme song.

  • Buzz lands next to the television.
  • Buzz smacks into the television and slides down the screen.
  • Buzz lands on Bullseye and then falls off in pain.
  • Zurg stands next to where Buzz lands and fires at the television screen.
  • Buzz lands and is smacked away by Wheezy riding RC.
  • Buzz lands and strikes a disco pose.
  • Buzz lands and opens his wings, knocking down everyone behind him.

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Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Whether the televised episodes of The Adventure Begins aired during the show's first-run syndication or during subsequent reruns is unclear.
  2. It remains unclear which version of The Adventure Begins was produced first. However, Tad Stones has confirmed in a fan interview that, chronologically, The Adventure Begins was produced after the series.

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