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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Opening title card
Genre	Science fiction comedy
Created by	Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley
Based on	Toy Story byPixar
Voices of	Patrick Warburton Stephen Furst Larry Miller Neil Flynn Nicole Sullivan Wayne Knight Frank Welker Adam Carolla
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 company	Walt Disney Television Animation
Original release
Network	ABC UPN
Release	October 2, 2000 (2000-10-02) – January 13, 2001 (2001-01-13)
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animatedscience fiction comedy television series produced byWalt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off ofPixar'sToy Story franchise. The series was preceded by the direct-to-video filmBuzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, and aired onABC andUPN from October 2, 2000, to January 13, 2001. While the series is 2D animated, Pixar animated the CGI opening title sequence.

Developed byBob Schooley andMark McCorkle, the series follows the adventures of Space RangerBuzz Lightyear. The character first appeared as anaction figure, voiced byTim Allen, in the 1995 filmToy Story.Patrick Warburton voices the character in the television series.A video game based on the series was released in 2000.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is set in a Star Wars-style setting. 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 isEmperor Zurg, an intergalacticcrime boss andwarlord 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 followsBuzz 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.

• Buzz Lightyear (voiced byPatrick Warburton, voiced byTim Allen in The Adventure Begins pilot) 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 hisToy 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 common sense.
• Mira Nova (voiced byNicole Sullivan) is a rookie ranger and heir to the throne of the planet Tangea who possessesintangibility andtelepathy. 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 byStephen 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 byLarry Miller^[b] andNeil 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 unique and unusual attachments. XR is destroyed on nearly every mission he goes on (as it is revealed XR stands for Expendable Ranger), 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, much to his annoyance.

• Commander Nebula (voiced byAdam Carolla) is the Space Rangers' commander and Buzz's superior, whose left leg was replaced by apegleg-like plasma cannon. He is rather short-tempered and constantly speaks with a loud voice.
• LGMs, orLittle Green Men (voiced byPatrick Warburton) are small, three-eyed aliens who maintain the technology and equipment of Star Command.
• Ty Parsec (voiced bySteve Hytner) is an old comrade of Buzz Lightyear, who is fed up with Buzz always coming to his rescue. In the episodes "Wirewolf" and "Revenge of the Monsters", Parsec is temporarily transformed into theWirewolf, a roboticwerewolf, after being bitten by NOS-4-A2 and exposed to radioactive rock from the moon Canis Lunis.
• Rocket Crocket (voiced byPhil 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 byRob Paulsen) is a Tangean like Mira. He initially joins the Rangers as a challenge to win her hand in marriage.
• Petra Hammerhold (voiced byNikki 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 byMichael Showalter) is Petra's boyfriend, who can transform into a plasma monster. Booster competed against him for Petra's affection. 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 byJoy Behar) is Buzz Lightyear's ship. In her self-titled episode, 42 gains a sentient artificial intelligence that is later transferred into a robotic body.

• Emperor Zurg (voiced byWayne 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.
  • TheGrubs (both voiced byFrank 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.
  • TheHornets are Zurg'srobotic foot soldiers. They are incompetent and easily destroyed. Hornets come in different models, but the most frequently seen are yellow and of average height.
• Warp Darkmatter (voiced byDiedrich 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. Darkmatter previously lost his right arm in a cave-in and gained a robotic arm with various weapon attachments after becoming Agent Z.
• Torque (voiced byBrad Garrett) is an alien with four arms and five eyes who has committed various crimes, includingterrorism,smuggling,arson, and unpaid parking tickets. He possesses a mechanical cell-separation chest implant created by Zurg that enables him to clone himself.
  • Smeego (voiced byPhil LaMarr) is a small-time crook on Trade World and an acquaintance of Torque.
• Gravitina (voiced byKerri 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.
• XL (voiced byBobcat 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 becomes an office-managing robot.
• NOS-4-A2 (voiced byCraig Ferguson) is a roboticvampire 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. His name is a parody ofNosferatu.
• Evil Buzz Lightyear (voiced byPatrick Warburton) is an evil counterpart of Buzz Lightyear from an alternate universe where he is an evil emperor instead of Zurg.

• Chlorm Scientists -Era (voiced byJonathan Harris),Eon (voiced byBill Mumy), andEpoch (voiced byFrank Welker) are Chlorm scientists. They implanted devices into Buzz and Warp Darkmatter during their academy days to study the residents of the galaxy. After Warp first began working for Zurg, at Epoch's suggestion, their study shifted to the differences between good and evil and which was better. Eon preferred the former and Era the latter. After learning of the implants, Buzz and Warp broke into their lab and prematurely ended their study. They were subsequently demoted to zoo and research facilities. They began kidnapping Galactic Alliance senators off Capital Planet for the zoo, seeing other races as lesser, wild animals, but Team Lightyear thwarted them.
• Crumford Lorak (voiced byJon Favreau) is a con man, informant, and criminal commonly seen on Trade World. Crumford is in fact one of the Space Rangers best and worst assets when it came to gathering info on major bad guys. The only time when Crumford went big-time was when he impersonated Senator Banda of Bathyos to give information of the Galactic Alliance to Varg.
• Gargantian Militants are tiny beings who hide in robotic exosuits to infiltrate what they desire. The Gargantian Militants hate commercial places on their planets as well as the fact that their people joined the Galactic Alliance, preventing war. As a joke, most Gargantian names (as well as the species as a whole) are an ironic pun to their small stature.
  • Tremendor (voiced byKevin Michael Richardson) is the leader of the Gargantian Militants.
  • Monumentus (voiced byCharles Fleischer) is the second-in-command of the Gargantian Militants.
  • Immensitor (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is a member of the Gargantian Militants.
  • Behemor (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is a member of the Gargantian Militants.
• Rentwhistle Swack (voiced byFrench Stewart) is an unscrupulous con man who will do anything for money. He was once arrested by Booster. Swack was first seen poaching creatures on Karn, where he also bagged Booster in his hunt. He and his fellow hunters are defeated and sentenced to community service on Karn. Swack later appears as Norbert Klerm's "agent/booker/tour guide" when Klerm makes Buzz and Zurg fight each other.
• Lardak Lurdak (voiced byKevin Michael Richardson) is a small-time criminal in a dome helmet.
• Norbert Q. Klerm (voiced byMitchell Whitfield) - The rich and ruthless head of the business company "Compu-klerm." He is friends with the Madame President. He first appeared to make Buzz Lightyear and Zurg fight each other. He later brainwashed Buzz into thinking he is a Compu-klerm employee named "Flip Faxtoner". His plans were ultimately thwarted by Buzz when he came to his senses and replaced his bots' brains with a fellow co-worker.
• Raenoks - The Raenoks are the fiercest aliens in the Galaxy.
  • Kleev (voiced byClancy Brown) is the leader of the Raenoks and Minister of Schemes and Treachery.
  • Varg (voiced byKevin Michael Richardson) is the ambassador of the Raenoks and the supreme commander of the Raenok military.
• Tangean Grounders are round-dwellers of Tangea that often clash with the Tangeans. They can explode things with their minds. Grounders and Tangeans lose their respective super-abilities when close to each other.
  • Grounder Clay (voiced byJess Harnell) is a Tangean Gronder.
  • Grounder Marl (voiced byJohn Kassir) is a Tangean Grounder.
  • Romac (voiced byDavid James Elliott) is a Tangean Grounder and bounty hunter who was Mira's ex-boyfriend, was hired by Zurg to obtain Brain Pod #57.
• TheRoswellean Major (voiced byPeter MacNicol) is an unnamed member of Planet Roswell's military who captured Team Lightyear hoping to dissect them. After they got away, he was demoted to Private by his General. He later sided with Zurg in his domination of Roswell which is thwarted by Buzz and Booster and was arrested for collaborating. Roswellians are based on howaliens were described at the time of theRoswell incident.

The following one-shot villains are listed in order of appearance:

• Angstrom (voiced byDavid Warner): Lord of Tangea, former royal Chancellor and King Nova's closest adviser, before he worked with the Tangean Grounders to overthrow King Nova.
• Minister Gularis (voiced byHarvey Korman) is a shark-like Bathyosian minister and leader of the Bathyosian Council who is secretly head of the B.A.R.R. (Bathyosians Against Air-Breathers) movement. He wears a device with mechanical arms.
• Professor Spyro Von Madman (voiced byRyan Stiles) was originally Spyro Lepton, a former Star Command scientist. His banned experiments lead to his transformation into a Cryborg, a crystalline entity who can empower himself by absorbing electricity. After years of plotting revenge on Buzz Lightyear and a rampage on Capital Planet, he is restored to normal by his daughter Bonnie Lepton. He has supposedly reformed.
  • Bonnie Lepton (voiced byTara Strong) is the daughter of Spyro Lepton. Though she is not evil, Bonnie has been helping her father in his experiments. She develops a crush on Buzz Lightyear and helps in stopping her father. However, she is resentful that both Buzz and her father treat her like a child.
• Vartkes (voiced byRicardo Montalbán) is a gas baron who Buzz encounters after temporarily resigning from Star Command.
• Flint (voiced byMark Hamill) is an android stockboy who got tired of his forced labor and planned revenge. He created manta ray-like shriekers to attack ships, resulting in castaways on the planet his shriekers were built. He portrayed himself to be the leader of the village where the castaways resided until he was exposed and defeated by Team Lightyear.
• Keno Kentrix (voiced byJess Harnell) is a Bathyosian casino owner on Mahambas 6 who secretly smuggles weapons.
• The Heed are a race of supposedly semi-omnipotent beings who in fact have an ulterior motive, that of conquering the galaxy (much like theBorg in theStar Trek franchise). A Heed namedGuzelian (voiced byEric Idle) used the Grubs and the LGM's to trick the galaxy into believing that he was spreading galactic peace. Once both sides had disable their weapons, the Heed would take the opportunity to strike. However, Buzz and Zurg team up to stop them by broadcasting Guzelian's confession all across the galaxy and destroyed their mothership. They then fled back to their homeworld as both Star Command and Zurg's empire rearmed themselves.
• Smoltz (voiced byWallace Langham) is from the same alien race as the Madame President. He was a turn-coat working for Zurg when the Madame President's transport crashed on Karn. When Zurg and his Hornets drove away some Karnian creatures, he revealed his true intentions and the reason why Mira Nova was picked for that mission. When Team Lightyear rescue Mira and the Madame President, Smoltz and Zurg pursued them before being chased away by a mother Narlzak and her young.
• TheCare-Bots (voiced byWallace Langham) are robotic butlers built by the owners of an incredibly large spaceship. They are the embodiment of the term, "neat-freak", as they believe that cleanliness is alpha priority. This led to disaster, as they believed that organic beings and XR caused disorder, and for the sake of their pristine spaceship they attempted to "take care of" every living being and XR on the ship using hi-tech freeze rays, including the pilots. This nearly caused their massive shuttle to crash into Capital Planet's sun, which would have caused a supernova and destroyed the surrounding galaxy. They were last seen drifting in space.
• Natron (voiced byDiedrich Bader) is an ancient evil space mummy. In his time, he ruled the universe as an ultimate "invincible" evil. Defeated and imprisoned by the Protector, he vowed to once again rule the universe, and is awakened by the LGMs on Planet X thousands of years later. He takes Warp's life force and begins using his technology to attack and freeze everyone on Capital Planet. He is stopped when the LGMs returned the stolen life force to warp and is imprisoned again.
• TheValkyran Raiders are femalespace pirates consisting ofBrun,Sig, andHilda (all voiced byTress MacNeille). They attack freighters in search of cargo to use for trade and personal use. The mothership of the Valkyran Raiders uses a cloaking device.

• MadamPresident (voiced byRoz Ryan) is the head of the Galactic Alliance. Her real name is unknown.
• Senator Aarrfvox (voiced byJim Cummings) is a Shragorakian senator.
• Senator Banda (voiced byDan Castellaneta) is a Bathyosian senator.
• Senator Hammerhold (voiced byCorey Burton) is Petra Hammerhold's father.
• Senator Phlegmex (voiced byFrank Welker) is a slime-emitting senator.

• Becky (voiced byRussi 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 byCorey Burton) is the Galaxy's reporter.
• Cosmo (voiced byPaul 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 byTony Jay) is the Galaxy's therapist.
• Ozma Furbanna (voiced byLinda Hamilton) is a naturalist on the planet Karn. She favors all animals (even lethal carnivores) and hates to have them hurt, no matter what.
• Ed (voiced byPaul Rugg) is a courier who somehow always knows how to track down Buzz Lightyear.
• Officer Panchex (voiced byBrian Doyle-Murray) is a fish policeman who helped Buzz Lightyear fight Minister Gularis.
• Professor Triffid (voiced byJoel Murray) is a scientist from Rhizome. He cares a lot for the plants there.
• Savy SL2 (voiced byCree 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 byStephen Root) is Becky's father and an ally of Team Lightyear.
• King Nova (voiced byJohn 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 byEarl 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 byEd Asner) is a trader from Trade World who sells robotic parts.

Production codes were taken from theLibrary of Congress.

The series was aired duringUPN'sDisney's One Too programming block from October 2000 to August 2003. One episode, "Super Nova", aired twice during its original run. It also aired onDisney 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 theSeptember 11 attacks. The show also aired onToon Disney from August 31, 2003 to May 27, 2007 as well as on the network'sJetix block for a brief time in 2004.

In May 2000, it was announcedWalt Disney Television Animation would be producing an animated series based on the character ofBuzz Lightyear fromToy Story withPatrick Warburton set to voice the titular character.^[1] 65 episodes were announced for broadcast in fall of that year, 52 of which would be broadcast onUPN'sDisney's One Too while the other 13 would be broadcast onABC'sDisney's One Saturday Morning.^[1] While the majority of the animation was done by Disney Television Animation,Pixar provided animation for the show's opening sequence.^[1] Other animation houses involved in the production included Tama Productions,Sunwoo Entertainment,Sunmin Image Pictures, Sae Hahn Productions, Hana Animation, Jade Animation,Wang Film Productions andToon City.^{[citation needed]}

• 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)

A video game titledBuzz Lightyear of Star Command was developed byTraveller's Tales and published byActivision, and released forPlayStation,Game Boy Color,Microsoft Windows, andDreamcast in 2000.^[2] The gameplay revolves around Buzz chasing down the various villains from the show, and defeating them using different color coded weapons.^[3][4][5]

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