Tuning into 1978's Battle of the Planets for just one scene

 

This show occupies a hazy region in my brain, and I have a theory that I watched it sometime late in its actual TV run of 1978-1980 even though that would have made me really young at the time. Obviously, it could have been that I watched it in reruns later on, but it couldn't have been so much later that I'd remember it better.

For that reason, I don't think that I watched the 1986 version because I would definitely have stronger memories of that. In truth, I really only remembered one scene: Mark's propeller plane banking to the side of the screen, returning in its transmuted jet form: https://youtu.be/3XSaN4zfEm0 

So, my going theory is that while I was hardly of an age to really follow the show, I must have seen it enough times to absorb that sequence.

So it was that this week, while watching a handful of episodes on a trial of HIDIVE, that scene of Mark's plane was all that I really needed and it made my day to see it. I think I actually performed the DiCaprio pointing meme for my wife when I realized that the sequence was approaching. 

It was also surprising and touching to hear Casey Kasem's voice - an important player in so much of the stuff I watched growing up.