M.A.S.K. (1985)
The ‘80s animated series about masked crime fighters, the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, out to stop the chaotic crime syndicate known as V.E.N.O.M.
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Episode 1 - The Deathstone
Release Date: 1985-09-30A radioactive meteor crashes on Earth and V.E.N.O.M. steals it by disguising Switchblade as a U.F.O.
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Episode 2 - The Star Chariot
Release Date: 1985-10-01VENOM steals a mystical arrowhead rumored to point the way to an alien spacecraft buried in the desert.
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Episode 3 - The Book of Power
Release Date: 1985-10-02Location: Nevada? VENOM steals the Book of Power, which is the key to the Lost City of Mong Paco and its giant jewel-covered idol.
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Episode 4 - Highway to Terror
Release Date: 1985-10-03Location: Central City VENOM steals an army truck carrying plutonium. They need the plutonium for their earthquake machine.
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Episode 5 - Video VENOM
Release Date: 1985-10-04Location: Town of Cliffwood, Colorado VENOM hypnotizes a small town, using the people to assemble and rebuild a military weapon.
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Episode 6 - Dinosaur Boy
Release Date: 1985-10-07Location: Some Jungle VENOM kidnaps a young lizard creature. They intend to sell the creature's anti-bodies because it is believed that they will give longer life.
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Episode 7 - The Ultimate Weapon
Release Date: 1985-10-08Location: Unknown V.E.N.O.M. has a device that jams the M.A.S.K. vehicle controls, causing Condor to crash into Shark.
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Episode 8 - The Roteks
Release Date: 1985-10-09Location: Unknown V.E.N.O.M. has stolen a breed of metal-eating bugs developed for warfare. This episode has a spectacular crash of Thunderhawk in it.
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Episode 9 - The Oz Effect
Release Date: 1985-10-10Location: Australia? Sly Rax disguises himself an aboriginal priest. V.E.N.O.M. has a machine that causes a giant vortex which they use to ""kidnap"" the village people. V.E.N.O.M. forces them to do slave labour in some sort of crystal mine. M.A.S.K. used their transport plane for the first time.
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Episode 10 - Death from the Sky
Release Date: 1985-10-11Location: Norway V.E.N.O.M. has a tractor ray that they use to kidnap the president of the PNA. Then V.E.N.O.M. threatens to use the ray to break off a piece of a comet to destroy a city. Firecracker is damaged in this episode.
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Episode 11 - The Magma Mole
Release Date: 1985-10-14Location: Japan V.E.N.O.M. has a drilling vehicle called The Magma Mole that they are using to burrow beneath Tokyo to create devastating floods. Their next target is Mount Fuji.
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Episode 12 - Solaria Park
Release Date: 1985-10-15Location: Greece V.E.N.O.M. has built an amusement park to hide a giant heat ray weapon.
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Episode 13 - The Creeping Terror
Release Date: 1985-10-16Location: Some Jungle VENOM has genetically altered caterpillar eggs to create giant caterpillars. They are using the giant caterpillars to clear away the vegetation in the jungle to reveal a map carved on the jungle floor. The map leads to the Hidden Valley, the location of an ancient source of great power -- a Myan crystal.
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Episode 14 - Assault on Liberty
Release Date: 1985-10-17Location: New York, NY Matt, Scott, and T-Bob are attending a magic show on Liberty Island, New York harbour.
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Episode 15 - The Sceptre of Rajim
Release Date: 1985-10-18Location: India V.E.N.O.M. steals a sceptre from the underground city of Rajim.
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Episode 16 - The Golden Goddess
Release Date: 1985-10-21Location: Singapore V.E.N.O.M. is raiding temples and stealing golden relics, including The Golden Goddess of Sarawak. They are liquifying the gold and stealing it by pumping it through the city's old abandoned drainage system.
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Episode 17 - Mystery of the Rings
Release Date: 1985-10-22Location: Unknown There are 3 valuable rings from the Renaissance that, when combined, will lead to a great ancient treasure. V.E.N.O.M. steals the rings and combine the rings on the ruins at Sunhenge.
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Episode 18 - Bad Vibrations
Release Date: 1985-10-23Location: Hong Kong Millionaire Julian Fong hires V.E.N.O.M. to blow up buildings with the high-tech resonator bombs.
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Episode 19 - Ghost Bomb
Release Date: 1985-10-24Location: Panama Brian, the Brain is a computer that controls a nuclear submarine. V.E.N.O.M. threatens to blow up the Panama Canal if their demands are not met.
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Episode 20 - Cold Fever
Release Date: 1985-10-25Location: Alaska Bruce finds a man wandering in Alaska who has been exposed to a strange virus, and Bruce gets infected too. V.E.N.O.M. has the antidote, and they plan to sell it for lots of $$$.
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Episode 21 - Mardi Gras Mystery
Release Date: 1985-10-28Location: New Orleans, LA During Mardi Gras, VENOM tries to obtain a super fuel.
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Episode 22 - The Secret of Life
Release Date: 1985-10-29Location: Egypt Rax dresses up as a mummy and V.E.N.O.M. steals a stone tablet with a map leading to King Tut's tomb. They are after a golden scarab that contains ""The Secret of Life"".
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Episode 23 - Vanishing Point
Release Date: 1985-10-30Location: Unknown V.E.N.O.M. hijacks planes. They have an 'impostor' airport in the desert and use a radar jammer to confuse the real airports.
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Episode 24 - Counter-Clockwise Caper
Release Date: 1985-10-31Location: Las Vegas, Nevada VENOM conducts heists of Las Vegas casinos.
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Episode 25 - The Plant Show
Release Date: 1985-11-01Location: Los Angeles, California Brad's rock band is performing at the Hollywood Bowl when giant plants begin to cause havoc all over the city.
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Episode 26 - Secret of the Andes
Release Date: 1985-11-04Location: Cuzco, Peru A preserved Incan priest is discovered in the aftermath of an avalanche and promises the way to El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold.
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Episode 27 - Panda Power
Release Date: 1985-11-05Location: China, Easter Island V.E.N.O.M. kidnaps a sculpter who is working on a large sculpture of a panda bear for a ceremony in China. They also kidnap some panda bears from a preserve, and they bring them to Easter Island. M.A.S.K. must get the pandas out of harm's way before they can battle V.E.N.O.M.
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Episode 28 - Blackout
Release Date: 1985-11-06Location: Japan V.E.N.O.M. is draining power supplies with a vehicle called Blackout.
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Episode 29 - A Matter of Gravity
Release Date: 1985-11-07Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Firecracker is destroyed by a heat ray weapon attached to Switchblade. Hurricane is introduced at the end of the show by the name ""Night Stalker"".
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Episode 30 - The Lost Riches of Rio
Release Date: 1985-11-08Location: Rio De Janeiro V.E.N.O.M. steals a worthless painting that is actually a map to a Nazi raider's gold stash inside Sugarloaf Mountain.
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Episode 31 - Deadly Blue Slime
Release Date: 1985-11-11Location: Africa The blue monster is made of protoplasm, and it is a science experiment gone awry. It devours nearly anything in its way and its only weakness is salt.
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Episode 32 - The Currency of Conspiracy
Release Date: 1985-11-12Location: Switzerland An ex-minister from West Germany hires V.E.N.O.M. to help him spread a virus that turns money bills into blank pieces of paper.
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Episode 33 - Caesar's Sword
Release Date: 1985-11-13Location: Athens Rax disguises himself as Julius Caesar, in order to scare off some archaeologists. VENOM is searching for Caesar's Sword of Victory.
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Episode 34 - Peril in Paris
Release Date: 1985-11-14Location: France Buddy disguises himself as Dagger and sneaks into VENOM's secret hide out, learning about their plans. The blueprint is a map that shows the location of a Nazi doomsday device built in WW2. Nightstalker is called Hurricane from this point on.
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Episode 35 - In Dutch
Release Date: 1985-11-15Location: Holland A millionaire has hired V.E.N.O.M. to steal a machine that can cause ultra sonic vibrations. The millionaire wants to become vice president of the Netherlands, and if his demands are not met he will destroy all of Holland's dykes. He only wanted to bluff -- too bad Mayhem never bluffs.
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Episode 36 - The Lippizaner Mystery
Release Date: 1985-11-18Location: Unknown V.E.N.O.M. steals the famous Lippizaner Stallions, earning $4 million in platinum bars from an Arab. At the end V.E.N.O.M. loses the money (by a laser shot from Shark) and they all quickly flee in Piranha.
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Episode 37 - The Sacred Rock
Release Date: 1985-11-19Location: Australia V.E.N.O.M. is manipulating a tribe of aboriginals with holographic projections of flying rocks.
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Episode 38 - Curse of Solomon's Gorge
Release Date: 1985-11-20Location: Africa Researchers in Africa discover a Golden Scarab which they believe to be part of a hidden treasure that belonged to a lost tribe of Egypt.
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Episode 39 - Green Nightmare
Release Date: 1985-11-21Location: New Guinea Alex has made an exact replica of the M.A.S.K. crystal used to power up the masks. Matt tells a story about his father (Andrew) who got the crystal from a tribe leader named Warago in New Guinea.
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Episode 40 - Eyes of the Skull
Release Date: 1985-11-22Location: San Francisco, USA V.E.N.O.M. steals an artifact, a so-called 'crystal skull' that allows x-ray vision. By using the skull during combat with M.A.S.K., Mayhem sees through the masks and discovers Matt Trakker's true identity.
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Episode 41 - Stop Motion
Release Date: 1985-11-25Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Gloria is racing in the Indy 500 when all of the TV stations, cars on the racing track and other electronic devices around the stadium stop functioning.
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Episode 42 - The Artemis Enigma
Release Date: 1985-11-26Location: Athens Some monks living in a mountain castle have a golden horn that can locate gold.
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Episode 43 - The Chinese Scorpion
Release Date: 1985-11-27Location: China V.E.N.O.M. kidnaps a scientist who has located a treasure hidden in the Great Wall of China. Eyewitnesses say a giant metal scorpion took the professor.
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Episode 44 - The Riddle of the Raven Master
Release Date: 1985-11-28Location: London, England V.E.N.O.M. uses ravens, trained by Vanessa, to steal the crown jewels, and as a diversion Rax has installed a bomb in Big Ben.
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Episode 45 - The Spectre of Captain Kidd
Release Date: 1985-11-29Location: Unknown Matt, Hondo, Scott and T-Bob are visiting an island that once belonged to a famous captain named Captain Kidd.
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Episode 46 - The Secret of the Stones
Release Date: 1985-12-02Location: Some Jungle V.E.N.O.M. steals a stone that makes objects weightless. The only problem is, the stone loses its power when it is removed from where they found it. Hondo uses his Blaster II mask (the one from Hurricane) for the first time.
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Episode 47 - The Lost Fleet
Release Date: 1985-12-03Location: Island? V.E.N.O.M. steals sails from boats to make a balloon that can lift the village from its foundations.
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Episode 48 - Quest of the Canyon
Release Date: 1985-12-04Location: Unknown V.E.N.O.M. is after a hidden treasure stolen by Jesse James in 1878 that has never been recovered. First appearance of Ace Riker and Slingshot.
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Episode 49 - Follow the Rainbow
Release Date: 1985-12-05Location: Ireland V.E.N.O.M. is after a treasure that can be found at the end of a rainbow. First appearance of Calhoun Burns and Raven, as well as Julio Lopez and Firefly.
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Episode 50 - The Everglades Oddity
Release Date: 1985-12-06Location: Unknown Matt is bitten by a snake and isn't able to lead the team against V.E.N.O.M. who are trying to steal a space shuttle. Alex Sector is Matt's temporary replacement as M.A.S.K. leader.
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Episode 51 - Dragonfire
Release Date: 1985-12-09Location: Borneo V.E.N.O.M. is after a jade dragonhead that is kept in the Temple of the Dragon on Mount Kinabalu.
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Episode 52 - The Royal Cape Caper
Release Date: 1985-12-10Location: Hawaii V.E.N.O.M. steals an artifact (a cape and helmet) and earns big money by selling fake replicas until M.A.S.K. puts an end to their scheme.
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Episode 53 - Patchwork Puzzle
Release Date: 1985-12-11Location: Washington, DC V.E.N.O.M. steals a quilt and a fireplace screen from an exhibit in a museum. By following V.E.N.O.M.'s gas fumes with Hurricane's infra-red sensors, M.A.S.K. discovers V.E.N.O.M.'s secret hideout. By holding the screen in front of the quilt, a message in morse code is revealed, telling of a stash of 3 million dollars hidden by the Washington Monument.
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Episode 54 - Fog on Boulder Hill
Release Date: 1985-12-12Location: Nevada? V.E.N.O.M. kidnaps an old woman who used to babysit Scott. In her car stolen $20 counterfeit plates are hidden. Lots of cool action around Boulder Hill in this episode. Also, Firecracker is back!
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Episode 55 - Plunder of Glowworm Grotto
Release Date: 1985-12-13Location: New Zeland Julio is visiting a village in New Zealand. He's checking on a project of the Matt Trakker Foundation which helps the people preserve the natives way of life.
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Episode 56 - Stone Trees
Release Date: 1985-12-16Location: Unknown Jacques is doing his daily job sawing trees when he hits a tree that's made out of stone and has an inscription on it. V.E.N.OM. steals the tree and translates the inscriptions in order to discover the location of a golden totem.
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Episode 57 - Incident in Istanbul
Release Date: 1985-12-17Location: Istanbul V.E.N.O.M. hijacks an armored truck being escorted by Thunderhawk to a museum. The truck is carrying ""The Emperor's Chess Set"", which, when combined together with a painting, shows the location of a golden crown which is hidden inside a church.
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Episode 58 - The Creeping Desert
Release Date: 1985-12-18Location: Acapulco Jose Sanchez, the owner of a large complex of Acapulco hotels, hires V.E.N.O.M. to destroy all other land around his own property, by turning it in to a desert wasteland.
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Episode 59 - The Scarlet Empress
Release Date: 1985-12-19Location: Venezuela V.E.N.O.M. is trying to steal an giant aboriginal statue of the Scarlet Empress. At the end Calhoun accidentally fires his Gulliver mask and shrinks the statue. A bird flies by and takes the statue. Gorey calls his mask ""Samson"" rather than Powerhouse.
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Episode 60 - Venice Menace
Release Date: 1985-12-20Location: Venice V.E.N.O.M. steals a chemical that turns water into jelly. They use it to cover a harbor, allowing Stinger to drive on the water so they can dig up the golden ship.
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Episode 61 - Treasure of the Nazca Plain
Release Date: 1985-12-23Location: Nazca Plateau in South America MASK foils a plot by VENOM to steal an ancient South American treasure.
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Episode 62 - Disappearing Act
Release Date: 1985-12-24Location: Unknown V.E.N.O.M. steals cars from an auto museum by shrinking them.
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Episode 63 - Gate Of Darkness
Release Date: 1985-12-25Location: India V.E.N.O.M. lures a cobra from a shiva-festival using a floating flute. They are after an ivory throne that is hidden in a maze in the Himalayan Mountains. The markings on the back of the cobra's head are supposed to show the way through the maze.
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Episode 64 - The Manakara Giant
Release Date: 1985-12-26Location: Nazca Plateau in South Africa A cargo ship crashes on a beach under mysterious circumstances. Native people say it is the ghost of Manakara. It is actually V.E.N.O.M. (obviously) and they have a strange new magnetic device that gets a hold of T-Bob, as well as the MASK vehicles.
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Episode 65 - Raiders of the Orient Express
Release Date: 1985-12-26Location: Switzerland V.E.N.O.M. seeks ""mad"" King Ludwig's treasure, and pilfers the Orient Express for clues.