There's No Place Like Springfield, Part 1

While on an island, Lady Jaye and Shipwreck are on a rescue mission to save Professor Mullany, a scientist who claims to have developed a formula capable of turning water into an explosive. When they find him, he implants the secret formula into Shipwreck's brain, which can only be released by a secret code word he gives to Lady Jaye. Shipwreck passes out trying to escape after a Cobra assault and wakes up six years later in a town called Springfield, with Mara (from the earlier episode "Memories of Mara") as his wife and a daughter named Althea. G.I. Joe has won the war against Cobra, but Shipwreck tries to find out how in the years he's missed.

"Now you know. And knowing is half the battle." The Sunbow run closed every episode with a public-service spot delivered by a Joe character, addressing kids on a real-world hazard or virtue. The cartoon's deeper ethic, threaded into the writing across the run, was that Cobra's worldview was based on fear and the Joes' was based on responsibility.

Chris Latta as Cobra Commander

Michael Bell as Duke, Lifeline, Xamot, Blowtorch

Arthur Burghardt as Destro

Morgan Lofting as Baroness

Mary McDonald-Lewis as Lady Jaye, Cover Girl

Bill Ratner as Flint

B.J. Ward as Scarlett

Neil Ross as Shipwreck, Doc, Tomax

Frank Welker as Torch, Wild Weasel, Junkyard, Zandar

Zack Hoffman as Zartan

Charlie Adler as Low-Light

Dick Gautier as Serpentor

1. Sunbow Season 1 daily run (1985). 55 episodes aired Monday through Friday in afternoon syndication, September to December 1985.
2. Production code: 600-58
3. Studio: Marvel Productions / Sunbow Productions / Toei Doga
4. Originally aired: December 12, 1985 in afternoon syndication.