There's No Place Like Springfield, Part 2

When Shipwreck is plagued by nightmares of what happened in the past six years he's missed, but he soon discovers this might be Cobra's plan to extract Mullany's formula from his mind. Knowing something is amiss when he realizes he hadn't aged in the supposed time he was comatose, Shipwreck calls the Joes to Temple Alpha, actually a Cobra island base posing as Springfield, and they plan to take down Cobra once and for all.

"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: 600-59
3. Studio: Marvel Productions / Sunbow Productions / Toei Doga
4. Originally aired: December 13, 1985 in afternoon syndication.