Sink the Montana!

While at a decommissioning ceremony for the USS Montana, the Joes come under attack from Cobra, who recruits Hawk's old friend, Admiral George Lattimer, who is unwilling to let the Navy send his ship to the scrapheap. Destro has recruited Lattimer as a Cobra agent, planning to take out all other naval craft so the Montana is unrivaled.

"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 2 daily run (1986). 30 episodes, the final Sunbow-Marvel-Toei run. This was the season that introduced Serpentor (the Cobra Emperor cloned from history's greatest tyrants by Dr. Mindbender) and the Battle Force 2000 sub-team. Followed by G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) which concluded the Sunbow run.
2. Production code: 600-54
3. Studio: Marvel Productions / Sunbow Productions / Toei Doga
4. Originally aired: September 29, 1986 in afternoon syndication.