Classic Cartoons: Ulysses 31 Episodes

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Ulysses 31 Episode 19: The Hidden Truth

The Odyssey passes close to a spaceship that is sending out a distress call. The ship is brought on board the Odyssey, and its lone occupant, a woman named Galatea tells Ulysses that she is from the planet Nereoplois. Sherka finally translates the distress call and they find that it actually came from a man named Nereus. Soon, the Odyssey is surrounded by thousands of Tridents, while Sharkmen disembark from Galatea's ship and take Ulysses and the children prisoner. Ulysses is taken to a prison cell along with another man who tells him that they will be taken to Squalopolis, the new name for Nereopolis. The children are kept separate due to their immunity from the Sharkmen's mind control brooches. Ulysses' cellmate tells him that Galatea was the daughter of the former King Nereus. Ulysses informs him that Nereus is still alive as he detected his message. In Squalopolis, Telemachus and Yumi are taken away to fight in tomorrow's games for a public holiday. With the help of his cellmate, Ulysses escapes from the Sharkmen before he too is made a helpless slave. Ulysses comes across a bar full of people not wearing the mind control devices, but they don't see any hope without King Nereus. Then, an old man stands up and announces himself to be Nereus. No one believes him, and so he and Ulysses talk in private. Meanwhile, Telemachus makes friends with Glycon, the son of Nereus and tells of his sister Galatea. Ulysses talks to the old man and figuring out that he was also his cellmate in another form, is told that only he can convince the people that their king is still alive. The next day, Telemachus and Glycon fight each other and pretend to kill each other, while Ulysses and Nereus attempt to tell the people that their former King is still alive. Telemachus and Glycon head for the mind control centre, and rescue their arrested parents. While Yumi and Nono distract the android Duke, the new ruler of Squalopolis, Ulysses, Nereus and their children destroy all the mind control devices and free the people of Nereopolis. With Poseidon's forces defeated, Galatea escorts Ulysses and the children back to the Odyssey.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 18: At The Heart Of The Universe

Sherka detects galactic ice across the path of the Odyssey, but its structure is not the same as that previously encountered when they entered Olympus. Ulysses takes a shuttle to investigate the ice flow further when Yumi senses that he should go there. The Odyssey follows carefully behind, and they are confronted by two pillars of light. In-between them is Mercurious, grandson of the gods. He tells Ulysses that he has chosen him to assist him in his quest for power, and in return he will tell Ulysses how to get back to Earth. He shows Ulysses the giant, Atlas, who holds up the entire universe on his shoulders and tells Ulysses to retrieve the Eye of Heaven, a jewel in the centre of Atlas' forehead that grants ultimate knowledge. Ulysses agrees to get the jewel, and after Mercurious tells him that to look into it will be deadly, he and Nono together carefully climb up Atlas' sleeping body to retrieve it. Yumi senses that Atlas' heart has begun to beat again, and goes to Ulysses to assist him. As Ulysses prises the jewel away from Atlas' forehead, the giant awakes and tells Ulysses to look into the jewel. Ulysses gets Nono to look into it and he sees the Earth. Ulysses looks and is told that the jewel is the precise balancing point of the universe, without which Atlas will not have the strength to hold the universe up. Ulysses attempts to place the jewel back, but is attacked by Mercurious. Atlas captures Mercurious and Ulysses is able to replace the Eye of Heaven and return to the Odyssey, while Atlas once again upholds the universe.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 17: Lost In The Labyrinth

Ulysses meets up with Aegeus, whose son Theseus has disappeared. The Oracle tells him that only Ulysses can find his son. Theseus has been captured by the King Minos of Crete, who will not allow him to marry his daughter Ariadne. As punishment, Minos has Theseus thrown into the Labyrinth. Ariadne vows to follow Theseus into the Labyrinth, and so Minos sends his forces to prevent her from doing so. Ulysses explains to the children that has been told by Aegeus that when he finds Theseus he will find the route back to Earth. As he does so, Ariadne's ship, chased by four others passes by the Odyssey. Yumi senses that Ariadne is in danger and they take the ship on board. She tells them that she is trying to save Theseus, and they tell her they are looking for him too as they believe that he knows the way back to Earth. She tells them that he is in the Labyrinth and at the mercy of the Minotaur, a creature dwelling inside it. Arriving at the Labyrinth space complex, Ulysses, Yumi and Ariadne enter, monitored by Telemachus in the Odyssey. Ariadne uses a set of tracer pearls to make sure that they don't get lost inside. However, once deep inside, all the walls of the Labyrinth reconfigure themselves, changing the shape of the maze, causing Ulysses and the others to truly be lost. As Minos' forces enter the Labyrinth to retrieve Ariadne, Telemachus decides to follow them. Meanwhile, Ulysses' group finds Theseus, but soon come under attack by the Minotaur. As Telemachus evades Minos' guards, Theseus is able to stab the creature with his sword. He asks Theseus how to get back to Earth, but he has no idea. It is then that Ulysses realizes that it was the Minotaur himself who knew the way back, and he has killed him. With the death of the Minotaur, the Labyrinth rearranges itself again, and Telemachus is reunited with his father.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 16: The Magic Spells Of Circe

Near the zone of the Kingdom of Hades, Ulysses and the children are rendered unconscious, and the Odyssey is taken into another dimension. Their companions are taken from their chamber and placed on the Odyssey's bridge. An Earth-like planet is detected, and the now-awakened Ulysses uses a shuttle to investigate. As he does so, his companions are manipulated into piloting the Odyssey to the planet, known as Aim, by Circe the enchantress. She turns the Odyssey's crew into swine so as to be her slaves. Ulysses encounters a space commander named Hermes who tells him that his crew were taken by Circe, who wants to build a giant tower of knowledge. When she has all the knowledge of the universe, she will be able to stand up to the gods. Hermes shows Ulysses how to get to the tower, and once there he and Nono encounter Circe's librarian, also named Hermes. Ulysses finally finds Circe, who refuses to return Ulysses companions to normal. When she finds out who he is, she tells him that he can help her ambitions as he is the only man to have defied the gods. She promises to free his companions and the other space travellers and give them a map of all Olympus in order to defeat the gods. All she asks in return is that Ulysses stays with her. He agrees, and Circe uses her magic to restore all the space travellers including Ulysses' companions to no normal. However, her librarian Hermes tells her that if she gives the Odyssey's crew the map to Olympus, the gods will punish her. Hermes gets the other space travellers to ascend the tower, and there at the top he prepares to attack them. Ulysses is about to fight him when Circe appears and gives him the map of Olympus. Hermes catches it and throws it off the tower, and Circe destroys him. Soon, the tower itself is destroyed by the gods, and as the Odyssey leaves the planet's orbit, the companions come under the gods spell once more and are frozen. Circe ascends the stairway of the gods to face their judgement.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 15: Before The Flood

Exploring a planet remarkably similar to the Earth of 200 million years ago, with the continents different from the present, Ulysses and the children quickly come under attack by giant mutant vultures. Forced to land, they seek refuge in a cave and discover an advanced underground city. There, they come across a strange group of large egg-shaped structures, while Sherka warns Ulysses that there are about to be immense seismic disturbances on the planet. Counting nine eggs, one for each planet in Earth's solar system, Ulysses opens the third egg, representing Earth. A winged woman named Sauria emerges and tells Ulysses that they are on Earth and that her people were all put in suspended animation to protect themselves from a huge flood covering the Earth, when the gods lived on Earth and her people were their slaves. The gods left without them, and used the mutants vultures named Keconopters to protect their spaceships before they left. In secret, Sauria's people built the Ark, containing one pair of every animal species on the planet. Before the flood came, her people were under siege by the Keconopters, and so they put themselves to sleep to let the flood deal with the birds. The Keconopters break into the city and Ulysses has Sauria awaken her people, while he deals with the vultures. As the battle continues, the planet's quakes increase in their intensity, and the Saurians evacuate themselves to the Ark. The tidal wave destroys the Keconopters, and everyone is safe on board the Ark. Using Sherka's monitors, they all observes how the planet's form is gradually changing and ultimately observe the whole time curve of the Earth, from the past, to the present and to the future. Still not knowing whether or not the planet was in fact Earth, Ulysses and the child take their leave and head back to the Odyssey.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 14: Song Of Danger

Yumi plays a song she heard in a dream to Ulysses, Telemachus and Nono. She tells them that in her dream, the music was able to open a sealed coffin. Sherka soon detects a stone coffin next to a wrecked spaceship, and it is brought on board. Yumi recognizes the coffin as the same one from her dream, and uses her flute to open it. Inside is the body of an astronaut holding a circuit card. The card contains a map of the Sirenum solar system, which circles a black sun. Upon hearing from the message on the circuit card that Sirenum is the location of a complete map of Olympus which is guarded by the Sirens, Ulysses takes the Odyssey there. Landing on Sirenum, Ulysses, Telemachus and Yumi come across lots of other wrecked spaceships are all soon captured by space pirates who are also seeking the map of Olympus. They force Ulysses and Nono to face the Sirens and get the map for them while they hold the children hostage. Travelling on a sailing ship across Sirenum sea, Ulysses asks Nono to tie him to the main mast of the ship so that he will not be drawn to the Sirens' voices. Affected by the Sirens, Ulysses breaks free and follows them, and at the same time Telemachus and Yumi escape from the pirates and follow him by raft. They get to the island of the Sirens, rescue Ulysses, and come across a room full of identical coffins guarded by a creature that has turned all of the previous treasure hunters to stone. Yumi uses her flue to play the tune from her dream again, and they escape. Ulysses returns to the pirates and gives them a coffin containing both the map and the creature, which turns all the pirates to stone. Ulysses attempts to read the map, but on contact with the air it burns in his hand and disintegrates to nothing.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 13: Phantoms From The Swamp

Yumi senses the presence of her home planet Zotra, and soon a meteor is detected heading straight toward the Odyssey. Ulysses pilots the ship to safety, and Yumi persuades him to follow its course. The meteor crash-lands onto a nearby swamp-planet, and Ulysses and Yumi take a shuttle there to investigate. As they walk through the swamp they are confronted by a group of mud creatures with cameras in their heads. As they take pictures of Ulysses and Yumi, they gradually begin to take on their features and form. Soon, Ulysses' shuttle returns to the Odyssey, and Ulysses and Yumi tell Telemachus to quickly take over the controls of the Odyssey and leave the planet as fast as possible. Meanwhile, stranded on the swamp world, the real Ulysses and Yumi hold off the mud creatures as they continue to duplicate their appearances and abilities, finding the mark of the Trident on one of the cameras. Suspecting that all is not right with Ulysses and Yumi, Telemachus and Nono secretly make use of the Odyssey's radio and discover that the Ulysses and Yumi on board are really mud creatures from the swamp planet, and that the real ones are still stranded there. Telemachus sends a shuttle to pick his father and Yumi up, but quickly comes under attack by the fake Ulysses and Yumi, who quickly begin to take on Telemachus and Nono's forms. Ulysses and Yumi board the shuttle and return to the Odyssey, where Ulysses confuses the creatures' cameras by using the Odyssey's monitors, destroying them and saving his son and Nono.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 12: Trapped Between Fire And Ice

Sherka finds remnants of an Earth spaceship from the year 2001 and finds that the ship is a escape cruiser from the main vessel, and the crew investigates. The captain of the ship is in suspension, and awakens to tell how he stayed safe when the cruiser traveled close to the extreme planets Charbybdis and Scylla. Telemachus finds no pictures of the captain on the ship, finds out that this is a trap by the gods. He and Yumi try to bring Ulysses's ship out of the two planet's orbit. The captain is actually an android who must be defeated in Ulysses and his crew hope to escape.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 11: The Seat Of Forgetfulness

Ulysses travels a remote-controlled Trident, which is a trap by the gods. They are sucked into another dimension, which appears to be the stairway of the gods on Mount Olympus. Ulysses finds himself on a game board, playthings of the gods. Ulysses, Telemachus, and Yumi have to fight undead armies. Ulysses is zapped into a forgetful state where he will soon forget his mission unless he fights to remembers.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 10: Temple Of The Lestrigones

The Odyssey comes across a planet ruled by the evil Antipodes, who keeps a menagerie of miniaturized pets. Antipodes detects and shrinks down the Odyssey using his powerful prism, and the ship crashes down into the sea, close to his island. Ulysses undertakes a little reconnaissance using one of the shuttles, but ends up being trapped in an oyster and encased in a pearl. Losing track of Ulysses, Telemachus takes another shuttle to his father's last known location and encounters lots of other miniaturized shipwrecks on the seabed. Telemachus' shuttle is scooped up, along with the shipwrecks by fishermen working for Antipodes. The pearl containing Ulysses is taken to Antipodes, and Ulysses manages to get his shuttle free. Discovering how to use the crystal to return themselves to normal size, Ulysses and Telemachus avoid Antipodes and his cat and manage to shrink him down as well as restoring themselves. They take the prism with them and enlarge the Odyssey back to its original size, while the tyrant Antipodes ends up as part of his own collection and the prism ends up being accidentally destroyed by Nono.

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Ulysses 31 Episode 9: Cronus, Father Of Time

The Odyssey is destroyed by Trident fighters, but the remnants of it travel into the Kingdom of Cronus and the effects are reversed. Cronus summons Ulysses and imprisons him and puts Yumi and Telemachus in a time lock. Cronus was actually banished from the realm of the gods, and plans to give Ulysses to Zeus so he can return to Olympus. Ulysses escapes while Telemachus and Yumi fall into several traps. Ulysses must move the clock in the Hall of Universal Time backwards to unage the children and escape Cronus.

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