Back
in 1995 He-Man and She-Ra debuted on the
Internet, and the quest for the episodes began!
The He-Man and She-Ra fan community appeared
on the Internet in 1995. My own personal goal was to find
out how many episodes of He-Man and She-Ra
there were. It was not an easy task. Fortunately there were
a few of us who were determined to find out the answer.
Back
in November 1995 I discovered the Internet.
I
was completely against the idea of the Internet until my
father showed me that I could actually find information
relating to Hip Hop music. A few weeks later I dared to
search for He-Man, because I was still in the frame
of mind that I was the only person who still watched He-Man
and She-Ra.
It
was at this first search that I discovered Kevin Herbert's
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe page. Adam
Tyner was the first person I ever discussed He-Man
episodes with on the Internet. We were at the time trying
to figure out how many episodes of He-Man and She-Ra
there were. We didn't have a clue, so I began compiling
a list. Even though I didn't have every episode I could
still remember a lot of scenes and character appearances.
Obviously I didn't have the titles for these episodes, so
I began to write down what I remembered; "Yellow robot
attacks Eternia," which eventually turned out to be
"Return of Evil" and "Spikor fights Fisto
in competition" which became "The Games."
Early
in 1996 Scott White emailed me. He had managed to record
a lot of episodes from the re-runs on the USA network. With
Scott's information I was able to create a more defined
episode list. I would email Scott my memories of certain
episodes, and he was able to name the episode title, and
on many occasions send me a sound clip! A sound clip I had
wanted to hear for many years was from the end of Act Two
of "House of Shokoti" Part 1. I had not seen the
episode in just over 10 years. So when Scott sent me the
first ever sound clip, I made sure it was from that specific
episode.
In
earlier emails with Adam Tyner we had been told of an episode
where He-Man surrenders his powers thinking that he has
actually killed someone. We both denied that such an episode
could exist. I was especially against the idea that Filmation
could ever make such an episode. In the first few emails
I received from Scott White, he confirmed that this episode
was titled "The Problem With Power," and sent
me many sound clips from the episode.
With
Scott's help I eventually created a list of about 124 episodes,
and gathered that the He-Man series must have 130
episodes in total. The problem was, the information was
very hard to get hold of, and so we were stuck for a long
time at around the 124 mark. People began to appear on the
He-Man mailing list in 1996 and 1997, and with
this came some new episode titles. Robbie Beiswenger appeared
with "The Bitter Rose" and "Not so Blind,"
Rodrick Hannah gave us the extremely rare "Reign of
the Monster," and Zadoc Angell appeared on the scene
in 1997 with "Hunt for He Man."
We
had a list of 128 episodes, but the last two eluded us for
quite a while. In the meantime, from the information from
the She-Ra fans, we figured out that She-Ra
only had 65 episodes in one season with a lot of help from
Jay Mahin. Owen Sharp suddenly debuted on the He-Man
scene in 1997 and without warning had listed (as a writing
project back in the 80's) every single episode of He-Man
and She-Ra! The missing two He-Man episodes
were "The Once and Future Duke" and "Trouble's
Middle Name."
Not
only did Owen provide us with this information, but we also
learned that She-Ra did in fact have a second season
of 28 episodes. At the time Owen had only listed 14, but
he confirmed that another 14 were made for the latter part
of She-Ra's season two. A few trades later and
Stephanie Bashar provided us with the final 14 She-Ra
episode titles. It was at that time that Zadoc would email
me to let me know about these unheard of episodes as he
had received the copies first. Every day a new email would
arrive with a very brief review of a She-Ra episode.
Finally when the episodes arrived on my doorstep the mission
was complete.
