Just what were the first and last episodes of the He-Man and She-Ra series?

Before every He-Man and She-Ra episode began, we were treated to the title of the episode. Filmation's title cards were wonderful to look at, but occasionally differed in strange ways. These differences were really no great tragedy in terms of watching the actual episode, but sometimes they were hard to avoid.

Rare background
Only seen once, this background appeared on a title card for He-Man's season one episode "The Time Corridor." Only number 8 in the production schedule, it was given the background to Snake Mountain's Blood Falls. The background was famously seen in the episode "The Dragon Invasion," when He-Man confronts Skeletor at Snake Mountain.

Different background
In the He-Man special "The Greatest Adventures of All" we have three episodes compiled with small interludes from the Sorceress. The titles of the episodes are not shown until the very end of the compilation, and while "Diamond Ray of Disappearance" and "Teela's Quest" both end up on their original background; "Colossor Awakes" is seen on a completely different background depicting Eternia. The credits were altered so that the director's credit was seen with the title of the episode and the writer's credit. Incidentally when "Colossor Awakes" made it to home video in the UK, they actually used this one as the actual episode title card. They did not utilize the TV version title card, which was used in the actual airing of the episodes.

Two Directors?
The title card to the season two He-Man episode "Island of Fear" possessed a very strange rarity. For the first time we see that an episode has been directed by two people, but even more stranger is that they have placed the "Directed by" credit up on the screen twice. Whether two people directed this episode, or if it was a mistake by the assemblers of the title cards is unknown.

How do you spell the star?
He-Man is the star of the series, and it is really not a hard name to misspell or forget. His name must have been plastered all across the documents that came when assembling the title cards. However on the two times that He-Man's name was in the title, it was incorrectly written. The first time it was spelt "He-man" with a lower case "M," and the hyphen was missing when it was time for "Hunt for He Man." These were the only two chances they had of getting it right, and still they could not.

She-Ra's first appearance was at least lettered correctly in "She-Ra Unchained," which was the third episode of the first season. Yet when it came to the second season episode "Shera Makes A Promise," they appeared to have totally misspelled her name as one word, "Shera." The reason for this mistake may have been that She-Ra, when written in scripts was referred to as "Shera," just one word. Hence when the title card was being assembled, they stayed a little too true to the script.

Two Eternias?
You would be wrong in thinking that some of the He-Man titles appeared on just one background representing Eternia. There were in fact two separate cards that depicted the planet Eternia. Both were separate paintings and looked very similar. But while they may look identical, the background and shading of the planet differ. The most noticeable difference is that the stars behind the planet change sides and appearance.

Planet Eternia 1

Planet Eternia 2

Titles that just stay
Usually when the title card appears, the first one depicts the title of the episode and the writer. Then the title of the episode and writer fade out, as the director's credit appears. The following episodes were exceptions to the rule, and for some unknown reason the title of the episode stayed for both writer and director credits. This only occurred in five episodes, which were quite widespread throughout the first season of He-Man.

MU3 - "Disappearing Act"
    

MU10 - "A Friend in Need"
    

MU11 - "Masks of Power"
    

MU27 - "Orko's Favorite Uncle"
    

MU34 - "The Dragon's Gift"
    

Part 1 or Part I?
There were only 2 two-part episodes in the entire run of He-Man and She-Ra. He-Man's was "House of Shokoti," and She-Ra's was "Anchors Aloft." The strange thing is, and this may have something to do with the different fonts, He-Man's was written out as Part 1, whereas She-Ra's was changed to Part I, using the Roman numerical system. Hence He-Man's follow-up was Part 2, and She-Ra's was Part II. The font used on the She-Ra title cards may not have had the usual numbering system, or the creators decided that the numbers did not look right.