Talk:List of Challenge of the GoBots episodes

Production codes

Dang, I was hoping these would show some sort of logic, but they seem to be even more mixed up than any of the other possible episode orderings!--Khajidha (talk) 18:27, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm sure there must be some logical, internal reason the codes are in this order - perhaps something as simple as this being the order they received the finished scripts from the writers in - but nope, there's no help in them! Likewise I've started thinking that airing order may potentially just be the order the episodes were finished and sent to the broadcaster in, regardless of production number or any kind of continuity the writers may or may not have intented - interestingly, by my reckoning, it's only in the final aired episode "Quest for New Earth" that Arthur Burghardt performs Cop-Tur, suggesting it was the last one recorded, following Bob Holt's death. - Chris McFeely (talk) 22:56, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Airdates

A while back I was checking on the U.S. Copyright Records for the series for the dates when the episodes were initially "published" (i.e. aired). The initial five-part story is listed with an October 1984 airdate, supporting Jim Sorenson's research, but begins one week earlier, so October 22 1984 to October 26 1984.

For the remaining 60 episodes, the next five episodes are listed with weekly broadcast dates on Sundays from August 11 1985 up to September 8 1985, before the remaining 55 episodes of the series transitions into daily broadcast beginning September 16 1985. From then on there are occasional skipped weekdays beginning in mid-October, of the type seen in broadcast patterns of other syndicated series, including Transformers. No episodes are listed with dates for the final six weekdays in November, before they resume again for December until the end of the series on December 20 1985.

I don't know how accurate all the above info is, but from experience with Transformers, G.I. Joe, and so on, I've not seen too many animated series from that time received a fully consecutive run of daily episodes with no gaps in broadcast, as is currently listed here. Jon T (talk) 23:00, 15 January 2017 (UTC)