- 7/3/2025
Spiral Zone is a 1987 animated sci-fi series that blends action, dystopian storytelling, and futuristic tech. Set in the year 2007, the show follows an elite team known as the Zone Riders as they battle the evil Overlord and his Black Widows, who have enslaved much of the world using a mind-controlling bio-weapon called the Spiral Zone. With its dark tone, advanced animation for the time, and unique character designs, Spiral Zone stands out as one of the most underrated and mature 80s cartoons — a must-watch for fans of retro action and sci-fi animation.
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00:00Surrender or pay the consequences.
00:30All courage, peace and freedom.
00:35We must own.
00:38We will fight on our honor.
00:41What is right.
00:43We'll defend.
00:44Fight the zone.
00:46Zone prize.
00:47Earth's most powerful soldiers.
00:50Or Earth's last chance against the spiral zone.
00:58Zone riders, looks like we're coming to a commercial.
01:03Let's fight the zone.
01:18Locked in.
01:20Got it.
01:21Missile sighted at 0900.
01:28Maybe somebody doesn't want us to terminate.
01:38Overlord can figure out easily enough what we're planning to do.
01:43So what's the fuss?
01:45All we're gonna do is knock out his largest pod factory and grab a couple of pods.
01:49Watch for hours and wheeze.
02:01Or detail.
02:05Out of the world.
02:09I think my River Otter is not made written.
02:13You're a rat.
02:15You are eight and one-half minutes late, Commander D.
02:26My apologies, Field Marshal Schaefer, but we ran into some...
02:29The factory in this zone manufactures pads for all of Europe and North Africa.
02:34My orders are to support your team in knocking it out, if you can.
02:39Gets right down to it, doesn't it? Know how to do or nothing?
02:42Well, we'll do our job, Field Marshal.
02:47And you can handle the factory's defense system?
02:51Sergeant Tank Schmidt designed it and helped install it when NATO weapons were being made there, before it was zoned.
02:56Without Sergeant Schmidt, the zone riders will never get past the plant's defenses.
03:02Prepare to attack!
03:03Yeah, let's stomp them suckers!
03:07Just keep the rest of them busy and force Schmidt to the edge of the zone.
03:12Where I can use my new weapon to get him.
03:19I am ready!
03:23So, you are depending on Sergeant Schmidt to make this mission succeed?
03:28Well, good luck, gentlemen.
03:31Tank, what is it between you and Schaefer?
03:33Oh, he is my father-in-law, and he thinks...
03:38Tank, you, Ben, and Hero go to the right.
03:46The rest of you come with me.
03:47Now, maybe we can get out of here.
04:08If you can, you'd be not.
04:11This is just dropping in.
04:15Welcome back to our side, guys.
04:31We have the zone riders pinned down, Overlord.
04:34Excellent, Bandit.
04:36Now, force Sergeant Schmidt toward the zone.
04:39I will do the rest.
04:48Zone riders, report.
04:50This is Ben.
04:50Hero and I are pinned down.
04:52Dix and I are left behind the building near the control tower.
05:02I am past the control tower.
05:03They keep pushing me back toward the zone.
05:06They're concentrating on Tank.
05:08Overlord must know he's the key to the success of this mission.
05:11If Max could get free.
05:13Hang on, mate.
05:14I got an idea.
05:15A fuel tanker?
05:16Go for it, Ned.
05:17I'll cover you.
05:25I'll have you two out of there in no time.
05:28Just be ready to move fast.
05:30Must be something I can use.
05:32Aha!
05:36Don't go away, Commander.
05:37I'll be right back.
05:58Come on, let's move the chute.
06:07Come on, let's move the chute.
06:14Daddy, Daddy.
06:18Help me.
06:19Come get me.
06:20Joseph.
06:22Joseph, my son.
06:23It is you.
06:25It's working.
06:25All forces withdraw into the zone.
06:29Sergeant Schmidt will join us in a moment.
06:41Joseph, wait.
06:48Joseph!
06:51Morten!
06:52What's with you, man?
06:57You were heading into the zone alone.
06:59Let go.
07:00I must go to my Joseph.
07:02Joseph!
07:03Joseph, come back!
07:10The idiot has a minefield!
07:12What?
07:13What?
07:14What could have been you?
07:19Let's go.
07:20My son is in there.
07:22And I have lost him again.
07:28He thought he saw his son.
07:32I did see him.
07:33I know my own son.
07:35No one else saw a kid, Tank.
07:37Come back and play strange tricks with your mind.
07:40Let's go free the rest of these zoners.
07:42Listen, Tank.
07:43You are tired.
07:44We are all tired of fighting.
07:47Battle fatigue makes a person see.
07:49I tell you, I saw my son.
07:53Yeah, my grandson.
07:55And you abandoned him again, just as you did before.
08:01Let's get these folks to the medic station.
08:04Tank, this mission is critical.
08:06Now, I've got to know what's going on between you and Schaefer.
08:09I was going to Switzerland, so I left Joseph in the care of a friend on a small farm where
08:15the Lord attacked while I was gone.
08:17You mean the original raid, when he zoned half the world?
08:20Yeah, and my father-in-law thinks I was in Switzerland on a skiing vacation instead of
08:25being with Joseph.
08:26But now you can tell him the truth.
08:28But now he won't listen to me.
08:29Now that they luckily saved Schmidt at the last moment, the Zone Riders will go after
08:36the factory.
08:37Stop them before they even get near it.
08:44Where's he going?
08:45Just in case you fail me again, I have my own plan to save the factory.
08:53Schmidt's son.
08:58All right, you have your assignments.
08:59Let's go.
09:06Heads up.
09:07Sand's coming from the rooftops.
09:08I'm home.
09:16Double leg here.
09:17They'll be behind us, too.
09:19All right, let's take a little detour.
09:38There's an alley we can use on the other side of the warehouse.
09:50Let's move it.
10:04Schnell.
10:05The factory is very close.
10:06I thought you were supposed to know this place pretty well, Tank.
10:10Nein.
10:11I know it perfectly.
10:12I had this tunnel built in case the factory ever needed reinforcements.
10:17When the coast is clear, Max and I will go knock out the generator.
10:20Ja.
10:21And when the Zone is gone, my Josef will be free.
10:24And I will find him.
10:36Where did they go?
10:40Overlord, the Zone riders have escaped on foot.
10:44Everyone pull back to defend the factory.
10:46And more speed of work, Tank.
11:00We're in.
11:01And just in time.
11:02I think they want in also.
11:03This will only hold them for a while.
11:06Follow me.
11:22He's a king so far, Commander.
11:24He's a big man.
11:26Quick, Max.
11:26Pull alongside.
11:30Jump, Commander.
11:31Now!
11:32Okay, Max.
11:33Time to play motocross.
11:34The beams cannot be shut off from this side.
11:54And they are extremely dangerous.
12:00I will go first.
12:04Here, hero.
12:09Give me your needler.
12:10Aye.
12:12This should be just right.
12:15I think.
12:18Schnell!
12:19Quickly!
12:20Are you sure this is going to hold?
12:22Not if you spend all day talking about it.
12:31Thank goodness that is the last of the security devices.
12:35Unless you can't those blow it, it is.
12:37I've never seen this before.
12:39Now worry.
12:41Get him from him.
12:46I don't think so.
12:47Now what?
12:48Now what are we doing?
12:49I'll tell you what we're doing now, right?
12:51Now we worry.
12:55Stay tuned.
12:56The Zone Riders will be back.
13:00And now we return with more Spiral Zone action.
13:02It's getting hot in the summer day in the airbag.
13:11But not hot enough to stop them.
13:13Let us see how they like the cold.
13:16I'll do this good, thank you, Kat.
13:17But they will not stay frozen forever.
13:20Quickly, there is a storage room beyond.
13:24Never seen those robots.
13:26They are new.
13:26Overlord wants to put them in.
13:28I just want a hand to turn them off.
13:31They have to be centrally programmed.
13:33Well, to control that many of them,
13:35there has to be a central computer somewhere.
13:37You and Hero must find it and reprogram it.
13:40First, we must find a way out of here.
13:43Through that vent!
13:44The computer is yours, Benjamin Sun.
14:00Okay, let's get inside this.
14:02Access denied.
14:04Nuts!
14:05Access denied.
14:06We have a visitor.
14:07Access denied.
14:13Is that all he can say?
14:14Access denied.
14:16Perhaps you could pull the plug on it.
14:18I wish it were that easy.
14:19It has its own power supply.
14:21Access denied.
14:22Evidently, that's as heavily guarded as its programmed.
14:25Access denied.
14:27Access denied.
14:33Access achieved.
14:37You are still only second in command, Bandit.
14:53I will lead.
14:59We are waiting for Ben and Hero to rejoin us.
15:02They have stopped the robots.
15:04Good.
15:05We're getting closer to the generator,
15:06but the zoners aren't making it easy.
15:08Good luck, Commander.
15:09He'll be back any minute, Tank.
15:12Tank?
15:12Russ?
15:13Oh, I'm sorry.
15:15I was thinking about man's son.
15:17Don't worry.
15:17You will find him, Tank.
15:20The Black Widows are inside the factory.
15:23We managed to avoid them.
15:24Tank, what say you and I set the explosives?
15:28Hero and Ben and Cat can draw the Black Widows away.
15:30Yeah, good idea, Ned.
15:32The assembly line is inside.
16:01Good.
16:02Then let's get to it before the zoners get in.
16:07Wow.
16:08Will you take a look at this, Mike?
16:10This is gonna be fun.
16:14Let's start in the back, shall we?
16:16That's not the only way in, you fools.
16:27I won't succeed.
16:37It's time to use Schmidt's son again.
16:41We are pulling the zoners and Black Widows out of the factory, Commander.
16:46Nice going, Cat.
16:47Max and I are almost at the generator.
16:50We'll rendezvous with you after we set the explosives.
16:53Ready when you are, Commander.
17:12We're almost set to blow the factory, Commander.
17:14Okay, Ned, and try to bring back at least one of the zone pods.
17:17Goodies done, Commander.
17:19All right, now listen, Tom, mate.
17:21When I push this button, we've got 20 seconds before this one blows
17:24and one minute before the whole factory goes up.
17:27Yeah, I know.
17:32Daddy.
17:32Daddy.
17:33Daddy.
17:37Joseph.
17:38Nein.
17:38Nein.
17:38Nein.
17:38Nein.
17:38Nein.
17:38Nein.
17:38Nein.
17:40No, I must have my son.
17:53Take, it's a trick.
17:55It's not your boy.
17:56His eyes aren't even yellow, and his face is clear.
18:07A hologram.
18:08The detonator.
18:09We've got to find it.
18:10I believe this is what you're looking for.
18:25Ah!
18:32What have you done with my son?
18:35I don't have your son.
18:37But I have this.
18:41Then you might as well use it.
18:4420 seconds and this place turns into a cloud of dust.
18:47You're coming with us, overlord.
18:48I will get the pods.
18:57Leave it.
18:57There's no time.
18:58We've got to get out of here.
18:59Go, Max.
19:12It goes over and lost to black windows.
19:14Now it's our turn.
19:15Let's go, Max.
19:16now that's what i call a petite sight now the prettiest sight of all will be when the last
19:43zone generator in the world gets blown
19:58field marshal schaefer this is a copy of the orders which sent tank to switzerland
20:03just before his son your grandson was caught in the zone borders
20:13he was called away on a secret mission yes what you thought was a betrayal of his son was really
20:19respect for his country and a desire for world peace
20:25dunkashoi if you will excuse me now i i have other business to attend to
20:31that he's tank we found this holographic tape in overlord's local headquarters
20:42he edited it to make me think joseph was here
20:47daddy daddy thank you for my birthday present i can't wait until you come back and get me
20:54then you can help me put this together the owner of the farm who was looking after joseph must have
21:00made the tape as a surprise for me as an overlord found it commander courage informed me why you
21:07were not with joseph i am sorry that i had to find out from him that i did not listen to you but still
21:16i do not have my son
21:20well someday we will both have joseph back
21:23we will search for him together thank you we'll be right back with more spiral zone action
21:34and now we return with more spiral zone adventure
21:37earth's most powerful soldiers fight the spiral zone
21:48our world calls for courage peace and freedom we must stone
21:58our world we will fight on our honor what is right we'll defend fight the zone
22:08zone riders earth's most powerful soldiers or earth's last chance against the spiral zone
22:28our world is
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