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Original Airdate: |
September 20, 1985 (production) |
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Episode |
05 of 65 in Season 1 |
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Episode |
05 of 75 overall |
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Location: |
Cliffwood, Colorado |
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Written by: |
Jeffrey Scott |
V.E.N.O.M. hypnotizes innocent people through their television sets and threatens to use them to attack a Texas oil refinery if not paid a hefty ransom.
Plot Synopsis[]
Synopsis is forthcoming.
Safety Tip[]
Scott reminds his father he taught him to always make sure the base of a ladder was level before climbing up.
M.A.S.K. agents[]
- Matt Trakker - Spectrum
- Brad Turner - Hocus Pocus
- Bruce Sato - Lifter
- Alex Sector - Jackrabbit
- Dusty Hayes - Backlash
- Buddie Hawks - Penetrator
- Hondo MacLean - Blaster
- Gloria Baker - Aura
M.A.S.K. vehicles[]
V.E.N.O.M. agents[]
V.E.N.O.M. vehicles[]
Civilians[]
Quotes[]
"I'm gonna run you into the ground, mister!"
"Time for a dose of my magnetic personality."
"As John Paul Jones would say, we've not yet begun to fight!"
"Dusty, mind if I borrow Gator and your co-pilot?"
"OK by me, but you'd better ask the lady."
"C'mon, let's go swimming."
- Matt Trakker, Dusty Hayes, and Gloria Baker, as Matt asks Dusty if he can ride on Gator with Gloria to look for the missing military train.
Satoisms[]
- "A magician makes the rabbit vanish... but only for the eyes."
Continuity[]
- Scott and T-Bob are not involved in this episode's mission. They appear briefly at the mansion playing golf and breaking a window, which Matt Trakker notices but never acts upon, and then are not seen again until the safety tip segment.
- After assembling Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, Matt Trakker takes the underground monorail from his mansion to Boulder Hill on his own, even though Gloria Baker was also at the mansion.
- Gloria is Gator's co-pilot on this mission.
- Vanessa pilots Switchblade in this episode.
Conflicts[]
- In several shots throughout the episode, Sly Rax's pants aren't colored blue, as they should be, but have the same olive green color as his jacket, e.g. at about 1:43, 16:45 and 20:25.
- Around the 6:10 mark, during the agents call-up sequence, Brad Turner has blond hair and a blue shirt during his introduction, then his normal brown hair and a red shirt in the next. The color of the drummer's shirt and hair also change to lighter shades.
- When Vanessa Warfield is piloting Switchblade, she turns her head at about 10:45, looking backwards, and the neck part of her mask is flesh colored instead of grayish green. The same happens at 16:40, in the scene where Vanessa gets out of Switchblade. In the next shot her mask Whip has the same greenish color all over.
- At 11:02, when Matt Trakker notices the trip wire across the bridge, Thunderhawk's steering wheel has a lighter gray color than usually, and it doesn't seem to be attached to the steering column.
- When Thunderhawk lands at 13:10, just after its dogfight with Switchblade, and Vanessa and Dagger leave the scene, the Camaro's headlights are colored purple.
- At about 13:10, when Rhino's cannons help Firecracker cross the blown-up bridge, the cannon that shoots the anti-gravity ray is partially colored burgundy (the color of Rhino's bodywork).
- Around the 13:41 mark, when Rhino reverses in order to make a good speed for the jump over the destroyed bridge, parts of its sleeper cab a.k.a. computer command center have completely disappeared. Also, both air cleaners are colored burgundy instead of gray.
- When Matt shoots the TV mast at around 18:09, Thunderhawk's doors are gray instead of red.
- From around the 19 minutes mark, when Miles Mayhem says he doesn't want to get away yet, the cannon handle he's holding disappears and reappears. In the next shot, Gator's grill is colored orange. Seconds later, just after three VENOM agents fall off the laser cannon, the part below Viper's visor has the same orange color as the visor itself. It should have been dark blue. When Mayhem does leave and Gloria and Firecracker arrive at the laser cannon, the MASK pickup's grill has a yellow color.
- As the M.A.S.K. agents are all laughing at 20:20, after having defeated V.E.N.O.M., Buddie Hawks's outfit is colored dark green with a black mask instead of its usual purple and blue combination with a light green mask.
- At the end of the episode, as Switchblade, Jackhammer and Piranha are escaping, Jackhammer has rear windows in two shots.
Behind the Scenes[]
- A coloring book featuring images from this story, also titled Video VENOM was released by Golden Books.
Voice Cast[]
- Doug Stone as Matt Trakker, Hondo MacLean, Dusty Hayes, Bruce Sato and Soldier
- Mark Halloran as Buddie Hawks, Sly Rax, Cliff Dagger, Duane Kennedy and Technician Harry
- Brendan McKane as Alex Sector, Miles Mayhem and Technician Mike
- Graeme McKenna as Brad Turner and T-Bob
- Sharon Noble as Gloria Baker, Vanessa Warfield and M.A.S.K. Computer
- Brennan Thicke as Scott Trakker
Trivia[]
- Recording date: September 20, 1985.