Red Rocket's Glare

Cobra, through Extensive Enterprises, opens a series of Red Rocket restaurants with armed photon disintegrator warheads atop each restaurant location. They intend to launch and detonate the warheads if the U.S. Government and G.I. Joe do not hand over complete control to Cobra Commander, who demonstrates what will become of every location where a Red Rocket restaurant has been built.

"Now you know. And knowing is half the battle." The Sunbow run closed every episode with a public-service spot delivered by a Joe character, addressing kids on a real-world hazard or virtue. The cartoon's deeper ethic, threaded into the writing across the run, was that Cobra's worldview was based on fear and the Joes' was based on responsibility.

1. Sunbow Season 1 daily run (1985). 55 episodes aired Monday through Friday in afternoon syndication, September to December 1985.
2. Production code: 600-12
3. Studio: Marvel Productions / Sunbow Productions / Toei Doga
4. Originally aired: September 24, 1985 in afternoon syndication.