Original subtitles

- Okay, Venus?

- Okay, Steve.

- Right. Let's go.

(suspenseful music)

(loud rumbling)

(explosion)

(playful upbeat music)

(eerie music)

(chanting)

- [Ancestral Voices] Kudos. Kudos. Kudos. Kudos.

(gong ring)

- Oh voices of my ancient ancestors.

The day of victory draws near.

Our fertile brains have produced, at last,

the virus that will get us rid of the space rodents,

the hated Lazoons, forever.

- [Ancestral Voices] (cheering)

All hail Kudos! Death to all Lazoons!

- This small vial contains enough milamitosis virus

to destroy every Lazoon in the universe.

Already a condition messenger is on his way to Earth

to administer the first dose.

It will be spread from one Lazoon to another

until every one is destroyed.

You, my ancestors, will be avenged.

- (cheering)

- Recorded ancestral voices, be silent.

- [Ancestral Voices] Kudos! Kudos!

(high-pitched rewinding noises)

(eerie music)

(playful ethereal music)

(cheerful music)

- Oh dear, my hair. It's just like space weed.

Let's have a look at you, Zoonie.

- Welcome home.

- You look real cute too, Zoonie.

Now mind you behave yourself at Steve's place tonight.

No begging for scraps. If you behave yourself,

we'll give you some Martian Delight you like so much.

(playful jazz music)

- Good enough for your guests, Steve?

- Great, Venus.

With your cooking,

Major Ireland is really going to enjoy

his first night back on Earth.

Ten years is a long time.

- You know, Steve, with an apartment like this,

you should really entertain more often.

Everybody in Space City is envious of it.

- Okay, Venus. I'll entertain more often on one condition.

- And that is?

- [Steve] You do the cooking.

(ringing)

- Your personal intercall, Steve.

- Zodiac, answering personal intercall. Over.

- [Zero] Zero speaking, Steve.

Major Ireland's ship is just homing on Earth.

You coming down?

- Be right with you, Commander. Over and out.

- Major Ireland here already.

But | haven't even started to get changed yet.

- They may have electronic dishwashers, but women?

They haven't changed one bit since the 1960's.

- Space Patrol Headquarters to Explorer.

Use tower apron, area one nine.

- Explorer to Space City. Your instructions understood.

(loud engine hiss)

- Major Ireland, | presume.

- Steve, you old son of a space gun.

- Gee, it's good to see you.

We've laid out a special dinner for you at my place.

Venus is a wonderful cook.

- Venus?

- Oh of course, you won't have met her.

She's only been on the team five years.

Venus is a brilliant young space doctor

who can cook the old fashioned way.

- You always knew how to pick them, young Zodiac.

Do you mind if we unload my gear from the hold, Steve,

before we eat?

- Can't it wait until the morning, Jim?

- Well, years of experience on space safari have taught me

never to leave your kit. Not even for a night.

So, if it isn't too much trouble-

- Of course not.

But I'd hate to think what Venus will say if we're late.

- Sigh. What has happened to Steve.

The dinner will be ruined.

- | must say, | sure could eat right now.

It smells so good, Venus.

- Well if Steve doesn't come soon,

we'll have to start dinner without him.

- Is that everything?

- That's the lot, Steve.

- You sure have collected a lot of stuff

in your years away from Earth.

| guess we'd better get going, Jim.

Venus will be raising the roof.

(eerie music and chanting)

- Kudos. Kudos. Kudos. Kudos.

- Great news, oh my ancestors.

The conditioned messenger has reached Earth.

Soon his mission will be complete.

Before the Earth moon has set, the Earth's Lazoon

will be infected with a milamitosis virus.

See, oh my ancestors, see.

Across the infinite light years of space, | bid you, see.

(eerie music)

There, there. Amongst the unsuspecting Earth people

sits the human instrument who will destroy the Lazoon.

The end of all Lazoons is at hand.

1, Kudos, the last of the Great Kudos Emperors,

have sworn it!

- Kudos! Kudos! Kudos!

(whimsical music)

- Herbos, the jungle planet.

When did you videotape these shots, Jim?

- Oh, about three years ago.

| was there for quite a time.

- It's amazingly good quality picture

for a portable video tape machine.

- Some fine shots. Pretty rough country.

- Zanadu!

But nobody's ever dared to set foot on that planet-

- Except me.

And what's more, I've actually been inside the dome.

There it is now.

- (whimpering)

- What's the matter Zoonie?

- (whimpering)

- Zoonie.

- That's all right, my dear.

- I'm so sorry, Major.

- | should have known not to show that sequence

while he was in the room.

- Of course, | remember.

Aren't the Zanadus sworn to rid the universe of Lazoons?

- Um, yes. Yes something like that.

- Yeah that's right. Zanadu was once overrun by wild Lazoons

and the Kudos creatures were almost destroyed by them.

- Quite true.

Say folks, would you mind if | were to turn in now?

| don't feel too boss. A touch of the old space fever.

- Of course not, Major. We'll clear up.

Venus will bring you something to help you sleep.

- Oh, no no no, no. Please don't trouble.

I'll call on you in the morning, Venus, if | may.

- You know the way?

- Yes indeed, your directions at dinner were most clear.

Good night, everyone.

- Good night, Major. Good night.

- Fine man, the major. Been through a great deal.

- Is it true, Steve, what he said about that,

that old character on Zanadu? And the Lazoons?

- Yes it's true, all right.

But | shouldn't worry about Zoonie, here.

Zanadu is a long way off.

(whimpering)

(suspenseful music)

- [Ancestral Voices] Kudos! Kudos! Kudos!

(loud rumbling)

- [Ancestral Voices] Kudos! Kudos! Kudos!

- You alone, among Earth men,

Major Ireland,

have seen the secret of Zanadu.

And you alone must pay the price.

Forever, you will be the slave of Kudos.

Go now, and accomplish your mission. Your appointed mission.

Destroy the Earth Lazoon!

(loud rumbling)

(suspenseful music)

(whirring)

(snoring)

(Suspense music)

- Zoonie. Oh Zoonie, you naughty boy.

Stealing a box of Martian Delight.

What have you got to say for yourself?

Zoonie?

Zoonie!

What's the matter?

- Feeling better this morning, Jim?

- Not so good, it's my head.

Guess it's the bad dreams | seem to have lately.

- You should take it easy.

You've gone through a lot these past 10 years.

- Yep, it's been tough all right.

(ringing)

- [Steve] Excuse me, my personal intercall.

- [Venus] Steve. Venus here.

Something terrible has happened.

It's Zoonie, he's sick.

A terrible fever.

- Get him over to the Fireball lab right away.

I'll meet you there.

(suspenseful music)

- It's milamitosis, all right.

But how could he have caught it?

- There hasn't been a case amongst Earth Lazoons

for over 50 years.

- Then the virus must have been brought in

from another planet.

- Brought in deliberately perhaps.

- Could it be something he's eaten?

- Yeah, yeah that's it. The Martian Delight.

- You mean someone could have infected the Martian Delight?

But who would want to harm Zoonie?

- Only one person, Kudos, who swears to destroy Lazoons

throughout the universe.

- But none of us have ever been to Zanadu.

No Earth man has.

- Except... except Jim Ireland.

He must be in the power of Kudos.

- [Venus] How horrible.

- If itis him, he'll be the only one

who knows the antidote. There must be one.

We've got to make Ireland tell us.

(explosion)

- What's happening?

- We're taking off!

- Fireball's taking off, commander!

- But they had no clearance!

- | have a mission to accomplish. | have no will of my own.

- No will of my own.

- | must obey.

| must obey.

- [Robert] Must obey.

- Major Ireland, he'll kill him!

Why, he'll kill him!

He can't handle a ship like Fireball!

- Hold on, Venus. I'll get to the main control cabin.

- What is going on around here?

- Faster, faster into space,

to spread the disease from planet to planet

until there isn't a Lazoon left in the universe.

Faster.

- [Robert] Faster.

- Major! Major, cut to automatic before it's too late!

Major!

- Must obey.

Must obey.

(dreamy music)

- There Zoonie, there.

- Got to bust it open.

(blasting)

- Obey. | must obey.

- Okay, Major. I'm taking over.

Fire retros, Robert.

- Fire retros.

- You okay, Venus? Matic?

- I'm okay, Steve.

But Zoonie.

Poor Zoonie.

- Just what goes on?

- There's no time to explain now, professor.

It's a matter of life or death for Zoonie.

Fireball to Space City.

Fireball to Space City. This is Steve.

Everything's under control here.

- Well done, Steve!

Bring her back to base as soon as you can.

- It's an emergency, commander. The Lazoon is real sick.

We've got to find an antidote. It's milamitosis.

- Now then, Jim. The antidote for milamitosis. Where is it?

- Must obey Kudos orders.

I'm his slave.

The price | had to pay.

- You'll have to pay with your life if you don't tell me

where we can get the antidote.

| mean business, Jim.

- Zanadu.

The dome.

The water of the frozen fountain of eternal life.

But we'll never get away with it.

- We will. And you're going to help us.

You hear that, Venus?

Next stop, Zanadu. You think Zoonie will make it?

- It's touch and go, Steve. | don't hold out too much hope.

- I'll make it as quick as | can.

If only we can give him some of the

frozen water from the fountain, we'll save him.

(eerie music)

- Oh, Zanadu!

So beautiful, and...

So evil.

- Nevermind the poetry, Matt. Standby to land.

- We'll never get away with it.

We're doomed.

(eerie ethereal music)

- Well let's get going. How do we get in, Jim?

- We can get in through the underground catacombs.

But we'll never get out.

- Well we're going to try. Come on.

(suspenseful music)

- Hurry, Steve. Hurry.

- Jumping space beans!

- An ancient mummy!

- The frozen catacombs are full of them.

(chanting)

- Are there no living creatures here?

- Only Kudos.

- What are all those voices?

- Generations of ancestral voices. Recorded forever on tape.

- Oh, how horrible!

- Okay, Major.

Take us to the frozen fountain.

(chanting)

- [Ancestral Voices] Kudos. Kudos. Kudos. Kudos.

(suspenseful music)

(chanting)

- The frozen fountain of life.

- Gee, it's beautiful.

- Who dares to look upon the secret of Zanadu?

My ray gun is aimed straight at your head.

But before | kill you, who are you?

- Steve Zodiac, Space Patrol.

Quick, the fountain! There's no time to lose! Stand back.

Now back to Fireball. Let's hope we're on time.

- Hey look, Steve.

Now that you've smashed the fountain of life,

Kudos has become an old man.

- There's nothing we can do for him, Matt.

But we may still be able to save the Lazoon. Come on!

(dreamy music)

- Steve!

Steve! He's coming around!

He's going to live!

- | have failed you, my ancestors.

The fountain of life has been destroyed.

And |, Kudos, am now an old man,

unable to carry out my mission.

All is lost.

(explosions)

- The end of Zanadu.

- Yes, the end of Zanadu.

But the beginning of a new life for Major Ireland.

For now he's free from the power of Kudos.

- Set course for Earth.

- Set a course for Earth.

- Set course for Earth.

- Quick professor, get the Lazoon out of here

before he drives Robert out of his mind!

- (laughs) Too late, Steve.

- Return to Earth.

Return to Earth.

Return to Earth.

the fastest guy alive. S

I l'd fly you around the universe in Fireball XL5. f

£ Way out in space together, conquerors of the sky. I

My heart would be a fireball, a fireball.

f Every time | gaze into your starry eyes. f

S We'd take the path to Jupiter, and maybe very soon. f

f We'd cruise along the Milky Way, and land upon the moon. f

~ To a wonderland of stardust, we'll zoom our way to Mars. J

My heart would be a fireball, a fireball.

~ Because you would be my Venus of the stars. f