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Ulysses 31: Season 1

26 episodes Premiered Oct 3, 1981 Updated Jul 20, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Vengeance of the Gods

Oct 3, 1981 · 24 min

On his trip back to Earth, Ulysses' son is carried off by the Cyclops to give sight to his followers with Telemachus' life force. Ulysses destroys the Cyclops and saves Telemachus,

S1·E2

The Black Sphere

Oct 10, 1981 · 24 min

On an isolated asteroid Ulysses meets an old, blind, scholar called Heratos and his assistant, a young Zotrian woman named Atena. Heratos gives Ulysses a map that will lead him bey

S1·E3

Flowers of Fear

Oct 17, 1981 · 24 min

The Odyssey comes across a lifeless city world. On hearing that its people had the technology to bring the dead back to life, Yumi takes Numinor to the planet to revive him. Howeve

S1·E4

Cronus, Father of Time

Oct 24, 1981 · 24 min

Ulysses is saved from a Trident attack by Chronos, the god of time, who wants to use him as leverage to be allowed to reenter the home of the gods.

S1·E5

The Lost Planet

Oct 31, 1981 · 24 min

Numinor is awaken when The Odyssey chances upon a satellite world that has strayed far from it's orbit around he and Yumi's home world. Ulysses, Telemachus, Nono, Numinor and Yumi

S1·E6

Guardian of the Cosmic Winds

Nov 7, 1981 · 24 min

Aeolus, King of the winds, kidnaps Ulysses to provide entertainment for his daughter's birthday party. Unable to watch her father's cruel sport, she frees the captives and helps th

S1·E7

The Eternal Punishment

Nov 14, 1981 · 24 min

Ulysses encounters Sisyphus, a king condemned to fill a crater with boulders for all eternity for having dared to want the secret of immortality. Zeus has promised Sisyphus he can

S1·E8

Mutiny on Board

Nov 21, 1981 · 24 min

A space storm revives the companions as crazed automatons who take over the ship and try to crash it into space glaciers.

S1·E9

Secret of the Sphinx

Nov 28, 1981 · 24 min

Passing through the domain of the great Sphinx, Ulysses must answer his riddle to leave safely. His treacherous daughter kidnaps the children and plots to make Ulysses her slave.

S1·E10

Temple of the Lestrigones

Dec 5, 1981 · 24 min

The Odyssey arrives on a tropical planet, where the ruling tyrant uses a magic prism to shrink them.

S1·E11

Trapped Between Fire And Ice

Dec 13, 1981 · 24 min

Trying to help a stranded astronaut, Ulysses tries to find a hidden base on one of the deadly twin planets Scylla or Charybdis.

S1·E12

The Seat of Forgetfulness

Dec 19, 1981 · 24 min

Ulysses follows a Trident carrier in hopes of learning more about the way out of Olympus, and finds himself trapped in bizarre worlds. To save the children, he will have to give up

S1·E13

Song of Danger

Dec 26, 1981 · 24 min

Pirates kidnap the children to force Ulysses and No-No to brave the danger of the Sirens, said to guard a map of the Olympus universe.

S1·E14

Phantoms from the Swamp

Jan 2, 1982 · 24 min

Coming across a piece of Zotra that could bring Numinor back to life, Ulysses and Yumi pursue it to a swamp planet where they are ambushed by monsters who can copy their forms

S1·E15

Before the Flood

Jan 9, 1982 · 24 min

Ulysses and the crew land on a planet similar to prehistoric earth. They encounter a winged female named Sauria, whose people are under attack from mutant vultures called Keconopte

S1·E16

The Magic Spells of Circe

Jan 16, 1982 · 24 min

The crew of the Odyssey are enslaved by the magic of the enchantress Circe and turned into pig-people to build a tower that will house all the knowledge of the universe.

S1·E17

The Hidden Truth

Jan 23, 1982 · 24 min

The shapechanger Nereus calls Ulysses for help when Shark Men, servants of the gods, take over his planet.

S1·E18

Lost in the Labyrinth

Jan 30, 1982 · 24 min

Princess Ariadne comes upon the Odyssey, and asks for Ulysses' help in saving her lover Theseus, who has been exiled to her father's labyrinth to be killed by the fearsome Minotaur

S1·E19

At the Heart of the Universe

Feb 6, 1982 · 24 min

Mercurius, the bubble-dwelling "grandson of the gods," enlists Ulysses' help in taking a jewel from the brow of the giant Atlas under the promise that it will give him the power to

S1·E20

The Magician in Black

Feb 13, 1982 · 24 min

Ulysses is saved from an attack by the most powerful magician in the universe who breaks the gods' curse on his crew; however, as payment for his services, demands to hunt Ulysses'

S1·E21

Rebellion on Lemnos

Feb 20, 1982 · 24 min

Princess Hypsipyle of the planet Lemnos is found by Ulysses; she tells them that the women of her planet are being forced by the Shark Men to build ships for the gods.

S1·E22

The City of Cortex

Feb 27, 1982 · 24 min

The Odyssey is dragged to a planet populated by machines, and governed by the tyrannical computer Cortex. One of its inhabitants, a "female" robot named Nanette, falls in love with

S1·E23

Strange Meeting

Mar 6, 1982 · 24 min

Ulysses and the children are sent back in time and meet the original Ulysses, Telemachus and Penelope of Homer's epic.

S1·E24

The Lotus Eaters

Mar 13, 1982 · 24 min

Needing raw materials to repair the Odyssey, Ulysses travels to a world where the inhabitants are addicted to eating seeds which induce amnesia.

S1·E25

Calypso

Mar 20, 1982 · 24 min

The Odyssey responds to a distress call from Queen Calypso, who tells him that if he saves her planet she will tell him the way back to earth. Calypso has been ordered by Zeus to b

S1·E26

The Kingdom of Hades

Mar 27, 1982 · 24 min

In the final episode, Ulysses and his companions reach the Kingdom of Hades. They meet Orpheus, who seeks Ulysses' help to find his love, Eurydice, who has been taken to the Kingdo