S01E01 The Night of The Crab
The Crab crashes the Space Awards at the Space Palace and steals the awards. It's up to Space Ace and the Space Mutts to get the award back and defeat The Crab.
Dorn, Gloop, and Gleep are playing and discover an unearthed metal cylinder which contains an alien big-brained alien. When they release him he reveals himself to be a member of race that ruled Quasar thousands of years ago. The Herculoids seem powerless against his powers of telekinesis. Finally Zandor manages to defeat the alien by grabbing his amulet. When the Mindbender threatens to destroy him, Zandor tossed it back into the cylinder. It's a fake and when the alien is in the cylinder they seal it and put him back into stasis.
Space Stars is a 1981 NBC Saturday morning cartoon created by Hanna-Barbera which ran from 1981-1982 on NBC and Nickelodeon.