The Mighty Orbots 1984

 

From WIki- Mighty Orbots (マイティ・オーボッツ, Maiti Ōbottsu) is a 1984 American-Japanese super robot animated series created in a joint collaboration of TMS Entertainment, Inc. and Intermedia Entertainment in association with MGM/UA Television.^[1] It was directed by veteran anime director Osamu Dezaki and features character designs by Akio Sugino.^[2] The series aired from September 8, 1984, to December 15, 1984, on Saturday mornings in the United States on ABC.^[3][4]

Earth, the 23rd Century. A time of robots and aliens, and of destruction and terror. Can the Galactic Patrol, defender of the United Planets stop the evil computer, Umbra? You bet they can, meet Rob Simmons the secret inventor of fiesty Ohno, mighty Tor, versatile Bort, elusive Boo, Bo, the master of the elements, and Crunch, the metal muncher, super robots forging together at Rob's command to form Mighty Orbots, champion of the Universe.

— opening narration

I have heard about this show for years, but have never seen it. I got the complete DVD set a while ago, and watched the first three episodes.  It is... almost great.  The combination of combining robots is marred with some silly personality traits, and a couple dumb names.  Gary Owens is great as the narrator, but there is too much narration, and it is too cutesy by half (not his fault).  It looks great, though.  I am going to watch the entire series, it has my attention.  But the characters are all stock Saturday morning characters, they don't grow or change.  At least not yet.