Science Ninja Team Gatchaman(1972)
AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
First Air Date: 1972-10-01
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 8.4
Votes: 93
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 205
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is a five-member superhero team that is composed of the main characters in several anime created by Tatsuo Yoshida and originally produced in Japan by Tatsunoko Productions and later adapted into several English-language versions. It is also known by the abbreviated name Gatchaman. The original series, produced in 1972, was eponymously named Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman and is most well known to the English-speaking world as the adaptation titled Battle of the Planets. The series received additional English adaptations with G-Force: Guardians of Space and ADV Films' uncut 2005 release. Tatsunoko also uses the official translation Science Commando Gatchaman, as shown in numerous related products and media. Because the English-language versions are notoriously inconsistent not only with one another but also with the original Japanese series, viewers most familiar with the English versions often experience some confusion upon re-examining the series after a long hiatus. The original 1972 Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman series was followed by an animated film, two sequel series, Gatchaman II, and Gatchaman Fighter. In the 90's, episodes from both series were dubbed into English by Saban as Eagle Riders. In 1994, the original series was remade as a condensed OVA series.
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Gatchaman
Episodes: 105E01
Gatchaman Versus Turtle King
Air Date: 1972-10-01
A huge turtle-shapes mecha, the "Turtleking" attacks a uranium storage facility. The ISO and the delegates of various...
E02
The Apparition of a Demonic Ghostly Airplane Carrier
Air Date: 1972-10-08
A spaceship disappears, along with a device that can report and record the location of the Earth's resources. The Sc...
E03
The Giant Mummy that Calls the Storm
Air Date: 1972-10-15
Deadly crashes involving passenger planes keep happening. Ken, who's investigating these occurrences, encounters a bo...
E04
Revenge on the Mecha Mechadegon
Air Date: 1972-10-22
During the investigation of an incident, Ken visits the Institute for Earthquake Research. Because of an earthquake c...
E05
Ghost Fleet from Hell
Air Date: 1972-10-29
Oceangoing ships from the ISO keep disappearing. It always happens in the vicinity of a place called "Cemetery of the...
E06
The Big Maneuver of the Mini Robots
Air Date: 1972-11-05
Gold bars are stolen from the vault of the World Bank. It is the deed of Galactor's Mini Robots. The Science Ninja T...
E07
Galactor's Big Aviation Show
Air Date: 1972-11-12
There's a new kind of plane that does not pollute the environment. In the middle of Ken's test flight of this ISO-dev...
E08
The Secret of Crescent Coral
Air Date: 1972-11-19
A secret base. In order to resist their terrible enemy, Nambu thinks about a base for the Science Ninja Team. But fea...
E09
The Demon from the Moon
Air Date: 1972-11-26
In the deep black sky the blue-white moon is shining. Suddenly, a meteorite falls down to Earth. According to analys...
E10
The Big Battle of the Underground Monsters
Air Date: 1972-12-03
Suddenly, a whole city has lost power. Ken, in his Cessna, is thinking about an anomaly in the power plant when he ge...
E11
The Mysterious Red Impulse
Air Date: 1972-12-10
While flying, Ken is surprised to encounter the plane of the Red Impulse commander. He pursues him, but Red Impulse g...
E12
The Greedy Monster Ibukuron
Air Date: 1972-12-17
The world's raw material for sugar gets stolen by the Galactor mecha Ibukuron, and the world emergency sugar is getti...
E13
The Mysterious Red Sand
Air Date: 1972-12-24
A ISO constructed storage lake, which is part of a plan to make the desert fertile, disappears. The Science Ninja Tea...
E14
The Terrible Icecander
Air Date: 1972-12-31
It is reported that all kind of nuclear ships (cruise ships, submarines, battle ships etc) are disappearing. It is t...
E15
The Frightening Jellyfish Lens
Air Date: 1973-01-07
The town "Ghost City" has been destroyed 10 years earlier by environmental pollution. Communication with an investiga...
E16
The Invincible Machine Mekanika
Air Date: 1973-01-14
The latest ISO weapon factory is used by Galactor and manufactures Mekanika. It's a machine which, according to the p...
E17
The Bug Operation
Air Date: 1973-01-21
X, intending on using the strong destructive tendencies of humans, especially children, releases Kabutoron in the cit...
E18
The Revenge Maneuver of the Whales
Air Date: 1973-01-28
A huge whale keeps attacking harbours. While investigating a group of whales, the Science Ninja Team discovers a huge...
E19
Speedrace through Hell
Air Date: 1973-02-04
The Ruman Kingdom is known as the Gambling Kingdom. Galactor, guaranteeing the king's position, is channeling million...
E20
Science Ninja Team Emergency
Air Date: 1973-02-11
A Galactor mole mecha appears. The Science Ninja Team is contacted and starts to meet, but on the way there, Joe want...
E21
Who is Sosai X?
Air Date: 1973-02-18
A horse owned by a doctor who is an authority in the area of cyborgs, participates and wins with an astonishing perfo...
E22
Firebird Against Fire Spouting Dragon
Air Date: 1973-02-25
A uranium mining factory at the bottom of the sea is attacked by the mecha "Kingdragon". Since a guard vessel with mu...
E23
The Greatly Raging Mecha Ball
Air Date: 1973-03-04
From the cellar of a bowling alley, the "Mecha Ball" appears and starts to destroy the city. Because of the Mecha B...
E24
The Neon Giant Laughing in the Dark
Air Date: 1973-03-11
Scientists from the ISO headquarters are murdered one after the other and Nambu orders the Science Ninja Team to act ...
E25
The Magma Giant, Emperor of Hell
Air Date: 1973-03-18
An ISO volcanic research center is attacked. The God Phoenix, starting the investigation, is surprised by the Magma G...
E26
God Phoenix, Be Reborn
Air Date: 1973-03-25
ISO ships are attacked one after the other by Galactor's black ray. And because Ryu is napping in the God Phoenix, he...
E27
Galactor's Witch Racer
Air Date: 1973-04-01
The ISO gets a message from Lucy, one of the executives at Galactor, that she wants to reveal the location of their h...
E28
The Invisible Demons
Air Date: 1973-04-08
Children keep dissolving into thin air. Even the members of the Science Ninja Team become eye witnesses to one of the...
E29
The Demon Man Galack X
Air Date: 1973-04-15
Jinpei and Ryu visit the Shirayuki orphanage where Jinpei grew up, in order to play with friends. The children beg th...
E30
The Guillotine Mecha Kamisoral
Air Date: 1973-04-22
A water shortage is occurring everywhere. As if to pursue the beaten enemy, an invisible enemy continues to pound, de...
E31
The Plan to Kill Dr. Nambu
Air Date: 1973-04-29
Nambu's car is attacked by Galactor. But because of Joe, who seems to remember the Devil Star's rose bomb, they escap...
E32
The Great Gezora Operation (Part 1)
Air Date: 1973-05-06
Galactor is targeting Lawnpark City, which the ISO has used all its resources to complete. The Mecha Gezora appears a...
E33
The Great Gezora Operation (Part 2)
Air Date: 1973-05-13
The Science Ninja Team doesn't know where Jun and Jinpei are, and Gezora starts to attack. But with two of them missi...
E34
The Diabolic Aurora Operation
Air Date: 1973-05-20
Strange radio waves attack people together with an aurora. Afterwards they run amuck and cause grave accidents. While...
E35
Burn, Desert Flame
Air Date: 1973-05-27
In the country Doria, oil springs have been discovered. A battle has started between the King, keen on the mining rig...
E36
Young Rascal Gatchaman
Air Date: 1973-06-03
An ISO research ship is attacked and data regarding uranium resources on the bottom of the sea is lost along with it....
E37
The Electronic Mecha Lenjira
Air Date: 1973-06-10
Dr. Miwa is researching whether the surface of the Sanjo Lake, frozen over the whole year, can be used to produce str...
E38
The Mysterious Mechanical Jungle
Air Date: 1973-06-17
As part of the Mantle plan, a pollution-free city is constructed in the desert. Nambu and the Science Ninja Team have...
E39
The People Eating Flower Jigokiller (Part 1)
Air Date: 1973-06-24
Outside of Earth's atmosphere, a Devilstar ship appears. Spores of the Jigokiller plant are released towards Earth by...
E40
The People Eating Flower Jigokiller (Part 2)
Air Date: 1973-07-01
Jinpei is lost in mourning in Jun's empty shop. Elsewhere, Nambu is absorbed with the research on the Jigokiller plan...
E41
The Murder Music
Air Date: 1973-07-08
Invited by Jun, the Science Ninja Team visits a concert by the popular rock group Demon 5. The Demon 5 is kidnapped b...
E42
The Great Escape Trick Operation
Air Date: 1973-07-15
During his vacation, Ryu asks a passing car whether they can take him with them. But the car is part of a Galactor pl...
E43
The Romance Extinguished by Evil
Air Date: 1973-07-22
The two countries of Bien and Ameria suffer from a long war. When the two countries finally make peace, their respect...
E44
Galactor's Written Challenge
Air Date: 1973-07-29
Galactor's Arkeo attacks the Moroi City. But Nambu judges that the Science Ninja Team is no match for the mecha's sho...
E45
The Seal Science Ninja Team in the Night Fog
Air Date: 1973-08-05
A secret mining factory of the ISO is attacked and the island on which the factory is located is besieged by Galactor...
E46
Gatchaman in the Valley of Death
Air Date: 1973-08-12
Ken is maintaining his beloved plane at the airport when a man with a gun forces him to fly a plane. Since Ken's plan...
E47
The Devilish Airline
Air Date: 1973-08-19
In order to finish an ultracomputer, Director Anderson himself is hand-carrying the core of this computer in his priv...
E48
The Camera Mecha Shutterkiller
Air Date: 1973-08-26
Galactor plans to use the Shutterkiller to copy data from ISO institutions and to then destroy those institutions. Th...
E49
The Terrible Mechadokuga
Air Date: 1973-09-02
The Science Ninja Team is accompanying Nambu, who came to the ISO headquarters for a conference. Jinpei discovers a c...
E50
The Dinosaur Skeleton Torakodon
Air Date: 1973-09-09
In the country Inderia, droughts and heavy rainfalls occur every year. In cooperation with the ISO, a plan to build a...
E51
The Rotation Mecha Kataroller
Air Date: 1973-09-16
The Science Ninja Team follows Nambu's orders to come to Huntwall to spend their free time there. Only Ken doesn't tr...
E52
The Secret of Red Impulse
Air Date: 1973-09-23
To be able to see his father! Carrying this wish in his heart, Ken follows the whereabouts of the mecha. Before him s...
E53
Farewell, Red Impulse
Air Date: 1973-09-30
The Galactor rocket explodes in the Van Allen belt and humankind enters the worst crisis ever. Upon the message from...
E54
Gatchaman Burning with Rage
Air Date: 1973-10-07
Katse, who got into his stride by the funeral of Red Impulse, plans to destroy institutions related to uranium in the...
E55
The Death Defying Mini Submarine
Air Date: 1973-10-14
The sea takes up 70% of Earth. Galactor makes Nambu and the Science Ninja Team chose between their lives and pollutio...
E56
The Embittered Bird Missile
Air Date: 1973-10-21
Jun is attacked by a group of bikers. Koji saves her, he is a former race champion and Jun's friend from childhood. ...
E57
The Evil White Sea
Air Date: 1973-10-28
Mike Miller, a sniper, has been released from prison after 35 years. Galactor gives him a small tank with a freeze gu...
E58
Mekabutta from Hell
Air Date: 1973-11-04
The Jet Cutter, developed by the ISO to gain energy without causing pollution, is stolen. Nambu gives the order to re...
E59
The Secret of the Mecha Factory
Air Date: 1973-11-11
A fishing-boat is in the vicinity of Ghost Island and becomes eyewitness to a big ray and cuttle-fish. Afterwards, it...
E60
Science Ninja Team G-6
Air Date: 1973-11-18
During an experiment with Galactor's brand-new mecha, the research machine crashes. Katse commands the termination of...
E61
The Imaginary Red Impulse
Air Date: 1973-11-25
Ken is flying over the country Hontwall in his G1 plane. He is shocked when he sees the three Red Impulse planes. The...
E62
The Snow Devil Blizzarder
Air Date: 1973-12-02
A celebration is held in order to praise the merits of the Science Ninja Team. However, the participants are super ro...
E63
The Devilish Mecha Ball Which Kills Everything
Air Date: 1973-12-09
Professional baseball players disappear in front of the spectators during a short power outage in the middle of a mat...
E64
The Deadly Christmas Present
Air Date: 1973-12-16
A year earlier, the northern country Flanbel escaped from the rule of the Dictator General Somure. But Galactor, who ...
E65
The Synthetic Mecha Superbem
Air Date: 1973-12-23
The conserved brains of famous doctors keep getting stolen. A monster also steals the brain of Dr. Yamashina, an expe...
E66
The Devilish Fashion Show
Air Date: 1973-12-30
The queen of Monarins is a fan of the Science Ninja Team. Every year, she donates large sums of money to the ISO. Kat...
E67
Gatchaman Fire, Kill for Sure!
Air Date: 1974-01-06
Katse, opposed to Sosai X's orders to destroy the Mantle Plan, asks whether it wouldn't be better to conquer Earth af...
E68
The Particle Mecha Micro Satan
Air Date: 1974-01-13
One day on a small island in the south sea, a nuclear explosion takes place. The ISO research planes crash and burn ...
E69
The Cemetery in the Moonlight
Air Date: 1974-01-20
Galactor sneaks into the country Shosken, 80% of which is taken up by the Ohara desert and mountainous regions. Commu...
E70
Unite Girls of the Death Goddess!
Air Date: 1974-01-27
Mummified corpses keep being found. Since the dammages continue, Nambu orders the Science Ninja Team to find out the ...
E71
Invulnerable Sosai X
Air Date: 1974-02-03
The ISO discovers a new energy source in the Himalaya, but an investigation troop sent there is annihilated by the Ye...
E72
Swarm! The Storm of the Mini Mechas
Air Date: 1974-02-10
In Amazonia the old entemologist (insect researcher) Toda who is continuing his research, notices unusal behaviour in...
E73
Pursue Katse!
Air Date: 1974-02-17
The Science Ninja Team vanquishes another mecha and has let Katse escape yet again. With Nambu's transmission, they f...
E74
The Secret of the Birdstyle
Air Date: 1974-02-24
The mammoth which should be buried in a glacier, appears at an amusement park where Jun and Jinpei have gone. While s...
E75
The Sea Devil Jumboshakoku
Air Date: 1974-03-03
While a Galactor mech is mobilized, one of the small planes loses speed and collides with the fisher boat on which Ry...
E76
The Bracelet Revealed
Air Date: 1974-03-10
When the mobilisation order from Nambu comes in, Joe is in the middle of a race. Because he finishes it, he is too la...
E77
Katse Has Succeeded
Air Date: 1974-03-17
The country Dokual is rich in Earth's resources. But because it declines to pay supporting money to Galactor, the Pre...
E78
Death Defying Battle 10'000 Meters Below the Sea!
Air Date: 1974-03-24
Joe sees his parents killed every night in his dreams. An extreme exhaustion is left in his body. A research institu...
E79
The Stolen Gatchaman Information
Air Date: 1974-03-31
Secret information regarding the Science Ninja Team is stolen. Nambu orders the Science Ninja Team to investigate wh...
E80
Return to Life, Boomerang!
Air Date: 1974-04-07
In the country Assham, an uprising has started. Traces of a confusion ray appear on the body of the leader who has be...
E81
Duel on Galactor Island
Air Date: 1974-04-14
BC Island is an island ruled by Galactor. A man visits the grave of Giuseppe Asakura and his wife, which has not been...
E82
Aim at Crescent Coral!
Air Date: 1974-04-21
Dr. Misuno, a Galactor, succeeds in diminishing the earlier invented detection device, which discovers the electrical...
E83
A Death Defying Ring of Fire
Air Date: 1974-04-28
During construction of a subterranean factory of the ISO, Galactor attacks and a drill falls into a crack in the Eart...
E84
The Spider Net Mecha Smokefiber
Air Date: 1974-05-05
The scientist Demon tries to sell his own invention to Galactor by using it to attack a cargo plane, which carries go...
E85
He's G-4!
Air Date: 1974-05-12
The message is intercepted that Galactor spies will sneak into Utoland City. With a funny look to the Science Ninja ...
E86
Galactor's Buying up Operation
Air Date: 1974-05-19
The world sugar reserve is about to be exhausted. The artificial sweetener Shugare is developed as a substitute, but ...
E87
The Triple Joint Mecha Patogila
Air Date: 1974-05-26
While on patrol, Jinpei falls in love at first sight with a girl in a holiday house in the mountains. When Jinpei ret...
E88
The Iron Beast Snake 828
Air Date: 1974-06-02
There is a man who has guessed Katse's secret and who has worked his way up in the staff of Galactor. But he is in pr...
E89
Setting a Trap at Crescent Coral
Air Date: 1974-06-09
Ryu laughs at Jinpei, who is moving earth with the G-4 machine in order to shape a coral reef into a crescent form. T...
E90
Armoured Mecha Matanga
Air Date: 1974-06-16
Joe, who is busily maintaining his weapon, is told by Ken that using weapons is a mistake, which results in a dispute...
E91
The Plan to Blow up Crescent Coral is Completed
Air Date: 1974-06-23
Galactor has a spy infiltrate a passenger ship with a lot of ISO engineers onboard. He attaches a homing system to th...
E92
The End of Crescent Coral
Air Date: 1974-06-30
One after the other, the torpedoes hit right on target.The props of the camouflaging coral reef get stuck in the base...
E93
Counterattack! The Subterranean Torpedo Plan
Air Date: 1974-07-07
Katse is happy that he has defeated the Science Ninja Team. An order comes in from X to make sure that the Science Ni...
E94
The Electrical Demon Biest Angler
Air Date: 1974-07-14
The Torasshuu power plant provides electrical power to the city of Utoland. Nambu charges its head, Dr. Komibe, with ...
E95
United Ninjas, Giant Devil Man
Air Date: 1974-07-21
In the Jupiter mountains, there are ruins of a fortress which is said to have been erected by ninjas of ancient times...
E96
Charge into the Galactor Headquarter
Air Date: 1974-07-28
When the ISO intelligence office analyses a horn of a mecha which fell into the Mammoth Canyon, they conclude that wi...
E97
The Spaceship Leona 3, Gone Tomorrow
Air Date: 1974-08-04
From the UN rocket launch site the two-man rocket, Leona 3 is launched in order to solve the mysteries of the Milky W...
E98
The Spherical Mecha Grapebomber
Air Date: 1974-08-11
Joe, heading towards a meeting point, is blinded by a light reflection and runs into a woman. Seeing his mother's fac...
E99
G-2 Covered with Wounds
Air Date: 1974-08-18
The Science Ninja has pursued Katse and arrives at a base. X orders Katse to terminate the Science Ninja Team. They ...
E100
Gatchaman 20 Years Later
Air Date: 1974-08-25
A by-product of the Mantel plan is the Mantel condensation energy formula whose immense destructive power is kept a s...
E101
The Sniper Group Hebi-Cobra
Air Date: 1974-09-01
Ken is worried about Joe's condition and Joe is afraid of being taken out of the fight. A fight between the two is in...
E102
Reverse! Checkmate X
Air Date: 1974-09-08
A message comes in that a mecha has appeared, but since he can't contact Nambu, Ken goes out based on his own decisio...
E103
The Death Wager of G-2
Air Date: 1974-09-15
The illness progresses and Joe goes racing at the track in order to shake off his fear. There he is captured by Galac...
E104
The Evil Black Hole Operation
Air Date: 1974-09-22
The mecha serving as bait is destroyed by the God Phoenix. Then, the order from Nambu to search Joe comes in. X is a...
E105
Earth Extinction 0002
Air Date: 1974-09-29
Eerie stone statues appear in the fog. The Science Ninja Team walks around, searching for the entrance. Galactor is t...
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