Overview of 'Kamen Rider' Season 1

Episode 1 - The Mysterious Spider Man

Release Date: 1971-04-03

Takeshi Hongo, a young scientist boasting of an IQ of 600 and a racing prodigy, is abducted and his body surgically remodeled by Shocker, an evil secret society plotting for global domination.

Episode 2 - The Terrifying Bat Man

Release Date: 1971-04-10

Hongo wins the championship, but the model who brings him his bouquet suddenly bares her fangs and attacks! With growing suspicion, Hongo investigates the woman's home, and finds it has been transformed into a lab.

Episode 3 - Monster, Scorpion Man

Release Date: 1971-04-17

Shocker tests their mysterious Scorpion Man by releasing their slave workers and telling them that they can have their freedom if they can escape within 10 minutes, but one by one they die at the Scorpian Man's hands.

Episode 4 - Cannibalism, Sarracenian

Release Date: 1971-04-24

At an amusement park's botanical gardens, people begin to go missing. The young boy Kenji's older sister Yukie gets snatched away, and he tries to tell someone that his sister was attacked by a giant King Sarracenian!!

Episode 5 - Monster, Mantis Man

Release Date: 1971-05-01

While a series of strange earthquakes are going on, Hongo is contacted by his childhood friend and seismologist, Amemiya Chikako, who tells him, “Something is planning to cause a major earthquake.”

Episode 6 - Grim Reaper, Chameleon

Release Date: 1971-05-08

Former navy lieutenant-commander Sunada is attacked by the Chameleon Man. His aim is a submarine model in Sunada's possession that has secrets relating to a Nazi treasure concealed inside.

Episode 7 - Duel With Grim Reaper Chameleon! World Fair Impression

Release Date: 1971-05-15

Kamen Rider, having fallen into a pit trap, loses his power in the secret room where no wind can reach and reverts back to his form as Hongo.

Episode 8 - Strangeness! Bee Woman

Release Date: 1971-05-22

Hongo begins an investigation into the series of incidents where people who had glasses made at Kagemura's Optometry store have gone missing. But even Ruriko gets some lure glasses, and she disappears as well.

Episode 9 - The Terrifying Cobra Man

Release Date: 1971-05-29

Cobra Man makes an attack on the gold vault, but when the pet dog of security guard Kondo barks at him, he drops his fangs! Seeking his fangs, he attacks Kondo.

Episode 10 - The Revived Cobra Man

Release Date: 1971-06-05

Ritsuko Ayakoji of the Ayakoji Biology Research Institute, Shocker's collaborator, puts up advertisements for “Purchasing Animals” to gather animal blood and capture the people who bring in their pets.

Episode 11 - Bloodsucking Monster, Gebacondor

Release Date: 1971-06-12

Shocker has produced a new monster, Gebacondor, by assembling into one all the strong points of their previous monsters. But Gebacondor needs the lifeblood of young women.

Episode 12 - Murder, Yamogelas

Release Date: 1971-06-19

Doctor Shirakawa has invented a death ray but tries to seal his invention away, while his aid Shibata conspires with Shocker and is remodeled into the monster Geckogeras, making secret plans to take the death ray.

Episode 13 - Tokageron and the Big Monster Army

Release Date: 1971-06-26

To break through the Toyo Atomic Energy Research Laboratory's barrier, Shocker remodels pro soccer athlete Nomoto and produces the monster Tokageron with powerful kicking might.

Episode 14 - Raid of the Demon Sabotegron

Release Date: 1971-07-03

Hongo saved Tokyo from a horrible fate at the hands of Shocker.But Hongo can not rest while Shocker's plans to conquer the world grows stronger every day. For justice, and for everlasting peace, Kamen Rider will continue his fight until the very end. Debuting this episode, a new Kamen Rider appears! With three new leading ladies, and more excitement, Thrills, and Action!

Episode 15 - Counterattack, Sabotegron

Release Date: 1971-07-10

At the end of fierce fighting, Kamen Rider drives Sabotegron away. Sabotegron then uses Flowers of Mexico to attack Hayato and the Tachibana Racing Club.

Episode 16 - Wrestler of the Devil, Pirasaurus

Release Date: 1971-07-17

Shocker gets their hands on the Pirazaurus whose poison can kill a giant dinosaur in mere seconds and begin to create a cyborg by combining it with a human.

Episode 17 - Death Match in the Ring: Defeat! Pirasaurus

Release Date: 1971-07-24

Pirazaurus experiments with the powerful deadly gas, “Mist of Death,” at a gogo house. He launches his scheme to obliterate Japanese leaders with the Mist of Death as they spectate a pro wrestling match.

Episode 18 - Fossil Man: Hitodanger

Release Date: 1971-07-31

Shocker creates a missile base in the mountains and appoints the monster Hitodanger to defend it. After saving a boy from a Shocker attack, he fights Hitodanger to save Taki who went searching for the base.

Episode 19 - Monster Kanibubbler Appears in Hokkaido

Release Date: 1971-08-07

For Shocker's plan to cause a tsunami in Hokkaido through submarine earthquakes, they send in the monster Kanibubbler to destroy all seismomitors.

Episode 20 - Fire-Breathing Caterpillar Monster: Dokugander

Release Date: 1971-08-14

Ichimonji, who has started an inquiry into a village thrown into panic by a gigantic catapillar creature, meets with Yoshioka who is looking for a missing professor, and together they begin a search for the professor.

Episode 21 - Dokugander, Confrontation at Osaka Castle

Release Date: 1971-08-21

In order for Shocker to make use of a growth drug developed by Yoshioka, Dokugander's adult form transforms into the deceased professor to trick the assistant professor Yoshioka.

Episode 22 - Suspicious Merman Amazonia

Release Date: 1971-08-28

An olympic swimmer disappears suddenly right before the eyes of his teammates, and a young man swimming in the ocean gets kidnapped by a monster who appears.

Episode 23 - Sky-Flying Monster Musasabedol

Release Date: 1971-09-04

Shocker creates the monster Musasabidol to go after a new liquid fuel developed by Doctor Ookuma. Taki, who is visiting Hokkaido, discovers this plan, and after following Taki, Ichimonji confronts Musasabidol.

Episode 24 - Deadly Poison Monster Kinokomolg's Sortie!

Release Date: 1971-09-11

After a prisoner is immersed in the extract of poisonous mushrooms for one week, the monster Kinokomorgue is born.

Episode 25 - Defeat Kinokomolg!

Release Date: 1971-09-18

Kinokomorgue declares, “Make him taste the fear of death!” and injects the captured Ichimonji with the antidote, returning him to his senses.

Episode 26 - The Terrifying Antlion

Release Date: 1971-09-25

While the monster Hell Thunder enacts his plan to make an artificial antlion pit that tears main roads into pieces, the supreme commander Colonel Zol is dispatched from Shocker's branch in the Middle East.

Episode 27 - Mukadelas Monster Classroom

Release Date: 1971-10-02

Children are abducted by a suspicious man who calls himself a close friend of Kamen Rider. The man is the Shocker beast Mukaderas and he controls children with hypnotic radio waves for their scheme to turn them into members of Junior Shocker.

Episode 28 - Underground Monster Mogurang

Release Date: 1971-10-09

Shocker schemes to turn Tokyo Bay into a sea of flames by pouring in petroleum from industrial areas, equipping the monster Mogurang with an Electro Eye that he uses to capture humans.

Episode 29 - Electric Monster Kuragedall

Release Date: 1971-10-16

Shocker seeks humans capable of withstanding 5000 volts of electricity to make a resource of Electric Humans they can use to assassinate important figures, so Kuragedal who can release high-voltage currents is sent to capture people.

Episode 30 - Revived Fossil, Bloodsucking Trilobite

Release Date: 1971-10-23

Doctor Shimura's research that can revive ancient lifeforms catches the eye of Shocker, who steal the ancient trilobite ressurected from a fossil and infuse it with the blood of a blood-sucking cyborg, creating the monster Zanbronzo.

Episode 31 - Deathmatch! Anteater Demon Arigabari

Release Date: 1971-10-30

Mount Tengu is the test site for the bacteria, “Amazon's Curse,” of Shocker's monster Arigabari, and they attack the young man Izaki who visits the mountain.

Episode 32 - Cannibalism Flower, Dokudalian

Release Date: 1971-11-06

The monster Dokudahlian is made from a man-eating flower that's lived for 200 years in the deep forests of New Guinea and he transforms into a florist who emits hypnosis sound waves.

Episode 33 - Steel Monster, Armadillong

Release Date: 1971-11-13

Dispatched from Brazil, the monster Armadillong is given the order from the Chief, “Defeat my longtime enemy Rider,” before enacting his plan to destroy gas tanks.

Episode 34 - Japan in Danger! Gamagiller's Invasion

Release Date: 1971-11-20

Doctor Origuchi of the Criminal Research Institute looks into Shocker's evil doing, and discovers their plan to split the Japanese islands with a special nuclear weapon.

Episode 35 - Murderous Ant Queen, Archimedes

Release Date: 1971-11-27

Shocker's scientists succeed in producing a queen ant cyborg from an ant's egg. The created monster Archimedes attacks a bank with her powerful formic acid.

Episode 36 - Resurrected Mummy Monster, Egyptus

Release Date: 1971-12-04

Shocker discovers a monster from the time of ancient Egypt in the pyramids, the mummy Egyptus.

Episode 37 - Poisonous Gas Monster Trickabuto's G-Plan

Release Date: 1971-12-11

Shocker's newly developed killer plants are placed in theaters and concert halls as they scheme up the G Strategy to annihilate everyone.

Episode 38 - Lightning Monster Eiking's World Darkness Plan

Release Date: 1971-12-18

Captured two years ago, the marine biologist Doctor Seki created the monster Rayking but flees Shocker and is rescued by Ichimonji and the others.

Episode 39 - Monster Wolf Man's Huge Murder Party

Release Date: 1971-12-25

Colonel Zol executes his Wolf Strategy to make werewolves with the Wolf Virus. In the midst of this, the young girl Kumiko from the Wakakusa Garden orphanage witnesses one of these experimental wolfmen.

Episode 40 - Deathmatch! Monster Snowman vs. Two Riders

Release Date: 1972-01-01

Doctor Reaper of Shocker's Swiss branch takes up a new post in the Japanese division. He makes plans to detonate Kirishima's volcanic belt by digging an underground tunnel between Kirishima and Sakurajima.

Episode 41 - Magma Monster Ghoster, Decisive Battle at Sakurajima

Release Date: 1972-01-08

For the construction of a tunnel that connects Sakurajima and Ebi Heights, Doctor Reaper sends in the monster Ghoster.

Episode 42 - The Devil's Messenger, Mysterious Fly Man

Release Date: 1972-01-15

Doctor Reaper captures a cold-hearted young man, who doesn't even care about committing a hit-and-run to a young boy, and remodels him into the Fly Man.

Episode 43 - Mysterious Birdman Pranodon's Attack

Release Date: 1972-01-22

Emi of the Tachibana Racing Club is taken by Shocker, fitted with a transmitter and controlled by the monster Pranodon's hypnotism radio waves.

Episode 44 - Graveyard Monster, Kabibinga

Release Date: 1972-01-29

The monster Moldbinga schemes to cultivate a killer mold that grows from the nourishment of humans and he attacks people in the graveyard near the hideout so he can conduct tests with his killer mold.

Episode 45 - Monster Namewhale's Gas Explosion Plan

Release Date: 1972-02-05

Doctor Yajima develops an artificial brain that has the power to amplify the abilities of animals exponentially and keeps it to himself.

Episode 46 - Showdown!! Snow Mountain Monster Bearconger

Release Date: 1972-02-12

Shocker plots their “Snow Strategy” to melt all of the snow of Kusatsu Heights and cause a great flood, and makes the physicist Doctor Mikawa manufacture an energy bomb that releases intense heat.

Episode 47 - The Death-Calling Ice Devil Todogiller

Release Date: 1972-02-19

The monster Todogiller, who can fire a Freezing Shot that is 300 degrees below zero, freezes humans and Shocker turns them into cyborgs to execute their “Ice Strategy.”

Episode 48 - Bloodsucking Marshes of Hiruguerilla

Release Date: 1972-02-26

With the blood-sucking leeches he controls the monster Leechguerilla absorbs the lifeblood of humans, and by injecting a green medicine into them he can change the humans he takes blood from into slaves.

Episode 49 - Cannibalistic Monster, Isoginchack

Release Date: 1972-03-04

The old man Nakayama finds a vein of diamonds in the continent of Africa and sends the whereabouts of the vein to his grandchild written on a medal, but Shocker targets the vein as well.

Episode 50 - Monster Kamestone's Murderous Aurora Program

Release Date: 1972-03-11

An aurora suddenly appears in the Tokyo skies. The many people who see this look towards it, and one by one they get brought in to hospitals.

Episode 51 - Stone Monster Unicornos vs. Double Rider Kick

Release Date: 1972-03-18

Shocker infuses a unicorn brought back from a fossil with the blood of a fiendish man, creating the monster Unicornus. Unicornus turns Goro and others into fossils.

Episode 52 - My Name is Mysterious Birdman Gilgalass

Release Date: 1972-03-25

Gilgalass transforms himself into a crow that can speak like a human, and attacks humans with the Dead Man Gas that turns them into homicidal maniacs.

Episode 53 - Monster Jaguarman's Ready-to-Die Motorbike War

Release Date: 1972-04-01

Takeshi Hongo has to contend with both a new Shocker commander, Hell's Ambassador, and a plot to create chaos with a new cyborg who can control wild animals.

Episode 54 - Sea Serpent Man of the Phantom Village

Release Date: 1972-04-08

Shocker sets up a training camp in a village in the mountains. The monster Sea Snake Man who was trained at the camp uses the sight-warping Prism Eye to execute victims.

Episode 55 - Cockroach Man!! The Terrifying Bacterial Ad-Balloon

Release Date: 1972-04-15

Shocker develops a bacteria that ages biological cells. By putting the bacteria into the balls of a bowling alley, they conduct an experiment to rapidly age young people.

Episode 56 - Amazon's Poison Butterfly Gireera

Release Date: 1972-04-22

The Shocker monster Gireera schemes to throw capsules packed with a deadly poison powder into Japan's national reservoirs for their “Poison Water Strategy”.

Episode 57 - Tsuchigumo Man Poisonmondo

Release Date: 1972-04-29

Hongo's friend Sawada completes a liquid gunpowder that can melt any metal. The Shocker monster Poisonmondo targets this gunpowder.

Episode 58 - Monster Poison Lizard, Duel in Fear Valley!!

Release Date: 1972-05-06

Doctor Ootaguro succeeds in developing the “Alpha Liquid,” a life revitalizing drug that can revive a dead organism.

Episode 59 - The Bottomless Swamp Monster, Earthworm Man!

Release Date: 1972-05-13

From the only surviving earthworm of the Bikini Islands atomic bomb experiments Shocker creates Earthworm Man.

Episode 60 - Mysterious Owl Man's Murderous X-Rays

Release Date: 1972-05-20

The Owl Man begins experimenting with the Murder X-Rays equipped in both of his eyes that can turn living things into bone.

Episode 61 - Monster Catfishgiller's Electric Hell

Release Date: 1972-05-27

Doctor Reaper returns to Shocker's Japan branch of Katsugawa Island along with Catfishgiller who he remodeled from an electric catfish.

Episode 62 - Monster Hedgehoras' Murder Skull Plan

Release Date: 1972-06-03

With the poison needles all over his body containing a killer virus that can melt humans, the monster Hedgehoras obliterates humans one after another.

Episode 63 - Monster Rhinogang's Autorace of Death

Release Date: 1972-06-10

While Hongo and the others are training intensely with their sights set on winning the All Japan Motorcycle Championship, Rhinogang is dispatched from Shocker's Africa division.

Episode 64 - Monster Cicadaminga's Song to Kill Everyone

Release Date: 1972-06-17

While catching cicadas, Naoki witnesses a murder by the Shocker monster Cicadaminga. Hongo protects Naoki and Shocker come to attack him, but he chases them back and has a confrontation with Cicadaminga.

Episode 65 - Monster Dr. Insect and the Shocker School

Release Date: 1972-06-24

Deceiving them with the slogan, “Come catch Masked Rider and beetles!” Shocker kidnaps children to Mount Takao where Shocker's insect expert Beetlelong organizes a Shocker school and turns them into his pupils.

Episode 66 - Shocker Graveyard, Revived Monsters

Release Date: 1972-07-01

The cyborg Longhornkid revives the monsters defeated by Rider to begin the “Devil Festival.” Through sacrifices, energy is given to Zanjio, Jaguarman, Poison Lizard Man, Hedgehoras and Rhinogang to achieve their resurrection.

Episode 67 - The Shocker Leader Appears! Riders in Danger

Release Date: 1972-07-08

Hongou discovers an upcoming meeting between important Shocker branch chiefs, but that is not all the Leader has planned.

Episode 68 - Doctor Shinigami, the True Meaning of Terror?

Release Date: 1972-07-15

Appearing in Japan once again, Doctor Reaper has a plan to destroy Japan by controlling a meteorite.

Episode 69 - Monster Gillercricket's Claws of Impending Death

Release Date: 1972-07-28

The monster Gillercricket has the ability to transform humans he stabs with his poisonous red claws into murderous fiends with their own death claws.

Episode 70 - Monster Electric-Guitarbotal's Fireball Attack

Release Date: 1972-07-29

Born from high voltage, the monster Electrifirefly receives orders from Ambassador Hell to steal all of the electricity inside Tokyo.

Episode 71 - Monster Horseflygomes' Rokkoudai Mountain Pursuit

Release Date: 1972-08-05

Hongo and Taki receive communication from the FBI saying, “There are clues to Shocker in Kobe,” and so they secretly fly to Kobe in search of Shocker movement.

Episode 72 - Vampiric Mosquilas vs. Two Riders

Release Date: 1972-08-12

The new monster Mosquilas comes from South America and plots to create a Shocker base in the Kii Peninsula.

Episode 73 - Double Riders' Defeat! Shiomaneking

Release Date: 1972-08-19

Shocker's plans to establish a base on the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula obstructed, they use Crabking to abduct the oceanographer Doctor Sakai who dreams of an undersea farm.

Episode 74 - Deadly Bloodsucking Fiends!! Good Luck, Rider Boys' Squad

Release Date: 1972-08-26

Tobei Tachibana becomes president and Taki acts as commanding officer of the Boys' Kamen Rider Squad that is formed. Around that time, there is an outbreak of multiple attacks at blood banks.

Episode 75 - Poison Flower Monster Roseranga - The Secret of the House of Terror

Release Date: 1972-09-02

Taki arrives at the place where he received word of a Shocker sighting from the Boys' Rider Squad but is captured by the monster Roseranga.

Episode 76 - Three Head of Generator Monster Seadragons!!

Release Date: 1972-09-09

Shocker packages the Seadragon monsters in “Strange Beast Monster Cans” and sends them into the homes of the Boys' Rider Squad members. The fully grown Seadragons begin attacking people with their high-voltage currents

Episode 77 - Monster Newtgeth, Duel at the Farm of Hell!!

Release Date: 1972-09-16

Using his power to liquify his entire body, Shocker monster Newtgeth abducts many adult men to advance the construction of an underground airfield.

Episode 78 - The Dreadful Urchindogma + The Phantom Monster

Release Date: 1972-09-23

The monster Urchindogma takes over the village near Tobei's hometown in order to raise a massive amount of Urchindogma eggs. When Tobei returns to his hometown to visit a grave, he protects a young boy who is attacked by Urchindogma for being a witness.

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