4.7/1021 votes#1 - The Birth Of Astro Boy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1980
Dr Boynton is so driven by his work as a robot engineer thst he neglects his promise to spend time with his son Toby at an amusement park. As Toby leaves the park, he is caught in a traffic collision. Before dying, Toby has his father promise him to make the new robot in his image and treat it like a son. Overcome with grief, Boynton completes the project and brings "Toby" to life. Unknown to Dr Boynton, a shady criminal called Skunk stole the plans for "Toby" and plans to make a robot of his own with a new circuit known as the Omega Factor.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Astro Boy Vs. Atlas
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1980
Dr. Boynton and Toby depart on an ocean liner for America. Not knowing his own strength, Toby causes a huge mess during dinner. Angrily, Dr Boynton rejects Toby on the spot, declaring that he's just a robot and that he has no son. Meanwhile, Skunk attempts to teach Atlas his criminal ways and eventually takes Atlas on a mission to steel gold from the same boat that Dr Boynton and Toby are on...
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NaN/100 votes#3 - The Robot Circus
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1980
Toby has been enslaved by a robot circus owner and is forced into manual labour. There he befriends a young circus worker named Kathy. Dr Boynton's associate, Professor Elefun, comes to fetch Toby but the ringmaster refuses to let him go... Toby receives his new name, "Astro".
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Save the Classmate
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1980
Rescued from the circus by Dr. Elefun, Astro Boy starts school and struggles with the bullying from classmates for being a robot.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Atlas Lives Again
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1980
Astro's must stop Atlas' scheme to enslave humanity by series of technological thefts, one of which involves Astro's proposed robotic parents.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Robotland
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1980
Astro and Dr. Elefun visit a fairytale theme park after an escaped swan/princess crash lands in their yard and tells them of the robots' plight.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Frankenstein
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1980
Skunk convinces a powerful robot called Frankenstein to aid him in his crime spree. This crime wave leads to the deactivation of almost all robots in the city, including Astroboy.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - The Red Cat
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1980
A red cat becomes the only clue to the mystery of children who are disappearing.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - The Crystal of the Desert
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1980
While exploring a forest that has become a desert, Astro Boy discovers that Atlas is involved.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - The White Planet
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1980
Astro aids a championship racer who hopes to win a global race.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - A Robot President
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1980
Astro and his teacher, Daddy Walrus, are invited to the inauguration of the first robot president and are caught up in a plan to stop the ceremony.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Goliath's Head
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1980
After a spacecraft crashes to the earth Astro rescues a mining robot, Goliath, from the flames. Dr Elefun has Goliath's head removed as it contains a powerful neutron beam. But soon the head is stolen and Goliath starts to search for it...
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NaN/100 votes#13 - The Light Ray Robot
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1980
Skunk causes trouble again, this time capturing a robot capable of invisibility hoping to use it in his schemes.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Uran, the Tomboy
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1981
Astro meets his new sister, Uran.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Robio and Robiette
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1981
Astro gets involved in a rivalry between robotic "families". However the two of the robots from the competing camps fall in love.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - Astro Fights Aliens
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1981
Astro captains the Second Expedition to Mars where strange creatures have been seen.
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Save the Carolina 3
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1981
Astro attempts to stop Skunk's outer space pirating attempt when one of his classmates is kidnapped.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - The Rainbow Comet
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1981
On a school field trip to see the Rainbow Comet up close, Astro and classmates are kidnapped by Atlas.
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5.9/109 votes#19 - The Death Balloon
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1981
Balloons modelled in the shape of Astro are attacking people in the city and its up to Astro to clear his name.
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NaN/100 votes#20 - The Transformation Robot
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1981
Astroboy visits a robot inhabited island where gangsters attempt loot uranium resources by enlisting the help of and a robot who can transform into any shape.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - The Wreck of the Titan
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1981
After luxury spaceliner Titan is struck by an asteroid, Astro and several others escape to the moon. They land in a crater with an atmosphere and Astro discovers the wreck of a Russian spacecraft from 1990.
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NaN/100 votes#22 - The Liar Robot
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1981
A school field trip is interrupted by a robot constantly lying about a impending earthquake.
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NaN/100 votes#23 - The Girl from Alsoar
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1981
Astro Boy meets a mysterious woman and must stop a hostile alien invasion.
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NaN/100 votes#24 - The Greatest Robot in the World (Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1981
A power-hungry Sultan commissions a powerful fighting robot named Bruton (Pluto in the original), and sends him to battle seven of the world's strongest robots: Mont Blanc, Molnar, Brondo, Zeron, Hercules, Photar, and Astro.
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NaN/100 votes#25 - The Greatest Robot in the World (Part 2)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1981
With only three of the most powerful robots in the world remaining (Hercules, Photar and Astro), can they stop Bruton before he destroys them all?
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The Best Episodes of Astro Boy Season 1
Every episode of Astro Boy Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Astro Boy Season 1!
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Network:Nippon TV
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Birth Of Astro Boy" is the best rated episode of "Astro Boy" season 1. It scored 4.7/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1980. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Astro Boy Vs. Atlas".