6.3/1048 votes#1 - The Birth of Astro Boy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1963
Dr. Tenma, Director General of the Science Ministry, loses his son Tobio in an accident. He decides to create the robot Astro Boy, who looks just like Tobio, using the best of the Science Ministry's technology.
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Writer: N/A
6.9/1016 votes#2 - Colosso
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/1963
It is the year 2000 and robots have been put in charge of making other robots when there are no longer enough people to do the work. Astro Boy dreams of having a real mother, just like human boys. The robot workers are making an experimental new robot named Colosso who goes berserk and escapes shortly after coming to life. The only hope is for Astro Boy to stop him before he cause too much trouble. (In the original Japanese version, Colosso was named "Frankenstein")
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Writer: N/A
6.2/107 votes#3 - Expedition to Mars
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/1963
Astroboy is selected to lead a search party to find the survivors of the first manned expedition to Mars. This meets strong objection from the spaceship's captain, who protests taking orders from a robot.
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#4 - One Million Mammoth Snails
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/1963
Professor Nutty Fruitcake grows giant fruits and vegetables. One day he breeds giant snails thinking they would be harmless, one million snails to be exact. The snails fill the mountain side and overflow into cities.
Director: Osamu Tezuka, Yuusaku Sakamoto
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#5 - The Sphinx
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/1963
Astroboy wakes up in the middle of the desert, nearly drained of power and unable to remember how he got there. He is helped by Ali Baba, but in return Astro must battle 'The Sphinx'. This is not a real sphinx, but a robot which guards a desert tomb.
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#6 - Zero, the Invisible Robot
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/1963
Zero Robot, a blend of Etheric Resin with Clear Plastic, can only be seen with polarized light. Fearless Fred Fenk uses Zero for robbery. Astro Boy once again battles another robot. Defeating Zero at a cost, Astro reassess his role in fighting villians.
Director: Gisaburō Sugii
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#7 - Captain Atom
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/1963
Alien resembling aliens including the doctor of Ochanomizu and Higeyajiji emigrated from the stars that looked like the earth in emergency. However, the food crisis and humankind will begin attacking the aliens with cell shrink solution.
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#8 - The Spirit Machine
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/1963
In a land called Shangri-Lee a dictator rose to power. Known to his enemies as the Mad Hatter he trusted no one. To solve this need to do everything himself he captured Dr Elefun. Dr Elefun was to make duplicates of the Mad Hatter. Astro Boy rescues Dr Elefun and the Spirit Machine is destroyed.
Director: Motoaki Ishii
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#9 - The Deep Freeze
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/1963
Crime knows no boundaries - not even the North Pole! Sharkey Dirk and his gang of cut-throats had become the Scourge of the Arctic! An avowed robot-hater, Sharkey foraged far and wide destroying every machine in his path. His hideout was a secret den situated right at the Pole (who would think to look for him there?)
Director: Shuji Konno
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#10 - Strange Voyage
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/1963
'Lucky' Louie the Lug has slipped by the police at a space port and boarded the first commercial flight to the Moon. Astroboy pursues him seeking to recover stolen diamonds, but the liftoff is underway before he can apprehend the criminal. When meteors collide with the ship, Astro escapes in a damaged space raft with Louie, a little girl named Marvel, Radio Announcer 'Stark' Raving, socialite Mona Toujour and crooked insurance magnate 'Rocco' Gibraltor. They land on a strange asteroid which is a frozen vacuum by night, but has breathable air by day.
Director: Yuusaku Sakamoto
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#11 - Time Machine
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/12/1963
One day, excitable Mr. Pompous was relaxing at home when suddenly a mysterious ship crashed through his front door. Clearly the ship was something from the future.
Director: Osamu Tezuka
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#12 - Cross Island
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/19/1963
After Dr I.M. Sinister and his 2 henchmen 'Red' and 'Mouse' escape from Sing Song Prison, they hide at the mining colony of Cross Island disguised as robots. The gang overpowers Dr Elefun, who is repairing the robot miners. As chance has it, one boy robot on the island was built by Dr Sinister. While holding Elefun at gunpoint, Sinister demands not only HIS robot but the use of parts from Astroboy, so he can build a super-robot capable of changing into an array of animals.
Director: Gisaburō Sugii
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#13 - The Eyes of Christ
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/1963
That priest was dying carving a single mark on the eyes of Christ decorated in the church. Apparently it seems to be a clue to teach the identity of the pirate who broke into the church. The same pirate begins to aim for beard hair that knew their secret.
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#14 - The Artificial Sun
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/2/1963
Film producer Elia Belial plans to ruin Earth using an artificial sun.
Director: Motoaki Ishii
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#15 - Grass Boy
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/1963
Astro runs into two of his friends and stumbles upon an interesting flower. While Astro's friends want to pick it, Astro says to leave the flower alone. He then proceeds to tell the tale of this bizarre flower.
Director: Shuji Konno
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#16 - Silver Comet
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/16/1963
Young Koichi (Tommy Speed) prepares to enter a world race with his supersonic car, the Silver Comet.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#17 - Hullabaloo Land
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/23/1963
Saturn (Baron Von Hoodwink), an evil robot kidnaps Princess Odette (Princess Lollipop), a robot swan who can turn back into her normal self when everyone's asleep. She runs away from Hullabaloo Land as Astro comes to her aid.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#18 - Gangor the Monster
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/1963
A robot centipede disguised as 47 wrestling robots causes havoc on a ship and in the ocean.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#19 - The Cosmic Giant
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/1963
Garon, a giant cosmic robot lands on Earth as a meteor, then Astro Boy and the scientists reconstruct him. During a thunderstorm, Garon revives. A corrupt scientist tells Garon to reconstruct an island in the image of his home planet, also changing the atmosphere to match that of the planet, which is toxic to life on Earth.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#20 - Toxor, the Mist Man
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/1963
Astronauts report seeing fireflies in space, but they are really gaseous beings led by the evil Toxor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#21 - Satellite R-45
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/1963
At the large space station Satellite R-45, Astro Boy discovers a pair of souvenir vendors hawking stolen wares.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#22 - Sea Serpent Isle
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/28/1963
At a beach Astro Boy spots a mysterious bottle with a note calling for rescue from an uncharted island called Sea Serpent Isle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
4.8/1011 votes#23 - The Deadly Flies
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/4/1963
A mysterious epidemic causes people to drop into comas.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#24 - Kingdom of the Sea
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/11/1963
A strange robot demands that Astro Boy and Professor Ochanomizu accompany him to an unknown kingdom at the bottom of the sea.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#25 - The Deep-Underground Tank
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/18/1963
Together with Dr. Jordan who ran away from under the president who plots world conquest, Atom who got into the underground tank fights the president. But the underground tank loses control and starts pushing towards the volcano.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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!
In the year 2000, Dr. Boyton creates a super-robot in his deceased son's image. He calls the robot Astro Boy. Astro Boy can swim oceans,...
Genres:AnimationMysterySci-Fi & FantasyKids
Network:Fuji TV
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Birth of Astro Boy" is the best rated episode of "Astro Boy" season 1. It scored 6.3/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Osamu Tezuka and written by N/A, it aired on 1/1/1963. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Colosso".