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The Best Episodes of Doraemon Season 1

Every episode of Doraemon Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doraemon Season 1!

Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the...
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimationComedySci-Fi & FantasyKidsFamily
Network:tv asahi

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Dream Town, Nobita Land" is the best rated episode of "Doraemon" season 1. It scored 8.4/10 based on 52 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/2/1979. This episode is rated 2.0 points higher than the second-best, "Transformation Biscuits".

  • Dream Town, Nobita Land
    8.4/1052 votes

    #1 - Dream Town, Nobita Land

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/2/1979

    The episode starts with Nobita getting bored. Then Suneo invites them to play Dodgeball, but when they get to the place they usually play gets turned into a place to put materials. Then Doraemon takes out a camera which can make miniature versions of buildings. They successfully make Nobita Land and invited their friends to play, but it gets destroyed by Nobita's Mother in the end. The episode ends with all the scrap metal landing on Doraemon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Transformation Biscuits
    6.4/1023 votes

    #2 - Transformation Biscuits

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/3/1979

    The episode starts with Nobita's mother asking Nobita to buy desserts to treat their visitor. He goes up stairs and finds a box of Transformation Biscuts. He eats a cat shaped one and then takes the box to the visitor, who eats four of the biscuits. Then his mother reminds him to buy the desserts. He then goes to buy desserts and to his shock, turns into a cat for five minutes. Later, Nobita and Doraemon then try to stop his mother from seeing the transformation happening on the visitor. The episode ends with Nobita's father fainting upon seeing that Nobita's mother had turned into a rabbit after eating a biscuit.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Memory Bread for Testing
    6.5/1019 votes

    #3 - Memory Bread for Testing

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/1979

    The episode starts with Nobita running into Doraemon and asking him for a tool to help him study for his examinations that takes place tomorrow. Doraemon gives him some Memory Bread which Nobita eats and understands the work. Later, he relaxed and ate desserts until he became full, but Doraemon forces him to eats extra memory bread. The episode ends with Nobita vomiting and re-eating memory bread from the start the very next day.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • N & S Emblems
    6.0/1017 votes

    #4 - N & S Emblems

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/5/1979

    The episode starts with Gian playing with two magnets. Nobita then says that he should know about magnetic properties in kindergarten. Gian then gets really angry and chases after Nobita. Nobita runs home and asks Doraemon for help, and he gives Nobita some N and S emblems after successfully testing them on Nobita's parents. Then he puts a S emblem on Nobita and the other S emblem on Gian. Nobita then escapes from Gian, but he instead makes a mistake and ends up being attracted to Gian. The episode ends with Doraemon ignoring Nobita when he pleads for help.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wrestling Killer
    6.6/1017 votes

    #5 - Wrestling Killer

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/6/1979

    The episode starts with Nobita and Gian being almost late for school and running into each other. An angry Gian then knocks Nobita down, causing him to be late. Doraemon tries to aid Nobita with a Wrestling Killer tool. At first, Nobita mistakes it for a gun, but later understand how it works and uses it to knock Gian down. Later Suneo tricks him and he sets the tool to knock Suneo down, but accidentally caused it to turn against him. He then wastes ¥100 trying to stop the tool. The episode ends with Nobita falling down the stairs.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nobita's Bride
    7.5/1020 votes

    #6 - Nobita's Bride

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/7/1979

    The episode starts with Nobita and Doraemon celebrating Nobita's birthday. Then they go to the future and they try to find Nobita's bride, who turns out to be Shizuka. Then they almost get beaten up by Nobita's son in the future due to a mix-up, for Nobita's son looked just like him. The two escaped with injury and find Shizuka in Nobita's house presenting him with a present. The episode ends with Shizuka and Nobita walking away.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Doraemon's Prediction
    5.6/1012 votes

    #7 - Doraemon's Prediction

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/9/1979

    The episode starts with Nobita getting home and wanting to go to Shizuka's house to play, but is stopped by Doraemon. He then open a book and tells Nobita that if he goes out, he will get in hospital because he will be hit by a truck. After persuasion by Shizuka, Doraemon goes outside with Nobita and uses a "future mirror" to see what will happen to them in 10 seconds time. Eventually, after near-accidents, they make it there but when he opens the door he gets hit by a toy truck on the head. The episode ends with Nobita laughing with Doraemon. First use of flying hats.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dinosaur Hunting
    6.6/1017 votes

    #8 - Dinosaur Hunting

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/1979

    Doraemon and Nobita's first time travel. They get into a drawer which leads to them travelling on a time machine and end up ten billion years in the past. After shrinking one dinosaur, Doraemon cannot find his gun but they manage to escape the second one, with Nobita leaving his glasses behind, which are found in the present time, to the amazement of scientists.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Spy War About Top Secret
    5.6/1012 votes

    #9 - Spy War About Top Secret

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/11/1979

    The episode starts with Nobita breaking his teacher's vase while he was cleaning the classroom with Suneo. Suneo agreed to help Nobita cover up his crime, on the condition that he must do whatever Suneo wants. Fearing his teacher, Nobita reluctantly agreed. Along the way, Suneo and his friends taunt Nobita about the vase. Doraemon furiously takes out a tool that spies on Suneo's house, and Nobita found out that Suneo had a habit of bedwetting. Suneo's plan backfired when Nobita taunted him with his secret bedwetting habit. In the end, Suneo's friends wanted to taunt Nobita by making him do a headstand and bark like a dog, but Suneo, fearing that Nobita may uncover his secret, did the headstand.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lucky Gun
    5.6/1014 votes

    #10 - Lucky Gun

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/12/1979

    Nobita has some bad luck so Doraemon gives him a gun which shoots red bullets (actually bursts of light) for good luck and black bullets for bad luck, but no way of deciding which you get. Cowardly Nobita has 3 others try it first and they all get good luck. A little boy takes the gun and shoots Nobita with a black bullet and he gets all bad luck.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No Title
    5.5/1011 votes

    #11 - No Title

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/14/1979

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Build Up Subway
    5.4/1010 votes

    #12 - Build Up Subway

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/14/1979

    Nobita and Doraemon use a digging machine to build their own subway as a birthday present for Nobita's father so he doesn't have to take the very crowded public subway to work.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Time Exam at Least in the Life
    5.0/1011 votes

    #13 - One Time Exam at Least in the Life

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/16/1979

    Doraemon lends Nobita a computer pencil which writes all the answers to his homework. Gian steals it and uses it in an exam to get 100% but his mother thinks he is cheating and beats him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Game of Exchanging Mom
    4.3/109 votes

    #14 - Game of Exchanging Mom

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/17/1979

    Nobita, Shizuka and Suneo are all fed up with their mothers so Doraemon arranges it for them to swap parents and they find that moms are not so bad after all.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Air Combat
    4.9/1011 votes

    #15 - Air Combat

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/18/1979

    Doraemon gives the gang model planes which shrink them down so they can fly inside them. Gian gets the only jet plane and shoots the others down, then afterward rests on top of the Tokyo Tower, only to have his model plane fall off, stranding him there.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Door Out of Nothing
    4.9/1011 votes

    #16 - Door Out of Nothing

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/1979

    Nobita wants his independence from his family so Doraemon gives him a door which when placed against a wall, creates a room behind it which can be lived in. Nobita finds he is not ready to leave home yet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Run, Machine-Horse!
    5.4/1010 votes

    #17 - Run, Machine-Horse!

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/20/1979

    Cry baby Nobita has boasted that he will enter a stilt race tomorrow but he does not know how to walk on stilts so Doraemon goes to the 22nd Century to get him a cross between a stilt and a horse. Gian steals it so Doraemon becomes a tough teacher as he trains Nobita to walk on stilts. The mechanical stilt horse runs amok in Gian's house.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Yes, I Do
    5.1/1010 votes

    #18 - Yes, I Do

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/21/1979

    A new girl nearby ignores Nobita. Doraemon gives him a cupid's bow whose arrows will cause anyone he shoots to love him. The first arrow hits a dog, then an ugly girl. An ugly man accidentally shoots Doraemon. Finally an arrow hits the girl and she falls for Nobita but he ends up being chased by the ugly girl who still has a love arrow in her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Traffic Tools Combination
    5.0/1011 votes

    #19 - Traffic Tools Combination

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/1979

    Nobita wants to fight monsters using Doraemon's toys which give him the power of a plane, a tank and a submarine but finds he gets only petty jobs.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pretty Mai
    5.6/1012 votes

    #20 - Pretty Mai

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/1979

    Doraemon falls madly in love with a toy cat. The owner lets him have it after he rescues it from a dog and he uses 22nd century technology to make it as real as he is, only to find out that it too is a male cat.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Toy Troop
    5.0/1011 votes

    #21 - Toy Troop

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/25/1979

    Gian wants to beat up Nobita so as Doraemon is busy with a puzzle, he sends out five toy soldiers who attack anyone who is even slightly angry with Nobita, including his mother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fish Flag Float
    4.9/1011 votes

    #22 - The Fish Flag Float

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/1979

    A poor boy (Tzo) has no father so cannot afford fish flags so Doraemon uses a cloud machine and has some fish flags produce young who quickly grow up into fish flags for Tzo.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Old Tool Competition
    4.8/1010 votes

    #23 - Old Tool Competition

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/27/1979

    Nobita is jealous of Suneo's collection of antiques so he tries Doraemon's time cell phone to swap modern things with old things held in a 22nd Century antiques shop. Nobita misuses it and ends up getting stark naked in front of Shizuka and his other friends.Nobita quickly flees and on the way home,gets caught by a cop for naked-walking.Just when it seemed that the worst was possibly behind him,the stark naked Nobita gets witnessed by a few gorgeous girls,who just couldn't believe their eyes but tried to make Nobita feel as vulnerable as possible by even laughing at the unforeseen sight. Nobita finally manages to get hold of the cell phone and orders a few 22nd-century clothes for himself. Unfortunately, however, it was too little too late as he had already been caught stark naked in front of quite a big party.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Making Craft is Fun
    5.1/108 votes

    #24 - Making Craft is Fun

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/28/1979

    Doraemon gives Nobita a giant paper cut-out book which makes things that really work like a flying saucer, and a dinosaur which wants to eat them.

    Director: Ryo Yasumura

    Writer: N/A

  • Glove Breaking in Beast of Prey
    4.8/1010 votes

    #25 - Glove Breaking in Beast of Prey

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/30/1979

    Gian wants to beat up Nobita so Doraemon gives him a glove which makes Gian behave like a friendly dog.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A