7.5/10112 votes#1 - The Mysterious Spider Man
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/1971
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.
Director: Koichi Takemoto
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 7.1/1056 votes
#2 - The Terrifying Bat Man
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 7.1/1044 votes
#3 - Monster, Scorpion Man
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/17/1971
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.
Director: Koichi Takemoto
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 7.0/1038 votes
#4 - Cannibalism, Sarracenian
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/1971
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!!
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Shin'ichi Ichikawa, Masayuki Shimada
- 6.0/1033 votes
#5 - Monster, Mantis Man
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/1971
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.”
Director: Hidetoshi Kitamura
Writer: Mari Takizawa
- 6.9/1030 votes
#6 - Grim Reaper, Chameleon
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/8/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 7.3/1031 votes
#7 - Duel With Grim Reaper Chameleon! World Fair Impression
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/15/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 6.2/1026 votes
#8 - Strangeness! Bee Woman
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/22/1971
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.
Director: Hidetoshi Kitamura
Writer: Mari Takizawa
- 6.9/1024 votes
#9 - The Terrifying Cobra Man
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/29/1971
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.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi
- 7.1/1024 votes
#10 - The Revived Cobra Man
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/1971
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.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi
- 7.5/1025 votes
#11 - Bloodsucking Monster, Gebacondor
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/12/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Takao Nagaishi
- 6.6/1020 votes
#12 - Murder, Yamogelas
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Mari Takizawa
- 7.4/1023 votes
#13 - Tokageron and the Big Monster Army
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/26/1971
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.
Director: Hidetoshi Kitamura
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 7.3/1024 votes
#14 - Raid of the Demon Sabotegron
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/3/1971
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!
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 6.7/1021 votes
#15 - Counterattack, Sabotegron
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/10/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 7.4/1018 votes
#16 - Wrestler of the Devil, Pirasaurus
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/17/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 7.4/1018 votes
#17 - Death Match in the Ring: Defeat! Pirasaurus
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/24/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masaru Igami
- 6.6/1017 votes
#18 - Fossil Man: Hitodanger
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/31/1971
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.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Mari Takizawa
- 6.3/1017 votes
#19 - Monster Kanibubbler Appears in Hokkaido
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/7/1971
For Shocker's plan to cause a tsunami in Hokkaido through submarine earthquakes, they send in the monster Kanibubbler to destroy all seismomitors.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masayuki Shimada
- 6.8/1016 votes
#20 - Fire-Breathing Caterpillar Monster: Dokugander
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/14/1971
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.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi
- 6.7/1017 votes
#21 - Dokugander, Confrontation at Osaka Castle
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/21/1971
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.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi
- 6.1/1017 votes
#22 - Suspicious Merman Amazonia
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/28/1971
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.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masaki Tsukada
- 6.4/1018 votes
#23 - Sky-Flying Monster Musasabedol
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/4/1971
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.
Director: Itaru Orita
Writer: Masayuki Shimada
- 6.4/1016 votes
#24 - Deadly Poison Monster Kinokomolg's Sortie!
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/11/1971
After a prisoner is immersed in the extract of poisonous mushrooms for one week, the monster Kinokomorgue is born.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Mari Takizawa
- 7.0/1014 votes
#25 - Defeat Kinokomolg!
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/18/1971
Kinokomorgue declares, “Make him taste the fear of death!” and injects the captured Ichimonji with the antidote, returning him to his senses.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Mari Takizawa
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Mysterious Spider Man" is the best rated episode of "Kamen Rider" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 112 votes. Directed by Koichi Takemoto and written by Masaru Igami, it aired on 4/3/1971. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Terrifying Bat Man".