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The Best Episodes of Kamen Rider Season 1

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

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Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 68 - Doctor Shinigami, the True Meaning of Terror?
    8.4/10(21 votes)

    S1:E68

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

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  2. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 79 - Hell Ambassador!! The True Meaning of Fear?
    8.3/10(19 votes)

    S1:E79

    Someone reports the Shocker monster Garagaranda's strategy to poison the water supply to Masked Rider. The Shocker Chief detects Ambassador Hell is the traitor and decides to execute him.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  3. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 80 - Gel-Shocker Appears! Kamen Rider's Last Day!
    8.2/10(21 votes)

    S1:E80

    With Ambassador Hell's defeat, Shocker's Japan division is abandoned. However the Shocker Chief adds the power of Africa's secret organization Geldam and forms the new organization Gel-Shocker.

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  4. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 92 - Atrocity! Fake Kamen Rider!!
    8.1/10(20 votes)

    S1:E92

    Kamen Rider and Mukadetiger simultaneously vanish. At that time, the Gel-Shocker Chief determines the real identity of the Anti-Shocker Alliance that has continuously disrupted Gel-Shocker activity.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  5. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 39 - Monster Wolf Man's Huge Murder Party
    8.0/10(22 votes)

    S1:E39

    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.

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  6. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 41 - Magma Monster Ghoster, Decisive Battle at Sakurajima
    7.9/10(20 votes)

    S1:E41

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

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  7. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 93 - 8 Kamen Riders
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    S1:E93

    Kamen Rider #1 is driven back by the Shocker Rider and the monster Haetoribachi's coordination and sinks under the sea with Haetoribachi.

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  8. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 98 - Gel-Shocker Annihilated! The End of the Leader!!
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    S1:E98

    With the arrival of Masked Rider #2 Hongo is rescued and the Double Riders showdown against Leechameleon.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  9. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 94 - The True Identity of the Gel-Shocker Leader
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    S1:E94

    Wih the Anti-Shocker Alliance's back up, the double Riders are able to escape danger and take Raydokuga prisoner. Moreover, to defeat Shocker Rider, they begin special training under Tobei's tutelage.

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  10. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 1 - The Mysterious Spider Man
    7.6/10(139 votes)

    S1:E1

    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

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  11. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 11 - Bloodsucking Monster, Gebacondor
    7.6/10(38 votes)

    S1:E11

    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

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  12. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 52 - My Name is Mysterious Birdman Gilgalass
    7.6/10(22 votes)

    S1:E52

    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.

    Director:Issaku Uchida
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  13. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 66 - Shocker Graveyard, Revived Monsters
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    S1:E66

    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.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  14. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 97 - Takeshi Hongo, Transformation Impossible
    7.6/10(17 votes)

    S1:E97

    The Gel-Shocker monster Leechameleon uses the blood absorbed from humans to resurrect Ganikomol who once defeated Rider. Learning of this, Hongo embarks for the enemy's lair, but the revived Ganikomol is there waiting for him.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  15. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 49 - Cannibalistic Monster, Isoginchack
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    S1:E49

    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.

    Director:Issaku Uchida
    Writer:Kimiyuki Hasegawa

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  16. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 63 - Monster Rhinogang's Autorace of Death
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    S1:E63

    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.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masayuki Shimada

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  17. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 7 - Duel With Grim Reaper Chameleon! World Fair Impression
    7.4/10(52 votes)

    S1:E7

    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

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  18. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 13 - Tokageron and the Big Monster Army
    7.4/10(34 votes)

    S1:E13

    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

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  19. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 14 - Raid of the Demon Sabotegron
    7.4/10(37 votes)

    S1:E14

    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

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  20. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 53 - Monster Jaguarman's Ready-to-Die Motorbike War
    7.4/10(22 votes)

    S1:E53

    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.

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  21. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 91 - Gel-Shocker, Enroll in Terror School
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    S1:E91

    Hongo learns from the Boys Rider Squad members of strange occurances in the Tanzawa district and heads to the scene, but he is attacked there by Boys Gel-Shocker Squad.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  22. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 16 - Wrestler of the Devil, Pirasaurus
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    S1:E16

    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

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  23. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 40 - Deathmatch! Monster Snowman vs. Two Riders
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    S1:E40

    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.

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Masaru Igami

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  24. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 46 - Showdown!! Snow Mountain Monster Bearconger
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    S1:E46

    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.

    Director:Masaki Tsukada
    Writer:Masayuki Shimada

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  25. Kamen Rider Season 1 Episode 51 - Stone Monster Unicornos vs. Double Rider Kick
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    S1:E51

    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.

    Director:Minoru Yamada
    Writer:Kimiyuki Hasegawa

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Doctor Shinigami, the True Meaning of Terror?" is the best rated episode of "Kamen Rider" season 1. It scored 8.4/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Minoru Yamada and written by Masaru Igami, it aired on 7/15/1972. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Hell Ambassador!! The True Meaning of Fear?".