The Best Episodes of Kamen Rider Season 1

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

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Masaki Tsukada

Writer: Masaru Igami

The new monster Mosquilas comes from South America and plots to create a Shocker base in the Kii Peninsula.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Ikuro Suzuki

Gel-Shocker's Scorpiolizard uses the Shocker scientists as the guinea pigs for an oxygen deprivation gas and eliminates them. However one scientist, Takashi, does escape. Scorpiolizard pursues Takashi and attacks his wife's hospital.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

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

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

The cactus research expert Doctor Matsuda is remodeled into Cactusbat. Cactusbat attacks the World Peace Committee's members and using the thorns on his arms he turns the people into cacti.

Director: Atsuo Okunaka

Writer: Kogai Maruyama

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dispatched from Brazil, the monster Armadillong is given the order from the Chief, “Defeat my longtime enemy Rider,” before enacting his plan to destroy gas tanks.

Director: Katsuhiko Taguchi

Writer: Masayuki Shimada