10.0/101 votes#1 - Rider No. 3: His Name is V3!
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1973
The hard-won peace obtained with the defeat of Gel-Shocker by Kamen Riders #1 and #2, is now shattered by a more powerful secret society known as Destron. Disposing of all those who witness their sinister movements, they target Shiro Kazami, a young motorcross racer. After Scissors Jaguar murders his family, Shiro vows vengeance and becomes Kamen Rider V3.
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masaru Igami
7.0/101 votes#2 - Last Testament of the Double Riders
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/1973
Destron's Scissors-Jaguar separates V3 from the Double Riders to allow Turtle Bazooka to vaporize Tokyo with the H-Bomb contained inside his body. Scissors Jaguar decoys Shiro and keeps him away from Turtle Bazooka. Can V3 warn Rider One and Two in time? Will V3 and the Double Riders stop the mutants before Tokyo is wiped off of the map?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masaru Igami
5.0/101 votes#3 - The Execution of V3
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/1973
TV-Fly takes over a suburban hospital in order to create a new mutant specifically designed to defeat Kamen Rider V3. The new creature, Squid-Fire, manages to disrupt V3's power source and scores a victory for Destron. The mutant seals Kazami Shiro in a coffin, which is placed in a furnace! Can Shiro discover the extent of his powers in time to escape his own execution?
Director: Atsuo Okunaka
Writer: Masaru Igami
6.0/101 votes#4 - V3's 26 Secrets!?
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/1973
Hypnotizing Tachibana Tobei, TV-Fly orders him to kill Kazami Shiro, while Tama Junko also falls into his trap. Can Shiro stop Destron's evil plan? Will V3 unlock the secret of his 26 hidden techniques, in order to rescue his comrades and defeat Destron's mutants?
Director: Atsuo Okunaka
Writer: Masaru Igami
5.0/101 votes#5 - Snake-Man with a Machine Gun!
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/1973
An eminent biologist, Dr. Murayama, discovers a new clean energy source, and Destron's Machinegun-Snake is sent to seize the data. Failing to grab the doctor, he kidnaps assistant Nishizaki Michiko. When she refuses to talk, Machinegun-Snake targets Tsutomu, her son. Kazami Shiro is injured by the mutant! Can V3 protect Tsutomu, his friend Mamoru, and rescue his mother?
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Ikuro Suzuki
NaN/100 votes#6 - Enter, Hammer-Jellyfish! V3 Unleash Your Killing Technique!!
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/1973
Mamoru clings to life in a hospital, while his sister blames Kazami Shiro and betrays him to Destron. Hammer-Jellyfish continues the interrogation of Nishizaki and resorts to forcing the information out of her by dangling Tsutomu off of a high-rise. Will Nishizaki give in to Hammer-Jellyfish for her son's life? Can V3 defeat the powerful mutant and save them?
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Ikuro Suzuki
6.0/101 votes#7 - The Fury of Rider V3's Special Training
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/1973
Destron blows up the research facility of Professor Kawai, in order to secure his artificial heart technology in order to strengthen their mutants. Kawai's subject comes back to life, and as Knife-Armadillo, stalks the professor for revenge. The resilient mutant even repels V3 in battle! To improve his strength, will V3 survive the harsh rigors of his own brutal training session?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masayuki Shimada
NaN/100 votes#8 - Watch Out, V3! Beware the Terrifying Buzzsaw
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/7/1973
While Kazami Shiro recovers in a hospital, the Rider Scouts search for Destron's outpost, while Buzzsaw-Lizard tries to persuade Kawai to resuscitate Knife-Armadillo, under pain of death. Refusing, he now must witness the execution of his family. Captured by Destron, Shiro hangs over a pool of acid! Can he escape their trap and transform into V3?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masayuki Shimada
NaN/100 votes#9 - What is the Destron Hell Squad!?
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/14/1973
Kazami Shiro's rival, Yoshioka Masaru, and other top racers in the All Japan Motorcross Championship, are captured by Destron's Lens-Ant. He transforms them into the Destron Hell Squad in order to rob a convoy carrying a nuclear-powered satellite. The mutant also captures Junko and Shigeru! Will Shiro save his friends? Can V3 defeat not one, but two mutants, single-handedly?
Director: Katsuhiko Taguchi
Writer: Toshimichi Saeki, Makoto Naito
NaN/100 votes#10 - Secret of the Double Typhoon
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 4/21/1973
Destron's Razor-Starfish teams up with Lens-Ant to attack V3, and they send the Hell Squad to steal a shipment of nuclear satellite fuel. Meanwhile, Tachibana Tobei and the Rider Scouts are captured while searching for Junko and Shigeru. Can Kazami Shiro find the antidote for the Hell Squad, rescue his friends from certain death, and take on both mutant cyborgs?
Director: Katsuhiko Taguchi
Writer: Toshimichi Saeki, Makoto Naito
NaN/100 votes#11 - The Claws of Evil Reach Out for V3!!
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 4/28/1973
Destron forces Marine biologist Dr. Nakatani to create a powerful aquatic mutant, Pickaxe-Shark. The doctor escapes, but his creation is sent to kill him. Meanwhile, a chinpira exposes Kazami Shiro's secret identity to Junko, but is captured and transformed into Drill-Mole. As V3 battles Pickaxe-Shark in the open sea, Drill-Mole abducts Junko to force her into an unholy union!
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Ikuro Suzuki
NaN/100 votes#12 - Junko Becomes a Monster's Bride?!
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 5/5/1973
Destron's Pickaxe-Shark proves a formidable foe to V3, who suffers defeat at the claws of the mutant. Meanwhile, Junko is prepared for an unholy union with Drill-Mole... Can Kazami Shiro recover in time to defeat Pickaxe-Shark and rescue Junko from a fate worse than death � while guarding his secret identity?
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Ikuro Suzuki
NaN/100 votes#13 - Terrifying Commandant: Doktor G!
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/1973
A couple hikes into the mountains to research the secret of the legendary Boar-Man, but only the woman returns. Suspecting Destron, Kazami Shiro goes to the hospital, only to have the missing man reappear � a disguise for Magnet-Boar, who aims to destroy Japan's national railway system. After an intense fight, Shiro discovers that he cannot transform into V3! But, this was simply a ruse to allow the sinister Doktor G safe passage into Japan...
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masaru Igami
NaN/100 votes#14 - Secret Memento of the Double Riders
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 5/19/1973
Toad-Boiler attacks Interpol agent George Kamamoto, who is trying to pass on a coded document from Riders One and Two to Kazami Shiro. V3 saves Kamamoto, and then heads for Chichibu, as directed by the document. Toad-Boiler implores him to transform into V3, and then sprays him with a white fluid � a substance that drains V3's energy! Can V3 survive and obtain the secret left behind by the Double Riders?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masaru Igami
NaN/100 votes#15 - Rider V3's Deadly Weakness!!
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 5/26/1973
The daughter of Dr. Okajima, an atomic physicist who escaped the clutches of Destron with the help of the Double Riders, saves the badly injured Kazami Shiro from the basin of a waterfall. She is then stalked by Burner-Bat, who is looking for V3. With the help of Dr. Okajima, Shiro is able to find the memento from the Double Riders, which holds the secret to V3's four weaknesses. What are they?
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Masaru Igami
NaN/100 votes#16 - Gecko Monster With a Missile On His Back!
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 6/2/1973
Rider Scout Saburo and his father save a hapless fisherman, whom witnessed mutant Missile-Gecko in action. V3 fights off Missile-Gecko, but meanwhile, Destron snatches Saburo and his father. When Saburo discovers Destron's plot to destroy the petroleum complex, will he be able to contact Rider Scout HQ? Can V3 save Japan from plunging into total chaos?
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Ikuro Suzuki
NaN/100 votes#17 - The Devil Spray is the Reaper's Weapon
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 6/9/1973
The fearsome Spray-Rat takes on the likeness of a priest and finds a young couple to use as guinea pigs for his Devilspray virus. He offers to marry them, but only allows one witness � Tama Junko. Kazami Shiro arrives in the nick of time, but cannot prevent the groom from being infected. While rescuing the bride, V3 is trapped in a church with a ticking time bomb! Can V3 escape deadly doom?
Director: Katsuhiko Taguchi
Writer: Masayuki Shimada
NaN/100 votes#18 - V3, Beware the Fiendish Traitor!
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 6/16/1973
Kusarigama-Beetle captures Kazami Shiro and takes him to Destron's outpost. While Doktor G is torturing Shiro he breaks free and seizes the files for the Devilspray antidote � only to discover that it is a fake! V3 is ambushed by the Destron mutants, and in the heat of battle Spray-Rat attacks Kusarigama-Beetle. The injured mutant decides to betray Destron and help Shiro retrieve the antidote for the Devilspray. But, is V3 being lead into a trap?
Director: Katsuhiko Taguchi
Writer: Masayuki Shimada
NaN/100 votes#19 - Blowfish Apache's Operation: Torpedo!!
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 6/23/1973
Kazami Shiro rushes to Tatsunoko Point where Destron has been sinking passing ships, in a bid to seize control of the seas. After encountering Blowfish-Apache's torpedoes, Shiro discovers slaves working in a secret weapons factory. With the help of Tachibana Tobei, Shiro is able to penetrate the Destron outpost, but they are led into a deadly trap, and sunk to the bottom of the sea! Can V3 save Tachibana and stop Destron?
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Mari Takizawa
NaN/100 votes#20 - Operation: Destron Shikoku Conquest
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 6/30/1973
Destron uses the SS Device flown in from their South American base, in an attempt to conquer the island of Shikoku. Fukazawa, a scientist forced to work for Destron, manages to escape with the schematic. When Kazami Shiro receives word, he heads immediately for Shikoku via ship, but is attacked by Guillotine-Saurus. Can V3 break through and save Shikoku from Destron's grip?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masaru Igami
NaN/100 votes#21 - The Double Riders Live
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 7/7/1973
V3 is saved by the voices of the Double Riders coming from a special medallion. In Shikoku, Kazami Shiro disguises himself as a Destron sympathizer to repair the SS Device. Meanwhile, Fukazawa, Tachibana Tobei and Tama Junko fall under the control of Syringe-Spider! Can V3 stop Doktor G's conquest plans and find the antidote to save his friends from the clutches of Destron?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Masaru Igami
NaN/100 votes#22 - Camp of Terror! Mystery of the Underground Canal
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 7/14/1973
The Rider Scouts are at training camp on Hatsushima Island, where mutant Speargun-Sea Lion has established an undersea outpost to manufacture poison gas. Destron plans to transport the chemical weapon via an underground canal to Mt. Fuji, where the winds will spread the gas over hundreds of miles. Kazami Shiro orders the scouts to evacuate, but they refuse when they realize one of them is missing. Can V3 stop Destron in time?
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Masayuki Shimada, Masaki Tsukada
NaN/100 votes#23 - Terror! The Vampire From the Graveyard
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 7/21/1973
Propeller-Beetle begins kidnapping young people � the males are reconstructed into Destron Soldiers, while the blood of the females satisfies his energy source. When the monster hears the voice of the sister of Kazami Shiro's friend Kuroda Kyosuke, he retreats. When she discovers that her brother is really Propeller-Beetle, Doktor G orders the mutant to drink her blood. Kazami enters the Destron outpost when Junko is captured. Can V3 save them?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Ikuro Suzuki
NaN/100 votes#24 - Mysterious! Cockroach Manor!!
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 7/28/1973
In order to wage germ warfare on Japan, Destron takes over the Osato Biological Institute and tortures the head scientist, to pillage his research. Meanwhile Rider Scout Yoshio notices that young women go into the institute but don't come out. So he snoops around to check things out, but is captured by Cockroach-Spike. Junko goes in to rescue him posing as a housekeeper, but is also caught spying. Can V3 thwart Destron's plot?
Director: Minoru Yamada
Writer: Mari Takizawa
NaN/100 votes#25 - Mysterious!! The Destron Ranger Corps
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 8/4/1973
Rumors circulate of savage ape-men in the Omi Mountains, but this is a cover for training Destron's Ranger Squad units. In order to keep this secret Mantis-Merang kills anyone who approaches the area. V3 saves Rider Scout Kenji and his older brother from certain death, but the Destron Rangers soon surround them. Meanwhile, the 2nd Unit of the Destron Rangers starts tainting Tokyo's water supply with the deadly Mummification Virus�
Director: Masaki Tsukada
Writer: Masaru Igami
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Rider No. 3: His Name is V3!" is the best rated episode of "Kamen Rider" season 2. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Minoru Yamada and written by Masaru Igami, it aired on 2/17/1973. This episode is rated 3.0 points higher than the second-best, "Last Testament of the Double Riders".