5.0/101 votes#1 - BLACK!! Transform
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1987
Kotaro Minami, a youth on the run from the mysterious organization known as Golgom, begins to awaken into a horrifying new form granted to them due to their greater plans for him; making him choose to use it instead to fight them as Kamen Rider Black.
Director: Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Writer: Shozo Uehara
5.0/101 votes#2 - The Monster Party
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1987
Kotaro looks for his step-brother Nobuhiko Akizuki and plans to track down Golgom's headquarters.
Director: Makoto Tsuji
Writer: Shozo Uehara
5.0/101 votes#3 - Mysterious Cyborg Mystery
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1987
Kotaro investigates a bizarre string of abductions in conjunction with a scheme by Bishium to bring him down.
Director: Makoto Tsuji
Writer: Shozo Uehara
5.0/101 votes#4 - The Devil's Laboratory
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1987
A cycling friend of Kotaro becomes the subject of Golgom's mad doctor experimenting to find a weakness to their escaped subject.
Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto
Writer: Shozo Uehara
5.0/101 votes#5 - Kotaro in a Maze!
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1987
Kotaro investigates a town being brainwashed by a Goat kaijin, hoping to control it for Golgom to ruin an international peace conference.
Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto
Writer: Junichi Miyashita
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#6 - The Secret Sight Enigma
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1987
Kotaro must rescue two artists abducted by Golgom to become psychic spies in order to ruin the development of technology for civilization's collapse.
Director: Makoto Tsuji
Writer: Makoto Naito
5.0/101 votes#7 - The Living Machine Restored
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1987
A man who hates rampaging gangs is seduced by Golgom to gain the power to eliminate them, forcing Kotaro to rescue him for the sake of his sister.
Director: Makoto Tsuji
Writer: Takashi Yamada
5.0/101 votes#8 - The Devil's Trill Sonata
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1987
Kotaro must save a musician girl whose feelings of failure lead to her becoming a member of Golgom's plot to control the world through music.
Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi
Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama
5.0/101 votes#9 - The Crimson Lips of Bishum
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1987
When a girl makes a deal with Bishium to distribute strange pendants in order to help Golgom conquer the city, Kotaro tries to put a stop to this deception.
Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi
Writer: Junichi Miyashita
5.0/101 votes#10 - Where is Nobuhiko?
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1987
Kotaro investigates suspicious auto accidents leading to the victims being used for Golgom's army for causing chaos throughout the world.
Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto
Writer: Makoto Naito
5.0/101 votes#11 - The Hungry Monsters
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1987
The Gorgom's plan to grow fruit for their mutants causes plants to sprout on people all over the city.
Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto
Writer: Takashi Yamada
5.0/101 votes#12 - A Super-Bike Legend Is Born!
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1987
Kotaro discovers the whereabouts of a missing biker, who is raising his son to ride and protect the ultimate bike devised by his father.
Director: Michio Konishi
Writer: Shozo Uehara
5.0/101 votes#13 - Mama Raises Monster Babies!
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1987
Gorgom kidnaps mothers to nurture its army of mutants, and BLACK finds himself facing an implacable enemy.
Director: Michio Konishi
Writer: Noboru Sugimura
5.0/101 votes#14 - The Day All Tuna Vanished
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1988
Kotaro fights to stop the abduction of tuna by Professor Kuromatsu in order to gain an extract to improve the power of the Golgom mutants.
Director: Takeshi Ogasawara
Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi
5.0/101 votes#15 - Assault on a Haunted School
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1988
Keisuke tries to stop a Golgom scheme of using schools to mold children into model students to assist in their control of Earth.
Director: Takeshi Ogasawara
Writer: Junichi Miyashita
5.0/101 votes#16 - Friend From Across the Sea!
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1988
Kotaro attempts to find the source of powerful earthquakes after meeting a mysterious man.
Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi
Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama
5.0/101 votes#17 - Kyoko's Mysterious Dream!
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1988
Golgom manipulate the dreams of Nobuhiko's sister Kyoko in order to use her life energy to save an ailing Shadow Moon.
Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi
Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama
5.0/101 votes#18 - Sword Saint Birugenia!!
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1988
Golgom's Creation King forces the release of a powerful yet rebellious swordsman, who decides to try and take down Kotaro on his own terms.
Director: Michio Konishi
Writer: Takashi Yamada
5.0/101 votes#19 - The Suffocating Trap of Hell
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1988
Bilgenia takes the guise of the doomed Professor Kuromatsu in order to lead Kotaro into a trap for his defeat.
Director: Michio Konishi
Writer: Takashi Yamada
5.0/101 votes#20 - Rider's Grave
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1988
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Director: Takeshi Ogasawara
Writer: Noboru Sugimura, Kenichi Araki
5.0/101 votes#21 - Clash! Super Machines
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1988
Bishium uses a Mutant to infect Battle Hopper with insects that make it run wild and ignore Kotaro's commands.
Director: Takeshi Ogasawara
Writer: Noboru Sugimura, Kenichi Araki
5.0/101 votes#22 - The Shadow That Stalks Dad
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1988
A boy with psychic powers becomes forewarned into thinking that Kotaro is going to harm his father even as Golgom is secretly using him.
Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi
Writer: Junichi Miyashita
5.0/101 votes#23 - Marmo's Magical Powers
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1988
When a head of a two-headed ammonite Mutant becomes detached by Kamen Rider Black, it ends up with a kid where it becomes his new pet.
Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi
Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama
5.0/101 votes#24 - The Female College Student's Nightmare
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1988
Kotaro must save Katsumi and other college girls from a professor turned Golgom Mutant hoping to add more females to the mutant army.
Director: Takeshi Ogasawara
Writer: Ryu Yamaguchi
5.0/101 votes#25 - The Roaring Armed Machine
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1988
No description available
Director: Takeshi Ogasawara
Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"BLACK!! Transform" is the best rated episode of "Kamen Rider" season 8. It scored 5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Yoshiaki Kobayashi and written by Shozo Uehara, it aired on 10/4/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Monster Party".