The Best Episodes Written By Masayuki Shimada

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Watch Out, V3! Beware the Terrifying Buzzsaw

   S2:E84/7/1973

   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?

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - The Fury of Rider V3's Special Training

   S2:E73/31/1973

   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?

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - Poisonous Gas Monster Trickabuto's G-Plan

   S1:E3712/11/1971

   Shocker's newly developed killer plants are placed in theaters and concert halls as they scheme up the G Strategy to annihilate everyone.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Showdown!! Snow Mountain Monster Bearconger

   S1:E462/12/1972

   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.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Monster Rhinogang's Autorace of Death

   S1:E636/10/1972

   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.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - The Devil's Messenger, Mysterious Fly Man

   S1:E421/15/1972

   Doctor Reaper captures a cold-hearted young man, who doesn't even care about committing a hit-and-run to a young boy, and remodels him into the Fly Man.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Bizarre! The Picture of the Black Cat That Calls for Blood

   S1:E8812/2/1972

   Hongo consults with the young boy Satoru who is concerned about his older brother since he's become obsessed with painting a black cat, but at that moment, Nekoyamori appears out of the black cat paintings decorating the room.

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   4.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Cannibalism, Sarracenian

   S1:E44/24/1971

   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!!

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   4.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Steel Monster, Armadillong

   S1:E3311/13/1971

   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.

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Resurrected Mummy Monster, Egyptus

    S1:E3612/4/1971

    Shocker discovers a monster from the time of ancient Egypt in the pyramids, the mummy Egyptus.

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Bottomless Swamp Monster, Earthworm Man!

    S1:E595/13/1972

    From the only surviving earthworm of the Bikini Islands atomic bomb experiments Shocker creates Earthworm Man.

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Monster Jellyfish Wolf, Dreadful Rush Hour

    S1:E8210/21/1972

    Using Jellyfishwolf who can release 10 million volts of electric current, Gel-Shocker schemes to massacre people by bringing lightning down on Shinjuku station during rush hour.

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    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Sludge Monster, Dreadful Murder Smog

    S1:E8511/11/1972

    Combining a viscious criminal with a moray eel and sea turtle that grew up in the sludge of Tago Inlet, Gel-Shocker produces Utsubogamesu.

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    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Monster Kanibubbler Appears in Hokkaido

    S1:E198/7/1971

    For Shocker's plan to cause a tsunami in Hokkaido through submarine earthquakes, they send in the monster Kanibubbler to destroy all seismomitors.

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    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Sky-Flying Monster Musasabedol

    S1:E239/4/1971

    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.

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    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Monster Gillercricket's Claws of Impending Death

    S1:E697/28/1972

    The monster Gillercricket has the ability to transform humans he stabs with his poisonous red claws into murderous fiends with their own death claws.

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    2.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Monster Garaox's Sky-Flying Car

    S1:E951/20/1973

    Gel-Shocker's Garaox uses his demon fog that can make objects float to attack vehicles. Hongo saves a man who is dropped from midair and questions how despite using a highway he wound up falling from the sky.

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    1.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Watch Out, Rider! Isoginjaguar's Hell Trap

    S1:E8411/4/1972

    Isoginjaguar, reconstructed for the purpose of destroying Rider, abducts the girl Maki who is searching for her father. During the Boys Rider Squad's search for her they find Isoginjaguar's automobile, but it's a Gel-Shocker trap.

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