For fans of Giant Japanese Monsters and Robots

[eric_hinkle]

Hey, remember some of those classics from the 70's and early 80's? ULtraman... Godzilla... Jonny Sokko and his Giant Robot versus the Evil Flying Jawbone...

Wait, what?

Oh, this:

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I think that swollen-headed goon with the overbite is scarier than the monster! And seriously, the monster is a giant evil flying jawbone that can split in half. We'

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[jeriendhal]

There's something very peculiar about seeing a bucktoothed villain on a Japanese TV show.

Channel 45 in Baltimore used to show this weekday afternoons. Gee, I wonder why it's never been released on DVD....

[eric_hinkle]

Yes, this was special in all the strange ways. And I think Buckteeth was supposed to be a space alien/monster of some sort.

Around here we used to get it on Channel 29 from Philadelphia. Man but they had some great weird stuff from Japan back then.

[mauser]

Waitaminit! I never knew you were from around Philly! I grew up in Cherry Hill. I watched all that stuff too! Captain Scarlet and the rest of the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson shows. Space Giants, you name it. I even did a paper in college where I interviewed the programming director at Channel 29 about Robotech.

And who could forget Ultraman.

[eric_hinkle]

I live in the Lehigh Valley, so I'm about an hour and a half north of the city.

I remember how they used to have the toku stuff during the weekday afternoons, and things like Flash Gordon, the Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello, and Universal Horror (Shock Theater with Doctor Shock!) on the weekends. Man those were good times!

[eric_hinkle]

Yeah, I remember Giant Monster Week too. And what a glorious week it was!

As far as the Gamera kids go, if you can find some of the older films, especially the original Japanese versions, it's like viewing a completely different movie when you watch them.

[eric_hinkle]

At least he had a reason to be there, since he was the controller of Giant Robot.

[eric_hinkle]

And if you watch that episode again, check out that dubbing. Makes a Godzilla movie look like flawless art by comparison.