Shinji Nakae
Narrator (voice)
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1971
Kamen Rider
Kamen Rider
Kamen Rider follows Takeshi Hongo and later, Hayato Ichimonji, both were turned into cyborgs by the evil organization called Shocker, but managed to escape before they were brainwashed by them. With the help of Tobei Tachibana and their friends, they fight the evil Shocker and later, GelShocker from their plans of world domination as Kamen Rider!
Episodes
Each episode has its own detail page.
Episode 125 min1971-04-03
The Mysterious Spider Man
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.
Episode 225 min1971-04-10
The Terrifying Bat Man
Hongo wins the championship, but the model who brings him his bouquet suddenly bares her fangs and attacks! With growing suspicion, Hongo investigates the woman's home, and finds it has been transformed into a lab.
Episode 325 min1971-04-17
Monster, Scorpion Man
Shocker tests their mysterious Scorpion Man by releasing their slave workers and telling them that they can have their freedom if they can escape within 10 minutes, but one by one they die at the Scorpian Man's hands.
Episode 425 min1971-04-24
Cannibalism, Sarracenian
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!!
Episode 525 min1971-05-01
Monster, Mantis Man
While a series of strange earthquakes are going on, Hongo is contacted by his childhood friend and seismologist, Amemiya Chikako, who tells him, “Something is planning to cause a major earthquake.”
Episode 625 min1971-05-08
Grim Reaper, Chameleon
Former navy lieutenant-commander Sunada is attacked by the Chameleon Man. His aim is a submarine model in Sunada's possession that has secrets relating to a Nazi treasure concealed inside.
Episode 725 min1971-05-15
Duel With Grim Reaper Chameleon! World Fair Impression
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.
Episode 825 min1971-05-22
Strangeness! Bee Woman
Hongo begins an investigation into the series of incidents where people who had glasses made at Kagemura's Optometry store have gone missing. But even Ruriko gets some lure glasses, and she disappears as well.
Episode 925 min1971-05-29
The Terrifying Cobra Man
Cobra Man makes an attack on the gold vault, but when the pet dog of security guard Kondo barks at him, he drops his fangs! Seeking his fangs, he attacks Kondo.
Episode 1025 min1971-06-05
The Revived Cobra Man
Ritsuko Ayakoji of the Ayakoji Biology Research Institute, Shocker's collaborator, puts up advertisements for “Purchasing Animals” to gather animal blood and capture the people who bring in their pets.
Episode 1125 min1971-06-12
Bloodsucking Monster, Gebacondor
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.
Episode 1225 min1971-06-19
Murder, Yamogelas
Doctor Shirakawa has invented a death ray but tries to seal his invention away, while his aid Shibata conspires with Shocker and is remodeled into the monster Geckogeras, making secret plans to take the death ray.
Episode 1325 min1971-06-26
Tokageron and the Big Monster Army
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.
Episode 1425 min1971-07-03
Raid of the Demon Sabotegron
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!
Episode 1525 min1971-07-10
Counterattack, Sabotegron
At the end of fierce fighting, Kamen Rider drives Sabotegron away. Sabotegron then uses Flowers of Mexico to attack Hayato and the Tachibana Racing Club.
Episode 1625 min1971-07-17
Wrestler of the Devil, Pirasaurus
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.
Episode 1725 min1971-07-24
Death Match in the Ring: Defeat! Pirasaurus
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.
Episode 1825 min1971-07-31
Fossil Man: Hitodanger
Shocker creates a missile base in the mountains and appoints the monster Hitodanger to defend it. After saving a boy from a Shocker attack, he fights Hitodanger to save Taki who went searching for the base.
Episode 1925 min1971-08-07
Monster Kanibubbler Appears in Hokkaido
For Shocker's plan to cause a tsunami in Hokkaido through submarine earthquakes, they send in the monster Kanibubbler to destroy all seismomitors.
Episode 2025 min1971-08-14
Fire-Breathing Caterpillar Monster: Dokugander
Ichimonji, who has started an inquiry into a village thrown into panic by a gigantic catapillar creature, meets with Yoshioka who is looking for a missing professor, and together they begin a search for the professor.
Episode 2125 min1971-08-21
Dokugander, Confrontation at Osaka Castle
In order for Shocker to make use of a growth drug developed by Yoshioka, Dokugander's adult form transforms into the deceased professor to trick the assistant professor Yoshioka.
Episode 2225 min1971-08-28
Suspicious Merman Amazonia
An olympic swimmer disappears suddenly right before the eyes of his teammates, and a young man swimming in the ocean gets kidnapped by a monster who appears.
Episode 2325 min1971-09-04
Sky-Flying Monster Musasabedol
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.
Episode 2425 min1971-09-11
Deadly Poison Monster Kinokomolg's Sortie!
After a prisoner is immersed in the extract of poisonous mushrooms for one week, the monster Kinokomorgue is born.
Episode 2525 min1971-09-18
Defeat Kinokomolg!
Kinokomorgue declares, “Make him taste the fear of death!” and injects the captured Ichimonji with the antidote, returning him to his senses.
Episode 2625 min1971-09-25
The Terrifying Antlion
While the monster Hell Thunder enacts his plan to make an artificial antlion pit that tears main roads into pieces, the supreme commander Colonel Zol is dispatched from Shocker's branch in the Middle East.
Episode 2725 min1971-10-02
Mukadelas Monster Classroom
Children are abducted by a suspicious man who calls himself a close friend of Kamen Rider. The man is the Shocker beast Mukaderas and he controls children with hypnotic radio waves for their scheme to turn them into members of Junior Shocker.
Episode 2825 min1971-10-09
Underground Monster Mogurang
Shocker schemes to turn Tokyo Bay into a sea of flames by pouring in petroleum from industrial areas, equipping the monster Mogurang with an Electro Eye that he uses to capture humans.
Episode 2925 min1971-10-16
Electric Monster Kuragedall
Shocker seeks humans capable of withstanding 5000 volts of electricity to make a resource of Electric Humans they can use to assassinate important figures, so Kuragedal who can release high-voltage currents is sent to capture people.
Episode 3025 min1971-10-23
Revived Fossil, Bloodsucking Trilobite
Doctor Shimura's research that can revive ancient lifeforms catches the eye of Shocker, who steal the ancient trilobite ressurected from a fossil and infuse it with the blood of a blood-sucking cyborg, creating the monster Zanbronzo.
Episode 3125 min1971-10-30
Deathmatch! Anteater Demon Arigabari
Mount Tengu is the test site for the bacteria, “Amazon's Curse,” of Shocker's monster Arigabari, and they attack the young man Izaki who visits the mountain.
Episode 3225 min1971-11-06
Cannibalism Flower, Dokudalian
The monster Dokudahlian is made from a man-eating flower that's lived for 200 years in the deep forests of New Guinea and he transforms into a florist who emits hypnosis sound waves.
Episode 3325 min1971-11-13
Steel Monster, Armadillong
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.
Episode 3425 min1971-11-20
Japan in Danger! Gamagiller's Invasion
Doctor Origuchi of the Criminal Research Institute looks into Shocker's evil doing, and discovers their plan to split the Japanese islands with a special nuclear weapon.
Episode 3525 min1971-11-27
Murderous Ant Queen, Archimedes
Shocker's scientists succeed in producing a queen ant cyborg from an ant's egg. The created monster Archimedes attacks a bank with her powerful formic acid.
Episode 3625 min1971-12-04
Resurrected Mummy Monster, Egyptus
Shocker discovers a monster from the time of ancient Egypt in the pyramids, the mummy Egyptus.
Episode 3725 min1971-12-11
Poisonous Gas Monster Trickabuto's G-Plan
Shocker's newly developed killer plants are placed in theaters and concert halls as they scheme up the G Strategy to annihilate everyone.
Episode 3825 min1971-12-18
Lightning Monster Eiking's World Darkness Plan
Captured two years ago, the marine biologist Doctor Seki created the monster Rayking but flees Shocker and is rescued by Ichimonji and the others.
Episode 3925 min1971-12-25
Monster Wolf Man's Huge Murder Party
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.
Episode 4025 min1972-01-01
Deathmatch! Monster Snowman vs. Two Riders
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.
Episode 4125 min1972-01-08
Magma Monster Ghoster, Decisive Battle at Sakurajima
For the construction of a tunnel that connects Sakurajima and Ebi Heights, Doctor Reaper sends in the monster Ghoster.
Episode 4225 min1972-01-15
The Devil's Messenger, Mysterious Fly Man
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.
Episode 4325 min1972-01-22
Mysterious Birdman Pranodon's Attack
Emi of the Tachibana Racing Club is taken by Shocker, fitted with a transmitter and controlled by the monster Pranodon's hypnotism radio waves.
Episode 4425 min1972-01-29
Graveyard Monster, Kabibinga
The monster Moldbinga schemes to cultivate a killer mold that grows from the nourishment of humans and he attacks people in the graveyard near the hideout so he can conduct tests with his killer mold.
Episode 4525 min1972-02-05
Monster Namewhale's Gas Explosion Plan
Doctor Yajima develops an artificial brain that has the power to amplify the abilities of animals exponentially and keeps it to himself.
Episode 4625 min1972-02-12
Showdown!! Snow Mountain Monster Bearconger
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.
Episode 4725 min1972-02-19
The Death-Calling Ice Devil Todogiller
The monster Todogiller, who can fire a Freezing Shot that is 300 degrees below zero, freezes humans and Shocker turns them into cyborgs to execute their “Ice Strategy.”
Episode 4825 min1972-02-26
Bloodsucking Marshes of Hiruguerilla
With the blood-sucking leeches he controls the monster Leechguerilla absorbs the lifeblood of humans, and by injecting a green medicine into them he can change the humans he takes blood from into slaves.
Episode 4925 min1972-03-04
Cannibalistic Monster, Isoginchack
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.
Episode 5025 min1972-03-11
Monster Kamestone's Murderous Aurora Program
An aurora suddenly appears in the Tokyo skies. The many people who see this look towards it, and one by one they get brought in to hospitals.
Episode 5125 min1972-03-18
Stone Monster Unicornos vs. Double Rider Kick
Shocker infuses a unicorn brought back from a fossil with the blood of a fiendish man, creating the monster Unicornus. Unicornus turns Goro and others into fossils.
Episode 5225 min1972-03-25
My Name is Mysterious Birdman Gilgalass
Gilgalass transforms himself into a crow that can speak like a human, and attacks humans with the Dead Man Gas that turns them into homicidal maniacs.
Episode 5325 min1972-04-01
Monster Jaguarman's Ready-to-Die Motorbike War
Takeshi Hongo has to contend with both a new Shocker commander, Hell's Ambassador, and a plot to create chaos with a new cyborg who can control wild animals.
Episode 5425 min1972-04-08
Sea Serpent Man of the Phantom Village
Shocker sets up a training camp in a village in the mountains. The monster Sea Snake Man who was trained at the camp uses the sight-warping Prism Eye to execute victims.
Episode 5525 min1972-04-15
Cockroach Man!! The Terrifying Bacterial Ad-Balloon
Shocker develops a bacteria that ages biological cells. By putting the bacteria into the balls of a bowling alley, they conduct an experiment to rapidly age young people.
Episode 5625 min1972-04-22
Amazon's Poison Butterfly Gireera
The Shocker monster Gireera schemes to throw capsules packed with a deadly poison powder into Japan's national reservoirs for their “Poison Water Strategy”.
Episode 5725 min1972-04-29
Tsuchigumo Man Poisonmondo
Hongo's friend Sawada completes a liquid gunpowder that can melt any metal. The Shocker monster Poisonmondo targets this gunpowder.
Episode 5825 min1972-05-06
Monster Poison Lizard, Duel in Fear Valley!!
Doctor Ootaguro succeeds in developing the “Alpha Liquid,” a life revitalizing drug that can revive a dead organism.
Episode 5925 min1972-05-13
The Bottomless Swamp Monster, Earthworm Man!
From the only surviving earthworm of the Bikini Islands atomic bomb experiments Shocker creates Earthworm Man.
Episode 6025 min1972-05-20
Mysterious Owl Man's Murderous X-Rays
The Owl Man begins experimenting with the Murder X-Rays equipped in both of his eyes that can turn living things into bone.
Episode 6125 min1972-05-27
Monster Catfishgiller's Electric Hell
Doctor Reaper returns to Shocker's Japan branch of Katsugawa Island along with Catfishgiller who he remodeled from an electric catfish.
Episode 6225 min1972-06-03
Monster Hedgehoras' Murder Skull Plan
With the poison needles all over his body containing a killer virus that can melt humans, the monster Hedgehoras obliterates humans one after another.
Episode 6325 min1972-06-10
Monster Rhinogang's Autorace of Death
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.
Episode 6425 min1972-06-17
Monster Cicadaminga's Song to Kill Everyone
While catching cicadas, Naoki witnesses a murder by the Shocker monster Cicadaminga. Hongo protects Naoki and Shocker come to attack him, but he chases them back and has a confrontation with Cicadaminga.
Episode 6525 min1972-06-24
Monster Dr. Insect and the Shocker School
Deceiving them with the slogan, “Come catch Masked Rider and beetles!” Shocker kidnaps children to Mount Takao where Shocker's insect expert Beetlelong organizes a Shocker school and turns them into his pupils.
Episode 6625 min1972-07-01
Shocker Graveyard, Revived Monsters
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.
Episode 6725 min1972-07-08
The Shocker Leader Appears! Riders in Danger
Hongou discovers an upcoming meeting between important Shocker branch chiefs, but that is not all the Leader has planned.
Episode 6825 min1972-07-15
Doctor Shinigami, the True Meaning of Terror?
Appearing in Japan once again, Doctor Reaper has a plan to destroy Japan by controlling a meteorite.
Episode 6925 min1972-07-28
Monster Gillercricket's Claws of Impending Death
The monster Gillercricket has the ability to transform humans he stabs with his poisonous red claws into murderous fiends with their own death claws.
Episode 7025 min1972-07-29
Monster Electric-Guitarbotal's Fireball Attack
Born from high voltage, the monster Electrifirefly receives orders from Ambassador Hell to steal all of the electricity inside Tokyo.
Episode 7125 min1972-08-05
Monster Horseflygomes' Rokkoudai Mountain Pursuit
Hongo and Taki receive communication from the FBI saying, “There are clues to Shocker in Kobe,” and so they secretly fly to Kobe in search of Shocker movement.
Episode 7225 min1972-08-12
Vampiric Mosquilas vs. Two Riders
The new monster Mosquilas comes from South America and plots to create a Shocker base in the Kii Peninsula.
Episode 7325 min1972-08-19
Double Riders' Defeat! Shiomaneking
Shocker's plans to establish a base on the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula obstructed, they use Crabking to abduct the oceanographer Doctor Sakai who dreams of an undersea farm.
Episode 7425 min1972-08-26
Deadly Bloodsucking Fiends!! Good Luck, Rider Boys' Squad
Tobei Tachibana becomes president and Taki acts as commanding officer of the Boys' Kamen Rider Squad that is formed. Around that time, there is an outbreak of multiple attacks at blood banks.
Episode 7525 min1972-09-02
Poison Flower Monster Roseranga - The Secret of the House of Terror
Taki arrives at the place where he received word of a Shocker sighting from the Boys' Rider Squad but is captured by the monster Roseranga.
Episode 7625 min1972-09-09
Three Head of Generator Monster Seadragons!!
Shocker packages the Seadragon monsters in “Strange Beast Monster Cans” and sends them into the homes of the Boys' Rider Squad members. The fully grown Seadragons begin attacking people with their high-voltage currents
Episode 7725 min1972-09-16
Monster Newtgeth, Duel at the Farm of Hell!!
Using his power to liquify his entire body, Shocker monster Newtgeth abducts many adult men to advance the construction of an underground airfield.
Episode 7825 min1972-09-23
The Dreadful Urchindogma + The Phantom Monster
The monster Urchindogma takes over the village near Tobei's hometown in order to raise a massive amount of Urchindogma eggs. When Tobei returns to his hometown to visit a grave, he protects a young boy who is attacked by Urchindogma for being a witness.
Episode 7925 min1972-09-30
Hell Ambassador!! The True Meaning of Fear?
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.
Episode 8025 min1972-10-07
Gel-Shocker Appears! Kamen Rider's Last Day!
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.
Episode 8125 min1972-10-14
Kamen Rider Dies Twice!
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.
Episode 8225 min1972-10-21
Monster Jellyfish Wolf, Dreadful Rush Hour
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.
Episode 8325 min1972-10-28
Monster Inokabuton, Defeat the Rider With Crazy Gas
Gel-Shocker remodels a death row inmate into the monster Boarbeetle. Boarbeetle possesses a madness gas and in order to succeed in their strategy to devastate Tokyo with a deadly poison gas.
Episode 8425 min1972-11-04
Watch Out, Rider! Isoginjaguar's Hell Trap
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.
Episode 8525 min1972-11-11
Sludge Monster, Dreadful Murder Smog
Combining a viscious criminal with a moray eel and sea turtle that grew up in the sludge of Tago Inlet, Gel-Shocker produces Utsubogamesu.
Episode 8625 min1972-11-18
Monster Eaglemantis' Human Hunt
The Boys Rider Squad come to hike Mount Oomuro. Meanwhile, Gel-Shocker's Eaglemantis executes the human hunting strategy and attacks a bus headed for Mount Oomuro, abducting the passengers.
Episode 8725 min1972-11-25
Gel-Shocker's Delivery Man of Death
Gel-Shocker draws up a list of Japan's important figures to execute. The monster Kumolion delivers letters of advance notice for their deaths to these figures and then assassinates them one by one.
Episode 8825 min1972-12-02
Bizarre! The Picture of the Black Cat That Calls for Blood
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.
Episode 8925 min1972-12-09
Fear's Pet Strategy, Drop Rider into Hell!
Gel-Shocker's Canarycobra transforms into a tiny canary and approaches people, then kills them with the deadly poison of his Cobra Hand.
Episode 9025 min1972-12-16
Fear's Pet Strategy, Rider SOS
After defeating Canarycobra, Nezucondor appears before Kamen Rider. Nezucondor carries the plague inside his body and impliments the pet strategy to spread it throughout Tokyo.
Episode 9125 min1972-12-23
Gel-Shocker, Enroll in Terror School
Hongo learns from the Boys Rider Squad members of strange occurances in the Tanzawa district and heads to the scene, but he is attacked there by Boys Gel-Shocker Squad.
Episode 9225 min1972-12-30
Atrocity! Fake Kamen Rider!!
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.
Episode 9325 min1973-01-06
8 Kamen Riders
Kamen Rider #1 is driven back by the Shocker Rider and the monster Haetoribachi's coordination and sinks under the sea with Haetoribachi.
Episode 9425 min1973-01-13
The True Identity of the Gel-Shocker Leader
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.
Episode 9525 min1973-01-20
Monster Garaox's Sky-Flying Car
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.
Episode 9625 min1973-01-27
Takeshi Hongo, Cactus Monster Exposed!?
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.
Episode 9725 min1973-02-03
Takeshi Hongo, Transformation Impossible
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.
Episode 9825 min1973-02-10
Gel-Shocker Annihilated! The End of the Leader!!
With the arrival of Masked Rider #2 Hongo is rescued and the Double Riders showdown against Leechameleon.
Season Cast
Featured cast for this season.
Cast
Hiroshi Fujioka
Takeshi Hongo / Kamen Rider #1
Takeshi Sasaki
Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider #2
Akiji Kobayashi
Tobei Tachibana
Yasuharu Miura
Goro Ishikura
Chieko Morikawa
Ruriko Midorikawa
Wakako Oki
Yuri
Katsumi Nakajima
Michi
Jirô Chiba
Taki Kazuya
Jiro Miyaguchi
Coronel Zol
Linda Yamamoto
Mari
Hideyo Amamoto
Doctor Shinigami
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