Please tell me what this old Japanese show is..

[maboot38]

This has been bugging me lately, and I figured the knowledgeable folks on there migh be able to help me.

When I was a child, I remember seeing a live action show on television. Before you say "Transformers"...it was not. It was before Transformers. I think late 70's or early 80's.

There was a Japanese kid, maybe two, a boy and a girl. I seem to remember they wore school uniforms. There were a couple of robots that were also fighter jets, and when the jets went on their missions, the kids sat inside of them.

That's just about all I can remember (it HAS been 30 years after all). Does anyone have any memory of this show or knowledge of what it might be?

 

[micdavis]

That's like 3/4 of all Japanimation.

 

[maboot38]

Sorry, I should mention this is NOT Anime.

A live action show like this from the early 80s. Someone must remember.

 

[Moviefreak]

reminds me of the first Robotech series.

 

[Moviefreak]

Sorry, I should mention this is NOT Anime.

Okay.... not Robotech.:lol

 

[maboot38]

It was PRE Robotech. Robotech and Transformers are from the same year I think. This would have been earlier than that.

 

[Funky]

ULTRAMAN!

Sorry. Whenever I hear "Japanese live action TV show" my answer must always be Ultraman.

 

[maboot38]

ULTRAMAN!

Sorry. Whenever I hear "Japanese live action TV show" my answer must always be Ultraman.

Understandable, but no. Too early.

 

[Moviefreak]

Was this live action or a cartoon?

 

[Moviefreak]

If it is a cartoon, you can see a complete list of all cartoons from the 70's here:

List of animated television series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You will just need to go one by one and read each plot to see if it matches up.... I am not going through them one by one, lol.

 

[maboot38]

It was NOT animation. NOT a cartoon, but a real live action show.

 

[womo68]

Was the big robot gold? Had a wife and a kid that turned into jets too???

 

[maboot38]

Was the big robot gold? Had a wife and a kid that turned into jets too???

YES I think so!!!!!! Rings a bell!!!!!

 

[Moviefreak]

was it Space Giants?

little boy's name was Miko, his robot counterpart was Gam. The giant gold robot was named Goldar. The bad guy was Rodak, and those all-black villains were known as Lugomen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fwLZbKGc24

 

[womo68]

Space Giants???

THE SPACE GIANTS Series Guide « SciFi Japan


Moviefreak beat me to it!

 

[maboot38]

OH MY GOD!!! You are brilliant! How did you do that? That's the show. I used to think it was so cool that the kid could fly in a jet.

 

[Moviefreak]

OH MY GOD!!! You are brilliant! How did you do that? That's the show. I used to think it was so cool that the kid could fly in a jet.

just stumbles on it while searching around. I so remember that now after seeing the You tube stuff

 

[maboot38]

So Funky Jedil...you were closer than I thought. Turns out I was watching RERUNS. That series (titled Ambassador Magma originally) actually started only 6 days before Ultraman.

However, I wasn't alive then. I guess I caught it when it was shown on TV in the us in 1978, when I was 3. (yes, I'm a freak and can remember things from when I was 2 and 3).

Thanks guys!

 

[division 6]

Bob Wilkins used to host that show in the afternoons on the Captain Cosmic Show on Channel 2 out of Oakland Ca.

I used to watch it all the time.

 

[maboot38]

Here in the East I think it was on Superstation TBS.