Fri, Jul 13, 1973
The boss Hakaida is threatened by Big Shadow, who intends to make Hakaida work for him. Silver Hakaida is destroyed by Kikaida-01. But what about the boss Hakaida? 01 used "Blast End" him too but but the smoke and flame seem to roll backwards. And strange laughter (from Big Shadow) is heard. The Hakaida Squad is no more, Blue, Red and Silver Hakaida killed by Kikaida-01 but what of its boss? Was he or was he not destroyed?
Fri, Jul 20, 1973
Hakaida is alive (as much as robot with a human's brain in it head can be alive) but he is a prisoner of The Shadow and he is not happy about it. Big Shadow is seen for the first, and appears to literally be a large shadow. Red Faced Tortoise and the new monster Lady Ghost are killed with "Blast End" as Kikaida-01 begins his dismantling of the Shadow organization. its a long road.
Fri, Aug 17, 1973
Reaper Robot and Shadow Knight fail to capture Akira, the son of Professor Gill and his guardian Reiko thanks to Kikaida and Kikaida-01. Later Reiko encounters a woman and a boy, she seems to know them but they run from her. The plot thickens. As another mysterious woman and boy are introduced.
Fri, Sep 28, 1973
The monster of the week is Hakaida who murders people Big Shadow orders him to. Big Shadow is finally seen as a man wearing a black mask with two horns and, dressed in black clothing and cape.. Akira and the other boy finally have a chat. The other boy is Hiroshi, Akira's older brother. And just as Reiko was Akira's tutor during Professor Gill's lifetime, Misao was Hiroshi's. Professor Gill it seems did not keep his sons together. With the death of Professor Gill and the destruction of the Dark Destruction Corp by Kikaida, they apparently lost their homes and became street people. Kikaida-01 and Kikaida destroy Hakaida, leaving only its head. But Big Shadow builds Hakaida a new body. Hakaida bows to Big Shadow, twice. But will this new found loyalty last?
Fri, Oct 26, 1973
A girl's parents are replaced with pig monsters. When she finds her real parents she and Reiko, Misao, Hiroshi and Akira are captured. When Hakaida plants a bomb to kill all the prisoners Misao tries to get him to free Hiroshi and Akira, reminding him that without the boys The Shadow cannot rebuild Giant Devil Robot. Hakaida just laughs. And leaves them all to die. Once he's gone Reiko breaks through the bars, much to everyone's surprise. Reiko reveals that is not human, like Ichiro and Jiro she is actually an android, but unlike Jiro and Ichiro she cannot transform into a more powerful battle form. She frees the others but stays to defuse the bomb. Akira does not want to leave her. but in the end he does. As 01 deals with the Mad Pig monsters, Reiko has to fight Shadow Men trying to stop her from defusing the bomb. 01 destroys the two Mad Pigs.
Fri, Nov 2, 1973
Big Shadow summons Zadam, "the Devil's Child" to Earth from the Moon. Both Shadow Knight (who resents Big Shadow giving so much of his responsibilities to Hakaida) and Hakaida (who doesn't want another rival) attack the two-headed, four legged Zadam but he zaps them with a burst of energy from one of his twin tridents. They don't try that again. Misao and Hiroshi are invited to dinner. Hiroshi eats like he is starving, which he probably is. When Hakaida interrupts the meal, the sound of Ichiro's trumpet drives him away. Later, Ichiro finds Akira setting under a tree, looking very sad. Misao and Hiroshi's hosts, father and daughter have been kidnapped. When Ichiro tries to rescue them he discovers it was a trap. The android and two humans are rocketed into space, to the moon. Ichiro opens his chest and pulls out to oxygen cylinders so the humans can breath. Later when Hakaida, Shadow Knight and Shadowmen (all robots so they don't need oxygen) attack the rocket containing the two humans takes off for Earth. Ichiro appears to be stranded on the moon. But his motorcycle Double Machine flies from Earth to the moon, sent by his brother Jiro. Ichiro mounts Double Machine and flies back to Earth.
Fri, Nov 16, 1973
Ichiro who requires sunlight to to transform into Kikaida-01, figures out that sunlight is actually Zadam's weakness. The Shadow releases a prisoner but its a trap she has a bomb attached to her body. Ichiro/Kikaida manages to turn the tables on the Shadow and destroy Hell Amphibian the monster from the sea. Then he faces Shadow Knight, the First Executive Officer of Shadow, in their final battle.
Fri, Nov 23, 1973
Still out of town, on vacation, Ichiro, Misao, Hiroshi and Akira find themselves in a town were the men are being replaced with disguised Shadow Men. The human men are bedazzled and hypnotized by a beautiful woman, who in in reality a hideously ugly monster. She is able to blind Ichoro with a flash of light which fries his visual circuits. She can not hypnotize Misao as her power only works on males. Even Hakaida a male android is affected by her. But when she tries her power on prepubescent Hiroshi and Akira it has no effect. When Ichiro is finally able to transform into Kikaida-01 his visual circuits apparently repair themselves. After 01 defeats Mermaid Princess Ichiro joins Misao, Hiroshi and Akira on the cruise ship back home.
Fri, Nov 30, 1973
Zadam creates new monsters Raiin + and Raijin -. Ichiro, Hiroshi, Akira and Misao meet a boy scientist Goro and his mother who take them to visit the Narukami Thunder Laboratory, created the boy's later father. The humans have lunch, Ichiro the android doesn't need food. Later the boy's mother falls victim to Raijn + and Raijin - drums the sound of which makes humans slothful. Misao and Hiroshi fall prey to it as well. When Raijin + and Raijin - attempt to blast Kikaida-01 with ten billion volts, enough to fry his systems, Goro boy genius finds a way to save 01 and Akira help him. As 01 battles against the two monsters, Goro works on a cure for their brain altering drums.
Fri, Dec 7, 1973
Big Shadow and Zadam come up with a complicated plan to destroy Kikaida 01. First Pollution Catfish is sent to destroy a forest just to cheer up a depressed Big Shadow. Then 01 encounters a female android which taunts him. Then Ichiro encounters a sad young woman. Misao is jealous when she sees Ichiro talking to her (here we ago again a woman in love with a "man" she knows is actually a robot) . Later when the mysterious woman is abducted by Pollution Catfish, 01 comes to her rescue. destroying the monster. When Zadam who is watching everything 01 does on a monitor screen, refers to the woman as "Mari" and has a Shadowman flip a switch. Mari then clutches her chest as if having a heart attack and Ichiro starts to unbutton her blouse, Big Shadow laughs. (Cliffhanger ending, but what is the danger? Why is Big Shadow laughing at Ichiro undoing 3 buttons on a blouse?)
Fri, Dec 14, 1973
Mari turns out to be Bijinda. Bjinda does not want to do evil things but has no choice. With tears in her eyes Bijinda is forced to carry out Big Shadow's order to kill Hiroshi and AKira but Ichiro saves them. Hakaida appears to wound 01. Bijinda turns on Hakaida. Zadam monitoring all this puts a stop to it.
Fri, Dec 28, 1973
Bijinda was allowed to escape (without her knowledge) in the previous episode. Hiroshi and Misao are playing at being wrestlers with Akira as the ring announcer. Kikaida 01 fights Big Gorilla'while Mini Gorilla hides. 01 destroys Big Gorilla 'and Mini Gorilla records every move 01 makes. 01 does not perceive the small and passive Mini Gorilla to be a threat. Later, when Bijinda finds Mini Gorilla collecting the parts of Big Gorilla' she helps the little monster to use them to build itself up and she trains it in combat. Not realizing she is creating the monster meant to destroy Kikaida 01. The new Big Gorilla ignoring Bijinda's pleadings to remember their friendship and not harm her friend Kikaida 01 watches helplessly as it rips off one of 01's arms. To save one friend Bijinda is forced to destroy another. 01 tries to thank her but she walks away angry.