GIGANTOR: The GIANT ROBOT That SAVED the WORLD!

[@joannevega3159]

Gigantor, Speed Racer and Kimba, the White Lion are the icons of my childhood. Love them all.

[@bobsebring2819]

me too!

[@feemcl62]

I loved Kimba❤

[@BrianCenti]

Exactly, speed racer as well.

[@BrianCenti-j4d]

Vert true. You forgot Marine Boy 😊

[@briansullivan5908]

I’m one of those kids who grew up loving Gigantor in the 60s.

[@paulkyriakopoulos3444]

The theme song got to hear it and bought back many memories.

[@patrickoconnor7890]

I watched it as a kid and bought a DVD of several of the original US series. Speaking of the theme song, the DVD have a technical informative section. Henry Mancini actually directed the music for the series. They stated they recorded the music at New York's Radio City Music Hall but had to wait until the Rockettes finished their work. They couldn't use the mucic hall until around 8pm

[@howiecricket52]

I also grew UP with Gigan.....AN An Tor!!!!

[@TYBO-xl1xz]

I don’t care what anyone says, I love cartoons from the 60’s 70’s and 80’s

[@jeffwolcott7815]

You're certainly not alone.

[@maureencora1]

Here-Hear!!

[@ronjohnson9342]

Me 2

[@marlinshanklin-ww7em]

Saturday morning cartoons were the best.

[@paulkyriakopoulos3444]

Who cares what anyone says enjoy your life and the beautiful art of cartoons.

[@bustercrabbe8447]

Gigantor, Eighth Man, Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Speed Racer are all the cartoons I watched as a kid on black & white T.V. in the 1960s. Never thought I'd ever see Gigantor (the space age robot) over analyzed on the internet.

[@ensinitas]

8 man

[@darknotered7425]

One of my favorite cartoons as a child. back in the 70s.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

I loved this show when I was a kid!

[@thomastarwater2989]

I watched GIGANTOR, KIMBA THE WHITE LION, ASTRO BOY, and SPEED RACER as a kid way back in the late 1960s, but my favorite cartoon jam from that period was MARINE BOY. Japanese animation during that time was leagues ahead of Hanna-Barbara’s animation.

[@DavidSmith-xs3or]

There was actually a Hanna-Barbera produced version of a boy and his crime-fighting giant robot called "Frankenstein Jr. back in the 60s. As a kid back then, I loved them both.

[@TaronTomlin]

Those were the days the gigantor though it was my childhood days washing loved it . Still do

[@kenkemzura903]

I remember watching this on the late afternoon TV in L.A. in 1966. Loved Astro Boy, 8th Man, and Kimba the White lion. Yes, some of the episodes from those shows would be very sad and scary.

[@surfmarine3118]

Same here. UHF channel 52. Only 4 years old when I got hooked.

[@kenkemzura903]

@@surfmarine3118 I remember seeing Speed Racer in the early 70's on that channel.

[@MrTomengle]

Here too, grew up in Glendale.

[@cherylsmith4826]

Love me some Kimba

[@BeeFunKnee]

@@MrTomengle In the mid 60's, we lived on Mariposa and Palmer, too. Then in '69 we moved to Eagle Rock. I'd watch Gigantor and Johnnie Quest, then go outside to play hit the bat in the street with friends on Wiota, or walk a long ways through one of the water channels and pop up out of a gutter, sometimes a manhole. Being a kid was fun sometimes. I also worked for Tony Sardo on Colorado and for the Glendale Family YMCA on Wilson. I miss Glendale at times. My first apartment was at The Ritz Apartment on Brand and then I lived at The Brand Hotel. That wat in the 70's. I left Glendale after the Northridge earthquake and never looked back. Hello from Maine.

[@xcalibur1011]

Gigantor has an amazing jazz like bossa nova anime theme for a classic Japan manga series in 1956 by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. RIP! ✝🎌

[@sheilameyers152]

Gigantor was one of those cartons that held my attention and I liked it!

[@wifeoftim]

I grew up with classic Gigantor. It was one of my favorite cartoons .

[@joannekinnally7530]

I was 5 when it came out. We were living on Long Island and we were able to see it WPIX. I don’t really remember the episodes but I remember the theme song well

[@motaman8074]

My brother and I used to sing the Gigantor song all the time. We loved that show!

[@reinaldogarcia70]

This cartoon was so memorable on tv when I was 6 years old That even now I still remember and i'm almost sixty years old

[@dan6m]

Yep. I watched Gigantor on WPIX mid 1960's and beyond. One of my favorite shows, and there were a lot of good kids programing on that station.

[@clintonwalls3642]

I loved wpix ch.11 especially on Sunday when played a Abbott and Costello movie a Eastside comedy movie. Good memories 😊

[@smith1958b]

Hanna Barbara made a cartoon similar to Gigantor called Frankenstein Jr.

[@rafaelramirez1507]

@@clintonwalls3642 and I believe they would show some "Tarzan" flicks as well

[@LifeProducersofNewJerseyLLC]

I remember Wonderama where the kids would dance. Gigantor was local affiliate stations as well.

[@moboutmen]

I love the Americanized names....Jimmy Sparks, Inspector Blooper, and who could forget Dick Strong?!?

[@theresae5362]

I was 4 years old when Gigantor came out. You couldn’t tear me away from the tv when it came on. I loved that cartoon! ❤❤

[@deckenneth]

LOVED this show growing up!

[@GJP1169]

I use to watch this show every day after school loved it

[@fredlamprey8824]

This was my favorite cartoon back in the 60s. Enjoyed it even more then any of the Saturday morning stuff. In the burbs of NJ, I seem to remember it was on at 4:00 followed by Dark Shadows. The best hour of the day.

[@Dorpmuller]

Wow, I thought this was completely forgotten... loved this show!

[@nickimontie]

I watched this as a kid in Japan, along with Speed Racer and Simba. I was thrilled they were here in the States when we moved back!

[@clintonwalls3642]

Not to many people remember those Japanese cartoons like, marine boy, 8man, speed racer, timba the white lion, and of course GIGANTOR. 😊

[@jeffwolcott7815]

Were you shocked ab the dubbing differences?

[@nickimontie]

@Jeff Wolcott At that age (5/6), I was still bilingual, and English and Japanese seemed like the same language to me. Unfortunately, after moving here, I didn't keep up with my Japanese and lost that ability. I wish I kept up with it!

[@davidginyard2308]

I love Speed Racer and The 1960s King Kong Anime

[@YoSpiff]

I fondly remember this from my childhood. I was well into adulthood before I knew it was originally Tetsujin 28. I also recall Prince Planet and have vague memories of some B/W cartoons with a similar style.

[@gregrambo606]

Not only was the robot fascinating to look at as a kid, the key to the success was kids being able to put themselves in Jimmy's situation being able to control such an awesome machine. Favorite cartoon of all time.

[@DieterSoegemeier]

When I was a kid this was my favoret show on TV. The 60s were great

[@francissreckofabian01]

I have a Gigantor model on my desk! I loved Gigantor. (I wish it was to scale). Good song too.

[@peterrichards931]

My favorite cartoon from back in the 1960s. The boy with that radio controlled box and a massive robot.

[@wendellbrownbrown5968]

WOW, this sure brings back memories. I forgot I was an anamaie fan back in the day of all the characters they had back then I don't remember ASTRO boy and when I caught the original black and white version on the internet I come to love it, I just don't know why I never heard of it. I remembered speed racer, kimba the white lion, gigantor the giant robot. And there was thease three characters I can't remember the name of who was from outer space to help people, let's see one was a rebit another a donkey . I can't think of what was the last farm animal !

[@tedvalis6071]

Amazing 3

[@rickdeleon7386]

The third animal was a duck. The opening theme for "The Amazing 3" is available on KZbin.

[@aldonapolitano5979]

I became acquainted with Gigantor when I was in the seventh grade. I was out for three months with mono and spent a lot of time doing nothing. Gigantor and Tobor became my daytime friends.

[@pookieizzy7]

I grew up on anime and watched older shows like Speed Racer, Astroboy and the like. I enjoyed mecha as a child so when Voltron (aka Golion/Dairugger XV) came out, I watched that, Robotech (aka Macross) and later on in the 90s, Gundam. Tetsujin 28 inspired Tryder G7, Giant Robo, the Iron Giant and even a PS2 game Enix made called RAD: Robot Alchemic Drive. It's true that they don't make shows like they used to. I have watched the 80s version of Tetsujin 28 and enjoyed it. More so than the dub. I felt like it was Saturday morning all over again.

[@Eliel7230]

This was another of my favorites ! I really liked the creative aesthetic of this classic. Kimba the White Lion was another Japanese style cartoon.

[@reinaldogarcia70]

My favorite tv cartoon 1972 , i was 6 years old

[@TheGodzilla713]

I remember this cartoon as kid a long time ago. I loved this series when I saw it on WPIX so long ago.

[@shibolinemress8913]

Gotta love WPIX! They ran Underdog, Gigantor, The Adventures of Superman and Kimba the White Lion reruns, weedays in the afterschool timeslot when I was in grade 1 in 1969. You better believe I dashed home from school to watch them! Then around supper time, Speed Racer came on. Speed was one of my first kiddie crushes! The other was Batman of course! I'm not sure which station that was on, though. Those were some of the happiest years of my childhood! ❤😊

[@eddiesimms9301]

GIGANTOR was my all time FAVORITE animation cartoon. The FIRST time I saw it, I believe it was 1967. At the time I was a young boy of 8yrs old, Immediately I was hooked on the show, infact me and my friends would play "GIGANTOR" at school during recess time. We would draw pictures of gigantor in class when we were suppose to doing our assignments, especially me etc...One day during the noon recess me and some of my friends were playing gigantor, one of the girls in my classroom told me: "Eddie, robot's can't talk".....It was as though she took the wind out of my sail. I just brushed it off and continued on playing.

[@Pops6185]

I remember as a kid I used to grab the rabbit ear antenna and pretend to be jimmy sparks as I watched.

[@dennismason3740]

An L.A. punk band named the Dickies did a speed-punk version of the theme song, and it bangs. Probably in YT. We had Revolver (Beatles), we had Gigantor. 1966.

[@maureencora1]

1966 I was 9 and Gigantor was Great. Gotta Get the DVD and be a Boy Again.

[@pixiendixie4211]

Gigantor, 8th man, Kimba and Astro boy were staples of my childhood. It's channels like this that make KZbin worth watching.

[@bobbova8708]

Nice video! I remember watching Gigantor after school at 4 pm on channel 9 wor TV in New York. I was always looking for toys or model kit of Gigantor but had to wait until the 1990s to find one. Peter Fernandez re wrote the dialog into English and added lots of humor, and the voice cast made the cartoon fun ,and the NBC orchestra provided the jazzy music in the American version.I had a chance to see some of the episodes in Japanese that were not dubbed into English, and in the early episodes Tetsujin 28 had no rockets on his back and his only means of locomotion was walking. Very fond memories!!

[@rafaelramirez1507]

Yessss 😊 , WOR channel 9 N.Y.C. , you have a great memory my friend 👍👍

[@billcobb6447]

used to love this cartoon

[@The_Dudester]

I spent 5th grade (1973-73) in Los Angeles where I saw and fell in love with Japanese animation (Gigantor, Speed Racer, Kimba the White Lion, etc.). In 1997, there was a short lived show called Rescue 77. In one episode, a female paramedic is giving male paramedics grief about watching the above listed shows on TV. I thought, terrific, my favorite shows are still being broadcast in Los Angeles.

[@edmercer1459]

EXCELLENT!! THANKS YOU! I still love the original Gigantor!! And I am 70... YIKES!!

[@keithswindell6212]

I never saw this growing up in the 60s & 70s near Boston, the only Anime I recall was Speed Racer and the battleship flying around in outer space, and I knew of Astroboy from a coloring book my grandmother gave me in the late 60s. I now get the reference from Night in the Museum.

[@TimothySielbeck]

I use to watch this in the early '60s when my family was living in Japan. I loved it!

[@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968]

Wow! this brings back fond memories, I watched this as a kid growing up in the UK in, as you said the early 60's. We had a Black and White TV back then, so in later years I had thought it must have been originally made in colour. Interesting to now know that I wasn't missing anything and was in Monochrome after all. I really loved this series, it was a large part of TV's golden age for children back then.

[@MountainFisher]

Now I cannot get that theme song out of my head.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks for sharing. I never got to see this show. It wasn't available in my area.

[@garyreid6165]

I remember watching and loving Gigantor when I was a kid in the 70’s. The theme song and incidental music really stuck with me. I really envied Jimmy Sparks. He was a kid who had control of a giant robot and he can drive a car. A kid that young. Along with characters like Dr. Brilliant and Inspector Blooper, you have a balance of seriousness and comedy in a rousing adventure story. It was violent and sometimes scary. But it was all dealt with because of Gigantor defeating evil. The voice over reading of the title of every episode was memorable. “MONSTER FROM THE DEEP!” Those were great times to be a kid.

[@jamalexa2006]

What about Prince Planet and Marine Boy?

[@callde-light5902]

Reminds me of the old FLASH GORDON of the 30's

[@josemoreno3334]

Me and my kid brothers watched this cartoon everyday when we where living in Los Angeles on our 19 inch B&W TV. We still love watching it today. Now we know more about it, Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.☺💗.

[@davidcashin1894]

Used to love this cartoon. And started drawing my own versions of these robots. Of course I watched it in the 1960's and 70's on the UHF channels. ;-)

[@edwardharrison9714]

I can't believe I'm hearing the Gigantor song again... the memories this brings back

[@valeriegoode9762]

I loved this cartoon so much. Also, loved Speed Racer and the Thunderbirds.

[@josephacerra5987]

That was a great show

[@clarencewalker3925]

"Let's not forget "Ultraman", "Prince Planet" and "Kimba, the White Lion", the latter has garnered a bit of controversy.

[@skm4555]

Astro Boy

[@dcidci1012]

I never missed an episode of GIGANTOR !

[@fasteddie9867]

I was born in January 1966! I only remember the theme song from reruns.

[@rockyjerome9475]

Out of all the 60's and 70's cartoons, Gigantor was my favorite. I didn't necessarily care about the boy, however it was Gigantor who captivated me most. And though the boy was controlling it, I always imagined Gigantor, as you watch him, having his own thoughts about what was happening and what was the right and wrong. I think I was 6 or so when I first saw it, and loved it.

[@dennisdevito2829]

I used to watch this and Astro Boy as a kid

[@HenryCalderonJr]

This was one of my favorite cartoons that I would watch in the early 70’s everyday on channel 11.

[@sergs1963]

I remember as a kid always watching this show on my black & white TV way back in the early 70s.

[@michaelalley214]

Loved it as a kid as well as Kimba the white lion, as well as 8th man and Marine Boy.

[@kathysilk2898]

I remember this.....

[@zootopiawilson]

I was a little kid when Gigantor aired in the 70s in my area. It only came on Sunday mornings, which I think is weird. Since my family forced me to go to "Sunday School" it was hit or miss if I got to see it. But as a little kid in the early 70s I thought the control looked like a lunchbox. I also thought that Gigantor looked like one of the big oil tanks we'd pass when we went to visit family in NJ or PA.

[@gregorypadilla5422]

I was a pre-teen when I saw Gigantor. What fascinated me was the music. Later I discovered it was an early use of Synth Sounds.

[@johnnyleong1225]

Yes I did. Brings back sweet memories. Thanks for making the video!!

[@scottharrod6849]

I loved Gigantor as a kid in the 60's. It was my number one animation closely followed by Astroboy and Prince Planet. I still have a limited amount of the series on VHS. 👍👍

[@nrnoble]

Gigantor is earliest animated show I remember watching at the age of 4. It aired each weekday afternoon following an episode of the old Flash Gordon movie serial.

[@tintindb]

I can still remember the theme song. Here in Kenya it was on TV in the early 70s.

[@secretysecret1551]

Aye maybe an episode on Giant Robot (the live action one) is next!

[@bobsebring2819]

Can't touch the classics! I loved this show growing up in the sixties.

[@DoctorEmpirical]

I was in grad school in the mid-'90s and missed the sci fi network version completely. I'd have watched the Hell out of it.

[@davidsmith1162]

What Was Saturdays Without Gigantor, The Space-Age Robot? Never Missed An Episode. Loved Him.😊

[@arthurdrew4933]

DEFINITELY 1 OF MY FAVE😊 CARTOONS OF ANY ERA! THANX WPIX!

[@michaellahana7662]

Japanimation was great! AstroBoy Tobor the 8 man Speed Racer.. good times!

[@RobRoyR8R]

I loved the original. I loved the song. I can't recall one episode, but I did watch it.

[@sethkaicer319]

The rerun zone and I lost the ark of the covenant in a poker game.

[@alrives]

I was born in 67 and loved this show especially the song.

[@KamuiCage]

Watched a lot of these 60s cartoons in the early 90s on TNT. TNT ,TBS and USA use to show cartoons back then

[@1313coffeeguy]

Here in Los Angeles I use to watch it on KCET ch 52 along with Speed Racer and Kimba.

[@matthewfriend6672]

Yes, I loved Gigantor! My favorite episodes were when he fought himself, then in another episode he fought a bunch of Gigantors and lost. Jimmy crying, a very heart warming show, but in the end Gigantor triumphs. Loved the 60s cartoon, I have a model of him, great childhood memories.❤️✌️✌️😃👍👍

[@blandrooker6541]

I remember watching on KIRO while living at Fort Lewis WA when I was 5. That would be 1966. I don't recall the episodes, but I've remembered the opening and theme song all of these years, and half a century later we have Crunchyroll. 😁

[@MrButtonpresser]

As an Australian kid in the 60s, Gigantor, Prince Planet and Astro Boy were essential viewing (when allowed to stay in the house watching TV)

[@jamesmoss3424]

Gigantor is awesome. 😀👍

[@dawg065]

I watched this, Speedracer And Kimba the white lion. This is what started my love for Anime.

[@richardparrott7192]

Loved this show when I was a kid here in Oz...

[@edramirez1240]

This show, Speed Racer, and Simba the White Lion were among favorite as kid.

[@haroldkoiman4030]

Now I know why I remember this so clearly. Grew up in the NYC suburbs of NJ, watching WPIX. Almost never turned off WPIX with Yankees games and Munsters reruns!

[@stephengrahn9361]

This was on in Chattanooga TN when I got home from Kindergarten wow the memories forgot all about him

[@davenelson8187]

Iron Giant recently reminded me of this series!

[@ErickC]

I didn't grow up with Gigantor, but I did grow up with Voltron.

[@firekind1980]

It was referenced in Speed. Didn't know it was a character till now. Nearly 30 years later.

[@martinalarcon3108]

One of my fav all time 😮, watch as a kid with brother and cousins 😮, great memories, kids of today don’t know what fun is 😮

[@13thwho]

In 1960, there was a live-action Tetsujin 28go TV series, but the robot wasn’t a giant, but was the size of a man.

[@louisborselio8608]

It looks like he was taller than man. It looks like they tried to make him look 8 feet tall.

[@sheldonscott4037]

Thanks for the nostalgia.

[@rosalindarodriguez2879]

To this day I speak about Gigantor, I just told my grandson how much I loved watching Gigantor when I was young.

[@frankwafer6919]

💖! when we were young!