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Trying to find name of old Robots vs. Japanese Monsters show.


I am trying to locate the name of an old Japanese T.V. series that ran in the late sixties, seventies. I used to watch all the time when I was a kid. I can't remember the name of it but I will give an extensive description of the show in hopes someone can recognize it and post to me the name of the show. I have searched extensively on IMDB and google and have come up with nothing.
To start the show had 3 main heroes that fought monsters/bad guys. The first being a giant metallic-gold robot that had long blonde hair coming out of his head and 2 not really horns but more like antenna's with small round balls attatched at the end . He had the ability to turn into a space ship. In robot form he shot rockets from his chest. The second was a woman in her upper twenties who had the ability to turn into a spaceship and the third a younger teen boy who also had the ability to turn into a spaceship. They all stayed primarily in a cave with an old man clothed in a white robe and had a cane.
There was another young boy that owned a whistle that could summon all 3 of them. He blew it once to summon the young boy ship. He blew it twice to summon the young woman ship. He blew it 3 times to summon the giant robot. He could blow it 6 times to summon all 3.
The main bad guy was a character named I think "DRAX". He was made of metal had 2 thick horns that narrowed to a point coming out of each shoulder. He had thick dark red hair. All of his minions were always dressed in all black. Completely covered in black from head to toe. If anyone recognizes and/or remembers the name of this ols show please reply to this message, I will be greatly appreciative

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I've been looking for that too. I think it was on Ch. 9 WGN out of Chicago in the mid to late 70's. It might have been Ch. 44, also from Chicago or 17 from Atlanta. I was thinking the big gold robot was called Goldar...

OK... I just searched for Goldar on google and found it. "Space Giants" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061299/ The show was pretty cheesy but I watched pretty regularly. I guess it proves youngsters will watch about anything. Of course after having only 3 channels for years the 40 cable channels were mind blowing. We still got a little exercise though, jumping up to change the channel. ;-)


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Thanx, Bubbarian! This was exactly the show I was lookimg for Finally founf it. Thanx, for the info.

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The series you're referring to is THE SPACE GIANTS. The robot-rockets were Goldar,the Space Avenger,Silvar,his wife,and their son,Gam.All three were under the commands of the wise wizard,Methusum.Goldar's main adversary was the evil space devil,Rodak.His followers were known as the Lugomen. The young boy who owned the special signal whistle was Mikko Mura.His parents were Tom and Tomoko Mura.You need more information,dude,just ask!

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Yeah, The Space Giants. I liked it better than some of my classmates when I was 11. One friend of mine was always complaining that Goldar's exterior had dents in it LOL. My mom thought it was funny that a giant robot would have a human-sized wife. The opening was cool, though, with the mostly jazzy music.

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