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Giant Robo (live-action TV)

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Alternative title:
Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot
Robô Gigante (Portuguese)
Voyage Into Space
ジャイアント・ロボ (Japanese)
Themes: mecha
Objectionable content: Mild
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
1967-10-11 to 1968-04-01
1969 (USA; Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot)
1970 (USA; Voyage Into Space)
Release dates: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Giant Robo" (ジャイアントロボ) by Meistersinger
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DVD (Region 1)
    Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot: The Complete Series (Dub.DVD) 2013-03-26 (from $27.11)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Screenplay:
Hiroo Matsuda (7 episodes
eps 3-4, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24
)

Hisashi Abe (9 episodes
eps 3-4, 9-10, 12, 15, 17, 22, 24
)

Jo Hichi
Masaru Igami (16 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-8, 11, 13-14, 16, 18-21, 25-26
)

Mon Shichijō (ep 23)
Teio Matsuda
Episode Director:
Itaru Orita (eps 5-6, 16, 22)
Katsuhiko Taguchi (4 episodes
eps 11, 20-21, 23
)

Koichi Takemoto (8 episodes
eps 3-4, 7-8, 13-14, 19, 24
)

Michio Konishi (eps 10, 17)
Minoru Yamada (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 9, 12, 15, 18, 25-26
)

Original creator: Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Producer:
Hisatomo Tsuboi (eps 1-24)
Shinichi Miyazaki (NET)
Tohru Hirayama
Yasuji Ueda (eps 25-26)

Assistant Director: Nagafumi Hori
Theme Song Composition: Takeo Yamashita
Theme Song Lyrics: Masaru Igami
Mitsunobu Kaneko as Daisaku Kusama / U7

Hirohiko Satō as King Guillotine (18 episodes
eps 1-13, 17, 23-26
)
Kōichi Chiba as Narration
Matasaburo Niwa as Spider (eps 1-7)
Shōzaburō Date as Chief Azuma / U1
Teruo Ito as Jurou Minami / U3
Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama as Giant Robo
Yumi Kuwabara as Mari Hanamura / U6
Yumiko Katayama as Mitsuko Nishino / U5

Chū Takatsuki as Big Fire
Hajime Otoguro as Metrothree (ep 19)
Hideo Murota as Black Diamond
Kentarō Kaji as Doctor Snake (ep 16)
Kentarō Taki as Mummyman (ep 21)
Kichiemon Ninomiya as Mister Gold (eps 15, 22)
Kiyome Takemura as Dr. Germa (ep 23)
Kōen Okumura as Draculan (ep 25)
Kōichi Chiba as Doctor Gulture (voice; ep 1)
Kouji Miemachi as Red Cobra
Kōzō Sōma as Professor (ep 24)
Mitsuo Andō as Doctor Over
Nenji Kobayashi as Terroman (ep 26)
Said Ungan as Doctor Gulture (ep 1)
Seizo Katou as King Guillotine (voice)
Yōji Naruto as Gōda (U9; ep 15)

Enver Altenbay (eps 6, 22)
Ulf Ōtsuki (ep 20)
Japanese companies
Broadcaster: TV Asahi
Distributor: Toei Video Co., Ltd.
Film Developing: Toei Chemical Industry
Production: Toei Productions
English staff
English companies
Script: Reuben Guberman
DVD Producer: Cliff MacMillan (Shout! Factory)
Editorial Supervision: Robb McCaffree (Shout! Factory DVD)
Illustration: Kung Fu Bob O'Brien (Scorpion Releasing Blu-ray)
Liner Notes: August Ragone (Shout! Factory DVD; Essay booklet)
Packaging Design: John Susoeff (Artrock 77; Shout! Factory DVD)
Packaging Supervision: Jeff Palo (Shout! Factory DVD)
Broadcaster:
iaTV (Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot)
Syndicated
Distributor:
American International Pictures (expired) 
MVD Visual (via Scorpion Releasing; United States and Canada)
Scorpion Releasing (Voyage Into Space Blu-ray)
Shout! Factory (Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot DVD)
DVD Authoring: TMG (Shout! Factory DVD)
Internet Streaming: Amazon Prime Video
Licensed by:
American International Pictures (Expired)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1997)
Orion (1982; Expired)
English cast
Bobbie Byers as Johnny Sokko/U7

Ted Rusoff as Jerry Mano 
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Broadcaster:
Rede Record (Brazil)
TV Tupi (Brazil)
Dubbing Studio: TV Cine-Som
Portuguese cast
Celso Vasconcelos as Jurou Minami
Siomara Nagy as Daizaku Kuzama

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