Feel the flash
Like a flame!
Faster
Than a Plane!
A mystery
With the name
Spectreman!
Power
From space!
He'll save
The Human Race!
Yet they'll never know the face
Of Spectreman!
We will never know the source
Of his power and his force
As he guides this planet's course!
Spectreman!
Friday night at 1AM EST/12PM CST/10PM PST, after #BMovieManiacs, join @QuandaryMan on Twitter for #GHWP and another installment of The Midnight Spectreman.
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Episode 21 - The Mysterious Alien Zunou vs. Gilagind
Episode 22 - Violent Charge of the Dual-Bladed Monster Gilagind
This week, life from another world crashes down on Earth, not that this is anywhere near commonplace in this show (sarcasm), and, in this case, the planet Zunou's inhabitants all appear to be cyclopean, body-possessing California Raisins with intelligence to rival that of Dr. Gori himself.
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| I heard it through the grapevine. |
The Zunouman finds himself trapped on Earth and wants to return home, but he stumbles into the middle of Dr. Gori's latest plot. This time around, Dr. Gori has created the wide-eyed monster Gilagind, ordering it to use its drill-like elbow blades to provoke a volcanic eruption.
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| Jeepers creepers. Where'd you get those peepers? |
Seeing Dr. Gori's ship as his only viable means of returning to Zunou, the Zunouman possesses Karas to infiltrate the ship and take command, laying the smackdown on Dr. Gori and giving him some lip service that probably makes Karas giggle like a schoolgirl deep down inside. Dr. Gori, unable to contest with another alien intellect in the body of Gori's very own musclebound ape henchman, offers the Zunouman an alternative proposition...
And just where is Spectreman during all of this? George has his hands full trying to investigate the Zunouman's spacecraft, following a trail of lifeless bodies in the woods with the Pollution G-Men. As always, when a giant monster appears, George disappears to a phone booth-- er, to contact Overlord and request permission to transform into Spectreman to save the day.
This pair of episodes serves as a transition in Japan. Although the title theme of the English dubbed version remains constant throughout the series, using the background melody from the Mystic Moods song "First Day of Forever," the series in Japan was split into three separately titled sets of episodes and gave Dr. Gori most of the attention in the beginning. The first 21 episodes in Japan were titled simply "Space Apeman Gori," and episode 22 would debut with the new title "Space Apeman Gori vs. Spectreman." The title would not change to "Spectreman" until episode 41. It remains unique that a Japanese superhero series would give its title role largely to the villain.
Don't miss the fun on #GHWP Friday night, and expect other fun tokusatsu video extras in between episodes including the opening title for the fourth entry in the Kamen Rider series, Kamen Rider Amazon, as well as peeks at opening titles for Denji Sentai Denziman (the fourth entry in Toei's Super Sentai franchise, long before the franchise would come to be known in America as the Power Rangers), Iron Man Tiger 7, Kaiketsu Zubat, Ninja Captor, and Japan's very different incarnation of Spider-Man.
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This gathering of The Midnight Spectreman was a blast. Perhaps the best turnout and biggest laughs so far. The full scope of tonight can be found now on Storify! Glad I was able to catch all the extra laughs I missed.
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