The first ever Astro Boy Series created in full color takes viewers on an amazing journey showcasing the true meaning of being a hero, as Astro Boy himself learns the importance of kindness, compassion and selflessness in the face of life's obstacles. Children and adults alike will enjoy this very influential animated joy ride and cherish its timeless message of hope. When a brilliant robot engineer named Doctor Boynton loses his son Toby in a tragic accident, the dedicated but heart-broken scientist uses his technical skills to construct a robot in the boy's image. But hope was lost when he realized the robot could never fill the void left in his heart.
| 1 | The Birth of Astro Boy | 10/1/1980 | 24 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Hi! I'm Astro. My father is a robot scientist. He always scolds me for my clumsiness. I think I have too much power. The other day I used my superhuman power to save many people from a big fire. That's when they found out I was a robot. So my father and I decided to sail across the ocean. Again I encountered trouble. Our ship was drawing near an iceberg. I had to save the ship and its passengers. I became completely exhausted when another danger approached. | ||||||
| 2 | Robot Circus | 10/8/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Life in the circus was exciting but hard. The robot elephants did wonderful tricks, and Tornado the trapeze star risked his life in a dangerous stunt. But I couldn't seem to do anything right. Hamegg the ring master threatened me, and I wanted to leave the circus. My friend Cathy believed in me, and when an accident threatened the whole audience, I had a chance to prove myself. | ||||||
| 3 | Save the Classmate | 10/15/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| This is Astro again. I went with Dr. Elefun back to our own country where he put me in a real school. I started in the third grade in Mr. Daddy Walrus' class. Not everybody liked having a robot for a classmate. One day a boy named Alvin got himself and his friends into terrible trouble at an unfinished amusement park. After that they all thought differently about having a robot for a friend. | ||||||
| 4 | Atlas Lives Again | 10/22/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Hi! This is Astro. Dr. Elefun promised to get me a mother and father, but when I went to see them at the Ministry of Science, I found they had been kidnapped. I couldn't underS.T.A.N.D. who could have done such a thing. I followed their trail and finally found them and their kidnapper. He turned out to be someone I'd known before, but he sure had changed. | ||||||
| 5 | Robot Land | 10/29/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Robot Land is a fantasy park. It's a place every kid dreams of visiting. One day a robot swan flew away from the park and came right to my house. The swan turned out to be a beautiful girl in disguise, and a Devil King came after her to take her back. Robot Land is beautiful, but when I went to rescue the girl, I found it was also full of dangers. | ||||||
| 6 | Frankenstein | 11/5/1980 | 24 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| This is the robot manufacturing center at the Ministry of Science. They make thousands of robots here. One day a thunderstorm activated an unfinished robot - Frankenstein! If that wasn't trouble enough, Skunk's gang tried to use Frankenstein to help them steal, and that makes trouble for robots everywhere. | ||||||
| 7 | The Red Cat | 11/12/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Thirteen Thirteenth Street was a spooky old house, and some people even said it was haunted. Dr. Leopold and his cat were the only ones who lived there. When five boys disappeared there, Daddy Walrus and I went to find them. They were all right, but as soon as we freed them, all the animals started running wild. Were they rebelling for being kept in cages? | ||||||
| 8 | The Crystal of the Desert | 11/19/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Hi! This is Astro. I found big trouble in the desert when I went to investigate a strange series of droughts. After a little help from a new friend I stumbled across a huge crystal in the middle of the desert. Once again I met Atlas, who was living inside the crystal and using it as a base. | ||||||
| 9 | The White Planet | 11/26/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Join me for the round-the-world rocket car race. My friend Konrad was one of the drivers and his car White Planet had won the race five straight years, but this time he ran into all sorts of obstacles, and it wasn't hard to tell that Skunk was behind them. He was trying to keep Konrad from winning, but I wasn't going to let him get away with it. | ||||||
| 10 | The Robot President | 12/3/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| The country of Guravia had elected the first robot President, but the Deadcross Party was bent on keeping President Ricci from taking power. They tried to destroy both Ricci and me. With some help from Daddy Walrus, I was ready to take on anything the Deadcross Party threw at me. Don't miss the exciting finish of A Robot President. | ||||||
| 11 | Goliath's Head | 12/10/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| A rocket carrying a Mars development robot named Goliath crashed to Earth with a terrible explosion. Goliath had a very special head, and everyone wanted to salvage it, but Skunk stole it. Goliath wanted to find it more than anybody else, and he started stealing heads from every robot he found. Skunk knew how powerful the head was, and he tried to use it to destroy me. | ||||||
| 12 | The Light Ray Robot | 12/17/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| On Christmas Eve there was a big contest in the National Robot Hall to see which was the best robot of the year. The Light Ray Robot won the Grand Prix award. But Skunk was up to his usual tricks and he stole The Light Ray Robot and taught him how to steal! That Skunk never learns. I had to try to rescue The Light Ray Robot, but I would I be in time? | ||||||
| 13 | Uran the Tomboy | 12/24/1980 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Hi! This is Astro again. Dr. Elefun presents me with a most unusual surprise - a sister of my very own. Her name is Uran, and I think she is adorable, but it is not easy being a big brother because she gets into a lot of trouble. | ||||||
| 14 | Robio and Robiette | 1/7/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Robio was a champion rocket car driver from the Cavoltet family. Robiette's father was head of Donahue Motors. They were in love, but the Donahues and Cavoltets had been racing enemies for years. | ||||||
| 15 | Astro Fights Aliens | 1/14/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| When I was appointed captain of a ship bound for Mars, I knew I had my work cut out for me. But when a stowaway gave me some secret information I knew it was going to be more dangerous than I thought. A survivor from an earlier mission told of dangerous aliens who planned to take over Mars and then Earth. | ||||||
| 16 | Save the Carolina 3 | 1/21/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| My friend Gene lived on a satellite with his father. Gene thought his life there was boring until old Skunk and his gang showed up to cause more trouble. Then both Gene and I had to save a cargo ship, and Gene found that his father's work as a signal officer was very important. | ||||||
| 17 | The Rainbow Comet | 1/28/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| All the students in Daddy Walrus' class went on a field trip to space to study astronomy. We were all amazed at the beauty of the rainbow comet when it came over Venus. But our trip was upset with Atlas' Crystal Castle kidnapped our ship. He threatened to hurt my classmates if I didn't join him in his plan to conquer the world, and I had to give in. | ||||||
| 18 | The Death Balloon | 2/4/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| It was a frightening sight when an army of balloons began appearing over the city. They were floating bombs and they looked just like me! I had to find out where they came from, because the police thought I was responsible. It turned out Skunk was behind the whole thing, and you can be sure I wasn't going to let him get away with it. | ||||||
| 19 | The Transformation Robot | 2/11/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| On a visit to a very unusual island I met a very special robot named Buck. He was a transformational robot, and he could become any shape he wanted. But a group of thieves used Buck to help them steal uranium from the island. Together Buck and I had to stop them. | ||||||
| 20 | The Wreck of the Titan | 2/18/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Titan was the most advanced luxury spaceship in the world. But on her maiden voyage, the computer failed and couldn't protect the ship from meteorites. Most of the passengers escaped on the emergency craft. Some of us were forced on the moon where we met a robot survivor from long ago, and learned something about greed. | ||||||
| 21 | The Liar Robot | 2/25/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| True was a robot who didn't live up to his name. He told all the people a terrible earthquake was coming and put the whole city in panic. It was a lie. Then, when a real earthquake was near, they wouldn't believe his warnings, and then everybody suffered. You will see how True became the Liar Robot here on Astro Boy. | ||||||
| 22 | The Girl from Alsoar | 3/4/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| My family and I went on a skiing trip, but it was interrupted when some strange spaceships appeared from another planet. I met a girl named Violet from the Alsoar system. She warned me that the ships had come to get water from the earth. The robots had malfunctioned and instead of asking for the water, they were going to take it by force. | ||||||
| 23 | The Greatest Robot in the World Pt. 1 | 3/11/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Bruton was the most powerful robot in the world, and Saltan, his master, sent him all over the world to destroy any robot who could rival him, including me. When I told him I didn't want to fight, he kidnapped Uran and I had to fight to get her back. This is Part One of The Greatest Robot of the World. | ||||||
| 24 | The Greatest Robot in the World Pt. 2 | 3/18/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Bruton wasn't through with me, but he also went after fighting robots like Hercules and Fotar of the Southern Continent. Bruton and Hercules had a furious fight. I thought Bruton had met his match. Fotar had to fight to protect the children he cared for. Finally it came down to Bruton and me. This is the exciting conclusion of the Greatest Robot in the World. | ||||||
| 25 | The Robot Vikings | 3/25/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| The Robot Vikings were a group of vandals that roamed the city at night terrorizing people and destroying everything in sight. It looked like nothing could stop them, not even my watchdog Jump. I couldn't get permission to go after them so I disguised myself. Even then my troubles weren't over, because I had to face their leader, Atlas. | ||||||
| 26 | The Time Machine | 4/1/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| This time a famous surgeon, my sister Uran, a young detective and myself go on a trip through time to save the life of a fifteenth century prince. It's a trip we'll never forget. Some of it was fun, but some of it was dangerous, and like all stories of knights and castles it has a beautiful princess and a happy ending. | ||||||
| 27 | The Robot Stuntman | 4/8/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| This time, trouble in movie land. Uran went on a tour of Hollywood Studios to meet Tom Stanton, the adventure star. She loved his movies and wanted to see him do his dangerous stunts. But when she found out that Stanton used a tiny stunt robot named Sam, Uran started making trouble. The studio kept Sam locked in a little box, and Uran set him free. The studio bosses did everything they could to keep Sam's existence a secret, even scrapping troublesome robots. | ||||||
| 28 | The Great Meltdown | 4/29/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| After Livian came crashing at my feet, I had to find out what happened. Finding her memory damaged, I took her to Dr. Elefun where we were quickly informed of the meltdown of arctic icebergs. Good news came and Livian regained her memory, but all was not well, I had to have a showdown with Atlas to save Earth. | ||||||
| 29 | Uran's Twin | 5/6/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Uran refused to act as ladylike as Mom and Dad thought she should. They wanted her to play the piano and study her lessons. Uran wished she could become two robots so one could obey her parents and the other could go see the robot wrestling matches. It sounds impossible, but she got her wish and before long she wasn't just watching the matches, but fighting in them too. You will find out how Uran became two robots in one. | ||||||
| 30 | Speeding Through the Storm | 5/13/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| The old D51 steam engine didn't seem much more than a museum piece when we saw it on our class field trip, but when a violent storm hit and threatened to burst the old dam up river, the D51 got us all to safety just in time. | ||||||
| 31 | The Return of Queen Cleopatra | 6/3/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| It was like a trip back in time. Julius Caesar entrusted me with the royal staff of Queen Cleopatra. But he had stolen it, and from then on there was plenty of trouble. Cleopatra hounded me to regain her staff, but was she really the ancient queen? The people were ready to believe it, but I knew there was someone else behind the modern Caesar and Cleopatra. | ||||||
| 32 | The Runaway Subway Train | 6/17/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| The new subway trains were wonderful - a lot of fun to ride. They could go 180 kilometers an hour, but nobody ever thought that any of them would go out of control. It reached dangerous speeds, and no one knew why. It was Atlas again, tricking me into coming out to face him. See how it turns out. | ||||||
| 33 | The Baby Elephant Pook | 7/1/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| The safari park was a place where hunters went to shoot robot animals. But a real elephant got into the park by mistake and was killed, leaving her baby all alone in the park. It was dangerous there for a baby elephant, and I did my best to protect it. But when the killer robot Zohra got loose, nobody was safe. | ||||||
| 34 | The Secret of the Bee City | 7/8/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Uran and I went on a pleasure cruise to see Bee Island, and it didn't take long for a mystery to develop. Who was that boy, and what was he looking for? Thanks to my sister's curiosity we found out soon enough, and the answer led us to a very patient robot and on a search for a long-lost scientist. But there were dangers ahead in a strange kingdom where bees were the rulers and human beings were slaves. | ||||||
| 35 | The Monster of Clarken | 7/15/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| The Golden Voral Forest was the most beautiful place I had ever seen. A great sea current threatened to wipe out all the young fish living there, so with my new friends I tried to save them. Then came trouble from a greedy gold hunter who thought the Coral Forest was his personal gold mine, and a monster we hadn't counted on. | ||||||
| 36 | Lily on Peligro Island | 7/22/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Lots of people find notes in bottles, but one day I found forty-three of them, all from a girl named Lily who was being held with her father on a strange island named Peligro. I wasn't supposed to leave the house at night, much less the country, but I decided I had to look for her. My first trip didn't give me any answers, only more baffling questions. | ||||||
| 37 | The Anti-Proton Gun | 8/5/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| What happens when the most powerful gun in the world is let loose in space? This time it's my job to keep the world from finding out. Everybody wants to get their hands on the anti-proton gun. Atlas wants it to take back to Earth. Walpur Guiss wants it to conquer Earth and Livian becomes a pawn in the struggle. I just want to stop it. | ||||||
| 38 | The Man-Made Solar Sphere | 8/19/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| In this episode a strange accident sets off a mystery involving a powerful man-made solar sphere, which attracts the attention of the detective Randolph Holmes. Dr. Elefun built the sphere years ago, but who has it now? Holmes becomes Dr. Elefun and I become Holmes and pretty soon nobody knows who's who. All we know for sure is we have to get the solar sphere away from whoever has it. | ||||||
| 39 | Blackie Young | 9/2/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| On a rainy night Dr. Elefun received a large package. Inside were the torn parts of a robot. Dr. Elefun assembled as much as he could and the headless robot began giving us a strange clue. The clue finally led us to the South Pole where robots were badly treated. Blackie Young and his gang wore masks and proclaimed themselves the enemies of all robots. | ||||||
| 40 | The Genie from Outer Space | 9/16/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| After a large meteorite fell to Earth I went with Dr. Elefun and a team of scientists to investigate, but it was no meteorite. It was a huge robot being delivered from one planet to another. Its name was Galon! It had powers so great it could transform the landscapes of entire planets. Once activated, it couldn't be stopped by force - but it could be stopped by brains. | ||||||
| 41 | The Robots Nobody Wanted | 9/23/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| What happens when three robots, a fireman, a nurse and a welder, find themselves out of work and unwanted? Usually it means the scrap factory. But in this case, they fight back, with a little help from a miner and a little encouragement from me. And when trouble calls and no one's there to help, my friends all do their part to save the day. | ||||||
| 42 | Atlas Forever | 10/14/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| When our space stations around Saturn and Jupiter were attacked, the word went out - Atlas did it. A hundred ships went after one robot and Atlas fought them all off! Was he guilty or just defending himself? Maybe we had the wrong enemy! Next time Atlas and I found ourselves fighting side by side against invaders from another galaxy. | ||||||
| 43 | The Snow Leopard | 10/21/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| When it snowed late summer there had to be something wrong - and there was. The snow fed on energy, and it came from a strange leopard way up in the sky. Not even a powerful rocket could break through the snow before giving out. It seemed hopeless, until I had a crazy idea - fight the leopard at its own game. | ||||||
| 44 | Uran's Quest | 10/28/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Uran's at it again! This time my sister's curiosity gets the better of her and she goes on a mad search to find where God lives. I can't tell her. Mom and Dad don't know. Not even Dr. Elefun knows. So what's left? An amusement park computer, of course. She asks it where God lives and that's where the trouble starts. From trap doors to a room full of mirrors, follow Uran in her search. | ||||||
| 45 | Outer Space Port R45 | 11/4/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| This time, come in for a landing at Space Port R45. There's a mystery to solve, and it's tricky. Space pirates are raiding the area, but who's behind it all? The clues are just as tricky as the mystery, so pay attention. | ||||||
| 46 | The Hijacked Airship | 11/11/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| What does a luxury airship have to do with dreams? For the kids in our class, plenty. The best essay on our dream meant a trip aboard the Memorial, the biggest airship in the world. That's when I found out a terrible thing - robots don’t have dreams. I didn't have one to write about. I asked Dr. Elefun to take my powers away for one day. Then I'd be just like any other boy. I was happy then but sorry later when a hijacker took over the Memorial. I couldn't stop him until my powers came back. But would it be in time? | ||||||
| 47 | The Human-Faced Rock | 11/18/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| Above the village of River Valley there was a rock with the face of a man. When Daddy Walrus took us to see it he told us a legend about the rock: when it turned its face toward the lake, the village would be destroyed. Nothing could make the rock move - except people up to no good. The rock began to tremble and finally fell! Could I hold on long enough? | ||||||
| 48 | Uran Falls in Love | 11/25/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| One day Uran brought home a funny-looking robot. She got tired of it in a hurry. It was ugly and not very smart. Uran only wanted a beautiful robot. But the little robot didn't get tired of her. No matter what she did it wouldn't go away. I had a robot I wanted to get rid of too - Zeus, the destroyer robot. He was Uran's ideal of beauty - and when Zeus and I had our last confrontation, I think she wanted him to win more than me. | ||||||
| 49 | The World of Odin | 12/2/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| This time we'll take a trip to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Captain Claud and his crew were searching for the sacred ground of Odin, the Viking God. When Dr. Elefun and I joined him, Claud told us of Viking legends and King Erik's voyage to the New World. Our trip took us among strange people with fierce ways - where Claud fought a great battle to become King of the Vikings. We finally found the Land of Odin, but it was not what we expected. | ||||||
| 50 | The Secret of the Mayas | 12/9/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| The Secret of the Mayas means trouble. My mission was supposed to be easy, but the greeting I got told me different. Why were these robots attacking? I went to explore a Mayan pyramid, but mechanical crabmen and a mysterious sphinx had other ideas. Were they evil, or just protecting an ancient Mayan king? | ||||||
| 51 | Astro's First Love | 12/16/1981 | 23 minutes | SD Format: ... | HD Format: ... | |
| It turned out to be my hardest mission ever. I had to recover stolen plans for a robot who was a lot like me, but this one was a walking bomb! I had help from a robot called Niki. She got me into the fortress where the plans were being held. I had to get them back before Dr. Rindolf could build the robot bomb, but it was too late! Niki was the bomb! | ||||||
