Title: Time Bokan (Taimu Bokan)

Type: Television Series

Airdates: October 4, 1975 ~ December 25, 1976

Series Run: 61 episodes

Episode Length: 30 minutes

Network: Asahi Network

Air time: 6:30 P.M. to 7:00 P.M., Saturdays

Brought to U.S.: Yes, on home video under the title Timefighters.

Information: Dr. Kieta, the inventor of a time-travel machine, is lost on a test run of his machine to the prehistoric past. When the time-space craft returns to the present, his young assistants are surprised to find only a parrot in the cockpit. In their hurry to find the missing scientist before it is too late, the youngsters set out on a time-space hunt without any clear destination.


Creator: Tatsunoko Productions Planning Room

Planners: Jinzo Toriumi, Shigeru Yanagawa

Producers: Ippei Kuri, Masaru Shibata, Masatsugu Nagai

Chief Director: Hiroshi Sasagawa

Character Design: Yoshitaka Amano

Mechanical Design: Mitsuki Nakamura

Music: Masayuki Yamamoto

Tanpei: Toshiko Ota

Junko: Mari Okamoto

Perasuke: Junpei Takiguchi

Chorobo: Reiko Katsura

Dr. Kieta: Ryuji Saikachi

Majo: Noriko Ohara

Grokki: Joji Yanami

Warusa: Kazuya Tatekabe

Otake-san: Haru Endo

Narrator: Kei Tomiyama