Title: Science Ninja Team Gatchaman Fighter (Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman Faita-)

Type: Television Series

Airdates: October 7, 1979 - August 31, 1980

Series Run: 48 Episodes

Episode Length: 30 minutes

Network: Fuji Television

Air time: 6:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M., Sundays

Brought to U.S.: Yes, under the title Saban's Eagle Riders.

Information: Leader X has been destroyed, but the alien being is able to renew itself as Leader Z for a final assault against Earth. Its new leader for Galactor is the blue-skinned Egobossler, a would-be Hitler with a determination to destroy the Earth if he cannot conquer it. The pace in this final GATCHAMAN series becomes frantic as Galactor hammers the Earth with increasingly devastating attacks, and the Science Ninja Team must resort to near-suicidal risks to defeat them.

Creator: Tatsuo Yoshida

Presented By : Kenji Yoshida

Planners: Ippei Kuri, Jinzo Toriumi (Tori Pro.), Shigeru Yanagawa, Satoshi Suyama

Producer: Ippei Kuri

SF Consultant : Rei Kosumi

Chief Director: Seitaro Hara

Character Design: Yoshitaka Amano, Akemi Takada

Mechanical Design: Kunio Okawara

Music: Hiroshi Tsutsui

Ken, the Eagle: Katsuji Mori

Joe, the Condor: Isao Sasaki

Jun, the Swan: Kazuko Sugiyama

Jinpei, the Swallow: Yoku Shioya

Ryu, the Horned Owl: Shingo Kanemoto

Director Kozaburo Nambu: Toru Ohira

Chief Engineer Saburo Kamo: Hiroo Oikawa

Count Egobossler: Koji Nagada

Mekandor: Yoshito Miyamura

Kenpeler : Kenichi Ogata

Leader Z: Seizo Kato

Narrator: Rokuro Naya