Theme Song Destroy Galactor! Lyrics Tatsunoko Pro. Planning Department Composer Asei Kobayashi Performed by Columbia Cradle Club Columbia Records SCS 505
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh
Roaring engines, ninja of science
Destroy Galactor
Evil of the world
Fly with the Ninja Technique Tornado Fighter
Protect the Earth under the shining sun
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Creator Tatsuo Yoshida Planning Jinzo Toriumi Satoshi Suyama
Executive Director Hisayuki Toriumi
Protect the Earth under the shining sun
Script Kenro Matsuura Hirohisa Soda Director Fumio Kurokawa Protect the Earth under the shining sun
Script Kenro Matsuura Hirohisa Soda Director Fumio Kurokawa
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Music Bob Sakuma Sound Effects Ishida Sound Pro. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Music Bob Sakuma Sound Effects Ishida Sound Pro.
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Produced by Tatsuo Yoshida Tatsunoko Pro. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Gatchaman
Produced by Tatsuo Yoshida Tatsunoko Pro.
The Mysterious Red Sand
The artificial lake created by the International Science Organization
as the first step in turning the great deserts of Africa into verdant plains
disappears in a mere instant.
What did you say? The lake's been found?
Don't joke around!
All hell broke loose here thanks to the lake disappearing last night, you know!
Hey, give us the details!
Right, they say the lake reappeared 100 kilometers to the northeast.
That's the report of someone on the scene, but the heat must have made him crazy.
A lake that moves? That's crazy.
No, it might be true. Let's go look.
There it is! The lake really did move.
But why?
What is that thing?
The incident is immediately reported to Dr. Nambu,
and he orders the Science Ninja Team to Africa right away.
So it happens that they split up to search for the mysterious lake.
A lake that moves? Where on earth did it disappear to?
Yes, this is Gatchaman, over.
This is Nambu. Have you found the lake?
It's been no use. I don't have a report from anyone yet.
But we will find it.
I'm counting on you. Stay in that desert's oldest village tonight.
The best way to find out about the desert is to ask its inhabitants.
Roger!
We don't know where the investigative team is,
and there are no clues about the lake anywhere either.
I can't believe in a moving lake.
Jinpei, you haven't studied enough.
A Swedish explorer with a PhD, Sven Hedin,
discovered a moving lake deep in the heart of China called Lop Nor.
But that lake moved over the course of hundreds of years.
The circumstances are a little different from this incident.
This Africa place is sure mysterious.
You're quite right.
There are a lot of mysteries in this desert, and many secrets lie here.
At this point, the only one who knows is me.
Please tell us.
This story has been passed down since long, long ago.
You kids probably won't believe it, but long, long ago,
this area was the land of a highly advanced civilization.
There's a reason why civilization flourished so greatly in the midst of this desert.
It was thanks to the red sand.
Red sand?
Yes, but the world is full of irony, you see.
The red sand continued burning forever for us, helping us create iron and copper.
But one day, the red sand started to move.
Thanks to the red sand, the city of our ancient civilization flourished and perished.
They say that the city continued to burn for three hundred days.
And eventually the red sand disappeared into the desert ground.
It's not just the lake that moves; the red sand moves too?
Even now, it still moves somewhere underneath this vast desert.
You don't mean...
Make no mistake about it.
You know the secret of the red sand, don't you, Sir?
Perhaps. But even if I did know, I couldn't tell you.
The red sand is the servant of a terrible demon.
O God, calm the fury of the red sand,
and bring the land peace and ease, O God...
Who are you people?
Be quiet.
You're coming with me.
Be quick about it!
Galactor!
Hey, Gramps!
Dammit, that Galactor scum!
Where are you taking me?
Dammit, those underhanded...
What's that?
It's a monster!
Go on, get on!
This is the necklace that belongs to Gramps.
That would mean the Elder was trying to give this to you.
Yeah, big brother.
I wonder what in the world he did that for?
It's red sand.
From Gatchaman's report and the results of the analysis of the red sand,
the matter of the moving lake has developed in an unexpected direction.
We'll have Dr. Nambu give us a report about the moving red sand now.
The substance that's being called red sand is in fact not sand.
What?
Now, everyone, please quiet down.
Please continue, Dr. Nambu.
They're bacteria.
It's a completely new bacterium, previously undetected on Earth.
I see. If it's bacterial, it's a kind of microorganism.
If it's alive, it's only natural for it to move.
But it's not an ordinary bacterium.
We've established that these bacteria are harboring a new element inside them
that has a full thousand times more energy than uranium.
That's unbelievable.
Precisely why Galactor is after the red sand.
Exactly.
And what relationship does this have to the moving lake?
Here's a film I took with a special camera.
First of all, I'd like you all to watch it.
This is the red sand, magnified three thousand times. It's alive.
The red places all over their bodies
are the new element that has a thousand times more energy than uranium.
I'm giving the bacteria water. When I do so...
Don't be too surprised just yet.
The truly fearsome aspect of these bacteria is yet to come.
Why this element causes explosions has not yet been scientifically determined.
But it's the terrible truth.
If Galactor gets their hands on this red sand...
Just thinking about it sends a chill down my spine.
I see. So that's why Galactor is desperate to use the moving lake
to get their hands on the red sand.
That's why we absolutely must not hand this red sand over to Galactor.
You damn stubborn old man...
You imbecile! Hurt him more and make him talk! Have no mercy!
Yes, Sir.
All right, old man, spill it already! Where is the red sand?
If you don't tell me, I'll kill you!
Go ahead and kill me. If you kill me, you'll never know where the red sand is.
Where is it? Where is the red sand? Talk!
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Gatchaman
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Hey, Jun.
This place feels suspicious, doesn't it?
I saw this tower from a ways off too.
I thought it needed a little investigating.
It's the remains of an old oil field, huh?
It's sucked up all the oil available, so it's not running anymore.
Naturally, we're going to go down and have a look, right?
Yeah...
Galactor has a taste for hiding its bases in places like this after all.
It looks like it's got about two thousand meters underground.
This cavern used to be filled with crude oil, right?
Yeah...
Look out!
That's a lot of water! I wonder where it came from?
What's that?
It's the ant lion that kidnapped the old man from the village!
There it is!
So that's it. I understand the mystery of the moving lake now.
The monster ant lion created by Galactor sucked up the lake's water from beneath it.
Then, in order to find the red sand, it sent the water to a new place
and made a new lake in the desert.
Ken immediately reports to Dr. Nambu.
I see. Good work, you did well.
Galactor hasn't found the red sand yet.
We need to infiltrate the secret base we think is here underground
and rescue the old man as soon as possible.
The only one who knows the secret of the red sand
is that old man, the village elder.
How do you propose to get underground?
Please dispatch special forces.
And I'd like permission to use Bird Missiles in the event of an emergency.
Very well.
Wow, are those all bombs?
They'll blow up and make the entrance bigger for us.
Old man, I take it you're not going to tell us where the red sand is, no matter what?
Of course I won't . Kill me!
Killing one old fool is boring.
I think that instead of killing you, I'll kill everyone in the village.
What?!
I'm pretty cunning, if I do say so myself.
Now make your decision. Are you going to tell me, or aren't you?
If you still want to be stubborn,
I'll send the ant lion to the village immediately!
Please wait.
How low, making the good people of the village suffer when they know nothing!
Then how about you confess?
The red sand...
...is closed up in underground tunnels.
Where? Where are those tunnels?
Where the peak of the mountain of God casts its shadow on the night of the full moon.
Where the peak of the mountain of God casts its shadow on the night of the full moon?
Call the ant lion! The red sand belongs to us, Galactor!
With the red sand, our dream of world conquest will no longer be a dream!
What's that?
What happened?
Okay, Ryu, here we go!
Okay!
Oh, no, it's Gatchaman!
Hey! Isn't the ant lion here yet?!
Oh, it's Gramps!
All right, to the ant lion!
I've got no more use for you!
Sir!
Hold on, Sir, hold on!
Where the peak of the mountain of God casts its shadow
on the night of the full moon, that's where the red sand is.
Please, use it to destroy the evil.
Just like the Elder said, the red sand is sleeping underneath the desert.
There is no exit anywhere, and the red sand cannot escape.
We did it! We've got the red sand!
The amount of red water is growing!
The God Phoenix is here!
All right, today we'll finally settle things.
All right, fire a Bird Missile!
The Bird Missile didn't do any damage!
Here I come, you damn monster scum! Ryu, get as close as you can to it!
What now, big brother? At this rate, they'll take us down!
All right, time for our last resort.
We'll do the Science Ninja Technique Firebird. Everybody ready?
Science Ninja Technique: Firebird!
We finally did it. The red sand all burned up!
But it's such a waste.
If it were used the right way, it would've been useful to mankind.
Maybe.
But you just try letting Galactor use that kind of enormous power!
No matter how hard we worked to stop them, the Earth would be theirs.
But in the end, the red sand took out Galactor for us,
so we've gotta be grateful to it.
That's right, and to the old man who died for that cause too.
If that red sand that hid such enormous energy within itself
had continued to propagate and had fallen into Galactor's hands,
the world would probably have been completely destroyed.
Gatchaman heaved a sigh of relief as he left the moonlit desert behind.
Who is it? Who is it? Who is it?
The shadow dancing high in the sky
It's the white wings of Gatchaman
You stake your life and fly out
That's the Science Ninja Technique Firebird
Fly! Fly, fly, Gatchaman
Go! Go, go, Gatchaman
There is only one Earth
Oh, Gatchaman, Gatchaman
You stake your life and fly out
That's the Science Ninja Technique Firebird
Fly! Fly, fly, Gatchaman
Go! Go, go, Gatchaman
There is only one Earth
Oh, Gatchaman, Gatchaman
A frozen monster that traps people and ships in ice in a split second, the Ice-Kander.
Using this new weapon, Galactor attacks nuclear-powered ships one after the other.
Hearing this, Gatchaman and the others follow a missing passenger ship to the Arctic Circle.
But the terrible frozen beast is waiting in Gatchaman's path
as he goes to rescue the passengers.
Next time on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, “The Fearsome Ice-Kander” Look forward to it!