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giant robot was my favorite (rush) was his words when launched.he would go thru the whole billy blanks tybo routine before take off.it was cool they should bring it back on cartoon network or tvland or something soon.

I love this show! I am sitting on my laptop on a saturday morning with two sick kids. I am watching cartoons with them and they suck. I was reminiscing about the great shows when I was a kid:
Bugs bunny, tom and jerry, johnny socko, ultraman, the show with the merman and the aqua gum, etc.

So i looked it up and it brought me to this forum. Someone should revive Johnny Sokko!

NEVER did this show jump the shark. I still remember standing in front of a console TV (eve level, I was four years old) waiting impatiently for the sound of that robot to lumber into action. I am certain I drove my parents nuts asking for Johnny's watch
and a jetpack to fly around the yard...
It is a shame so few remember this show but everyone remembers Ultraman. Clearly the robot was far cooler. I was scarred for life when the Robot offed himself and Gargoyle. Too deep for kids today. Their loss....

The episode that jumped for me was Drakulon - The vampire episode.

A childhood favorite of mine! Despite the cheesy effects, still great. The Hydrazona episode stands out with me, it really made me cringe when the red bacteria claims its first human victim! GREAT STUFF!!

Ahhh Unicorn Agents This is The Space Mummy

Yep, my favorite too. I was a 4 year old back in 1971 and it was the only show that I absolutely HAD to catch. Still remember Wee Willie Weber's introduction. Ultraman was cool too but that robot was EVERYTHING. It was also an extoadinarily violent show. I mean, it's the only show at that time (and a kid's show at that) where characters were regularly being mowed down with machine guns! Yeah, it was bloodless but... wow!

One of my most vivid recollections from being 4 or 5 was this television show. It was on weekday afternoons right before Ultraman. I remember that was appointment television for me, and I happy to see many other people enjoyed the show tremendously as well. Best Enemy: The starfish monster who melted robots one arm.

Any show that has an 8 yr old girl shouting out "Halt I'm a Unicorn man!!" while pointing a laser gun can NEVER jump the shark. Ever.

I am the only person I know who ever watched this show. I remember it as a good show, BUT the only problem was that it was told in order, so when characters died, they stayed dead. The problem I had was that the TV station NEVER SHOWED THEM IN ORDER. Hey, it was just a kid show, right? So one villain would be killed at the end of Monday's episode, but on Thursday, he would be given a second chance by Emperor Guillotine. I would like to see the episodes in order to judge the show fairly.

The "Giant Flying Jawbone" episode! Talk about your cheesy cardboard & paper mache monsters!! So poorly constructed in action & appearance a 2 year old would say ""give me a break"!!

this show never jumped. nobody seems to remember this show but me. Giant Robot - Launch! Remember the episode when GR's eyes got put out? I cried along with Johnny. My ignorant sister was more into ultraman, silly kid.

I remember seeing a TV movie kind of like this show. Was probably from a show a lot like it in Japan. Anyway, it was called "The Defenders and the Great Brain," and the plot was about this group of evil guys with giant robots who wanted to take over the world, but this kid accidentally gained control of one of their robots (Robot 17), and it fought all of the other robots they sent. The ending was similar too; in the end, the evil computer, the Brain, arose from the ground and Robot 17 crashed into it and killed them both to save the world. Touching, especially because I was like five when I saw it. I'd sure love to get a tape of that.

Oh my gosh, I forgot all about this show until I read about it on this website! As a pre-teen, I thought the action was hip. In retrospect, it seems the producers did borrow a lot of ideas and concepts from somewhere else (e.g. the Egyptian Sphinx - but its in the public domain now). Does anyone remember how the evil henchmen appeared in this show? Dressed in clean-cut sort of uniforms, dark sunglasses, and black berets? They sort of have what we may describe now as that early beatnik look. Coolsville, ya dig?

Yeah, I know that, like Ultraman, every fight had the same things happen again. With Ultraman, it was the rays he shot from his hands when he held them up in a sort of martial arts block. With the Giant Robot, it was the missiles. (Cut to closeup of hands...missiles slide into position at the fingertips...kah-kah, kah-kah). I loved it! Plus, it was one of the few shows to have a beginning and end. The Robot actually got to meet the head of Gargoyle....a giant gargoyle! And at the last moment, he acted independently of Johnny's control. He grabbed Gargoyle, flew up into space, and exploded. Great show of self-sacrifice! If they did it today, it'd be lame and stupid, and I mean REALLY lame, like when they brought back reruns of Thunderbirds and inserted live-action sequences of a couple of American kids who were supposedly monitoring everything and had nothing to add to the shows except an excuse to watch something else!