Spectreman

Spectreman
Title card for the American release
GenreTokusatsu
Superhero fiction
Science fiction
Action/Adventure
Created byDaiji Kazumine, Tomio Sagisu
Country of originJapan
No. of episodes63
Production
ProducerP-Productions
Running time25 minutes
Original release
NetworkFuji Television Network
ReleaseJanuary 2, 1971 (1971-01-02) 
March 25, 1972 (1972-03-25)

Spectreman (スペクトルマン, Supekutoruman) is a tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. Produced by P Productions and created by producer Souji Ushio, the series aired on Fuji TV in Japan from January 2, 1971 to March 25, 1972 with a total of 63 episodes (divided into three segments), not counting the pre-series pilot episode. This was the first major Japanese superhero show of the 1970s, as it began airing three months before Tsuburaya Productions's The Return of Ultraman and Toei and Ishimori Productions' Kamen Rider.