Tobor the Eighth Man: Why Did They CANCEL This Popular 60s Cartoon?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- In 1965, a popular Japanese anime TV show that was airing on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from 1963 to 1964 was brought to the United States by ABC Films. That show was Eighth Man.
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I’m 62 years old and I still watch this. Remember when this was on air in 1965....
The 60's Was The Decade Of The Saturday Morning Cartoons!!!!!!!
Me as well I remember him smoking to gain it’s powers.
Me too , same age found this series on vhs sometime ago , glad to have the machines to still play em' sooo.. .many memories.
Same.
Yeah, same here, along with ASTRO Boy, Marine Boy, Prince Planet, and Johnny Cypher.
I’m 67,I remember so well TOBOR THE 8th MAN….fantastic cartoon…
The original "Robo Cop" I loved the series as a kid in the early 60's
I LOVED Tobor! (Robot) I still remember the theme song! Never knew why it disappeared!
8Man, Gigantor and Astroboy were must see tv for me as a kid. Robots are cool.
Those were my three as well.
Don't forget "Marine Boy“！
Don't forget "Marine Boy“！
@@marcweiss5115 Marine Boy WAS cool. Loved the boomerang and the ox-gum. I always wanted some of that gum....
Clutch Cargo, Gigantor? 8th Man was my favorite! Thanks for posting!
I watched this show when I was a kid. I enjoyed it immensely. My favorite episode was "The Nuclear Witch." Really cool!
Mine was Samantha 7....
I’m old enough to remember when cartoon characters like “Mighty Mouse” would snort special pollen from a field of flowers (probably too close to poppy pollen) and “Underdog” not only carried his costume around, but also has a pill ring he’d pop open to swallow and become super powered. 🤔
If you search TH-cam you can still find cigarette commercial clips of the Flintstones smoking.
Underdog was the best! My family (my current nuclear family with my ow adult children) gave me a small Underdog for my office about 15 years ago. They knew how important Underdog was to me!
Astroboy, Gigantor & 8th Man Were the Shows as a 1960s Kid. Fond Memories. (smile)
I remember this show from my childhood. A few years ago, I tried to talk about it with other people but it seems like I was the only person who remembered it. I found some compilation Eight Man DVDs at the 99 Cent Store a little while after that. I was able to show them to my kids and we all got a big laugh especially from the theme song.
The show has been rebooted in Japan as a live action program, I've seen the videos in some Japanese video rental stores, but that was a few years ago.
That was great! Thank you for reviving a wonderful memory.
My father always talked about how he loved this show! I had thought Speed Racer was the first Japanimation show in the US until he described 8th man. I assumed the show being black and white had something to do with why it never reran as TV stations began pushing for color cartoons after 1968ish.
Astroboy and Kimba the White Lion also predated Speed Racer, they just didn't have the massive following anime has today.
Eight Man basically fought Godzilla in the Opening of every episode.
WPIX-TV in New York scheduled "8th MAN" from 1965 through 1968 (at least). The only reason why *they* stopped showing it was because other shows were being introduced in full color (including repeats of "BATMAN")- and there were only 52 episodes. It had nothing to do with "Tobor" using his "recharge sticks" that looked like cigarettes.
That's right -- I have a NYC TV Guide from July 1969 that lists the show M-F afternoons on WPIX, between Captain Scarlet and Speed Racer. Those were the days.
Okay- *1969* (at least). 👍
I loved this cartoon.
Loved, 8th. Man!!! Always have, since I was a kid!! I still love it, and I'm 61 now. Very well made, one of the best if not, the BEST. I wasn't aware that, Winston Sharples had anything to do, with this gem😁!!!
You can tell Sharples by the music.
I'm 67 and was living in the Bronx, NY when this show was aired. Loved it.
Wow, I remember watching this show very early in the morning back in New York when I was just a kid really young around five . It was on just before Hercules I remember singing the song all the time . I remember asking my father a few years before he died. I sang the song to him and asked him what show it was and he sang the whole song and said it was eight man . Right after that I went on eBay and bought a couple of DVDs. Me and my father watched a few episodes.. and my father started laughing, and said wow I remember the show being better than that.
It’s funny the things you remember
I too remember the 8th Man cartoon while very young in New York. In addition to the "energy sticks", the special projection map on the wall behind the main character was the first time that I saw the Goode Homolosine map in which the earth's globe is cut up into curved sections to reduce errors. Amazing what you remember from all those years ago.
Greatest opening theme EVER
A reboot would be welcome even in this age of constant reboots.
I am sad that there was no mention of the 4 episode OVA titled "8man After". I have this DVD and still enjoy it to this day. This program also stood out to me because of how inclusive this show was.
The character was sort of rebooted with the "8th Man After" animated series. But, as much as I would love a new reboot, I can't see it being done well. They'd blow it. Would like to see what it would be like, though. 8th Man was my favorite cartoon as a kid and is still one of my favorite characters. And I believe the company that made the old Hercules cartoons made the U.S. opening sequence to 8th Man.
Can't forget about the live-action movie of 8th Man, too. It was odd, very serious and somewhat dark, gleaning influences from RoboCop. Would love to see a big-budget live-action done today.
8th Man was my jam! My favorite two episodes featured Samantha 7 and Pounce, the Robot Tiger.
My elementary school had two bells at the end of recess. The first was to freeze what we were doing, and the second was to move into our lines to go back into the school. My friends and I always "found ourselves" in the 8th man running pose when we heard the freeze bell.
I was literally a baby when this show first started, yet it was my first exposure to anime and one of my favorite memories. 😎
Thanks for making the video. I remember watching the series as a kid. But for some reason I remember it a having a different theme. Must be getting old.
Good to see an old childhood friend again. Excellent history on the show.
. In a way 8th Man is a soul brother to Will Eisner's "The spirit"
Lt. Hiyata was killed by gangsters then brought back to life as 8th Man by Dr. Genius.
Detective Danny Colt was killed by a mad scientist working for the mob, left for dead in a pool of strange chemicals , revived, and became "The Spirit"
Two iconic guys, men of the law brought back to life to fight crime and evil. Heck, you might as well throw in Officer Murphy a.k.a. "Robo Cop". Thank you so much for this video!😁
I have no doubt that 8th Man was the inspiration for Robocop.
8 man is always an anime classic. 😀👍
He could have had his energy pill like Underdog.
I loved The 8th Man. I don't remember the cigarettes', but he did have an extra brain or power source in his shoulder that he would use. I have downloaded a bunch of the old services from TH-cam, and I watch it even now. There were some really good episodes and some had cold war themes, like when he fought his brother. The plots of the old series were so interesting.
There was an 8th Man movie made in Japan in the early 1990s. You can watch it for free on TH-cam.
Holy smokes! I completely forgot about this show. It was great.
My first brush with this was through the Neo Geo arcade game known as Eightman. There was also a later version done as an OVA called 8Man After. I know a bit about older anime such as Tetsuwan Atom (Astroboy), Mazinger Z (Transor Z), Sengoku Majin GoShogun, Mach-A Go, Go! (Speed Racer), Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman (G-Force/Battle of the Planets/Eagle Riders), Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman, (Tekkaman the Space Knight), Golgo 13, Robot Hunter Casshan and Cyborg 009. They did do a few reboots of those series but they stayed mostly within the late 70s to early 80s. The ones that were pushed farther out were Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Casshan, Astroboy, Mazinger Z, Cyborg 009 and Golgo 13.
It was my favorite show as a child like Gigantor.
I was a kid when this was on. I really liked it!!!
I've always wondered whatever happened to that show thanks a love coming home after school watching it would love to see a reboot version of it❤❤❤
I LOVED THIS CARTOON WHEN I WAS A KID
No comments on how this story is the basis for Robocop? I heard around the time the first Robocop film was released, the story was basically that of 8Man.
Roger Ramjet took a pill, probably worse than a cigarette.
I never really watched the show itself but I learned about Eightman from the NeoGeo game of the same name. It was one of my favorite games on the system and I was really saddened to see the show didnt live long.
I know there was a sequel made in the '90s called 8 Man After. It's available on DVD. I kind of wish they had just done a reboot instead because I never saw the original show.
I've been hearing about 8th Man on and off over the years, but have only now seen the film clips.
It would be great if the original 8 Man were available English subtitled, on DVD or Blu-Ray.( I like to see what the Japanese version looks like.) 🕴🤖🇯🇵
WUTV, channel 29 in Buffalo carried this show in the early 70s.
Yes, back in its bad old days when it was regularly knocked off the air by equipment failures. But it was a resourceful outlet and an interesting alternative to what was on the "big three" at that time.
Maybe new episodes were cancelled, but the existing shows were in reruns in the New York area (WPIX) well into 1969.
Memory lane, I had forgotten this show even existed. 1965? I was fourteen, and didn't watch many cartoons by that time, maybe that is why.
Bring him back, yes for 2023.
A bit of anime history with a controversial back story.
8-Man deserves a modern reboot.
It was sometime in the 80's a live action film was made in Japan of 8th Man. It received poor reviews there. It was sometime in the 90's I rented the video (VHS). It was not too bad of a film, but going towards the end of the climax of 8th Man it was ridiculous.
I Watcher 8th Man On WGN Along with Giantor. And The Marvel Superheroes!!!!!!!
I did also back in the 60s.
Makes me think of Ultraman.
One of possible methods to deal with the energy cylinders might be redrawing them as lollipops - with bonus nod to Kojak... :)
(unless the anti-sugar lobby riots of course ;) )
This and astroboy and prince planet are the earliest 1st cartoons I ever watched
I believe that the Max Fleisher Superman versus the Arctic beast is still the best. It was made in 1940.
I watched this cartoon here in Brazil as many Japanese cartoons (they were extremely popular here, maybe because the huge amount of Japanese immigrants). But here the cartoon was translated from Japanese without editing. But just now I connected the dots (I didn't remember the cigarettes though): was this the inspiration to Robocop?
Samantha Seven!
Does anyone here remember ''Space Ace''?
Yah , I can understand . At 5years old , this television series was my favorite . But what did I know ?
Then I started showing signs of abnormal behavior , and my parents saw it . I started trying to act like the cartoon character . And so my parents started looking for psychological help for me . Lots of psychological help .
I didn’t realize (who could at 6 years old ) that it was all a fake representation .
The behavior I speak of is walking , swinging my arms to match my legs . Not in opposition , like is normal . And thus began a systematic torture of relearning to crawl the walk like a normal child . No one asked ME why I was doing the behaviors I was doing . And when I started kindergarten , I stopped associating with other children . ( kindergarten was a new concept at the time ) . So my parents decided to put me in catholic school . Where I failed there too . As it turned out , I was just a bit slow . So they enrolled me in a school for the mentally challenged . But tarbar the 8th man , ruined my start to life .
And you’ll see why .
Greetings from Algo Rhythm.
the energy spliff stays IN.
I wish this manga that needs an English translation for manga collectors.
Energy cigarettes are actually celery. Go figure.
The monster in the intro strongly resembles Godzilla. Did Toho have any say in this?
Robocop 1.0
The same government said Social Security is good for you and 100% not a pyramid scheme.
Sick !!!
They can use vape sticks...
8th Man, along with Astro Boy and the other classic sci-fi anime series were taken off for one reason only.....and a pathetic one at that. The die hard liberals (and I'm neither liberal nor conservative) in their infinite wisdom felt the episodes were too "violent". So by 1969, they were gone to be replaced by softee TV shows. Hence the de-balling of the male in America had begun......and you know how that has ended up 50 years later.
6:17 One of 8th Man's cigarettes would kill a human instantly.
How much more anti-smoking do you want it to be?
Having him shovie the cylinders in his ear would have cost too much.
Any male character whatsoever must be replaced by a strong female character to reflect the world we live in today lol.
I felt that 8 Man was a great cartoon series that was used as a scape goat because the energy booster tubes Tobor used was falsely misrepresented as cigarettes to give young people an idea to smoke real cigarettes. The advertising agencies I felt was wrong in making 8 Man a consistent smoker instead of what they are used for. It’s sad that heroes like 8 Man was use as a scapegoat .
Cancelled for a bad translation. Now there's a story we here in the 21st Century know all about.😢
They canceled Tobor because there were WAY too many fuck scenes.
Geez even underdog had an underdog secret energy pill in his secret compartment of his ring. Its better than speed. And I loved Wally Cox voice acting.😜 But June Foray did it better than most, Hokey smokes Bullwinkle!!! And who can forget Hushaboom the silent explosive and upsadaisyum! Every super hero has a gimmick like Roger Ramjet with his proton pill.😜👈. And Super Chicken with his super sauce?
i would like to see these 1965 b&w anime manga episodes of TOBOR aka the ROBOT of 8TH MAN in color for a new viewing audience.
please add these 2 DVD disc to your personal collection of 8 MAN / FOX LORBER HOME VIDEO BY IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
COLOR VERSION / 83 MINS.
8 MAN AFTER PERFECT COLLECTION " A COMPLETE FEATURE LENGTH COMPILATION OF THE ENTIRE 8 MAN OVA SERIES
DVD VIDEO/ IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT STREAMLINE PICTURES. COLOR VERSION 104 MINS.
THANKS! FOR AN ENJOYABLE ANIME REVIEW.