Seasons & episodes
S1 · E1The Birth of Astro Boy 1963-01-01 · 30 min
Dr. Tenma, Director General of the Science Ministry, loses his son Tobio in an accident. He decides to create the robot Astro Boy, who looks just like Tobio, using the best of the Science Ministry's technology.
S1 · E2Colosso 1963-01-08 · 30 min
It is the year 2000 and robots have been put in charge of making other robots when there are no longer enough people to do the work. Astro Boy dreams of having a real mother, just like human boys. The robot workers are making an experimental new robot named Colosso who goes berserk and escapes shortly after coming to life. The only hope is for Astro Boy to stop him before he cause too much trouble. (In the original Japanese version, Colosso was named "Frankenstein")
S1 · E3Expedition to Mars 1963-01-15 · 30 min
Astroboy is selected to lead a search party to find the survivors of the first manned expedition to Mars. This meets strong objection from the spaceship's captain, who protests taking orders from a robot.
S1 · E4One Million Mammoth Snails 1963-01-22 · 30 min
Professor Nutty Fruitcake grows giant fruits and vegetables. One day he breeds giant snails thinking they would be harmless, one million snails to be exact. The snails fill the mountain side and overflow into cities.
S1 · E5The Sphinx 1963-01-29 · 30 min
Astroboy wakes up in the middle of the desert, nearly drained of power and unable to remember how he got there. He is helped by Ali Baba, but in return Astro must battle 'The Sphinx'. This is not a real sphinx, but a robot which guards a desert tomb.
S1 · E6Zero, the Invisible Robot 1963-02-05 · 30 min
Zero Robot, a blend of Etheric Resin with Clear Plastic, can only be seen with polarized light. Fearless Fred Fenk uses Zero for robbery. Astro Boy once again battles another robot. Defeating Zero at a cost, Astro reassess his role in fighting villians.
S1 · E7Captain Atom 1963-02-12 · 26 min
Alien resembling aliens including the doctor of Ochanomizu and Higeyajiji emigrated from the stars that looked like the earth in emergency. However, the food crisis and humankind will begin attacking the aliens with cell shrink solution.
S1 · E8The Spirit Machine 1963-02-19 · 27 min
In a land called Shangri-Lee a dictator rose to power. Known to his enemies as the Mad Hatter he trusted no one. To solve this need to do everything himself he captured Dr Elefun. Dr Elefun was to make duplicates of the Mad Hatter. Astro Boy rescues Dr Elefun and the Spirit Machine is destroyed.
S1 · E9The Deep Freeze 1963-02-26 · 27 min
Crime knows no boundaries - not even the North Pole! Sharkey Dirk and his gang of cut-throats had become the Scourge of the Arctic! An avowed robot-hater, Sharkey foraged far and wide destroying every machine in his path. His hideout was a secret den situated right at the Pole (who would think to look for him there?)
S1 · E10Strange Voyage 1963-03-05 · 27 min
'Lucky' Louie the Lug has slipped by the police at a space port and boarded the first commercial flight to the Moon. Astroboy pursues him seeking to recover stolen diamonds, but the liftoff is underway before he can apprehend the criminal. When meteors collide with the ship, Astro escapes in a damaged space raft with Louie, a little girl named Marvel, Radio Announcer 'Stark' Raving, socialite Mona Toujour and crooked insurance magnate 'Rocco' Gibraltor. They land on a strange asteroid which is a frozen vacuum by night, but has breathable air by day.
S1 · E11Time Machine 1963-02-12 · 27 min
One day, excitable Mr. Pompous was relaxing at home when suddenly a mysterious ship crashed through his front door. Clearly the ship was something from the future.
S1 · E12Cross Island 1963-03-19 · 27 min
After Dr I.M. Sinister and his 2 henchmen 'Red' and 'Mouse' escape from Sing Song Prison, they hide at the mining colony of Cross Island disguised as robots. The gang overpowers Dr Elefun, who is repairing the robot miners. As chance has it, one boy robot on the island was built by Dr Sinister. While holding Elefun at gunpoint, Sinister demands not only HIS robot but the use of parts from Astroboy, so he can build a super-robot capable of changing into an array of animals.
S1 · E13The Eyes of Christ 1963-03-26 · 27 min
That priest was dying carving a single mark on the eyes of Christ decorated in the church. Apparently it seems to be a clue to teach the identity of the pirate who broke into the church. The same pirate begins to aim for beard hair that knew their secret.
S1 · E14The Artificial Sun 1963-04-02 · 27 min
Film producer Elia Belial plans to ruin Earth using an artificial sun.
S1 · E15Grass Boy 1963-04-09 · 27 min
Astro runs into two of his friends and stumbles upon an interesting flower. While Astro's friends want to pick it, Astro says to leave the flower alone. He then proceeds to tell the tale of this bizarre flower.
S1 · E16Silver Comet 1963-04-16 · 27 min
Young Koichi (Tommy Speed) prepares to enter a world race with his supersonic car, the Silver Comet.
S1 · E17Hullabaloo Land 1963-04-23 · 27 min
Saturn (Baron Von Hoodwink), an evil robot kidnaps Princess Odette (Princess Lollipop), a robot swan who can turn back into her normal self when everyone's asleep. She runs away from Hullabaloo Land as Astro comes to her aid.
S1 · E18Gangor the Monster 1963-04-30 · 27 min
A robot centipede disguised as 47 wrestling robots causes havoc on a ship and in the ocean.
S1 · E19The Cosmic Giant 1963-05-07 · 27 min
Garon, a giant cosmic robot lands on Earth as a meteor, then Astro Boy and the scientists reconstruct him. During a thunderstorm, Garon revives. A corrupt scientist tells Garon to reconstruct an island in the image of his home planet, also changing the atmosphere to match that of the planet, which is toxic to life on Earth.
S1 · E20Toxor, the Mist Man 1963-05-14 · 27 min
Astronauts report seeing fireflies in space, but they are really gaseous beings led by the evil Toxor.
S1 · E21Satellite R-45 1963-05-21 · 27 min
At the large space station Satellite R-45, Astro Boy discovers a pair of souvenir vendors hawking stolen wares.
S1 · E22Sea Serpent Isle 1963-05-28 · 27 min
At a beach Astro Boy spots a mysterious bottle with a note calling for rescue from an uncharted island called Sea Serpent Isle.
S1 · E23The Deadly Flies 1963-06-04 · 27 min
A mysterious epidemic causes people to drop into comas.
S1 · E24Kingdom of the Sea 1963-06-11 · 27 min
A strange robot demands that Astro Boy and Professor Ochanomizu accompany him to an unknown kingdom at the bottom of the sea.