Monday, July 15, 2013

Metal Hero writers: first part; the Uehara era (Space Sheriff trilogy, Juspion and Spielban)

A few months ago, Fantasy Leader and I have done an inventory of the writers involved in every sentai show that has aired.
Now, I'm gonna start a new series of "episode writer" list, with the Metal Hero franchise.
Metal Hero has several steps in its history : it started with the "Space Sheriff" shows, which had usually one male hero, a space police officer, helped by a female assistant, who fought evil groups trying to conquer the universe. Two other series, Juspion and Spielban, which have a somewhat different story, but still retains a lot of the Space Sheriff style. All those series had as head writer Shouzo Uehara, who involved himself in that franchise after leaving the Super Sentai franchise.
(NB: like in the sentai frnachise, when I see names which I can't find the romanji spelling, I put the name in Kanji)


Space Sheriff Gavan (Uchuu Keiji Gaban)

Shouzo Uehara (main writer): 1-16, 18-19, 21-24, 26-27, 29-36, 38-39, 42-44 (37 episodes)
Susumu Takaku : 17, 28 (cowritten with 永井達郎) (2 episodes)
Mikio Matsushita : 20 (1 episode)
阿部和江 : 25 (1 episode)
永井達郎 : 28 (cowritten with Takaku) : 1 episode
Tomomi Tsutsui : 37, 40 (2 episodes)
Yoshiaki Kobayashi : 41 (1 episode)


Space Sheriff Sharivan (Uchuu Keiji Shariban)

Shouzo Uehara (main writer): 1-7, 9-13, 15-21, 24-26, 28-32, 34-36, 38-42, 44-45, 48-51 (41 episodes)
Susumu Takaku : 8, 14, 22-23, 27, 33, 37, 43 (8 episodes)
久保田圭司 : 46 (1 episode)
湯山晃行 : 47 (1 episode)






Space Sheriff Shaider (Uchuu Keiji Shaider )

Shouzo Uehara (main writer) : All 49 episodes




Juspion (Kyojuu Tokusou Jaspion)

Shouzo Uehara (main writer) : 1-19, 21-22, 24-36, 38-40, 42-46 (42 episodes)

Haruya Yamazaki : 20, 23, 37, 41 (4 episodes)





Spielban (Jikuu Senshi Supiruban)

Shouzo Uehara (main writer): 1-17, 18 (cowritten with Yoshiaki Kobayashi) 19-22, 24-26, 28-31, 33-37, 39, 42-44 (38 episodes)
Yoshiaki Kobayashi : 18 (with Uehara) (1 episode)
Shou Aikawa : 23 (1 episode)
滝沢一穂 : 27 (1 episode)
市川靖 : 32 (1 episode)
Noboru Sugimura : 38, 40-41 (3 episodes)










1 comment:

  1. This series started.both the Metal Hero series and of course Space Sheriff too. Before it was decided via Gokaigers. Juspion and Spielban was not part of any universe.

    Though it was.done in GoBusters as publicity to promote Gavan.

    I thought that both Flashman and Spielban should have had a crossover.
    They both had that alien space theme and costume is close except one is armor and the other is spandex.

    Can you visualize Spielban, Diana and Helen as official Flashman recruits.

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