Uchuu Keiji Shaider
| Space Sheriff Shaider | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Tokusatsu Superhero fiction |
| Created by | Toei |
| Starring |
Hiroshi Tsuburaya Naomi Morinaga |
| Narrated by | Toru Ohira |
| Opening theme | "Space Sheriff Shaider" by Akira Kushida |
| Ending theme | "Hello! Shaider" by Akira Kushida |
| Composer(s) | Michiaki Watanabe |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 49 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original release | March 2, 1984 – March 8, 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Space Sheriff Sharivan |
| Followed by | Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion |
Space Sheriff Shaider (宇宙刑事シャイダー? Uchū Keiji Shaidā) was a tokusatsu television show that aired on from 1984 to 1985. It is the last of the Space Sheriff Series, the previous two being Space Sheriff Gavan and Space Sheriff Sharivan.
Action footage from Shaider was used for Season 2 of VR Troopers. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Space Captain Sheider.
In college studying archaeology, Dai Sawamura deciphers the figures on the Nazca Plain in Peru. Impressed by this feat, the Galactic Union Police (銀河連邦警察? Ginga Renpō Keisatsu) recruit and train him to be Earth's third Space Sheriff. He is given the code name 'Shaider' in memory of an ancient warrior who defeated the villain Emperor Kubilai and brought down the Fuuma 12,000 years ago. When the Fuuma returns, Dai is deputized as he returns to Earth to battle the Fuuma.
Based on the Vavilos (バビロス? Babirosu), it serves as headquarters of Shaider and Annie as it circles around the Earth. In combat, the Vavilos can fire the Vavilos Beam (バビロス ビーム? Babirosu Bīmu) from its wings. Whenever Shaider enters the Fushigi Dimension (known as Time Space Warp in the Philippines) and encounters a giant Fuuma gunship, he summons Vavilos, commanding it to transform either into a giant gun called the Big Magnum or a giant robot whose chest emits a giant laser beam called Vavilos Fire, fires Vavilos Lasers from its hands, catch the Fuuma Gunship's missiles and throw it back towards the Gunship and can shoot Vavilos Missiles.
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