Switch On!

The much beloved 1970s Japanese TV show Kikaida is now being shown Saturdays at midnight on KTSF (channel 26) in the San Francisco Bay Area!

I first discovered Kikaida on vacation in Hawaii a couple of years ago. Aparently, it has never been off the air since it first started airing there in the early '70s. The show is absolutely amazing- and it's such a part of TV culture in Hawaii that people there were consistently shocked when I told them that I had never seen an episode. Kikaida is everything you'd want in a tv show: guitar playing cyborgs, fast paced karate action, color-themed rubber monsters, a motorcycle with a sidecar, and a flute-playing supervillian! For me, it was love at first sight.

If you like campy, frenetic, colorful Japanese rubber monster shows, I highly recommend that you check out Kikaida!

Also available on DVD.