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X Bomber (Xボンバー) (Ekkusu Bonbǎ) is a marionette tokusatsu TV series. Created by manga master Go Nagai, the show, produced by Cosmo Productions and Jin Productions, aired on Fuji TV from October 4 1980 to March 28, 1981, with a total of 26 episodes (counting the pre-series pilot episode). This show was billed in Japan as being filmed in "Supermariorama" (スーパーマリオラマ), a puppeteering process similar to Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation works.

This show is basically a cross between Nagai's Getter Robo and Star Wars. Just like Getter Robo, the show's protagonists ride three vehicles that combine into a giant robot. Big Dai X, the show's robot, is more similar to the kind seen in the popular Super Sentai
series than your average Nagai robot.

The show's opening and ending theme songs ("Soldier in the Space" and "The Drifting Galaxy", respectively) were done by the Japanese pop-rock group, BOWWOW, while Kazutaka Tazaki (of Baja Revolution) and Nakayuki Sakuraba (of Adbaloon) provided additional music for the show.

Star Fleet

X-Bomber was renamed Star Fleet and dubbed by English speaking actors for broadcast in the UK in 1982.

Drawing heavily on diverse influences such as Star Wars, Japanese Anime and Gerry Anderson's various "Supermarionation" series, the show ran for twenty-four half hour episodes (twenty-five in Japan - two of the episodes being edited together for the English version). Despite comparison to many of Anderson's creations Star Fleet differed in two important ways. Where as Thunderbirds used puppets suspended from strings, Star Fleet's were controlled from below by the use of rods. The exception to this rule was the 1983 series Anderson series Terrahawks, which used a similar rod control system. Secondly, Thunderbirds was written around a different story each episode featuring largely the same characters, but with a clear conclusion. Star Fleet by contrast had a much darker central story with sub-plots and new characters being introduced in each episode.

The English version's theme song was done by Paul Bliss of The Moody Blues, and was also famously covered by Queen member Brian May and Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen.

Plot outline

The year is 2999 and the Earth is at peace following the Space Wars. The tranquility of the human race is ensured by Earth Defense Force (EDF). Shortly before the turn of the fourth millennium the peace is broken by the appearance of a gigantic alien battle cruiser. Powerless to defend itself, the EDF's Pluto base is completely destroyed and the evil Commander Makara reveals the same fate awaits the Earth unless the mysterious F-Zero-One is handed over to her.

Oblivious to the existence of F-Zero-One, and fearful of Makara's terrible retribution, the EDF presses into action a new and untested weapon, the X-Project from its hidden moon-base.

The series then follows the adventures of the crew of the X-Bomber as they discover the nature of the F-Zero-One and try to protect it from the increasingly desperate and unstable Makara and her demanding overlord, the 'Imperial Master'.

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Star Fleet

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