Doraemon (1973 TV series)

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Doraemon
Series 1973
Doraemon logo
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	26 (52 segments)
Release
Original network	Nippon TV
Original release	Pilot: 1972 Official: April 1 (1973-04-01) – September 30, 1973 (1973-09-30)
Series chronology
← Previous Series 1972 Next → 1979 anime

Doraemon (ドラえもん, Doraemon) is the first anime TV series based on Fujiko F. Fujio's manga of the same name. It was produced by Nippon TeleMovie Productions. It aired from April 1, 1973 to September 30, 1973. After the anime ended, Doraemon remained exclusively a manga until 1979 when Shin-Ei Animation produced a more successful second anime adaptation, which officially ended in 2005; it was in turn replaced by a third anime adaptation shortly after which continues to air to recent days. The series is now considered as a piece of lost media due to its rarity and obscurity. Of the 52 segments, only 21 are known to survive.

Characters[]

Voice cast[]

Cast of the 1973 anime

The voice cast was determined in cooperation with Aoni Production and Theatre Echo

• Doraemon – Kōsei Tomita (from episode 1A to 13B) and Masako Nozawa (from Episode 14A to 26B)
• Nobita Nobi – Yoshiko Ota
• Shizuka Minamoto – Ebisu Masako
• Suneo – Shun Yashiro
• Takeshi (Gian) Gouda – Kaneta Kimotsuki
• Tamako Nobi – Noriko Ohara
• Nobisuke Nobi - Ichirō Murakoshi
• Suneo's Mother - Kazue Takahashi
• Suneo's Father - from Sanji Hase to Osamu Katō
• Gian's Father - unknown
• Sewashi - Keiko Yamamoto/Sachiko Chijimatsu
• Ganari - from Osamu Katō to Masashi Amenomori
• Gachako - Junko Hori
• Botako - Masako Nozawa
• Damako - Noriko Tsukase
• Jamako - Rihoko Yoshida

Production and broadcast[]

The series was broadcast between May 25 to September 30, 1973 on Nippon Television. 26 episodes, divided into 52 individual segments were produced. A pilot film was produced in 1972 and shown to test audiences in January 1973. Audience included Doraemon creator Fujiko F. Fujio. They initially approved of the show, but when they were shown the progress, they apparently were angered by the fact that they changed Nobita and Doraemon's personalities.^{[citation needed]} The show was frequently rebroadcast throughout the 1970s. The station, Toyama Television, was the last to air the show, airing from July 3 to July 24, 1981, and briefly again in August of that year. The station aired the show in individual segments. On August 3, the publisher of the Doraemon manga requested the station to cease airing the show, to make sure the reputation of the more famous and longer running 1979 series isn't harmed. The animation crew of the show, , went bankrupt in 1981. Before they went defunct, they tried covering debt by selling off the masters of the 1973 series, and destroying cels and storyboards in a kerosene fire. In 1995, the Japanese post-production company IMAGICA, discovered episodes 18 and 20 through 26 in their archive, as well as segments 5A, 10B and 12B.

In 2003, the production chief of the show, Hiroshi Shimozaki, now going under the name Masami Jun or "mcsammy", came forward with several episodes and (raw footage). He later uploaded low quality versions of the intro and credits to his site on a members only and password protected page, however, a few minutes after the upload, he was told that the intro and credits were uploaded to Japanese anonymous board site 2channel. He immediately removed the video files from his site, but it was already too late. Many images of his episodes were uploaded to GeoCities. In the late 1990s, a person came forward with a VHS recording of the episode "Crazy Stomach Clock", dated from 1978. Audio clips were uploaded, but the site they were hosted on was removed. In 2015, a YouTube user discovered a clip playing on a television set in a Japanese pornographic film from the 1970s.^[1]

It is nearly impossible to find info on this version of Doraemon. No episodes exist online, or on home media besides an audio recording of the final episode. The only footage currently available is Jun's uploads of the opening and ending. However, the footage is of very low quality (240p 193kbit/s video, 128kbit/s audio).

Episodes[]

This section needs a plot summary. Please in your own words. (May 2018)

References[]

External links[]

• Doraemon (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Doraemon (1973 TV series) Design Works
• Doraemon (1973 TV series) at IMDb