Tekkaman: The Space Knight (宇宙の騎士テッカマン) is a Japanese anime produced by Tatsunoko Production in 1975.[2] A short-lived English adaptation aired in the U.S. in 1984. The first 13 episodes streamed in Japanese with English subtitles on Anime Sols as of spring 2013 exclusively in North America, but the website is now defunct. All 26 episodes were streaming on Viewster in several countries until the website went defunct in 2019. In the 1990s, it was followed by the much more popular Tekkaman Blade, which was dubbed in the U.S. by Saban as Teknoman.
Plot
The Earth has entered the 21st century, and it is in peril. The "Green Earth" project has been abandoned, and scientists look to the stars to find a "Second Earth". The "Space Angel", on its mission to find this "Second Earth", is attacked by a group of aliens named the "Waldarians". The "Space Angel", commanded by the father of hot-headed young space pilot Joji Minami (Barry Gallagher in the English dub), is destroyed and with it the hope of mankind.
Professor Souzou Amachi (Dr. Richardson) develops the powerful new alloy "tekka" and manages to create the Gigantor-like flying robot "Pegas" and the "Teksetter" system it contains, designed to combat the aliens by augmenting a human with a certain wavelength into the mighty Tekkaman, an indestructible