> Wow! You mean there's three people who remember this show? My friend and I couldn't remember the names of the robots.
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I think Goldar and Silvar were sort of a husband-and-wife robot pair, and Gam was their son. Don't ask me how.

> It had a kid with a whistle who could summon the giant robot/rockets, right? I remember watching the show on WGN back in the late '70s. I don't remember much aside from the whistle, the robots living in some sort of cave/volcano thing, and a car that had wings sliding out of the roof, then it took off flying in the air. I remember thinking how neat the car/plane was.
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Your memory is better than mine; the only part of that I can recall is the cave/volcano base. I do remember part of the plotline of the end of the series, though, as the evil space guy kept trading off whole planets to "rent" increasingly huge and powerful monsters to capture the Earth for him. When one of his councilors objected to the exorbitant sum of four planets to hire out what was probably the biggest, baddest monster of them all, the evil space guy retorted, "Earth is worth ten planets!" I felt pretty proud to live on Earth at that moment, let me tell you.

> Just checked over at us.imdb.com -- scant information, but they date the show as done in 1967. It aired in the US in the late 70s, early 80s on WGN out of Chicago.
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Sound right to me, although I don't know how we were getting it in Danville, Virginia at that time.

> I seem to recall that it was on right around the time Ultraman was on and something called "Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot", yet another Japanese Giant Robot with Kid Sidekick Defending the Earth from Alien Monsters show. This one could make a burning X appear before him that shot out to hit the bad creature.
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Ultraman!!! Woo-hoo!

> -Faux "Wow! All that and Star Blazers, too!" Pas

Star Blazers! Double---nay, triple woo-hoo!!!

Iss "Okay, let's see...who remembers the original Land of the Lost?" achar