Tekkaman: The Space Knight

Tekkaman: The Space Knight (宇宙の騎士テッカマン Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman) is an anime produced by Tatsunoko Productions in 1975.

Dubbing History
An English-language version was created by a small independent company named William Winckler Productions. The script was written by Winckler and future Streamline Pictures co-founder Fred Patten. In stark contrast to Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, another Tatsunoko series which was dubbed by Sandy Frank as Battle of the Planets, Winckler attempted to stay as true to the original Japanese series as possible, with little editing of violence as possible, and retaining all the original Japanese music and sound effects.

The series was sold to TV half way through the dubbing of the series, and so there was a mad rush to complete the second half in time to meet the air dates. However, the dub was cancelled mid-story with only 13 of the show’s 26 episodes produced. William Winckler wanted to dub the rest of the series, but the lack of a toyline or a major network picking the series up made that financially unfeasible.

Over forty-thousand original Tekkaman the Space Knight VHS video cassettes were successfully sold throughout the U.S. to major retail stores by Congress Video Group (the largest video distributor at the time), and later by L.D. Video. Congress Video sold half-hour episodes, whereas L.D. Video sold two 96-minute movie compilations.

Additional Voices

 * Ken Kamp
 * Jean Veloz
 * Roger Weiss
 * Patricia Winckler
 * William Winckler