Trachadon, the Dinosaur Skeleton is the 50th episode of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
Plot Summary[]
In the country Indelhia, droughts and heavy rainfalls occur every year. In cooperation with the ISO, a plan to build a dam to create lots of fertile land is being made. But through mysterious events which are happening again and again around a shrine which will be inundated by the dam, the plan is only progressing very slowly. At long last, the Trachadon skeleton appears.
The Science Ninja Team gets the order to investigate and sneak into the country. Events like a landing transport plane exploding on the runway the God Phoenix was supposed to use, show the handwriting of Galactor. Jinpei and Ryu, staying in a cheap hotel, wind up getting involved in a murder case when a would-be burglar is found stabbed.
Ken hears that the murder might have been connected to the fact that a golden coin has been found at the construction place. He believes that the picture carved into the coin shows a secret underground passageway to the shrine and starts to investigate that shrine.
While escaping, Ryu and Jinpei sneak into a Galactor base built in the cellar of the shrine and learn that the purpose of Trachadon is to have people stay away from the missile construction plans in that base. Ken and the other sneak in from the street and together they destroy the missiles.
They blow up the control mechanism for Trachadon and defeat the Galactor members. Afterwards, they leave the rest to the local police and depart from the country. Then, just as Katse arrives in Indelhia, the base explodes before his eyes.
Staff[]
- Screenplay: Satoshi Suyama
- Director: Hisayuki Toriumi
- Mecha Design: Kunio Okawara
- Animation: Koji Sugii, Akio Kikuchi, Shigeru Kato
Voice Cast[]
- Ken: Katsuji Mori
- Joe: Isao Sasaki
- Jun: Kazuko Sugiyama
- Jinpei: Yoku Shioya
- Ryu: Shingo Kanemoto
- Dr. Nambu: Toru Ohira
- Berg Katse, Man A: Mikio Terashima
- Leader X, Man D: Nobuo Tanaka
- Detective, Member A: Yuzuru Fujimoto
- Chief, Man C: Shunsuke Shima
- Narrator: Hideo Kinoshita
- Communications Officer, Man B: Tessho Genda (as Mitsuo Yokoi)
- Maid: Mitsuyo Tobe
Trivia[]
- This episode was not dubbed into Battle of the Planets.