X-Bomber

(released as Star Fleet in the UK) is a Japanese marionette tokusatsu TV series created by manga artist Go Nagai, and produced by Cosmo Productions and Jin Productions. The show aired on Fuji TV from to , with a total of 25 episodes (including the pre-series pilot episode), and was billed in Japan as being filmed in "Sūpāmariorama" (スーパーマリオラマ), a puppeteering process similar to Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation works.

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As the year 3000 approaches, a war-torn Solar System is invaded by the Imperial Alliance in search of a supreme being, the F-01. The experimental X Bomber spacecraft with its young crew must discover the secret of F-01 and turn it against the Imperial Alliance or all will be lost.

Aired: 1980–1981
Seasons: 1 · 25 episodes
Status: Ended
Network: Fuji TV
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation

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Instance of: television series
Genre: science fiction television program
Country of origin: Japan
Original language: Japanese
Creator: Go Nagai

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number of episodes: 24
number of seasons: 1
original broadcaster: Fuji Television
end time: 1981-03-28
start time: 1980-10-04
uses: Supermarionation

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==Production information== The show's opening and ending theme songs ("Soldier in the Space" and "The Drifting Galaxy", respectively) were performed by the Japanese hard rock group Bow Wow, while Kazutaka Tazaki (of The Bach Revolution) and Nakayuki Sakuraba (of Adbaloon) provided additional music for the show.

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