Dr. Zen (Original Title: 怪盗プライド,[1] Kaito Puraido) is a Japanese anime series broadcast from May 3rd [2] to November 4th, 1965 lasting 104 episodes and broadcasted on Fuji TV affiliates.

Story

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Dr Zen is a world famous thief who uses techniques,[3] Doublecheck and his friends try to stop Dr Zen but he ends up getting away jist in time.

Episodes

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*Known English Episode Titles

The Magic Machine

English translation

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After it's original broadcast, the show was colorized, [3]and renamed "Dr. Zen" 6 sample episodes would be dubbed, however, the episodes were never broadcast on American television. It is unknown whether there were more episodes translated to English, as only those 6 were put on video software, the Japanese version has yet to resurface.

The episodes were found decades later and put on the DVD Classic Cartoon Rarities Vol. 3 by Something Wierd Video.[4]

The show was also translated into Spanish,[3] Portuguese, and Italian, however, like the Japanese version, no episodes are known to exist.

Characters

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*All English voice actors unknown

Dr Zen (Pride)

Voice: Hosei Komatsu[5]

Walter (Dry)[5]

Pride's dog

Doublecheck (Check)

Voice: Sumiko Shirakawa[5]

Honey

Voice - Toshiko Fujita[5]

Gabby (Broken)

Voice - Koji Suwa [5]

Snooperscope[6] (Scope)

Voice - Isamu Tanonaka.

Narration

Teizou Muta

References

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  1. ^ "Kaitô Pride (1965's anime TV series) - animemorial.net". www.animemorial.net. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  2. ^ Ibaraki Shimbun . (May 3, 1965)
  3. ^ a b c D.merrill (2014-02-03). "let's anime: Dr. Zen And the Magic And Poorly Animated Machine". let's anime. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  4. ^ "Somethingweird.com | Age Consent Form". www.somethingweird.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  5. ^ a b c d e allcinema, TVアニメ 怪盗プライド (1965)について 映画データベース - allcinema (in Japanese), retrieved 2024-03-15
  6. ^ DR. ZEN - Episodio 1, retrieved 2024-03-16