Battle Fever J

Battle Fever J is a Japanese television series. It is the 3rd in Toei's Super Sentai series. Battle Fever J was a co-production of Toei Company and Marvel Comics. A total of 52 episodes aired on TV Asahi between February 3, 1979 and January 26, 1980.
Codenames
The team have codenames named for countries around the world, also respectively named in their theme song: Battle France, Battle Cossack (Soviet Union), Battle Kenya, Miss America (United States) and Battle Japan.

Robots
This was the first series in the Super Sentai franchise where the heroes must control giant robots to defeat a monster who itself has grown to a gigantic size.
Black & Orange Ranger
Battle Fever J also marks the first appearance of a Black and Orange Ranger in the franchise. 
Other new things
Toei's tokusatsu adaptation of Spider-Man was the first to introduce this format and was also the inspiration for this series. The series was also partially inspired by the Marvel Comics character Captain America.

Battle Fever J was also the first series to use the term Super Sentai (unlike the previous two who were just called Sentai, without the "Super") until Toei announced in 1995 that its predecessors Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai were also part of the Super Sentai series, when Chouriki Sentai Ohranger was announced as the 19th Super Sentai team.

Plot
General Kurama assembles four young agents who had been dispatched around the world for training. They are joined by FBI investigator Diane Martin, whose father was murdered by Egos. The five don powered suits to become the Battle Fever team. The Battle Fever team's trump card is the Battle Fever Robo. Egos tries to stop the construction of the Robot. Although the monsters they send to perform this task are defeated one by one by the Fever team. Egos then unleashes the "younger brother" of the Buffalo Monster, a giant robot replica of its "older brother". The Robot, fortunately, is finished in time. Aboard it, the Fever team defeats the Buffalo Monster and its successors. The Fever team never stops, even when is lost two of its members (the original Miss America and Battle Cossack). With new members, the team defeats Hedder, now the Hedder Monster, and breaks into Egos' headquarters, where they are fed into the Egos Monster Making Machine so that they may be used as material for a Battle Fever Monster. The team destroys the machine and slays the mysterious deity Satan Egos himself with the Lightning Sword Rocketter sword-throwing move.

Characters

Battle Fever
 Actor  Name  RangersHironoki TaniokaMasao DenBattle JapanYukio ItouKensaku ShiraishiBattle CossackDaisuke BanMakoto JinNarimitsu KurachiKyosuke ShidaBattle FranceKenji OhbaShirou AkebonoBattle KenyaDiane MartinDiane MartinMiss AmericaNaomi HagiMaria Nagisa

Cast
 Masao Den / Battle Japan: Hironori Tanioka
 Kensaku Shiraishi / Battle Cossack I: Yukio Itou
 Makoto Jin / Battle Cossack II: Daisuke Ban
 Kyosuke Shida / Battle France: Narimitsu Kurachi
 Shiro Akebono / Battle Kenya: Kenji Ohba
 Diane Martin / Miss America I: Diane Martin
 Maria Nagisa / Miss America II: Naomi Hagi
 General Tetsuzan Kurama: Chiyonosuke Azuma
 Keiko Nakahara: Noriko Itō
 Masaru Nakahara: Takumi Satō
 Tomoko Ueno: Keiko Kanno
 Yuki Ueno: Michiyo Satō
 Akio Hamamura: Shin'ichi Yoshimiya
 Shigeo Aoki: Seiji Suzuki
 Narrator: Tōru Ōhira

Guest Stars
 Boiser Martin (Diane's father) (1 & 24): David Friedman
 Black Tiger Mari (16): Mitchi Love
 Mitsuru Okiyama (16): Naoya Uchida
 Sayuri Kurihara (25): Lisa Komaki
 Car Owner (34): Kin'ya Sugi

Songs
 Opening theme
 "Battle Fever J"
 Lyrics: Keisuke Yamakawa
 Composition and Arrangement: Michiaki Watanabe
 Artist: MoJo with the Columbia Yurikago-Kai
 "Battle Fever J (Alternate Opening)"
 Lyrics: Keisuke Yamakawa
 Composition and Arrangement: Michiaki Watanabe
 Artist: MoJo, the Columbia Yurikago-Kai, Feeling Free
 Ending theme
 "Yūshu ga Yuku" ("Brave Men Go")
 Lyrics: Saburō Yatsude
 Composition and Arrangement: Michiaki Watanabe
 Artist: MoJo

Category:Super Sentai series
Category:1970s Japanese television series
Category:1979 Japanese television series debuts
Category:1980 television series endings
Category:Japanese-language television programs
Category:Superhero television shows
Category:1980s Japanese television series endings