Monster Squad is a television series that aired Saturday mornings on NBC from 1976-1977 that is unrelated to the later movie of the same name.
The series stars Fred Grandy as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman at "Fred's Wax Museum". To pass the time, Walt built a prototype "Crime Computer" hidden in a large stone sarcophagus near an exhibit of legendary monsters. When Walt plugged in his computer, "oscillating vibrations" brought to life the wax statues of Dracula, the Wolfman who here was named "Bruce W. Wolf", and Frankenstein's Monster who was referred to as "Frank N. Stein" in the credits.
The monsters, wanting to make up for the misdeeds of their pasts, became superhero crimefighters who used their unique abilities to challenge and defeat various supervillains. In most episodes, Walt would send the monsters out to investigate crimes and fight the villains while monitoring the activities from the wax museum via the Crime Computer, presumably because his job required him to be at the wax
Like its predecessor, the show follows three main characters who team up to solve unusual cases. Despite different backgrounds, they work together seamlessly to crack the cases, mainly involving organized crime. With no formal law enforcement authority, they constantly find themselves in precarious circumstances as they take on cases like revenge, medical malpractice, taxi robbery, and gang-related murder.
Daichi has served time for murder, and is now living a life without hope. One day he is suddenly told by his former love that he has an 8 year old daughter called Hana, who is suffering from leukemia. Although he is shocked, when it becomes clear he can save Hana by being her donor, fatherly love overwhelms him and he finds meaning in life again. However, a conspiracy leads to his arrest for murder. Unless he takes the transplant surgery scheduled in two weeks, he can’t save his daughter’s life. Desperate, he starts his great escape.
Time traveler Meng Qi only wants to be a merry and graceful swordman, but he suddenly becomes the world-renowned "Mad Monk" in accomplishing his repeated and unlimited mission in the "reincarnation space". However, all this turns out to be planned by a powerful ancient lord. The story tells how the invincible and funny monk makes his way around in the world of martial arts and becomes a legendary swordman.
Armorsaurs follows a team of teen pilots and their armoured dinosaurs, who are humanity’s last line of defence against a sophisticated alien race intent on returning to Earth to replenish their army of prehistoric fighting dinosaurs.
Join Pinocchio and his friends, the pirate rag doll Freeda and the put-upon Talking Cricket, on their thrilling adventures in and around Papa Geppetto's Shop of Wonders. The trio are always ready for action.
The story of a mysterious and cold key-smith He Chufeng, and a delicate and well-versed antiques appraiser Luo Bin, as they set off on a thrilling adventure in the urban city.
Venus Versus Virus revolves around the life of a young girl named Sumire Takahana who has had the power to see ghosts since she was a small child, though no one believes her. One night while running to her dorm building to make curfew, a broach flies out of no where and she pricks her finger on it and sees a demon. Suddenly, another girl clad in gothic lolita clothing arrives bearing a huge gun and kills the demon. Once the ordeal is overwith, the girl gives Sumire a flier for a local clothing store, Venus Vanguard. When Sumire comes to the store, the girl, whose name is Lucia Nabashi, she explains to her that because she pricked her finger on Lucia's broach, Sumire now has the power to see demons as well as ghosts. Additionally, Lucia now wants Sumire to help her rid the world of these demons called Virus that threaten to consume all of humanity.
Lady suddenly disappears without a trace. Cobra must race against time and dive into her past to find a way to save her. With assassins, dreams and old acquaintances Cobra will need to outsmart his new enemy. Who was Lady before she met Cobra? How did she get her metal body? Find out in Cobra Time Drive!
Kisumi Natsuki is a member of the karate club at Goujyu High School. Strong and very skilled, only the captain of the group, Masaoki Yanagisawa, is a match for her. Her life starts to get really complicated when a student named Rina Takaoka is transferred to her school and becomes her classmate. Takaoka's former colleagues are set to punish her for having left Jotoh Academy, a school famous for it's martial arts,
Mu Xia is a talented locksmith. While dealing with a strange murder case within a locked room, Qin Zuo Man inadvertently discovers that Mu Xia is the new security consultant hired by the police academy. As more locked room cases arise, the simple-minded Qin Zuo Man, the monotonous Mu Xia and celebrity cop Tan You join hands to form an investigative team that seeks to uncover the truth through every door.
As a deadly assassin from the poison clan, Gero swears he'll never settle down—that is, until the family orders his sister to produce the poison clan's next heir. Refusing to let his sister abandon her chance at true love with her girlfriend, Gero desperately turns to marriage swindler Mei Kinosaki for relationship advice. Can Kinosaki turn this trained killer into a charming husband-to-be?
Two young women are drawn to an abandoned ship and find themselves trapped there overnight. They encounter three mysterious ladies and begin to piece together a story about love, protection and longing.
On the day the new Chief of Staff arrived at Kitamachi Station, the officers here prepared to welcome him. At that time, a bus was hit by a man with a knife and robbed the passengers in the car. Newcomer Aikawa Minori was kicked out by a passenger when he tried to board the bus. She followed the bus by taxi, but the bus headed straight towards Kitamachi. For some strange reason robbers came to the station to present themselves. Minori then handcuffed her who prevented her from performing her duties. But the man she handcuffs to is the new Sheriff, Toyama Kinshiro.
Welcome to a world ravaged by explosions of violence, a world without love. Jung, the broken-hearted hero, pursues his quest: reunite with Maria, his lost love, savagely decapitated by Little Jesus. He can count on the support of allies met along his bloody path, encounters that provide an understanding of others, but especially of himself. He also has to deal with his “violent outbreaks,” an incontrollable curse that springs from his murderous soul.