Awesome doesn't even begin to cover it

I have seen the greatest television show ever created. It is, obviously, Japanese. Witness the glory that is Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot! (Jaianto robo if you speak Japanese.)

Johnny Sokko is an affable little tyke, so well-adjusted that he can swim away from a sinking ship without shedding a single tear for the friends and family who are surely dying mere feet away from him. No! Johnny Sokko moves on to the next adventure and puts the past behind him.

He is assisted in his quest by one Gary Manno, who is the Japanese James Bond, if James Bond were unable to stop smiling and announcing that he is a secret agent on a very important mission. Also, if James Bond befriended random unattended children and forced them to help him infiltrate the bad guy's HQ. Gary Manno's secret spy organization is called "Unicorn," which dovetails nicely with the evil conglomeration they fight, "Gargoyle."

Johnny acquires his flying robot in the usual way: while infiltrating Gargoyle's secret island headquarters after being shipwrecked by a giant sea monster named Dragulon, he is allowed to hold the device that controls Gargoyle's unactivated death robot just as the mad scientist who created it against his will decides to use the power of nuclear detonation to destroy the criminals. The robot has been cleverly engineered such that it will only obey the voice of the first person it hears after activation. Got it?

Most of the show's "special" effects, including everything robot does, consist of stock footage. Its production values rank on par with your average elementary school spring sing. The robot appears to have been built by a twelve year old who happened to have a lot of cardboard, a can of silver spray paint, and a Pharaoh mask. Despite its appearance, the robot can shoot rockets from its finger, lasers from its eyes, and fire from its mouth. And it can fly. There's some kind of hideous alien in a plastic spaceship orbiting Earth, but his role remains undefined in my mind.

Truly, a testament to the power of the audio-visual medium to change the world.