Captain Future (Season 1)

Captain Future (キャプテンフューチャー, 1978) is a Japanese anime series you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from the pulp science fiction cycle that American writer Edmond Hamilton ran through the 1940s.

Curtis Newton, known as Captain Future, was orphaned as an infant when his scientist father died aboard an artificial satellite he had built to pursue research away from Earth. Curtis grew up there alongside three companions his father had created: the disembodied brain of the elderly Dr. Simon Wright housed in a mechanical casing, a robot, and an android. Together the four take on missions across the solar system and beyond. For its time the series treated Hamilton's source material with unusual seriousness — the episodes turn on ideas, not just action set-pieces. Watch all episodes of Captain Future (1978) online on iFILM.