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Enban Sensō Bankid

Japanese TV series or program

Enban Sensō Bankid
円盤戦争バンキッド
Starring	Eiji Okuda Tomohiro Tanabe Tatsuyuki Tsuji Akinori Umezu Yoshie Suzuki Hiroshi Yagyu Toki Shiozawa Masami Shimojo Akihiko Hirata Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
Narrated by	Ryo Kurosawa
Theme music composer	Kenjiro Hirose
Opening theme	Kakero Bankid by Shozo Tenma
Ending theme	Yume no Yuujou Hikou by Shozo Tenma
Composer	Kenjiro Hirose
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 minutes per episode
Production company	Toho
Original release
Network	Nippon Television
Release	3 October 1976 (1976-10-03) – 23 March 1977 (1977-03-23)

Enban Sensou Bankid (円盤戦争バンキッド, Enban Sensō Bankiddo) is the title of a tokusatsu series produced by Toho. The series, consisting of 26 episodes, is a result of joint production with Nippon Television, and aired in Japan starting on October 3, 1976 until the 23 March 1977.

This was Toho's first direct answer to the Super Sentai series (particularly the first series, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, which was still running on TV Asahi at the time), in that this series has five color-coded superheroes (a red leader, blue, pink, and two yellows). In this series, a team of five kids (a teenage boy, a teenage girl, and three young boys, two of whom are siblings), form the top-secret "Bankid" superhero team ("Bankid" is derived from the Japanese word "enban" - "saucer"), to fight the evil Bukimi Aliens ("bukimi" - Japanese for "weird," "eerie"), led by the mysterious Commander Guzare, who plots to invade Earth.

This series is also notable in that veteran designer Tohl Narita (the designer of Ultraman, Ultra Seven, the Gargantuas, etc.) designed the Bukimi Aliens, starting with Episode #6.