The BEST episodes of Doraemon (1979) season 1

#1 - Mancutting Machine

Season 1 - Episode 84 - Aired 7/7/1979

#2 - The Weather Box

Season 1 - Episode 69 - Aired 6/20/1979

After Suneo and Nobita argue about the weather of the next day, Doraemon gives him a gadget that controls the weather.

#3 - Let's Set Up the Customer's Face

Season 1 - Episode 73 - Aired 6/25/1979

#4 - The Friendship Capsule

Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 5/29/1979

Suneo tries to lure Doraemon from Nobita but he won't go so he gives Suneo a capsule which makes anyone your friend as a consolation. Cunning Suneo uses it to make Doraemon become his friend.

#5 - Advertising in Mirrors

Season 1 - Episode 88 - Aired 7/12/1979

Doraemon and Nobita use a broadcast mirror to advertise a small sweet shop. At first, the advertisement fails to attract customers. But later, a huge crowd gets attracted to the sweet shop.

#6 - We're Gonna Steal Mom's Diamond

Season 1 - Episode 90 - Aired 7/14/1979

Nobita leaves a photo album on the floor. The book brought nostalgia to Nobita's mother and she recalled a story about a precious diamond ring that was passed down in their family, but was stolen by two boys. Nobita and Doraemon go back in time to stop the robbers. The diamond ring turned out to be plastic and was meant for Nobita's mom to be a lesson.

#7 - Let's Be Lightning

Season 1 - Episode 67 - Aired 6/18/1979

Doraemon produces a small thunder cloud to cure Nobita of his fear of thunder. This done, Nobita uses it to shock people.

#8 - Find the Culprit with the Time Machine

Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 6/2/1979

Nobita is wrongly blamed for breaking a school window. A time machine helps him find out what really happened.

#9 - The Day When I Was Born

Season 1 - Episode 81 - Aired 7/4/1979

The episode begins with Nobita getting yelled at by his mom and dad. Their expectations and reality causes Nobita to believe that he was picked up or adopted. Nobita and Doraemon go back to the past to the day that Nobita was born. Nobita realizes the dreams and aspirations that his parents hold for him and it causes him to study.

#10 - The Apartment Tree

Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 5/31/1979

Nobita wants his own apartment so Doraemon gives him a tree which grows rooms underground and the gang move in. Remade in 1989 as "Apartment Pretend."

#11 - The King of Sharpshooting Contest

Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 6/4/1979

Doraemon gives Nobita an ointment which when rubbed on the fingers, fires a jet of air powerful enough to knock someone over. Remade as "Air Pistol" in 2001.

#12 - Taking an Arrow to School

Season 1 - Episode 86 - Aired 7/10/1979

With a Moving Arrow and Bow, Doraemon helps Nobita place targets at various locations so going around would be a breeze. Gian and Suneo steal an arrow from Doraemon and Nobita, but a dog moves the destination target to a canal causing them to fall into it.

#13 - The Cursing Camera

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/13/1979

Nobita accidentally makes voodoo dolls of Doraemon and his parents using the camera and they fall into the hands of two rough girls.

#14 - Dinosaur Hunting

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/1979

Doraemon and Nobita's first time travel. They get into a drawer which leads to them travelling on a time machine and end up ten billion years in the past. After shrinking one dinosaur, Doraemon cannot find his gun but they manage to escape the second one, with Nobita leaving his glasses behind, which are found in the present time, to the amazement of scientists.

#15 - N-S Badges

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/5/1979

The episode starts with Gian playing with two magnets. Nobita then says that he should know about magnetic properties in kindergarten. Gian then gets really angry and chases after Nobita. Nobita runs home and asks Doraemon for help, and he gives Nobita some N and S emblems after successfully testing them on Nobita's parents. Then he puts a S emblem on Nobita and the other S emblem on Gian. Nobita then escapes from Gian, but he instead makes a mistake and ends up being attracted to Gian. The episode ends with Doraemon ignoring Nobita when he pleads for help.

#16 - Memorization Bread for Testing

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/1979

The episode starts with Nobita running into Doraemon and asking him for a tool to help him study for his examinations that takes place tomorrow. Doraemon gives him some Memory Bread which Nobita eats and understands the work. Later, he relaxed and ate desserts until he became full, but Doraemon forces him to eats extra memory bread. The episode ends with Nobita vomiting and re-eating memory bread from the start the very next day. Later remade as "Copying Toast" in 1992.

#17 - Submission Ring

Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 5/30/1979

Nobita is too lazy to do his homework without pressure so Doraemon gives him a headband which is painful if anyone says "close", which Doraemon uses to make Nobita do what he should do.

#18 - Real Shooting

Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 6/1/1979

#19 - A Visitor from the Country of the Future

Season 1 - Episode 68 - Aired 6/19/1979

Nobita tries to get the better of bully Gian using Doraemon's things from the future, but Gian has things from the future too and gets the better of him.

#20 - Let's Go See the Ocean in a Submarine

Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 5/28/1979

Doraemon produces a mini submarine which makes many jumps into all sorts of liquids including a toilet bowl on its way to the sea.

#21 - Swimming Powder

Season 1 - Episode 93 - Aired 7/18/1979

Nobita cannot swim so Doraemon uses a powder on him which makes him able to swim through the ground or anything else solid as though it were water, so he can learn to swim.

#22 - The Snail House Sure is Carefree

Season 1 - Episode 87 - Aired 7/11/1979

Nobita gets called a liar by his mom when she believes him to be hiding his recent exam. Nobita complains to Doraemon and exchanges his snacks for a snail shell that protects him from his surroundings. Shizuka shows up near the end and returns a journal that holds his exam grade. Nobita's mom apologizes, but is met with Nobita's demands... until she asks him for his grade.

#23 - Moving to a Haunted Castle (1)

Season 1 - Episode 91 - Aired 7/16/1979

Nobita's parents consider moving, so he and Doraemon convince them to move to an ancient castle owned by a beautiful woman. When she mysteriously disappears, they must rescue her.

#24 - Swapping Moms

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/1979

Nobita, Shizuka and Suneo are all fed up with their mothers so Doraemon arranges it for them to swap parents and they find that mums are not so bad after all.

#25 - Shopping In The Future

Season 1 - Episode 96 - Aired 7/21/1979

Nobita wants a new bike but his parents cannot afford it, then he comes across a catalog from 2087 and orders and gets many things, not realizing that they have to be paid for.