It's time for the most infamous Godzilla movie ever made: All Monsters Attack, aka Godzilla's Revenge. Director Ishiro Honda returns for this *explicitly made for children* movie about standing up to bullies and getting your money's worth out of old footage. During the process, we come to a final head against the miserable and frequently racist dubbing practices these movies endured for their original American releases, and thank god we won't be suffering that for any future movies.

We're joined today by SDGC creator and fellow cohost John Phipps. He's supposed to come back for another one of these, but we can't be sure he will anymore. Not after this.

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For like the fifth time now... it's time. If Ghidorah the Three Headed Monsters was a coming together moment for Toho's most popular giant movie monsters, Destroy All Monsters was a coming together moment for every monster they could feasibly cram into the thing. Starring 11 or 12 monsters (do we count Kamacuras' webbed up corpse?), the Showa era's intended finale is the version of the alien invasion story Honda has told to date. I mean they made like half a dozen more movies immediately after, but they intended it to be the finale, and that counts for something.

We're joined today by recurring guest, Godzilla fanatic, and fellow SDGC host, Justin aka Roboplato. Justin got his first pick of the movies for every season, because we shamelessly engage in nepotism.

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We'll never be able to go back to a time before Minilla. Godzilla returns to the hands of director Jun Fukuda for another island adventure and finds himself an unwilling adoptive parent. It's the first appearance of the most infamous and widely-hated character in the Godzilla franchise, but certainly not the last. At least Godzooky could fly.

We're joined this week by Lewis White, deputy editor at StealthOptional. Lewis is very funny and we're deeply grateful to have someone else to commiserate with over the prince of the monsters.

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We return to Ishiro Honda and the rest of the Dream Team as they take another crack at a King Kong movie for Toho. Produced in partnership with Rankin Bass, King Kong Escapes is a lesser known Kong outing, and was originally intended as an adaptation of an even lesser known western animated series. Honda's pulp sensibilities prove far more memorable than anything that could have been pulled from the cartoon, even if the result is a mixed bag.

We're joined today by game critic, fellow SDGC cohost, and film aficionado CJ Salcedo. As the resident Big Monkey Respecter, CJ is joining on as our King Kong Correspondent, and will be back for all future appearances of King Kong on our podcast.

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A new director enters the fray! Honda's busy with other projects, so this Godzilla film (famously almost a King Kong movie) went to director Jun Fukuda, who worked under Honda on several movies. In fact, for the first time so far on Castle Bravo, the entire Dream Team has taken the back seat. Unlike Godzilla Raids Again, it works out; it's recognizably Godzilla at its heart, but with a different flair of personality infused into the film. Since Fukuda's directing almost every movie this season that Honda isn't, it puts our mind at ease.

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It's sort of a sequel to Frankenstein vs Baragon, but it's DEFINITELY a way better movie. Join us as we experience this highly influential kaiju horror classic for the first time. Seriously, the horror roots are strong in this one, in a way that Honda hasn't really done with his kaiju movies since Rodan.

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Can we pretend this was the start of Season 2? Godzilla, Rodan, and King Ghidorah all return for this explosive and personality-packed pulp sci-fi epic, featuring the Godzilla franchise's most famous alien antagonists: the Xiliens of Planet X. It's a worthy sequel to Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, and maybe one of the best overall times we've had with a movie yet.

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We're back, but Godzilla's not (yet)! Castle Bravo returns for Season Two, opening up with cult classic pulp scifi movie Frankenstein vs Baragon, also known as Frankenstein Conquers the World. It's a concept Toho had been trying to get off the ground for years, and it... doesn't hold up that well. Not a great start for the Dream Team this season. Get ready for the death of ideology.

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It's the finale of Season One, and we're here with a movie that defined a franchise and gave us Godzilla's first turn from villain to hero. If King Kong vs Godzilla introduced the giant monster wrestling match, and Mothra vs Godzilla set the tone, then it's Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster that finalized the formula that would define the series for the next 20 years. 

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This week features a slight cooldown between major Godzilla movies with the mixed-est bag of all time. Two part diamond heist mystery, one part giant monster movie, all fever dream, It's hard to call Dogora a cohesive vision. However, there's a lot of diamond in this rough, with memorable scenes and characters and a couple of the greatest shots of Honda's career so far. Dogora may have been made in the short downtime between two major projects, but it still has a lot of charm put into it.