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''New Kamen Rider'' (also known as '''''Kamen Rider: Sky RiderSkyrider''''') is the sixth program in the ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' franchise, airing from 1979 to 1980.
 
While on a camping trip, aerial photographer and hanglidinghang-gliding enthusiast Tsukuba Hiroshi rescues Professor Shido Keitaro, who was a prisoner of Neo Shocker, a new version of the old Shocker group. Recaptured after Tsukuba helps him, Professor Shido tricks Neo Shocker into experimenting on Tsukuba, claiming that he will turn Tsukuba into a mighty warrior of evil.
 
Professor Shido's plan changes Tsukuba into a Kamen Rider, who manages to use his powers to escape and destroy the group who changed him. His father, a prominent scientist, and his mother are kidnapped and kept as slaves, as he attempts to rescue them and tries to have a normal life.
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* [[The Ace]]: [[Kamen Rider Stronger|Stronger]] returns in this series making his usual flashy entrance, training Sky Rider and rescuing him several times. He stands out even more in some aspects due to the more down to Earth way that Sky Rider himself is written compared to previous Riders. Rider 2 too is in later episodes of the series, when his actor returned, would fit into this.
** Although V3 doesn't get an impressive entrance in this series, he shines as the leader of the 8 Riders in their first team up in this show. Rider 1 takes the leadership role in the movie and in later TV episodes, but in those episodes he's generally overshadowed by Sky Rider himself and even Stronger and Rider 2, whose actors actually return, while Rider 1 was just a [[Fake Shemp]] throughout the Sky Rider's series and movie.
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* [[Heroic Wannabe]]: Kanji Yada puts on a suit of metallic armor and attempts to be Japan's super hero, [[Gan Gan]] G! Usually, he just gets in the way of the Riders.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: All the previous Riders are continuously fighting off screen against Neo Shocker's troops throughout the world, but that's only mentioned, and they're only actually shown when they visit Japan and help Sky Rider directly.
* [[In the Name of Thethe Moon]]: Although he had stopped giving his full introductory speech after {{spoiler|Tackle's death}} in his own show, Stronger's entrance speech returned in this series.
* [[Legacy Character]]: Both the original concept of the show, with the new hero called just Kamen Rider, and later, when the previous Riders return and enthrust the mission of defending Japan to Sky Rider while they go to face Neo Shocker around the world.
* [[Legion of Doom]]: Shocker has done it ''again''!
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* [[Monster of the Week]]
* [[Monster Sob Story]]: As a result of having the monster of the week turning against Neo Shocker. Notable ones include episode 4.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: General Monster is {{spoiler|activating the explosives planted within his body and charging towards our hero in a last-ditch effort to [[Taking You Withwith Me|take Hiroshi with him]]. Then he gets blasted before he can make good on this by Admiral Majin, who had decided General Monster had failed once too often and it wasn't worth letting him live even until the end of one fight.}} If the Admiral had waited ''ten seconds longer,'' the world might be run by Shocker to this day.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: General Monster not only looks monstrous in his human form, he has a hidden form too. {{spoiler|That gecko design on his eyepatch, there from the beginning, is there for a reason}}.
* [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]: Not only the titular Kamen Rider and some of the past Riders, some of the weekly altered humans end up turning against Neo Shocker too.
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* [[Shonen Upgrade]]: Sky Rider receives a harsh training from all seven previous Riders, gaining a power up and his more well known colors.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Genjiro Tani to Tachibana Tobei, even though Tachibana himself was never in Sky Rider. Especially obvious in some later episodes, when the Riders from previous series interact with him in a similar way to how they interacted with Tobei, in spite of not knowing him nearly as well.
* [[Up, Up, and Away]]: Sky Rider's method of flying.
 
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