8x1 - Black!! Transform

October 4, 1987

Kotaro Minami, a youth on the run from the mysterious organization known as Golgom, begins to awaken into a horrifying new form granted to them due to their greater plans for him; making him choose to use it instead to fight them as Kamen Rider Black.

8x2 - The Monster Party

October 11, 1987

Kotaro looks for his step-brother Nobuhiko Akizuki and plans to track down Golgom's headquarters.

8x3 - Mysterious Cyborg Mystery

October 18, 1987

Kotaro investigates a bizarre string of abductions in conjunction with a scheme by Bishium to bring him down.

8x4 - The Devil's Laboratory

October 25, 1987

A cycling friend of Kotaro becomes the subject of Golgom's mad doctor experimenting to find a weakness to their escaped subject.

8x5 - Kotaro in a Maze!

November 1, 1987

Kotaro investigates a town being brainwashed by a Goat kaijin, hoping to control it for Golgom to ruin an international peace conference.

8x6 - The Secret Sight Enigma

November 8, 1987

Kotaro must rescue two artists abducted by Golgom to become psychic spies in order to ruin the development of technology for civilization's collapse.

8x7 - The Living Machine Restored

November 15, 1987

A man who hates rampaging gangs is seduced by Golgom to gain the power to eliminate them, forcing Kotaro to rescue him for the sake of his sister.

8x8 - The Devil's Trill Sonata

November 22, 1987

Kotaro must save a musician girl whose feelings of failure lead to her becoming a member of Golgom's plot to control the world through music.

8x9 - The Crimson Lips of Bishum

November 29, 1987

When a girl makes a deal with Bishium to distribute strange pendants in order to help Golgom conquer the city, Kotaro tries to put a stop to this deception.

8x10 - Where is Nobuhiko?

December 6, 1987

Kotaro investigates suspicious auto accidents leading to the victims being used for Golgom's army for causing chaos throughout the world.

8x11 - The Hungry Monsters

December 13, 1987

The Gorgom's plan to grow fruit for their mutants causes plants to sprout on people all over the city.

8x12 - A Super-Bike Legend Is Born!

December 20, 1987

Kotaro discovers the whereabouts of a missing biker, who is raising his son to ride and protect the ultimate bike devised by his father.

8x13 - Mama Raises Monster Babies!

December 27, 1987

Gorgom kidnaps mothers to nurture its army of mutants, and BLACK finds himself facing an implacable enemy.

8x14 - The Day All Tuna Vanished

January 3, 1988

Kotaro fights to stop the abduction of tuna by Professor Kuromatsu in order to gain an extract to improve the power of the Golgom mutants.

8x15 - Assault on a Haunted School

January 10, 1988

Keisuke tries to stop a Golgom scheme of using schools to mold children into model students to assist in their control of Earth.

8x16 - Friend From Across the Sea!

January 17, 1988

Kotaro attempts to find the source of powerful earthquakes after meeting a mysterious man.

8x17 - Kyoko's Mysterious Dream!

January 24, 1988

Golgom manipulate the dreams of Nobuhiko's sister Kyoko in order to use her life energy to save an ailing Shadow Moon.

8x18 - Sword Saint Birugenia!!

January 31, 1988

Golgom's Creation King forces the release of a powerful yet rebellious swordsman, who decides to try and take down Kotaro on his own terms.

8x19 - The Suffocating Trap of Hell

February 7, 1988

Bilgenia takes the guise of the doomed Professor Kuromatsu in order to lead Kotaro into a trap for his defeat.

8x20 - Rider's Grave

February 14, 1988

8x21 - Clash! Super Machines

February 21, 1988

Bishium uses a Mutant to infect Battle Hopper with insects that make it run wild and ignore Kotaro's commands.

8x22 - The Shadow That Stalks Dad

February 28, 1988

A boy with psychic powers becomes forewarned into thinking that Kotaro is going to harm his father even as Golgom is secretly using him.

8x23 - Marmo's Magical Powers

March 6, 1988

When a head of a two-headed ammonite Mutant becomes detached by Kamen Rider Black, it ends up with a kid where it becomes his new pet.

8x24 - The Female College Student's Nightmare

March 13, 1988

Kotaro must save Katsumi and other college girls from a professor turned Golgom Mutant hoping to add more females to the mutant army.

8x25 - The Roaring Armed Machine

March 20, 1988

8x26 - Rescue the ESPer Girl

March 27, 1988

A Golgom Mutant takes advantage of a girl's obsession to become strong to give her super-strength but ultimately takes control of her forcing Kotaro to save her.

8x27 - The Fire Breathing Danger Road

April 3, 1988

Kotaro must avoid the dangers of the Golgom priests and an electricity controlling Mutant in order to restore power for a kid who needs vital surgery.

8x28 - The Scarab Beetle's Invitation to Hell

April 10, 1988

Bilgenia uses a scarab beetle Mutant to create a craze for its minions, forcing Kotaro into a corner in trying to stem this greedy obsession.

8x29 - The Targeted Death Mask

April 17, 1988

Kotaro must rescue four Japanese astronauts when they're abducted and replaced with doll-like clones controlled by a Golgom Mutant.

8x30 - Aloha to the Assassin!

April 24, 1988

When a special female assassin is created by Golgom in Hawaii and sent to Japan to go after Kotaro, Kazuya Taki returns to help deal with protecting them.

8x31 - Burn! Boy Warriors

May 1, 1988

The Golgom Boy Warriors reunite with Kotaro to help save children being abducted by Golgom to create a new, stronger generation of child warriors.

8x32 - Dream Girl Yuki

May 8, 1988

8x33 - Father, Son, and the River of Love

May 15, 1988

Kotaro must help a boy realize he can walk again even while trying to stop a Golgom plot of manipulating a river to cause chaos.

8x34 - Revival? The Prince of Hell

May 22, 1988

When the Golgom Priests abduct Kyoko to speed up the revival of Shadow Moon, Bilgenia decides to take the weapon of the Century King to prove superiority and to defeat Kamen Rider Black before his rival can be born.

8x36 - The War Declaration of Love and Death

June 5, 1988

As Kotaro and Kyoko cope with Nobuhiko's transformation into Shadow Moon, the new Golgom leader transforms his commanders to declare the start of Golgom's conquest of Earth.

8x37 - Memories in the Yubari Sky

June 12, 1988

A Mutant attack on a friend's wedding in Hokkaido leads to Katsumi becoming Golgom's tool, forcing Kotaro to pursue them in order to save her from their grasp.

8x38 - Mystery? EP-Party Boy Squad

June 19, 1988

When Golgom creates a new political party claiming they'll bring about peace, Kotaro investigates and discovers a nefarious plot using this guise.

8x39 - The Idol's Evil Power

June 26, 1988

Bishium uses the identity of a girl to turn a mutant into an idol hypnotizing her fans into Golgom's mentality while tricking Kotaro into believing she is still innocent.

8x40 - The Karate Master's Secret

July 3, 1988

In pursuit of a destructive Salamander Mutant, Kotaro encounters a peculiar karate master in the woods training a boy to be a fighter.

8x41 - The Dangerous Time Thief

July 10, 1988

A boy brooding over his father's murder by Golgom becomes abducted by two samurai thrown out of time by a Mutant's magic time-controlling box.

8x42 - Tokyo Mutant Gathering

July 17, 1988

Kotaro meets two brothers, Makoto and Yuki who has psychic powers which Yuki gets kidnap by Fly Mutant to bring the Phantom Mutants to life and begins a invasion of Tokyo. Kotaro tries to fight back and only to find the Phantom Monsters tuern themselves incorporeal to avoid his attacks! Will Kotaro find a way of how to end this madness, once and for all?

8x43 - The Mutant Farm Battle

July 24, 1988

Kotaro investigates the claim of a child that something strange is happening at his apartment, leading to a discovery of its inhabitants being used to create new mutants for Golgom!

8x44 - An Ocean Inside the Closet

July 31, 1988

A boy accidentally intercepts a signal associated with Baraom's warp device, forcing Kotaro to protect him and stop Golgom's plan to use it to sink Japan.

8x45 - Death of Flower Mutant Bishium

August 7, 1988

Bishium uses a plot to turn women against their nurturing nature to lure Kotaro into a trap where he must face her in a final showdown where allegiances are tested.

8x46 - Fierce Death of Baraom

August 14, 1988

With the death of Biishum, Baraom decides to battle Kotaro one last time in vengeance, while the beginning of an unnatural phenomenon forces Shadow Moon to make his move towards Black's King Stone!

8x47 - Rider Dies!

August 21, 1988

With a limited time before the end of the Creation King, Kotaro and Shadow Moon are forced to finally have their ultimate showdown, where only one will be victorious...

8x48 - A Bouquet of Reminiscence to the Sea

August 28, 1988

With Kotaro dead and Golgom standing victorious over a burning Japan, Kyoko and Katsumi try to survive until they escape their home, even as a miraculous event is occurring within the ocean...

8x49 - Fierce Battle! Death of Darom

September 4, 1988

Reviving from his defeat against Shadow Moon, Kotaro discovers the current state of Japan since Golgom's victory as Darom targets his elimination to complete Shadow Moon's final ascension.

8x50 - What is the Creation King's True Form?

September 11, 1988

Finally reaching Golgom's headquarters, Kotaro confronts Shadow Moon a final time as the Creation King forces the former brothers to complete their final showdown.

8x51 - Gorgom's Last Day

September 18, 1988

The final battle between Black Sun and Shadow Moon comes to a bittersweet end as the final fate of Kotaro, Nobuhiko, and the Creation King is finally determined.