This film is well remembered by Generation X youth in Los Angeles, California because it ran regularly on KTLA TV in the 1970s. This network ran a specific horror film or science fiction for one entire week during that decade at about the time that children would get home from school.
This film is a compilation of five of the 26 episodes (specifically, episodes 1, 2, 10, 17 and 26) from the TV series "Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot" which aired from 1968-1969.