1 / Defeat The Invaders! / Sally Forth, Science Patrol! /ĥ Seconds Before The Big Explosion! / Treasure Of The Miloganda / The Coast Guard Command / The Blue Stone Of Baradhi / The Lawless Monster Zone / Operation: Lightning Speed / The Mysterious Dinosaur Baseĭisc Two: The Ruffian from Outer Space / The Cries Of The Mummy / Oil S.O.S. The episodes that make up the complete series, spread across four discs in this set, are as follows:ĭisc One: Ultra Operation No.
Good, goofy entertainment, Ultraman is a blast. Yeah, the effects rudimentary and the film’s modest budget is obvious in its use of miniatures and wires but the show’s influence remains evident in shows like Power Rangers and the like. Ultraman himself has a pretty serious array of special powers that he can use to send his foes back from whence they came, be it his Spacium Ray or his patented Ultra Slash, so the fights tend to mix things up enough to keep things interesting.
It isn’t deep and the monsters are ever so obviously dudes in rubber suits, but it’s such a colorful and screwy show that you can’t help but love it. Each episode basically sets up a simple premise and then, somewhere past the half way mark, Ultraman will show up and get into a brawl with whatever monster or alien the writers deemed worthy for that particular story. Given that this was a show aimed at a younger audience it makes sense that a lot of the storylines would revolve around Ultraman saving Isamu and yeah, a whole lot of them do, but it doesn’t matter. This allows Shin to transform into Ultraman any time he needs to with, quite literally, the push of a button. When Shin and an alien called Ultraman collide, Shin almost dies until Ultraman heals him by giving him his life force. Along for the ride is a boisterous kid named Isamu Hoshino (Akihide Tsuzawa). Alongside the Captain the SSSP includes a tough guy named Daisuke Arashi (Sandayu Dokumamushi), a nutty professor type named Mitsuhiro Ide (Masanari Nihei), a communications expert named Akiko Fuji (Hiroko Sakurai) and the Captain's right hand man, Shin Hayata (Susumu Kurobe). Led by Captain "Cap" Toshio Muramatsu (Akiji Kobayashi), these guys are the best of the best and they’re equipped with all of the high tech gadgetry, vehicles and weapons you could ask for. To keep the planet safe, the Science Special Search Party (or SSSP for short) is formed.
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And yeah, more than three decades later, Ultraman still brings a big, goofy grin to my face.įor those who haven’t seen it, the premise is this – in the future of the 1960s when the series was made, Earth is under the constant threat of attack from alien monsters. He’d explain to me what was going on and I’d geek out over the costumes and rubber suited monster mashing, a big, goofy grin no doubt spread wide across my face. They weren’t subbed or dubbed but it didn’t matter. A lot of the other kids in the suburban Canadian town we grew up in had absolutely ZERO interest in this stuff but once or twice a week I’d find myself in his living room watching tapes his parents had given him. His parents raised him on Ultraman and all sorts of other Japanese superhero and monster ‘stuff’ and he was keen to share his interests. This writer was first introduced to the show courtesy of a primary school friend of Japanese descent. Though the series is ridiculously formulaic, so too is it ridiculously fun. The series remains a cult phenomenon to this day and it’s easy to see why. The series ran from 1966 through 1967 and was a pretty massive hit in Japan. Released by: Mill Creek Home EntertainmentĬast: Susumu Kurobe, Akiji Kobayashi, Akihiko Hirata, Masanari Nihei, Hiroko SakuraiĪfter the success of the earlier live action monster/sci-fi series Ultra Q, Japan’s Tsuburaya Productions unleashed Ultraman on a monster/superhero hungry public.
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