Ultra Q


The first television series produced by Eiji Tsyburaya - the special effects wizard behind Toho's Godzilla franchise - was originally intended to be an anthologized series of horror stories, titled Unbalance, made in the same vein as shows like The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone.  However, by the time production had been finalized, the show was retitled Ultra Q, with Tsuburaya Productions actually making Horror Theater Unbalance in 1973.  Ultra Q stuck close to the original concept, with each episode featuring a new and weird paranormal element investigated by a group of reoccurring characters - making the show feel somewhat in step with later television programs like The X-Files.  Ultra Q takes place in a world of weirdness, including monsters, aliens, ghosts, alternate dimensions and all manner of science fiction and horror tropes, and it would eventually spin-off into the popular series Ultraman.  As the show's opening narration often states, "For the next 30 minutes, your eyes will leave your body and enter inside this fantasy time..."


Episodes


1 - Defeat Gomess!
2 - Goro and Goroh 
3 - The Gift From Space
4 - Mammoth Flower 
5 - Peguila Is Here! 
6 - Grow Up! Little Turtle 
7 - S.O.S. Mount Fuji 
8 - Terror of the Sweet Honey 
9 - Baron Spider 
10 - The Underground Super Express Goes West
11 - Balloonga 
12 - I Saw a Bird 
13 - Garadama 
14 - Tokyo Ice Age 
15 - Kanegon's Cocoon 
16 - Garamon Strikes Back 
17 - The 1/8 Project 
18 - The Rainbow's Egg 
19 - Challenge from the Year 2020 
20 - The Undersea Humanoid Ragon 
21 - Space Directive M774 
22 - Metamorphosis 
23 - Fury of the South Sea 
24 - The Idol of Goga 
25 - The Devil Child 
26 - Blazing Glory 
27 - The Disappearance of Flight 206 
28 - Open Up!

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