Monday, September 28, 2020

ULTRAMAN / "Ultra Operation #1" - 1966

This is the very first episode of Ultraman, in it, a heroic patrolman from the planet M78 crashes on Earth and revives a pilot from the Science Patrol and gives him the power of Ultraman just before the being dies. The power will enable Science Patrolman Hayata to be well equipped to battle the forces of evil on Earth and from space.

While a bunch of people are out camping by a lake, a big blue glowing ball comes in from the sky, it hovers there for a moment and disappears under the water.

Unfortunately, the big red ball chasing the blue one, well, it crashes into a Science Patrol plane piloted by officer Hayata, who has died in the crash.

Then, Hayata's body starts floating in the air and becomes surrounded in a red bubble...

The being inside will not recover from the crash, so, he revives Hayata and gives him a small wand to use when he needs to transform into Ultraman.

And wouldn't you know it, that damn blue sphere brought in a giant water monster with a blue ray shooting from its mouth. Ultraman is produced by Toho, the effects are decent.

In the meantime, Hayata has manned the Science Patrol's submarine to shoot torpedoes at the thing, but it looks like he'll just end up as an appetizer for the giant beast.

A Science Patrol plane comes in and hits the monster right on the top of the head with a missile! This pic cracks me up, looks like it's wearing a powdered wig. Over and over, they keep hitting him on the same spot! It get irritated and tosses the submarine to the ground.

After taking a bad fall to the ground in the sub, Hayata pulls out his wand, holds it over his head and says the magic words...

And viola, works like a charm! Now this wrasslin' match is a little more fair.

Hey, I thought this was a kids' show!!..

What else, after a few rounds, Ultraman disposes of the monster and throws it back into the drink where it goes under for the count.

Then, the big blue ball tries to escape back into space, but Ultraman has a little surprise for them, yeah, total annihilation!!

Hayata shows up after the Science Patrol gang thinks that he's dead, in the submarine. He tells them that it's a good thing Ultraman has arrived to save the day... He has the same problem Clark Kent has, hiding his real identity. Check in on Wednesday for out last post of September, here at The Dungeon!!..

2 comments:

Randall Landers said...

Love this Ultraman series. Recently finished watching its predecessor, Ultra Q, and while interesting, wasn't consisently good. You can tell the writing team had a lot in common, though.

Grant said...

This is the only version of ULTRAMAN I've ever been familiar with, and the only Japanese show of any kind I've ever been familiar with, so this pilot is a big deal to me.

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