Friday, March 26, 2021

ULTRAMAN / "The Terrifying Gamma Rays" - 1966

Here's a wild Ultraman adventure when some unusual radiation from space turns a boy's drawing into a real-life monster, celebrated by a group of artistic children.

The class assignment is to draw monsters! Hey, I don't ever remember getting a class assignment to draw monsters, what the Hell man!

After being made fun of for his silly monster he drew for the assignment, one of the boys goes to a pipe storage yard and draws his monster, Gavadon, on one of the pipes. Then, a mysterious burst of radiation from space strikes the drawing, and...

It turns into a giant monster, a really weird one!

But the damn thing just wants to sleep all the time.

The Science Patrol is monitoring the situation, watch out for that wheel!

At dusk, the monster gets up, walks away and disappears... Then a star appears in the sky, the thing has left Earth to become part of the universe. The day is saved!

But, the kids color the the drawing of Gavadon and another burst of radiation brings the new drawing to life.

It looks more scary the the original version, but it still just wants to sleep.

The tanks roll in while the thing slumbers, and...

They fire away at the unearthly monster.

Hayata gets swept into pool so he pulls out his handy talisman and changes into our super hero, Ultraman!

Ultraman grabs the monster by its tail and swings it around and around before slinging it away.

He holds Gavadon over his head and shoots off to return the monster to space.

The kids are very sad to see their monster leave Earth, but...

A being appears and tells the kids that on this night once a year...

Gavadon will appear in the sky for all the children to admire.

After that, the Science Patrol will need to keep an eye on the drawings the kids are making of their monsters because there may be some bad ones!

1 comment:

Randall Landers said...

Not one of the better episodes of ULTRAMAN. This one is a rehash from one of the lesser episodes of ULTRA Q.

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