Ultraman: The Complete Episode Review Guide

~ Ryan Harvey

For your easy perusal, here are links to all my reviews of the original Ultraman.

Episode Reviews

  • E0. Birth of Ultraman – A live stage show introduces the upcoming science-fantasy series from Tsuburaya Productions, Ultraman.
  • E1. Ultra Operation No. 1 – Hayata, a member of the Science Patrol, merges with an alien being at the point of death and gains the ability to turn into the giant superhero, Ultraman.
  • E2. Shoot the Invader – Alien Baltan, a race searching for a new home after the destruction of their planet, attempts a hostile takeover of Earth.
  • E3. Science Patrol, Move Out – Ultraman takes on a giant monster that has the ability to turn invisible and threatens Tokyo’s power supply.
  • E4. Five Seconds Before the Explosion – The Science Patrol has to stop a mutated amphibious monster without igniting the live nuclear weapon dangling from its body.
  • E5. The Secret of the Miroganda – The irradiated and mobile form of a rare flower starts to kill the members of the expedition who first discovered it on an atoll.
  • E6. The Coast Guard Command – Hoshino and his friends get entangled in the affairs of a notorious smuggler who’s accidentally brought a monster into port among a diamond consignment.
  • E7. The Blue Stone of Baradhi – The Science Patrol’s jet crashes near a hidden Middle Eastern city that may have been visited by an Ultraman-like hero in the ancient past.
  • E8. The Monster Anarchy Zone – The SSSP flies to a distant island to check up on an expedition group and finds the place is wall-to-wall with dangerous creatures.
  • E9. Lightning Operation – A monster emerges from underground after a typhoon and starts moving toward sources of uranium, putting Hoshino’s boy scout troop and other civilians in jeopardy.
  • E10. The Mysterious Dinosaur Base – A check on the sudden abundance of fish in a lake leads the Science Patrol to a reclusive “Monster Professor” who has brought a creature from Loch Ness to the lake.
  • E11. The Rascal From Outer Space – A embittered man steals a powerful space artifact from SSSP headquarters and uses it to materialize a childishly dangerous monster to enact his petty revenge fantasies.
  • E12. Cry of the Mummy – Archeologists uncover an inhuman mummy from prehistoric Japan that returns to life and summons its protector beast, a dragon.
  • E13. Oil S.O.S. – An impulsive move by Ide causes a situation with an oil-consuming monster to become exponentially worse.
  • E14. The Pearl Defense Directive – A monster starts to consume pearls beds, driving up the price of the precious commodity — and driving up the personal ire of Fuji, the Science Patrol’s resident pearl-lover.
  • E15. Terrifying Cosmic Rays – Cosmic space rays cause a child’s drawing to come to life as a harmless, lazy monster, although it doesn’t stay that way for long.
  • E16. Science Patrol Into Space – Alien Baltan seizes control of the mind of a scientist on a rocketship as part of a plot to split the attention of the Science Patrol and Ultraman while they launch a swarm attack.
  • E17. Passport to Infinity – Two space stones brought into proximity in SSSP headquarters form into a bizarre entity capable of warping space and time.
  • E18. Brother From Another Planet – After saving Tokyo from poisonous space dust, an alien emissary offers brotherhood with humanity, but as the acknowledged “superior” brother.
  • E19. Demons Rise Again – The unearthing of two time capsules buried 300 million years ago unleashes a pair of giant monsters imprisoned by a primordial civilization.
  • E20. Terror on Route 87 – A dragon bird bursts from a mountain after a mysterious child warned of its coming — a child the SSSP discovers has a dark link to the monster.
  • E21. Breach the Wall of Smoke – Young Hoshino must act on his own as Science Patrol member for the first time when a poison gas monster emerges from a volcano.
  • E22. Overthrow the Surface – The Underground People kidnap Hayata as the first step in their plot to reconquer the surface of the Earth.
  • E23. My Home Is Earth – A potential alien threat to a peace conference turns out to have a tragic terrestrial origin dating from the days of the Space Race.
  • E24. Undersea Science Center – Captain Muramatsu, Hoshino, and two civilians become trapped in a new underwater base after a monster creates a disruption on the sea floor.
  • E25. Mysterious Comet Tsuifon – A comet’s close approach to Earth threatens to cause a hydrogen bomb to explode … a bomb that’s stuck in a giant monster’s throat.
  • E26/27. The Monster Highness – A giant monster accidentally unleashed in Japan wrecks havoc, and it seems even Ultraman can’t defeat it.
  • E28. Human Specimens 5 & 6 – Stranded after a mysterious bus crash, Captain Muramatsu discovers aliens in a research facility who are collecting and shrinking humans.
  • E29. Challenge to the Underground – The SSSP uses their drill vehicle to confront a burrowing monster made from the gold it has consumed.
  • E30. Phantom of the Snow Mountains – The Science Patrol investigates the appearance of a snow beast near a ski resort and its connection to a mysterious “Snow Girl.”
  • E31. Who Goes There? – An SSSP member returns to Japan after 20 years in South America at the same time that carnivorous plants start to appear in Tokyo.
  • E32. Endless Counterattack – A member of the Indian branch of the Science Patrol comes to vacation in Japan right as a fiery monsters starts a rampage in the countryside.
  • E33. The Forbidden Words – Alien Mefilas has arrived to conquer Earth, but he must first find a human who will willingly surrender the planet to him.
  • E34. A Gift From the Sky – A giant, slow-moving monster drops to Earth, and the SSSP tries one plan after another in an attempt to move it.
  • E35. The Monster Graveyard – A monster falls from a space graveyard for defeated kaiju, and the Science Patrol has to help the lonely beast get back to its peaceful afterlife.
  • E36. Don’t Shoot, Arashi! – Arashi is ordered not to shoot at a monster that gets more powerful with each attack, but can Arashi overcome his combative drive?
  • E37. A Little Hero – A resurrected Pigmon comes to warn the Science Patrol of a monster that is rapidly bringing other defeated monsters back to life.
  • E38. Spaceship Rescue Command – The Science Patrol must retrieve a special fuse from a probe on an alien planetoid to prevent the destruction of a space station.
  • E39. Farewell, Ultraman – A massive alien invasion targets Japan, and Ultraman engages in what might be his final battle.