Ultra Q (ウルトラQ, Urutora Kyū) is a tokusatsu science fiction kaiju series made in the tradition of Toho's many tokusatsu sci-fi/horror films.
Produced in black and white by Tsuburaya Productions, this is actually the first of the long-running Ultra Series, and was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) from January 2 to July 3, 1966 (the final episode was preempted until December 14, 1967), with a total of 28 episodes. This series was followed two weeks later by the more popular Ultraman (1966), the second Ultra Series.
Ultra Q can be described as a half-hour Toho kaiju series. Executive Producer Eiji Tsuburaya intended this series to be more like the American television series The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, featuring a variety of strange and unusual stories. After a survey, the TBS network convinced Tsuburaya Productions to add more giant monsters, as children were intensely interested in them, since Godzilla (Gojira) and Gamera were all the rage at the time (the first "Kaiju Boom" took off after Ultra Q became an enormous hit). Much like The X-Files, the series features continuing characters who investigate strange supernatural phenomena, including giant monsters, aliens, ghosts, and various other threats.
Victims[]
Defeat Gomess[]
- Bat - Stepped on by Gomess off-screen, body seen.
- Gomess - Blasted by Litra with his fire breath.
- Litra - Bled out after getting clawed by Gomess.
- Total - 3
Goro and Goro[]
- Unnamed Female Tour Guide - Eaten by Goro off-screen, implied.
- Unnamed Male Ride Operator - Eaten by Goro off-screen, implied.
- Monkey - Killed by natives off-screen, seen in photo.
- Two Unnamed Male Natives - Eaten by Goro off-screen, seen in photo.
- Total - 5
A Gift From Space[]
- Two Unnamed Male Robbers - Blasted by Namegon with its heat rays.
- Namegon - Fell into water and melted.
- Namegon - Melted with water by Jun Manjome.
- Total - 4
Mammoth Flower[]
- Unnamed Male Police Officer - Crushed by debris after Juran came out of a building,
- Two Unnamed Male Japanese Soldiers - Killed by Juran with the toxin.
- Juran - Withered when Dr. Genda's toxin released his toxin.
- Total - 4
Peguila Is Here[]
- Dr. Nomura - Frozen by Peguila with his freezing mist off-screen, body seen.
- Three Unnamed Male North Pole Scientists - Frozen by Peguila with his freezing mist.
- Total - 4
Grow Up! Little Turtle[]
- Gameron (Flying Turtle) - Blown up by Kai Dragon with flames.
- Total - 1
S.O.S. Mount Fuji[]
- Gorgos - Core pulled out and destroyed by Takeru.
- Total - 1
Terror of the Sweet Honey[]
- Unnamed Male Train Conductor - Killed when Mongular came out from underground and knocked a bunch of debris in his way.
- Mutant Bee - Killed by Mongular off-screen, body seen.
- Professor Ichirô Itami - Committed suicide by blowing himself up with dynamite in order to kill Mongular.
- Mongular - Crushed by avalanche caused by the army when they blew up the mountain.
- Total - 4
Baron Spider[]
- The Baron's Daughter - Turned into a spider off-screen, mentioned.
- Unnamed Lighthouse-Keeper - Bitten by a Baron Spider.
- Unnamed Lighthouse-Keeper - Bitten by a Baron Spider off-screen.
- Unnamed Zoologist - Killed by Tarantula's venom.
- Baron Spider/The Baron's Daughter - Stabbed by Jun Manjome with a knife.
- Baron Spider - Ran over by Jun Manjome.
- Total - 6
The Underground Super Express Goes West[]
- Itachi - Launched into orbit with M1 off-screen, implied.
- Total - 1
Balloonga[]
- Mr. Naramaru's Son - Blown up by Balloonga after it blew up his plane.
- Unnamed Pilot - Blown up by Balloonga after it blew up his plane.
- Balloonga - Accidentally committed suicide by incinerating itself by going towards the sun.
- Total - 3
I Saw a Bird[]
- Four Lions - Eaten by Larugeus off-screen, empty cages seen.
- Unnamed Male Zoo Keeper - Bled out after being attacked by Larugeus.
- Five Chickens - Eaten by Larugeus off-screen, empty cages seen.
- Three Unnamed Male Prisoners - Killed when Larugeus grew bigger in size causing the police station to collapse.
- Six Unnamed Male Police Officers - Killed when Larugeus grew bigger in size causing the police station to collapse.
- Four Unnamed Men - Killed when Larugeus grew bigger in size causing the police station to collapse.
- 43 Unnamed People - Killed when Larugeus caused the train they were in to flip over after he flew past it.
- Two Unnamed People - Killed when Larugeus caused their car to flip over and land in the water after he flew past it
- Two Unnamed Male Police Officers - Sucked into the air after Larugeus flew past them.
- Unnamed Person - Killed when Larugeus caused car to crash into the restaurant after he flew past it.
- Four Unnamed People - Killed when Larugeus caused the car to crash into the restaurant after he flew past it.
- Total - 75
Garadama[]
- Unnamed Male Boat Captain - Killed when Garadama crashed into the dam.
- Two Unnamed Male Dam Employees - Killed when Garamon was destroying the dam.
- Garamon - Died after scientists cut off of his electric brain.
- Total - 4
Tokyo Ice Age[]
- Unnamed Male Pilot - Blown up when Peguila froze the plane's wings.
- At Least 10 Unnamed People - Blown up when Peguila froze the plane's wings.
- At Least 60 Unnamed People - Frozen by Peguila with his freezing mist.
- Unnamed Pilot - Frozen by Peguila with his freezing mist.
- Captain Teruo Sawamura - Committed suicide by piloting into Peguila's mouth sacrificing himself to drive back the monster.
- Total - 73
Kanegon's Cocoon[]
- None
Garamon Strikes Back[]
- Four Unnamed Male Police Officers - Shot by their own guns after Cicada Man forced the guns in the air.
- Five Unnamed Men - Fell to their deaths when a Garamon destroyed the tower they were on.
- Four Unnamed Women - Fell to their deaths when a Garamon destroyed the tower they were on.
- Four Garamon - Died when Hanazawa encases the alien rock in a special mesh that effectively cuts off the transmitted signals.
- Cicada Man - Incinerated by his other Cicada men for failing his mission.
- Total - 17
The 1/8 Project[]
- None
The Rainbow's Egg[]
- Pagos - Turned into a rock and then shattered into pieces by missiles by the army.
- Total - 1
Challenge from the Year 2020[]
- Two Unnamed Male Pilots - Blown up by Kemur Jin.
- Unnamed Man - Disintegrated by Kemur Jin.
- Unnamed Woman - Disintegrated by Kemur Jin off-screen.
- Unnamed Man - Disintegrated by Kemur Jin off-screen.
- Yot-Chan - Disintegrated by Kemur by Kemur Jin.
- Unnamed Teenage Girl - Disintegrated by Kemur Jin off-screen.
- Unnamed Teenage Girl on Go-cart - Disintegrated by Kemur Jin.
- Tomoda-Kun - Disintegrated by Kemur Jin.
- Kemur Jin - Destroyed by X-Channel ray.
- Detective Udagawa - Disintegrated by Kemur Jin.
- Total - 11
The Primordial Amphibian Ragon[]
- Tachibana - Neck broken by Ragon with bare hands.
- Male Ragon - Fell to his death after Jun Manjome lured him of a cliff.
- Total - 2
Space Directive M774[]
- 60 Unnamed Male Japanese Sailors - Blown up by Bostang when it rammed into their ship.
- Bostang - Blown apart by sailors with cannons.
- Total - 61
Metamorphosis[]
- Animal - Killed by Koji off-screen.
- Unnamed Car Driver - Crushed by Koji.
- Total - 2
Fury of the South Sea[]
- Three Unnamed Male Sailors - Dragged away by Sudar.
- Yuzo's Unnamed Father - Dragged under water and drowned by Sudar.
- Jira - Strangled by Sudar with its tentacle.
- Sudar - Spear throw at its head by Yuzo.
- Total - 6
The Statue of Goga[]
- Hachi - Blasted by Goga with its fire eyebeams causing his face to melt off.
- NB - Shot by "Zero".
- Neko - Melted by Goga with its fire eyebeams.
- Mogoichirô Iwakura - Crushed by Goga's statue after Goga turned into a giant.
- Kuma - Crushed by falling rubble by Goga.
- Three Unnamed Jet Pilots - Blown up by Goga's fire eyebeams.
- "Zero" - Crushed by Goga.
- Goga - Incinerated by soldiers with flamethrowers.
- Total - 10
The Devil Child[]
- Unnamed Male Driver - Killed in a car crash caused by Lily.
- Unnamed Male Police Officer - Neck broken by while running away from Lily.
- Unnamed Male Driver - Killed in a car crash caused by Lily.
- Unnamed Male Pilot - Killed in an explosion caused by Lily.
- Sugimoto - Killed in an explosion caused by Lily.
- Total - 5
Blazing Glory[]
- Peter (Kaiju) - Burned to death after he kicked a few oil drums which blew up.
- Total - 1
The Disappearance of Flight 206[]
- Unnamed Person - Killed by Orion-tarô off-screen, mentioned.
- Four Unnamed Pilots - Killed by Todora off-screen, planes seen.
- Orion-tarô - Fell beneath the clouds of the fourth dimension.
- Todora - Set on fire by Jun Manjome with the plane engines.
- Total - 7
Open Up![]
- None
Deaths[]
- Total - 310
Kill Counts[]
- Peguila - 76 (Alive)
- Larugeus - 75 (Alive)
- Garamons - 12 (Deceased)
- Kemur Jin - 10 (Deceased)
- Jun - 4 (Alive)
- Goro - 4 (Alive)
- Hanazawa - 4 (Alive)
- Cicada Man - 4 (Deceased)
- Juran - 3 (Deceased)
- Namegon - 2 (Deceased)
- Balloonga - 2 (Deceased)
- Gomess - 2 (Deceased)
- Mongular - 2 (Deceased)
- Kai Dragon - 1 (Alive)
- Takeru - 1 (Alive)
- Litra - 1 (Deceased)
- Ragon - 1 (Deceased)
- Baron Spider - 1 (Deceased)
Notes[]
- Kaiju that were not evil will be listed in bold and italics.