Season 1 (1979)
Release date: 1979-04-04
User rating:
10 / 10
Directors: Hisayuki Toriumi, Takeyuki Kanda
Writers: Soji Yoshikawa, Keiichi Abe
Episodes (50):
1. Birth of a New Hero
Shortly after the Scientific Defense Guard had been assembled, ice burgs from the Antarctic region began to melt with one of them containing ancient monsters known as the Seagras
Release date: 1979-04-04
2. The Secret of the Shining Pendant
The first and only appearance of Spiral the Tornado Monster
Release date: 1979-04-11
3. When the Weed Whistle Blows in the Evening
One day in Japan a city was suddenly attacked by a monster from the Tōgō Mountain called a Wanigodon that appeared seemingly from nowhere.
Release date: 1979-04-18
4. Chase of the Mysterious Red Cloud
Red Smogy the Cloud Monster Attacks!
Release date: 1979-04-25
5. The Passenger! Break through the Underground
Several thousand trees disappear from the forest in a single night. In an underground cave they find Toughgilas.
Release date: 1979-05-02
6. Challenge to the Burning Deep Sea
A people evacuate from a tsunami, a mysterious flying object appears and rains down fire.
Release date: 1979-05-09
7. Order to Attack! The Objective Is Pig!
A robot named Pig, picks up a danger signal of unclear origins. When Hikari and Mutsumi chase after him, they find Electronic Monster Combugon.
Release date: 1979-05-16
8. Officer Hikari's Secret Has Been Stolen!?
Hikari encounters monster Mikonos while investigating and unidentified flying object, but it turns out to be a trap set by Space Ninja Alien Baltan.
Release date: 1979-05-23
9. Terror of the Awakened Ancient Creature
Investigators visit ancient ruins on Tamara Island, and spot Monster Dolfiego in an underground cavern.
Release date: 1979-05-30
10. I Saw It! The Illusion of a Monster...
A famous magician, George Satake, tries to teleport himself from the Xalome Desert to Japan.
Release date: 1979-06-06
11. The Science Garrison's Challenge!
Ogawara uses the giant Bulldozer Weapon Hectole he developed to dig into the earth in the Himalayas, and exterminate monsters.
Release date: 1979-06-13
12. The Curious Conversation Between a Monster and Pig
Two tankers are caught in a storm and disappear. The Science Guard Party takes the case, and discover three monsters attacking the tankers.
Release date: 1979-06-20
13. The Sad Legend of the Revived Lake
At Lake Ryujin in Tohoku, an incident breaks out where people and fish are being turned into stone.
Release date: 1979-06-27
14. The Star's Devil Has Come!
An unidentified celestial body approaches Earth, and emits radiation that makes reptiles violent.
Release date: 1979-07-04
15. You Are Ultraman
Monster Goglan comes out of an egg that was brought into the plant research institute. Hikari chooses to fight it with his own abilities.
Release date: 1979-07-11
16. The Living Phantom Bird
The Science Guard Party gets a report that an island has sunk.
Release date: 1979-07-18
17. Beetamii Has Disappeared!
Tobe, who had been observing a strange typhoon using Beatamy, discovers Prof. Nishiki's helicopter which has crashed in the desert.
Release date: 1979-07-25
18. The Mysterious Monster Island
A sea serpent emerges at a South Uki Island, the hometown of Yuriko.
Release date: 1979-08-01
19. This is the Ultra Star! Part 1
Joneus struggles with monsters popping up in countries around the world.
Release date: 1979-08-08
20. This is the Ultra Star! Part 2
Hikari is brought to Ultra Planet U40 where he is resuscitated back to life. Hikari meets Joneus' sister Amia as well as Elek, Loto and other Ultra people.
Release date: 1979-08-15
21. This is the Ultra Star! Part 3
The Badel Tribe manipulates the legendary Monster Bagon from the Dark Nebula and attacks U40.
Release date: 1979-08-22
22. The South Sea's Suspicious Space
The Science Guard Party are spending their vacation in Marume's hometown. There are frequent occurrences of ships sinking.
Release date: 1979-08-29
23. The Supersonic Confrontation
Mysterious flying objects are attacking passenger planes and industrial complexes.
Release date: 1979-09-05
24. Two Officer Mutsumi's
The Princess of Alpha Centuri's first planet copies Mutsumi and infiltrates the Science Guard Party.
Release date: 1979-09-12
25. The Devil's Garden
Incidents begin to happen where men go missing whenever a yellow wind blows through the African desert.
Release date: 1979-09-19
26. Earth's Greatest Crisis!
A strange phenomenon of water spraying of the sea is happening around the world as a message from Earth itself to humanity, asking it to leave.
Release date: 1979-09-26
27. The Flying Monster Island!
The Ultra Planet U40 detects the approach of the Space Demon alien Baladon. The Great Sage dispatches Elek, Loto, and five Ultra Warriors.
Release date: 1979-10-03
28. The New Cap Has Arrived!
The Science Guard Party captures a monster in a coastal industrial area just as the newly assigned Captain Gondow arrives in front of them.
Release date: 1979-10-10
29. The Devil's UFO's Large Invasion
Invading Alien Jadan sends out of countless UFOs. The Space Self-Defense Unit goes out to fight them off, but the alien succeeds in invading Earth.
Release date: 1979-10-17
30. The Enormous Fossil has Come To Life
The bones of the giant creature are excavated from ruins in Okutama, Tokyo. However, the bones turn into Monster Skeledon, who destroys the museum.
Release date: 1979-10-24
31. The Female Ultra Warrior
Joneus' sister Amia heads toward Earth to meet Hikari. IN order to get close to Kikari, who has no memory of U40, she borrows the body of a woman.
Release date: 1979-10-31
32. Object X From Space
Alien Babilar sends Robot Monster Megasaura, to Earth as part of his invasion plan. Megasaura breaks apart when it enters Earth's atmosphere.
Release date: 1979-11-07
33. Go! Magma's Desperate Sphere
Underwater volcanoes explode in the Pacific Ocean, followed by changes in the Earth's crust in various locations.
Release date: 1979-11-14
34. The Monster Accommodation Star Has Been Stolen (Prequel)
The Space Pirate Imbedians pillage the Monster Containment Planet Prison created buy the Ultrapeople of U40, and attempt to invade the Earth.
Release date: 1979-11-21
35. The Monster Accommodation Star Has Been Stolen (Sequel)
Joneus users up all his energy fighting the monster sent by the Imbedians, and Hikari also gets injured.
Release date: 1979-11-28
36. The Snow Woman Has Come From Space
Hikari and Mutsumi go to the investigate the cause of an abnormal cold front in the Southern Alps.
Release date: 1979-12-05
37. Ultra Star U40's Crisis! Ultria's Mystery?
U40 is occupied bu the Heller Army. Amia escapes to Earth, but an army battleship flies to Earth as well.
Release date: 1979-12-12
38. Giant Ultra War! Huge Warship Ultria's Sortie
Amia goes onboard the Ultria, which has emerged from beneath the ice at the South Pole.
Release date: 1979-12-19
39. Aim at Huge Warship Ultria
Royger of the Heller Army sends the Terrible Space Creature Hellcat, which sucks energy from humans and mummifies them, to the Space Station EGG 3.
Release date: 1979-12-26
40. The Boy Who Took a Monster
The boy from Planet Opernicus, Fedelcio, was taught by Royger that Earthlings are evil, and takes his pet Monster Orolaan to destroy cities on Earth.
Release date: 1980-01-02
41. Clash! Ultraman vs. Ultraman
Rotating Monster Giros appears and the Science Guard Party is dispatched, but Hikari crashes due to a tornado caused by the monster.
Release date: 1980-01-09
42. Ultraman's Strategy to Living
A moving island is Hatari's giant spacecraft, and he has come to Earth to capture Ultraman.
Release date: 1980-01-16
43. The Monkey That Became a Monster?!
A mysterious unmanned spaceship recovered in outer space is determined to be a receiver for an electron transmitter developed bu the Heller Army.
Release date: 1980-01-23
44. Ultria Was Broken In Two?!
Multiple rockets are shot at Earth from the Alien Sien spaceship, and a violent monster emerges.
Release date: 1980-01-30
45. Pig Was Holding a Bomb
An airplane carrying Terrestrial Defense Force Unit 201 returns from the northern base, but there is something wrong with the captain and the 51 soldiers.
Release date: 1980-02-06
46. Revive Mutsumi
Tobe and Marume create a device that emits a radio wave only Ultraman can perceive. It seems as though this will cause Hikari's secret to be exposed.
Release date: 1980-02-13
47. To The Ultra Star! Part 1: The Female Warrior's Information
Cities around the world suffer attacks from the Heller Army. The final battle of Earth and U40 vs the Heller Army is finally upon us.
Release date: 1980-02-20
48. To The Ultra Star! Part 2: The Frontline Base's Destruction
The Science Guard Party locates Titan, and begins its attack.
Release date: 1980-02-27
49. To The Ultra Star! Part 3: U (Ultra) Fleet's Large Fierce Battle
The Science Guard Party joins the U40 Ultra Fleet and they infiltrate Heller City but are captured.
Release date: 1980-03-05
50. To The Ultra Star! Conclusion: Towards Peace and Victory
The Great Sage had been reduced to atoms bu Heller, but in space, Joneus separated from Hikari can be seen fighting the Heller fleet.
Release date: 1980-03-12
Cast
Kei Tomiyama
as Chôichirô Hikari (voice)
Masatô Ibu
as Ultraman Joneus (voice)
Sumi Shimamoto
as Mutsumi Hoshikawa (voice)
Hidekatsu Shibata
as Commander Daisuke Gondô (voice)
Masaya Nihei
as Hiroaki Tobe (voice)
Junpei Takiguchi
as Pigu (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
as Monki (voice)
Kazuo Kumakura
as Professor Henry Nishiki (voice)
Rest of the cast - click here to expand
Kinya Morikawa - Commander Tetsuo Akiyama (voice), Shingo Kanemoto - Takeshi Marume (voice), Eiji Kanie - Narrator
Crew - click here to expand
Soji Yoshikawa - Writer, Hisayuki Toriumi - Director, Takeyuki Kanda - Director, Keiichi Abe - Writer, Kunio Miyauchi - Original Music Composer, Toru Fuyuki - Original Music Composer