Ultra Q

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Ultra Q (ウルトラQ, Urutora Kyū) is a 1966 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju television series created by Eiji Tsuburaya, first broadcast on TBS on January 2, 1966 and having its twenty-eighth and final episode aired on December 14, 1967. This series was the first entry in Tsuburaya Productions long-running Ultraman franchise, whose eponymous character would be introduced in the following and more popular series, Ultraman (1966). 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 and Gamera were sensational characters during the period. Some commentators have described a "Kaiju Boom" which began after Ultra Q's success. Much like The X-Files, the series...

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