History Series / UltraQ

Foreshadowing: Alien Ruperts at the end of "Space Directive M774" makes a mention [[Series/Ultraman that there are other alien races that seek to protect planet Earth rather than take it over.]]

** Some monsters are much smaller then the normal sizes of monsters in the later shows. Gomess being a good example.

** Not every episode would have a giant monster or alien with the threats varing, sometimes being the two former but sometimes human sized monsters, weird anomalies or some other weridness.
** Many of the aliens like Cicada Human or Kemur Man would lack the Seijin title that would be common with most aliens later on. [[ArtifactTitle When these aliens reappear their names would be kept the same.]]
** Some monsters are much smaller then the normal sizs of monsters in the later shows. Gomess being a good example.

* TooDumbToLive: One episode, "Grow Up Little Turtle", features a child who, after being accidently kidnapped by thieves, takes one of their guns, looks down the barrel, and presses the trigger! The gun misfires, but it goes off when one of the thieves gets his hands on it again, showing it was perfectly functional.

Two reimaginations of the series were released, ''[[Series/UltraQDarkFantasy Dark Fantasy]]'' and ''Series/NeoUltraQ''. As well as a movie in 1990, ''Film/UltraQTheMovieLegendOfTheStars''.

* FirstInstallmentWeirdness: It is the first entry of the Ultra series. But it features no Ultramen which would be the norm going forward.

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%%* {{Kaiju}}: Plenty.

* FirstInstallment: It is the first entry of the Ultra series. But it features no Ultrmen which would be the norm going forward.

* OpeningNarration: "For the next 30 minutes, your eyes will leave your body and enter inside this fantasy time..."

* FracturedFairyTale: "Grow Up! Little Turtle" is a modern spin on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D Urashima Taro]] folktale, with the fisherman being replaced by a young boy that keeps making up stories that returns from his adventure isolated by nobody believing him instead of the original RipVanWinkle plot, with the aging box becoming an OrWasIt punchline.

Two reimaginations of the series were released, ''[[Series/UltraQDarkFantasy Dark Fantasy]]'' and ''Series/NeoUltraQ''.

* GilliganCut: Not really, but one so abruptly counter to the closing of the last scene, it may as well be. In The Gift From Space, the lead scientist asks the small airline operator to place the story's plot Macguffin somewhere safe. Without showing him putting it away or anyone casing the facility, in the next second it shows a thief using a blowtorch on the payroll safe. Naturally, he mistakes the plot device for gold he can steal and danger ensues.
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* {{Kaiju}}: Plenty.

''Ultra Q'' (ウルトラQ or ''Urutora Kyū'') is a {{toku}}satsu [=SF/=]{{Kaiju}} series made in the tradition of Creator/{{Toho}}'s many tokusatsu sci-fi/horror films.

Produced in black and white by Tokyo Broadcasting System/Tsuburaya Productions, ''Ultra Q'' is actually the first of the long-running ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', and was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System 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 a week later by the more well-known ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' (''Urutoraman'', 1966), the second ''Ultra'' Series.

[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Unlike most of the franchise it would spawn]], it did not have a size-changing HenshinHero. Instead, it was more of a mystery-of-the-week format that gets it compared to ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' (even with an intro reminiscent of it!) with, of course, giant monsters being the culprit a lot more often than it was in those series.

Two reimaginations of the series were released, ''Dark Fantasy'' and ''Series/NeoUltraQ''.

'''''Ultra Q''''' (ウルトラQ or '''''Urutora Kyū''''') is a {{toku}}satsu [=SF/=]{{Kaiju}} series made in the tradition of Creator/{{Toho}}'s many tokusatsu sci-fi/horror films.

Unlike most of the franchise it would spawn, it did not have a size-changing HenshinHero. Instead, it was more of a mystery-of-the-week format that gets it compared to ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' (even with an intro reminiscent of it!) with, of course, giant monsters being the culprit a lot more often than it was in those series.

* FollowTheLeader
** Considered by western fans to be this to ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' or ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', but a better comparison is found in ''Franchise/{{Quatermass}}''. Which makes it funnier that the English dub was made by the producers of ''The Twilight Zone'', and acquired by the producers of ''The Outer Limits''.
** Also, it was the popularity of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise that led to the monsters taking center stage and the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' that followed being all about heroes vs. monsters. Creator/EijiTsubaraya didn't want it to be this way at first, but was talked into including more monsters by ThePowersThatBe.

Produced in black and white by Tokyo Broadcasting System/Tsuburaya Productions, ''Ultra Q'' is actually the first of the long-running ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', and was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System 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 a week later by the more popular ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' (''Urutoraman'', 1966), the second ''Ultra'' Series.