

Ultraman: Towards the Future
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the red planet find a giant slug-like monster, Goudes/Gudis. Shindo is pinned by a rockslide and Haggard tries to escape in their ship but is blown up by Gudis. Suddenly a giant warrior, Ultraman Great, arrives and fights Goudes, but when Ultraman is on the verge of victory Goudes changes into a virus and travels to Earth where it mutates other creatures into monsters and awakens existing ones. Needing a human host to survive on Earth, Ultraman joins with Jack, allowing him to become the mighty alien when all seems lost. He joins UMA in order to help them battle the monsters.
Overview
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the red planet find a giant slug-like monster, Goudes/Gudis. Shindo is pinned by a rockslide and Haggard tries to escape in their ship but is blown up by Gudis. Suddenly a giant warrior, Ultraman Great, arrives and fights Goudes, but when Ultraman is on the verge of victory Goudes changes into a virus and travels to Earth where it mutates other creatures into monsters and awakens existing ones. Needing a human host to survive on Earth, Ultraman joins with Jack, allowing him to become the mighty alien when all seems lost. He joins UMA in order to help them battle the monsters.
Noboru Tsuburaya
Creator / EP
Kiyoshi Suzuki
Producer
Episodes

1. Signs of Life
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are the first men to land on Mars. Upon arriving they are met with none other than the strange alien monster Gudis. As Gudis was slowly moving towards them a giant silver humanoid by the name of Ultraman Great came to the rescue. After Gudis pushed Great aside he killed Stanley as he tried to escape in the ship as Jack was trapped by a rock slide. Great quickly got back up and used Burning Plasma to knock Gudis down. Gudis fell dead by the Burning Plasma's true power, but not before he sent a virus to Earth. To save the humans of Earth Jack had become Great's human host and went to Earth. The next day, Bogun appeared that was created by the Gudis's virus. Bogun changed his appearance from that of a tadpole to a gigantic brute rampaging through the United States. UMA was sent to destroy it, but only succeeded in annoying Bogun. It wasn't long before Jack used the Delta Plasma Pendant to turn into Ultraman Great. As the two clashed, Great seemed to have the upper hand until Bogun used poison gas. However, the ultra persevered and eventually used Burning Plasma to set Bogun on fire.

2. The Hibernator
An ancient being living in stasis for millions of years Gigasaurus was frozen under the ice of the arctic until the Gudis virus began to warm up the arctic and Gigasaurus was soon discovered by UMA. One day his icy prison began to slowly melt and his cells began to reproduce at a bizzare rate. As a batch of cells was about to be examined Gigasaurus woke up and increased his size to break out of the storage facility he was held at. UMA sent it's fighters as the icy dinosaur monster as he was rampaging through the town and soon into the local transformers. Gigasaurus's freezing breath prevented UMA's fighters from getting close. That night while Gigasaurus was sleeping plans were being thought up to destroy the large dinosaur for good. That morning as Gigasaurus was heading for a local oil refinery a human infected by the Gudis virus was waiting for him to show up. Jack hijacked one of UMA's fighters to catch up with Gigasaurus to prevent him from getting infected. Before Jack's fighter crashed from Gigasaurus's freezing mist he turned into Ultraman Great. The two giants clashed against one another and before long Great managed to used Magnum Beam to use the dinosaur's own mist against him. After a moment of silence for the beast, Great soon destroyed Gigasaurus with Burning Plasma and flew off.

3. The Child's Dream
One night an abandoned carnival was reactivated by unknown circumstances. The local police went to check it out only to be scared out of their minds by the monster Gerukadon. Before they could inflict any damage Gerukadon ran away from the scene. Little did anyone suspect it was a creature summoned by an Gudis device found by a boy named Jimmy. Gerukadon appeared in a much larger size the next night and destroyed two new buildings that were opening up. Before UMA could do anything the alien mutant monster disappeared. Within moments they found out through one of their agents that Jimmy had a strange Gudis device that created Gerukadon by a combination of his favorite dinosaur and his recently lost pet lizard, Gus. Jimmy was lured by the device to a Gudis nest in a parking lot building. As Jimmy was being infected by the Gudis Gerukadon appeared once again to destroy the city, this time without disappearing. UMA tried as much as they could, but Gerukadon was too much for their fighters to handle. Once by himself Jack Shindo turned into Ultraman Great to fight Gerukadon. Great used his Palm Shooters, but Gerukadon's fire resistance prevented the alien mutant monster from receiving serious harm. The same thing happen when Great used the Knuckle Shooters. After Jimmy broke free of the Gudis hold Great used the Magnum Beam to purify Gerukadon. With the monster now free of the Gudis virus Gerukadon, now as Gus, took off into the night sky with Jimmy.
Cast & Crew

Dore Kraus
Jack Shindo / Ultraman

Gia Carides
Jean Echo

Ralph Cotterill
Captain Arthur Grant

Matthew O'Sullivan
Ultraman (voice)

John Bonney
Narrator

David Grybowski
Ike




