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Ultraman Taro Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
53 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
Ultra no haha wa taiyô no yô ni
30 mins
A drifter named Kotaro Higashi is asked to join ZAT (Zariba of All Territory) but when he is "killed" in battle the Five Ultra Brothers bring him to Nebula M-78 where he is turned into Ultraman Taro.
Episode 2
Sono toki Ultra no haha wa
30 mins
After successfully battling a liquid monster Kotaro falls into a mysterious hole that lands him in the stomach of another Terrible Monster.
Episode 3
Ultra no haha wa itsu made mo
30 mins
The ZAT members must rescue Kotaro from the belly of the Terrible Monster and it may take the aid of the Mother of Ultra to finally defeat the laughing creature.
Episode 4
Ooumigame kaijû Tokyo o osou!
30 mins
Two peaceful giant sea turtles go on a revenge-fueled rampage when greedy poachers make off with their eggs.
Episode 5
Oyaboshi koboshi ichibanboshi
30 mins
The ZAT team members want to return the now peaceful turtles to their island home but the Japanese military wants the creatures dead.
Episode 6
Hôseki wa kaijû no esa da!
30 mins
An ancient Egyptian talisman draws the attention of an acid-spewing slug that could end up destroying the city.
Episode 7
Tengoku to jigoku - Shima ga ugoita!
30 mins
The ZAT team investigates reports of missing ship and discover a kaiju crab catastrophe.
Episode 8
Hitokuinuma no hitodama
25 mins
Attacks by a giant red light have been occurring near a so-called man-eating marsh. ZAT thinks there's a secret to the marsh and launches the Subterrene Pellumidar 2. As Kotaro and Kitajima dig underground aboard the Pellumidar 2, they find the monster Tondaile.
Episode 9
Tokyo no kuzureru hi
30 mins
A colony of huge ants is destabilizing and collapsing buildings all over Tokyo and it's up to ZAT to stop them.
Episode 10
Kiba no jûjika wa kaijû no hakaba da!
30 mins
Kotaro's training for an upcoming boxing match is interrupted by a giant walrus monster.
Episode 11
Chi o suu hana wa shôjo no sei
30 mins
The ZAT members must discover the connection between a little flower girl and a series of vampiric murders.
Episode 12
Kaijû hitori tabi
30 mins
Drilling for a hot spring awakens a particularly nasty kaiju who eats the man operating the drill site and it's up to ZAT to help the son of the supposedly eaten man.
Episode 13
Kaijû no mushiba ga itai!
30 mins
A training rocket used to simulate a kaiju attack accidentally gets stuck in the mouth of an actual kaiju which causes it to go on a rampage.
Episode 14
Tarô no kubi ga suttonda!
25 mins
Abnormal earthquakes occurred at a new housing development in the village the Shiratori siblings were visiting. The two meet a boy of the village, Ryosuke. He says that the Jizo, the guardian god of the hill, was angry at the new development construction for destroying the mountain. Soon, the sealed monster Enmargo appears and goes rampant!
Episode 15
Aoi kitsunebi no shôjo
30 mins
An angry mob hunts a little girl who is accused of being the daughter of the legendary Nine-Tail Fox and claim that she is responsible for the recent fires plaguing the village.
Episode 16
Kaijû no fue ga naru
30 mins
A young boy playing his late grandfather's stone flute attracts the attention of a very peculiar kaiju.
Episode 17
2 dai kaijû Tarô ni semaru!
25 mins
Kotaro visits the earthquake laboratory where the father of Kenichi's best friend Takeshi works. Takeshi takes home Kotaro's watermelon gift, but the larva of Leaf-Eating Monster Kemgila appears. Ultraman Taro stands up to the now gigantic Kemgila, but Volcano Bird Monster Birdon flies over to feed on it!
Episode 18
Zoffy ga shinda! Tarô mo shinda!
30 mins
With Taro mortally wounded it's up to the prayers of children and the help of Ultraman Zoffy to fend off the kaiju Birdon.
Episode 19
Ultra no Haha: Ai no kiseki!
30 mins
After defeating Ultraman Taro and Zoffy, the monstrous Birdon continues its assault on Japan as it hunts across the countryside for food.
Episode 20
Bikkuri! Kaijû ga futte kita
25 mins
Kotaro and the Shiratori siblings visit a guesthouse in Shinshu region. The guesthouse owner's wife, Osugi, had amnesia for the past two months from the shock of losing her only son to an illness. That night, the child of the monster, Flying Raidron, crashes onto Earth in the middle of the fireworks show. As Ultraman Taro attacks the monster, Osugi tells him...
Episode 21
Tôkyô New Town chinbotsu
30 mins
A new apartment complex has wiped out the cicadas natural habitat which results in the emergence of a giant cicada that goes on a rampage when it is not left alone.
Episode 22
Kozure kaijû no ikari!
30 mins
A newly-wed couple has an unfortunate encounter with a kaiju, the monster is friendly but the groom is a hunter who wants revenge.
Episode 23
Yasashii kaijû otôsan!
30 mins
A nagging overbearing wife and her milquetoast husband are the least of ZAT's problems when a kaiju shows up and starts melting cars.
Episode 24
Kore ga Ultra no kuni da!
30 mins
Six kids are orphaned when the great space monster Mururoa and an army of space moths descend upon Earth and bring darkness to the whole planet.
Episode 25
Moero! Ultra 6 Kyôdai
30 mins
Ultraman Taro journeys to the Land of the Light to find some way to relieve the Earth from the cloud of Darkness that the space monster Mururoa has caused.
Episode 26
Boku ni mo kaijû wa taiji dekiru!
30 mins
A little boy is embarrassed that his dad is a simply storyteller but when he stands up to kaiju he develops a new respect for him.
Episode 27
Deta! Mefirasu Seijin da!
30 mins
A killer plant is preying on young children by giving them a rare disease while disguised as a vending machine and it's up to ZAT to beat the menace and obtain the cure.
Episode 28
Kaijû Erekingu: Mangetsu ni hoeru!
30 mins
The monster Eleking returns, now powered by the full moon, and if that wasn't bad enough a group of mischievous boys add to ZAT's troubles.
Episode 29
Bemstar fukkatsu! Tarô zettai zetsumei!
30 mins
The dreaded Yapool has returned and unleashed the Space Monster Bemstar in his latest attempt at conquering the Earth and ZAT struggles to find a weapon that will stop him.
Episode 30
Gyakushû! Kaijû gundan
30 mins
With Ultraman seemingly defeated a local school teacher gathers up some rope and a knife to take on the might Bemstar himself.
Episode 31
Abunai! Usotsuki doku kinoko
30 mins
A lonely latchkey kid is tricked into helping the monster Mushra, soon he and all the people in his apartment complex have been turned into mushroom people and are enslaved.
Episode 32
Kogarashi kaijû! Kaze no Mata Saburô
30 mins
A weird little kid who prefers kaiju over Ultraman, and who has a strange affinity with the wind, transfers to Kenichi's school.
Episode 33
Ultra no Kuni: Dai bakuhatsu 5-byô mae!
30 mins
"Five Seconds Until the Big Explosion of the Land of Ultra!" - Alien Temperor, who plans to destroy the land of Ultra, was preparing to attack. However when he finds out the 5 Ultra Brothers are going to Earth to visit Ultraman Taro, battle on Earth ensues!
Episode 34
Ultra 6 Kyôdai saigo no hi!
30 mins
An overconfident Kotaro ignores his brother's advice about the importance of teamwork and tries to tackle Temperpor on his own.
Episode 35
Hissatsu! Tarô ikari no ichigeki!
30 mins
The ZAT members must discover the connection between a brave little girl and a hit and run alien before Kotaro's latest trip to the hospital becomes his last.
Episode 36
Hikyô mono! Hanayome wa naita
30 mins
No one believes a little boy's claim that an alien is mind-controlling construction works at a nearby condominium.
Episode 37
Kaijû yo: Furusato e kaere!
30 mins
ZAT tries to determine if a recently arrived space monster is a bad kaiju or a friendly one but their investigations are hindered when Moriyama is possessed by an evil alien that has its own agenda.
Episode 38
Ultra no Christmas tree
30 mins
In a very special Christmas episode a little orphan girl is befriended by a kindly alien but when he is killed by an Alien Terrorist she vows revenge.
Episode 39
Ultra fushi mochi-tsuki dai sakusen!
30 mins
A blimp riding kaiju arrives from the moon to steal rice cakes from orphans and ruin New Years for everybody.
Episode 40
Ultra kyôdai o koete yuke!
30 mins
A kaiju created from the best parts of monsters previously defeated by the Ultra Brothers now makes its way to Earth and while Kotaro obliviously teaches a kid to ride his bike the Ultra Brothers are beaten one after another.
Episode 41
Haha no negai: Mafuyu no sakura fubuki!
30 mins
A kid's chalk drawing turns out to be a kaiju hiding inside a wall and it will be up to Ultraman Taro to erase the threat.
Episode 42
Maboroshi no haha wa kaijû tsukai!
30 mins
In a secret lab a grieving widower builds a robot duplicate of his late wife, needless to say, things go bad rather quickly.
Episode 43
Kaijû o enshi ni shiro!
30 mins
A boy finds an egg that contains a veggie loving space monster but after feeding it a lot of vegetables it grows to an enormous size and becomes a real pickle of a problem.
Episode 44
A! Tarô ga taberareru!
30 mins
An alien ogre has a diabolical plan to get a little boy to eat Ultraman Taro, which somehow involves shrinking Kotaro and placing him and the little boy's brother inside a bean.
Episode 45
Nihon no dôyô kara: Akai kutsu haiteta
30 mins
An alien impersonates a childhood sweetheart of Kitajima's, who had been abducted when they were both young, and its plan is to destroy the ZAT base as an opening salvo towards invasion.
Episode 46
Nihon no dôyô kara: Shiroi usagi wa warui yakko!
30 mins
When a cruel landlord poisons a little boy's pet rabbit a visiting alien prince decides that humans are terrible and goes on a rampage.
Episode 47
Nihon no dôyô kara: Kaijû taishô
30 mins
A new and very talented transfer student earns some jealousy from his fellow classmates but when he kills kaiju larva and rushes to battle the mother the stakes are raised.
Episode 48
Nihon no dôyô kara: Kaijû Hinamatsuri
30 mins
A young boy meets a group of alien musicians who need his help with an alien drunkard, who even while drunk has serious ninja skills. Could a drunk dance-off with Ultraman Taro could be the answer?
Episode 49
Utae! Kaijû big match
30 mins
A sneaky alien intends to enrage a friendly music loving kaiju and it's up to ZAT to protect the beloved giant.
Episode 50
Kaijû sain wa V
30 mins
A nurse who wants to become a flight attendant has her dreams put on hold when a kaiju threatens a nearby nursing home, so she challenges the monster to a volleyball match.
Episode 51
Ultra no chichi to hanayome ga kita!
30 mins
Tadoa learns that surviving the jaws of a kaiju is nothing compared to the dangers of his mother showing up with a woman she announces is his bride-to-be.
Episode 52
Ultra no inochi o nusume!
30 mins
The monster Dorobon defeats Ultraman Jack and then heads to Earth to add Ultraman Taro's power to his conquest of space.
Episode 53
Saraba Tarô yo! Ultra no Haha yo!
25 mins
The tanker of Captain Shiratori, who Kotaro owes his life to, is attacked by Samekujira and sinks. Kotaro transforms into Ultraman Taro and defeats the monster, but he has mixed feelings inside. Kotaro returns his badge to Mother of Ultra and challenges Alien Valky. This was a message to Kenichi, who was grieving the loss of his father.