Ultra Seven

Ultra Seven (ウルトラセブン Urutora Sebun) is a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction television series created by Eiji Tsuburaya. Ultra Seven is the third installment in the Ultra series, was produced by Tsuburaya Productions, and aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 1, 1967 to September 8, 1968.

Dubbing History[]

The series was first dubbed by Commercial Recording in Honolulu, Hawaii and aired back in 1975, on Hawaii's KHON-TV channel. According to the existing information, all episodes were dubbed and transmitted. But due to the age of the dub, and the fact that recording television was more difficult at that time, only three episodes are known still to exist of this dub: Episodes 21, 22, and 35. Tsuburaya is still believed to be in possession of the entire dub, as a handful of recent Blu Ray releases of Ultra Seven have featured bonus features containing audio of this dub sampled from several otherwise lost episodes, including the series finale.

The second English dub of Ultra Seven, by contrast against the first, is much better-known. Having found the original English version to be lacking, Turner commissioned the Canadian children's programming production house, Cinar, to re-dub all 49 episodes for first-run syndication. This English dub features new opening and closing credits, and new eye-catches.

But unsatisfied with Cinar's resultant work, Turner locked the series into its vaults till 1994, when it was alerted that these re-dubbed episodes had never been transmitted. The series was then transmitted on the Toons 'Till Noon and MonsterVision blocks on TNT. However, between 1985 and 1994, Episodes 5 to 7 were missing or mislabeled, and these thus were never transmitted. When its contract expired in 2001, Turner returned all the Ultra Seven materials--the film, the tapes, and the masters--to Tsuburaya Productions. While this dub can be found on-line, it has received no official release.

Cast[]

Character	Original Actor	Dub Actor
Dan Moroboshi	Kohji Moritsugu	Rob Roy
Captain Kiriyama	Shōji Nakayama	Jean Fontaine
Furuhashi	Sandayū Dokumamushi	Dean Hagopian
Soga	Shinsuke Achiha	Marc Denis
Amagi	Bin Furuya	Arthur Grosser
Anne (Donna Michibata)	Yuriko Hishimi	Jane Woods
General Takenaka	Kenji Sahara	Tim Webber
Secretary Yamaoka	Susumu Fujita	Walter Massey
Narrator	Hikaru Urano	Vlasta Vrána

Additional Voices[]

Walter Massey

Cast (Tsuburaya-Hawaii)[]

Elews Carroll
Robin Gould
Dale Hemmond
Randall Obata
Priscilla Piano

Remarks[]

In the Cinar dub, Anne was renamed Donna Michibata. She was the only member of the Ultra Garrison (called "Ultra Squad" in Cinar's dub) to have her name changed.
Bin "Satoshi" Furuya, who acted out Amagi in Ultra Seven, had worn the "Ultra-Suit" as the title character of Ultraman. Indeed, Furuya was one of Tsuburaya Productions's busiest, and hence best-known, tokusatsu (special techniques) and kaiju (giant monster) "suit" actors and stuntmen.

Transmission[]

Date(s)	Channel	Dub	Country
1975-1976	KHON-TV	Tsuburaya	United States (Hawaii)
1994-2000	TNT	Turner	United States

External Links[]

Ultra Seven on the Internet Movie Database