Ultra Q is a 1966 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju television series created by Eiji Tsuburaya, first broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System (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).