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No. of episodes 13 Number of episodes 13 | 3.7/10 IMDb Country of origin Japan Network Fuji Television Release date 6 April 1968 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Minoru MitsutaMimachi NonagaseTsuneo Kobayashi Starring Hideaki NitaniHiroshi MinamiJirō Yanaga Composer(s) Isao TomitaKunio Miyauchi Genres Action Film, Science Fiction, Espionage Similar Operation: Mystery!, Kaiju Booska, Mirrorman, Ultra Q, Saru No Gundan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad meat or good cheese mst3k mighty jack
Mighty Jack (マイティジャック, Maiti Jakku) was a tokusatsu science fiction/espionage/action TV series. Created by Japanese effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, the show was produced by Tsuburaya Productions and was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 6, 1968 to June 29, 1968, with a total of 13 one-hour episodes. The music for the episodes was done by Isao Tomita and Kunio Miyauchi.
Contents
- Bad meat or good cheese mst3k mighty jack
- The formal flipper mst3k mighty jack
- Plot
- Cast
- Fight Mighty Jack
- Mighty Jack in the US
- References
Reportedly, Eiji Tsuburaya considered this series his masterwork because the focus was on the people rather than on the vehicles and special effects (the show never had any monsters or aliens, as his more famous shows Ultra Q, Ultraman and Ultra Seven did.) This focus on the people was similar to the works of Gerry Anderson, of which Eiji was a big fan. The Mighty Jack mecha/HQ featured in this series also has some similarities to Eiji's previous TV masterpiece, Ultra Seven.
Even for the original series of 13 one hour-long episodes, the ratings were low. The follow-up series, Fight! Mighty Jack, fared better in the ratings, perhaps because of its inclusion of monsters and aliens rather than purely human evil-doers like Q.
The insignia of the titular heroic spy team has also become the current logo for Tsuburaya Productions.
The formal flipper mst3k mighty jack
Plot
"Mighty Jack" is the name of both a top-secret international peacekeeping organization's 11 agents, and the technologically advanced flying submarine"Mighty-Gō" they use to fight the plots of the terrorist organization "Q".
Cast
Fight! Mighty Jack
The more comical sequel series, Fight! Mighty Jack (戦え！マイティジャック, Tatakae! Maiti Jakku), aired on the same network from July 6 to December 28, 1968, with a total of 26 half-hour episodes, equalling the original in length.
This series has several humorous references to the early Ultra Series.
Mighty Jack in the US
In 1986, American producer Sandy Frank took the first and sixth episodes of Mighty Jack (without any of the episodes that were released in between) and combined them into a dubbed, feature-length film of the same title. The movie gained its widest exposure in the United States when it was shown as a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on Comedy Central (originally shown on the UHF station KTMA TV 23 during the show's KTMA season).