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Film Details - South Australian Film Corporation ; Tsuburaya Productions , 1990
Producers:
Executive producer: Noboru Tsuburaya.
Producers: Kiyoshi Suzuki and Sue Wild.
Production Companies:
South Australian Film Corporation (Australia) and Tsuburaya Productions (Japan).
Director of Photography:
Paul Dallwitz.
Editors:
Richard Hindley, Nicholas Holmes, and Robert Gibson.
Production Designers:
Andrew Blaxland.
Music:
Shinsuke Kazado.
Cast:
Including Dore Kraus (Jack Shindo), Gia Carides (Jean Echo), Ralph Cotterill (Arthur Grant), Grace Parr (Kim Shaomin), Lloyd Morris (Charles Morgan), Rick Adams (Lloyd Wilder), Steve Apps (Ultraman), Robert Simper (Ultraman), Michael Read (The Monsters), Johnny Hallyday (The Monsters), and David Grybowski (Ike).
Release Dates:
Filmed in 1989, the program was released in Japan on home video and laser disc on 25 September 1990. It did not receive a Japanese television broadcast until it was shown on Tokyo Broadcasting System from 8 July to 30 September 1995. In the United States, the program was in weekly syndication from 4 January to 28 March 1992.
Location:
- Filmed in South Australia (including Adelaide and Semaphore), as well as at the South Australian Film Corporation's studios in Hendon.
Notes:
Special-effects supervisor: Paul Nichola.
List of episodes:
1.1 Signs of Life
1.2 The Hibernator
1.3 The Child's Dream
1.4 The Storm Hunter
1.5 Blast from the Past
1.6 The Showdown
1.7 The Forest Guardian
1.8 Bitter Harvest
1.9 The Biospherians
1.10 Tourists from the Stars
1.11 The Survivalists
1.12 The Age of Plagues
1.13 Nemesis
