Alternative titles: English: GAZULA:The Amicable Monster
Type: TV
Episodes: 42
Status: Finished airing
Airdate: 00 00, 0000 to 00 00, 0000
Genres: Adventure
Duration: 00:20:00 per episode
Rating: G - All Ages
Gazula ('...the Amicable Monster') hatches from a man-sized egg spat up by a volcano on "Mysterious Island" and is adopted by a Japanese suburban family: stressed-out geek dad, look-alike son, cute little daughter and hair-dressed mum. Mum always wore her hair up. Dad chain-smokes. Gazula wears a bowler hat (tiny one), bow-tie and announces himself with "Gazula is here" in a wheedling voice. He breathes fire, usually to some comedic black-facing effect, especially on the father. The expulsion of the flame was usually very brief and Gazula usually went "pooh" or "wooh" in a wimpy little voice as he shot it out. He lives in terror of a conk-nosed doctor or vet who keeps trying to plunge an oversized hypodermic needle into his tail. This guy usually pops out through some scenery, grinning and causing Gazula to go on a panicked dash to escape. The path of destruction from one such scene formed the backdrop to the closing credits of each episode with the frozen screaming faces of maddened bystanders gawping up at the camera as it was tracking along Gazula's trail.
