 Creator/producer "Eiji Tsuburaya" (qv) intended "Ultra Seven" to be  the final Ultra Series. It was indeed the last Ultra Series to be  supervised by Eiji. But because of the series success, Tsuburaya  Productions started on a story draft in late 1969 titled "Zoku  Urutoraman" ("Ultraman Continues"), which was a direct sequel to the  original _"Urutoraman: Kûsô tokusatsu shirîzu" (1966)_ (qv) (In it,  the characters from the original series would return, and Hayata,  once again played by "Susumu Kurobe" , would find a successor to the  Beta Capsule). But Eiji had passed away early the following year.  The proposed story was ultimately reworked into  _"Kaettekita Urutoraman" (1971)_ (qv), although Tsuburaya was also  going to use it again in 1988 (during the then