remember the supercar with the dolls? love to see them again. seems to me that there was a space version also. with all the cartoon networks and tvland stuff you should be able find anything but I have seen this in 40 years.
Fireball XL5. Iloved 'em, too. We watched them about 35 years ago, I think.
Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, and Stingray. Classics.
Someone has done models for Microsoft flight simulator:
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-msfs.html
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/supercar-msfs.html
Lots of other interesting links on Google, but I don’t see anything about anyone bringing these back so far. Maybe the Sci-Fi channel?
Were they in color? we had a B&W tv .
I loved Thunderbirds- and Stingray- I still get worked up looking at the girls on stingray, especially that mermaid chick who couldn’t talk…I’d subscribe to an all-marionettimation channel if they had one.
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Supercar and Fireball XL5 were in B&W. Starting with Stingray (I think), they were in colour.
If you want more info, you can always go to the Official Sylvia Anderson site.
You ain’t the only one.
Mari-i-na, Aqua-Mari-i-na, what are these strange enchanments I hear whenever you’re near. . ."
BTW, one of the handles that I considered when I signed up here was “Troy Tempest.”
“I want to be a Spaceman, the fastest man alive,
I’d fly around the universe in Fireball XL-5,”
BTW, the closing theme to Fireball XL-5 was used in one of the episodes of HBO’s “From The Earth To The Moon”.
Remember the Aquaphibians?
Supercar!
With Mike Mercury!
in SUPERMARIONATION
Yp. With Dr. Beaker and the gang. There are websites for this stuff, but I haven’t looked at them in ages.
They’re regularly repeated on British television but I don’t know how you can see them elsewhere. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is currently being shown on BBC2 on Mondays (mmmmn… Destiny Angel).
“They crash him, and his body they burn. They smash him, but they know he’ll return – to live again!”
Stingray and Thunderbirds have been shown in the same slot in recent weeks. I always preferred Atlanta to Marina for some reason. Fireball XL-5 is shown less often.
BTW, did you know that the first show made by Gerry Anderson using his Supermarionation technique was a cowboy show called Four Feather Falls? Don’t think it’s been seen since the '50s.
“People of Earth, this is the voice of the Mysterons. We are going to assassinate your World President and all of the dignitaries at the World Peace Conference tonight at 9:35 using an indestructible grinding, slashing, masticating robot which cannot be harmed by human weapons. There is no way to stop us from destroying your world peace, unless someone shoves his face in the high-voltage yoke of the robot’s power core.”
“Get Captain Scarlet on the line, straight away!”
About Supercar, I only saw part of an episode once (in TV LAND?) it was fun. In this link I found some “secret” techniques and photos from the “Rescue” episode:
http://www.gis.net/~fm/superm-snappy-4.html
Weed killer and sugar for the rocket engines?!?
Vividly. Actually they were electronic marionettes (Supermarionation = Super Marionette Animation), but if you’d like to see them again you’re in luck. Carlton International Media Ltd. of the UK purchased the ITC film and television library from PolyGram a few years ago, and they’ve been very aggressive at remarketing the Gerry Anderson canon since that acquisition.
A&E New Media distributes these titles in the United States, of which Thunderbirds (1964-66), Captain Scarlet (1967) and Space: 1999 (1974-76) are currently available. UFO (1970) is on pre-order, and Stingray (1963) is scheduled for release in 2003. Also, I understand Thunderbirds will be broadcast on TechTV this summer.
Gray-market releases of Supercar (1960) and Fireball XL5 (1962) are available in VHS format from Cinema Classics in New York. They’re appallingly shoddy, but the authorized releases have been out of print for years and there’s no word yet as to Carlton’s intention to release them on DVD.
I don’t believe this series ever aired outside the UK, though I’d love to see it someday. It was produced for Granada and as such likely wasn’t inherited by Carlton in the PolyGram acquisition (this is a guess as opposed to a fact – I have a copy of Anderson’s Torchy The Battery Boy (1958) which was released on VHS by PolyGram in the late 80s/early 90s, but the series itself was produced for Associated Rediffusion.)
At any rate, there is a vast amount of Anderson-related multimedia available on the Internet. A Google search returns nearly 3,000 links, and much of Barry Gray’s music from these series can be found on the P2P networks.
FAB, yes?
Spectrum is Green!
Livin’
Livin’
Livin’ in the twenty-first (twentieth?) cen-tu-ree!
Liviiiiiiiiin’ …
Livin’ it up!
(I think Terrahawks was by the same guys that made all the other supermarionation shows, anyway.)
Thunderbirds Are Go! ocassionally turns up on cable in my area…When I see the listing, I always wonder what happened to the Shadows marionettes from the movie …What a hoot if Sir Cliff & the boys were to appear with them somewhere now.
Not much to add here other than I’ve seen the movie Thunderjets Are Go, which was by those folks and in one of the scene you can see where Lucas got some of his ideas for scenes in The Empire Strikes Back