Gerry Anderson's TV Series (Thunderbirds and such)

[kach22i]

There was a TV series called "Stingray" which came out before Thunderbirds. This explains why all the Google searching in the world did not show the submarine I remember which looked like a fish swallowing up smaller subs.

Mystery solved.................I stayed home from school when I was five, first time I got sick. My mom let me watch TV, a real treat I had never done before alone. I'm 46, and I still remember it like it was yesterday (almost).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_(TV_show)

Stingray (1964 � 1965) is a children's marionette television show, made by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. Its 39 half-hour episodes were originally screened on ITV in the UK and syndication in the US. The scriptwriters included Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Alan Fennell (who went on to write Thunderbirds), and Dennis Spooner. Barry Gray composed the music, and Derek Meddings was the special effects director.

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/stingray.htm

Stingray has the honour of being the very first British TV series to be filmed in colour (although it was originally broadcast in black & white). It relates the exploits of the World Aquatic Security Patrol (WASP) in the 21st century...................................TRIVIA NOTE
Despite the series being made in England, its principal characters are all American, a decision made on the grounds of expediency: Gerry Anderson, Stingray's producer, believed this would make the show more saleable to US broadcasters, without alienating UK viewers who were already accepting of American-made shows. The decision paid off and Stingray was bought by the US network NBC.

Does anyone else remember anything about the show?

[rouxroux]

Did he also do "Fireball X L 5"?

[RickM]

Originally posted by rouxroux
Did he also do "Fireball X L 5"?

Yep, and Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds......have all his work on DVD. Cool stuff.

[dhoward]

Fireball XL5 is the one I remember, although after seeing the fish submarine, it seems as though I had seen it before.

[dhoward]

[RickM]

But do you all remember this one:



"Deep in the heart of the Nevada desert, at the isolated Black Rock laboratory, the brilliant Professor Popkiss and his colleague Dr. Beaker created Supercar, "The Marvel of the Age." Capable of racing from the depths of the ocean to the edge of space, this extraordinary vehicle takes the heroic pilot Mike Mercury and his precocious sidekick Jimmy Gibson on a never-ending series of thrilling adventures. The first fully developed Supermarionation series from producer Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, Stingray), Supercar established his winning formula of futuristic vehicles, high adventure and advanced puppetry techniques."

[craigster59]

I used to have a "Green Hornet" lunchbox and a "Fireball XL5" lunchbox. I wonder what they'd be worth today..

[kach22i]

Originally posted by rouxroux
Did he also do "Fireball X L 5"?

Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball_XL5

I remember the commercials for this, no one knows what I'm talking about when I recall these things. Where the heck did all the fellow fans pop up from?

Fireball XL5 was noteworthy as the only Anderson series run on a U.S. network. NBC (the National Broadcasting Company) ran the series at 10:30 am (Eastern) in its Saturday morning children's block from 1963 through September, 1965.

[KNS]

Didn't he go on to make "UFO" or some title like that? Loved "Space 1999" as well.

[fingpilot]

I also grew up with all of those. Supercar and Thunderbirds were the favs.

Deep in the Nevada desert...... haha, I'm still there.

[jluetjen]

Used to watch "UFO" and it's spin-off "Space 1999" when I was a kid. In hindsight the stories were far ahead of their time with multi-episode story "arcs", unresolved plots and a generally "dark" sense of forboding -- all years before "The X-Files" made these techniques fashionable.

[kach22i]

Project SWORD .........comic book and TV

http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Upload03/ProjectSWORD02.htm

This momentous, some would say impossible, task falls on the shoulders of Commander Bill Janson of Project SWORD...

Steven Colbert of Comedy Central does a rip off on Anderson?

[craigster59]

Here's a link to a Gerry Andeson site and also a book featuring Mike Trim who designed the vehicles and sets for Anderson's series.

http://fabgearusa.com/the_future_was_fab_the_art_of_mike_trim_book.html

[Moneyguy1]

Don't forget "TerraHawks". The entire series is on DVD and Hamilton Booksellers has it for cheap!!

Also: "Journey to the far side of the Sun" with Roy Thinnes. Classic sci-fi.