All Things Anderson (Gerry that is)

[LessHero vanU]

I the "What do you collect" section I mentioned I collected cine camera's and paraphernalia - of which is a copy of a(n edited) episode of "Super Car", which is pre Fireball XL5. It is still in its box, but it is quite tatty. I played it once.

 

[ghostsecurity28]

I've never heard of Twizzle??? Terrahawks though... Expect the unexpected...

Good job we don't get banned for digressing, we'ed all be out on our ears.

THUNDERBIRDS : SI,
STINGRAY: SI,
TWIZZLE: NO,
TORCHY:NO,
TERRAHAWKS:NO,

THUNDERCATS-HO !!!
I have to say I was more care bears, gummi bears,thundercats, she-ra my dad and my brother are more sting ray and thunderbirds

 

[The Mad Collector]

I the "What do you collect" section I mentioned I collected cine camera's and paraphernalia - of which is a copy of a(n edited) episode of "Super Car", which is pre Fireball XL5. It is still in its box, but it is quite tatty. I played it once.

Now that really is early, I have never seen any of Supercar, my first experience of Gerry Anderson was Fireball XL5 and I was hooked from there.

 

[Tonyblack]

I can remember Supercar, but not very well. The pilot was named Mike Mercury and he had a pet monkey. Fireball XL5 had Steve Zodiac and a robot named Robert.

Anderson's shows got to be so popular that Lew Grade, the then head of ITV, used to give him carte blanche to spend pretty much however much he liked. The shows were made in Britain in colour before Britain had colour TV because they could easily be sold in the US.

 

[poohcarrot]

Captain Black. What an anti-hero!
Dressed in black, bags under his eyes and unshaven. Looked like a serious party animal just coming down from a three-day bender. 8)

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

High fashion too - strictly speaking Cap'n Black was a ZOMBIE! :twisted:

 

[Tonyblack]

High fashion too - strictly speaking Cap'n Black was a ZOMBIE! :twisted:

His first name was probably Reg.

Francis Matthews was Captain Scarlet and Ed Bishop (who later starred in Anderson's U.F.O.) was Captain Blue.

I see Dr Who has recently pinched the idea of Skybase from Captain Scarlet.

 

[Tonyblack]

Has anyone seen the CGI New Captain Scarlet that came out in 2005?

It's the first I've heard of it.

 

[poohcarrot]

NO, NO, NO!

That's not Captain Scarlett! That's just a commercial for a whole bunch of toys for kids to buy with crappy characters.
(And Lt. Green's had a sex change! )

 

[Batty]

Captain Black was my favourite character!
I always felt the Mysterons were justified in attacking Earth, as Earth fired the first shot on Mars.

 

[Tonyblack]

There's a great clip HERE from the new series, of the Angels getting attacked by the Canadian Airforce. Who'd have thunk it?

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

NO, NO, NO!

That's not Captain Scarlett! That's just a commercial for a whole bunch of toys for kids to buy with crappy characters.
(And Lt. Green's had a sex change! )

He's right -

They need the strings and/or stop motion (like Wallace & Grommit) 'cos they have to be slightly naff

 

[Tonyblack]

Oh I think they've achieved a certain amount of naff-ness.

 

[Tonyblack]

Anyone remember Star Fleet? Sort of Gerry Anderson meets Anime.

It was called X-Bomber in Japan.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Now that is naff

The thing with the cgi Captain Scarlet though is that it's not naff enough because it looks (to me anyway) like every other cgi computer/console/RPG game out there. In its heyday super-marionation was the only game in town and so people loved it for all it's naffness and didn't mind the strings (although by Scarlett you could barely see them at all). We're too familiar with cgi now for it to be unusual and so unless you're making it as live action (with Heather Graham as Destiny Angel maybe like Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft) then there's nothing to distinguish it in any way is there?