OT: Cool observation while watching the movie "Thunderbirds"

god i hated TB and ST. 2 of the worst programmes ever, and im 33 or 34

None of them topped Fireball XL-5, IMO...not Stingray, not Thunderbirds...though I watched them all.

Pshaw! I was watching "Space Patrol" long before that.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Tell me. I remember Captain Video and the Video Rangers.

Don H.

Fireball was the only marionette program I remember. Definitely remember the writing as being advanced and sophisticated at the time; I enjoyed it. I wonder when this stuff will be available on DVD and how disalusionned we'll be when we show it to a younger generation. Beers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

These shows have been available for awhile now. I have the boxed sets of Thunderbirds, Stingray, and Capt. Scarlet. I am going to get Fireball next. cheers, Max Bryant

I just picked up a DVD of Flash Gorden from 1953 (starred Steve Holland) at a Dollar Store. After some checking, I found that it was never shown in western New York. Hardware is pretty intriguing as well.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Unfortunately you have advertised the fact you have seen the film inspired by the series.

When I saw how different it all was I just could not se it and not get annoyed

Thunderbirds films are called Thunderbirds are Go and Thunderbird 6

i still have my secret decoder ring.

I find so few people that remember Fireball XL-5 that I sometimes wonder if I didn't just make it up. Stingray was a good one too - I liked it much better than Thunderbirds, but I think Thunderbirds was probably the longest running one. XL-5 was definately my favorite.

I was deep into submarines (sorry 'bout that one...) in those days and I think Stingray was a contemporary with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - that may have been why I liked Stingray so much.

Cool! I'll have to look.

The entire Fireball XL5 series is on DVD. I just finished watching it on a disc I rented thru netflix.com

I remember a puppet show called Space Patrol on TV in the early 1960's. It ran concurrently with Fireball XL5 and was obviously made on a much smaller budget (about fourpence from the look of it). It starred Captain Larry Dart who commanded a space ship called a Galasphere. It seemed very British at the time and I'd be surprised if it found its way to American TV.

Is this the same show or are you thinking of another with the same name?

Gord> >

I punched the send button before I remembered that one. There was alot of neat stuff on TV when I was a kid. It's turned into a wasteland for sure now. BTW, sometime in the '90s there were some oldie shows played on WGBS out of Philly to mark TV's 50th anniversary. I taped one SP episode and I was impressed that the story held up very well. It was a bit more sophisticated than some kiddie shows I've seen repeats of.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Different shows with the same title. Ours was made in the early '50s and featured real actors. The ship was the Jupiter V. There were a lot of plastic toy ships and figures available then that I've always associated with the show but I don't know if they really were or not. I still have the figures.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

That one was on when I was 17. I was mildly embarrassed to be enthralled with a 'kid's program' at the time. Even so I was tempted to buy one of those polyethylene ships when it made it to the store I was working in.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I remember seeing that one on Channel 9 in LA in about

Found it- here's a link, and it was British-

I seem to remember that there was a fairly large toy of the XL-5, sort of Major Matt Mason Scale...man, I wanted one of those.

...had most of the Matt Mason stuff...wish I still did.