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Today, 2:47 am

Just started watching The Third Day

I've seen it before but I like Jude Law and it's a bit different

I'd recommend it if you stuck for something to watch and you don't mind something a bit Wicker Mannish

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Brian0787 wrote:

Watched the first episode of Fireball XL5 from 1962! I saw some of it years ago as my Uncle had the whole series on VHS. Very neat show!

I used to love that show when it was first aired. But Supercar was my first love. Fireball was pretty much Supercar in space. I gather there was another Gerry Anderson series called (?)The Secret Service that featured Father Stanley Unwin, which is a downright bizarre concept. I must take a look at it one day. Unwin's voice is supposed to be the real Stanley Unwin, and I've always liked his output.

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ToughDiamond wrote:

Brian0787 wrote:

Watched the first episode of Fireball XL5 from 1962! I saw some of it years ago as my Uncle had the whole series on VHS. Very neat show!

Very neat! I will have to take a look for both of those series! I was looking through Amazon Prime and just happened to find it. My Uncle has a toy model of the Fireball XL5 rocket.

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Today, 1:46 pm

Brian0787 wrote:

Watched the first episode of Fireball XL5 from 1962! I saw some of it years ago as my Uncle had the whole series on VHS. Very neat show!

I was born in 1954 so it came around at the right time for me. I loved that show...I even thought it was better than Thunderbirds!

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Brian0787 wrote:

Very neat! I will have to take a look for both of those series! I was looking through Amazon Prime and just happened to find it. My Uncle has a toy model of the Fireball XL5 rocket.

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I eventually owned a miniature model Supercar, though it wasn't till some time after my initial obsession with the show had faded somewhat.

Here's The Secret Service:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... qIfaNcyVnC
First episode is "A Case For The Bishop" which is presumably the best place to start.

But you might not like it:
"Lew Grade, Century 21's owner and financial backer, responded negatively to a test screening and cancelled the production. Grade believed that the inclusion of Unwinese* had made it impossible to sell the series to the American market."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Service

*Unwinese is a bizarre comic distortion of English used by Unwin in most of his other works - in fact until seeing this show I didn't know he ever spoke normal English, but he does so in the series, only using Unwinese in hostile situations, to confuse the enemies.

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Today, 2:07 pm

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Brian0787 wrote:

Watched the first episode of Fireball XL5 from 1962! I saw some of it years ago as my Uncle had the whole series on VHS. Very neat show!

I was born in 1954 so it came around at the right time for me. I loved that show...I even thought it was better than Thunderbirds!

I was born in 1952 and am old enough to remember Anderson's first series, "The Adventures Of Twizzle" (1957-8), "Torchy The Battery Boy" (1959), and "Four Feather Falls" (1960). Gradual evolution of his childrens' stories from their quaint, humble beginnings. By the time he did "Thunderbirds" I was beginning to lose interest, probably something to do with becoming a teenager who was anxious to break out of the chrysalis of childhood. But all that changed a few decades later.

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Today, 2:43 pm

Then there was Supercar and Stingray in the early and mid 1960s. I was very much into Thunderbirds, but could never get engaged with Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons or Joe 90, both from the late 1960s.

Fireball XL5 had a wonderful song with its closing credits!