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Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis' AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. Thirty-nine episodes were produced between 1961 and 1962, and it was Anderson's first half-hour series. In the UK it was seen on ITV and in the US in syndication (the first Anderson series to be shown overseas) debuting in January 1962. The series uses Supermarionation, based on the complex and difficult Czech style of marionette puppetry. The creation of the show was credited to Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill, but it incorporates elements of "Beaker's Bureau", a series proposed to the BBC by Hugh Woodhouse that was never produced. Anderson would later claim that the whole point of having a series based on a vehicle was to minimize having to show the marionettes walking, an action which he felt never looked convincing.

The plot of the show consisted of Supercar, a vertical takeoff and landing craft invented by Prof. Rudolph Popkiss and Dr. Horatio Beaker, and piloted by Mike Mercury. On land it rode on a cushion of air rather than wheels. Jets in the rear allowed it to fly like a jet and retractable wings were incorporated in the back of the car. Retrorockets on the side of the car slowed the vehicle. The car used "Clear-Vu", which included an inside television monitor allowing the occupant to see through fog and smoke. The vehicle was housed in a laboratory and living facility at Black Rock, Nevada, U.S.A. In the show's first episode, "Rescue", the Supercar crew's first mission is to save the passengers of a downed private plane. Two of the rescued, young Jimmy Gibson and his pet monkey, Mitch, are invited to live at the facility and share in the adventures.

The series inaugurated what would become an Anderson trademark, the launch sequence. Every one of his series up until Space: 1999 would include these – in Supercar 's case, the charging and firing of port and starboard engines, the activation of an interlock, the opening of (overhead) hangar doors, and finally the vertical take-off.

Series history and production

After Granada Television failed to renew Four Feather Falls , Anderson approached Lew Grade of ATV. Grade asked Anderson to reduce the budget by half. After working through the night, Anderson returned the next morning, with the budget reduced only by a third. Grade commissioned the series immediately.

The music for the series was composed and conducted by Barry Gray. The opening and closing theme song vocalist for the first season is Mike Sammes, for the second season Sammes's vocal group The Mike Sammes Singers re-recorded the theme.

There were two working models of Supercar, which was designed by art director Reg Hill. The larger hero model was made of light-weight wood and Plexiglass (Perspex) and measured about five feet (1.5 m) in length. It was built by Laurie Barr of Aeronautical and General Modelmakers Ltd. (now Mastermodels). The smaller model, used in distance shots, was about nine inches (23 cm) in length and was sculpted by Slough craftsman Bill James. Fans such as Austin Tate have speculated that Hill was inspired by the 1954 Ford FX-Atmos concept car.

As photography on the series was getting under way, creator Gerry Anderson wed production assistant and voice actress Sylvia Thamm. After a brief mid-day ceremony the couple returned to the studio to help complete the opening title sequence.

Many of the first 26 scripts for Supercar were written by brothers Hugh and Martin Woodhouse. At the rate of one complete "shooting (camera-ready) script" per week, this was done by the brothers to fit Anderson's/Grade's cost, and production schedule.

Anderson always claimed that he invented a futuristic vehicle as an excuse to reduce the amount of walking the marionette puppets had to do, which could never be made to look realistic. This was taken to its conclusion in Captain Scarlet , in which the marionette puppets are almost never seen walking.

The complete series is available on DVD in the United Kingdom, Australia, and North America, where it has been issued twice.

Cast and characters

Supercar Team
  • Michael "Mike" Mercury : - Test pilot of Supercar (voiced by Graydon Gould).

  • Professor Rudolph Popkiss - Co-Inventor of Supercar with Dr. Beaker (voiced by George Murcell in Season 1 and by Cyril Shaps in Season 2).

  • Dr. Horatio Beaker : - Co-Inventor of Supercar with Professor Popkiss (voiced by David Graham).

  • James "Jimmy" Gibson : - A young boy who lives with his brother (voiced by Sylvia Anderson, credited as Sylvia Thamm in Season 2). After Mike and Supercar save his life he joins the Supercar team.

  • Mitch the Monkey : - Jimmy's Pet Monkey (voiced by David Graham).

Recurring Villans
  • Masterspy : - A foreign spy (voiced by George Murcell in Season 1 and by Cyril Shaps in Season 2). He is obsessed with getting his hands on Supercar. By the second episode, he is already an old adversary of Mike Mercury and team.

  • Zarrin : - Masterspy's henchman (voiced by David Graham).

  • Mr. Harper : - A posh English criminal (voiced by George Murcell).

  • Ben Judd : - a not so posh cockney speaking criminal (voiced by David Graham).

Other Recurring characters
  • William "Bill" Gibson : - Jimmy's older brother (voiced by David Graham). He owns his own shipping business and can pilot a plane.

Casting the characters

The cast for Supercar was put together weeks before shooting was to commence. The lines were recorded in the rushes theatre, which was transformed into a recording studio. Lines were recorded on a Sunday (once every month), because the studio was on a trading estate, meaning Sundays were the quietest days of the week. The recording sessions typically took place between 9:30 a.m., and 5:30 p.m., during which time the cast, along with the sound engineers, would try to get through at least three scripts.

Canadian actor Graydon Gould (The Forest Rangers ), who voiced Mike Mercury despite never auditioning for the part, was offered it whilst doing a stage production that was shown on television. In an interview Gould recalls that, without owning a car, getting to Slough was difficult because “Sunday transport is about half of what it normally is” but because he had a wife, a two-year-old child and a three-bedroom apartment, he was grateful for the money. Sylvia Anderson directed the sessions and helped Gould with his American accent; he recalls “she would point out when my Canadian accent was slipping through.”

David Graham voiced three characters for the series: Doctor Beaker, Zarin, and Mitch the Monkey. He also voiced the recurring character of Bill Gibson. He had previously worked on the series Four Feather Falls where he had shown his ability to provide a variety of different voices. Graham had based his voice for Dr. Beaker on veteran actor Felix Aylmer, while he also spent a day at London Zoo watching monkeys at the Monkey House, trying get a good interpretation as to how Mitch should sound.

George Murcell voiced Professor Popkiss and Masterspy for the first season. He had previously worked for AP Films when playing the character Diamond in the low budget B-Movie Crossroads to Crime alongside David Graham. Graham believes that because of his voice quality, Gerry thought he would make a good Masterspy, while Gould remembers Murcell doing “all the European voices”. Murcell left the series after 24 episodes, which explains why he, and Popkiss do not appear in the last two episodes of the first series.

Sylvia Anderson, then Sylvia Thamm before her marriage to Anderson, was credited as "voice direction", and voiced Jimmy Gibson and all female characters in the series; however, she was not credited for the first series. Originally Sylvia was not to voice Jimmy, but she was given the opportunity when Gerry was not happy with the original voice of Jimmy that had already been recorded. This marked Sylvia’s first involvement in voice acting.

Cyril Shaps was brought in to voice Professor Popkiss and Masterspy for the second season. David Graham was a friend of Cyril and suggested him for the part when George left. At the time Cyril was performing in the West End play The Tenth Man, which David, Gerry and Sylvia went to see.

Comic book

Supercar was the first Gerry Anderson series to be adapted as a comic book in America, with the Gold Key company releasing four issues between November 1962, and August 1963.

Soundtrack

In 1998 Fanderson issued a limited edition album of Barry Gray's music from the series, paired with Gray's work on Fireball XL5 . It was the first soundtrack album produced by the society.

In 2013 the society released a second limited edition disc, this one completely devoted to the series.

Fireball XL5 is a science fiction themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5 , commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. The show aired for a single 1962—63 series, produced by husband and wife team Gerry and Sylvia Anderson through their company APF, in association with ATV for ITC Entertainment, and first transmitted on ATV on Sunday 28 October 1962. While developing his new show, Anderson thought a brand of motor oil – Castrol XL – had an interesting sound. A phonetic change created the name "Fireball XL", with the "5" added as the title seemed a bit flat without the numeral.

The show featured the Andersons' Supermarionation, a form of puppetry first introduced in Four Feather Falls (1960) and Supercar (1961) and used again in their subsequent productions such as Stingray , Thunderbirds , Captain Scarlet , Joe 90 and The Secret Service . Thirty-nine black and white half-hour episodes of Fireball XL5 were made on 35mm film: all subsequent Anderson series were produced in colour.

Several Anderson series have been shown in syndication in the US, but Fireball XL5 is the only Anderson series to have run on a US network. NBC (the National Broadcasting Company) ran the series in its Saturday morning children's block from 1963 through to September 1965.

A similar programme often confused with Fireball XL5 due to a number of similarities and settings is Space Patrol (known as Planet Patrol in the U.S.), produced by Gerry Anderson's former business partner and co-founder of AP Films, Arthur Provis.

The complete series is available on DVD in the UK, Australia, Canada and the U.S..

Setting

Set between the years 2062 and 2063, the series featured the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5 , commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. The crew included glamorous Doctor Venus, a doctor of space medicine; middle-aged navigator and engineer Professor Matthew Matic and co-pilot Robert, a transparent, anthropomorphic robot who would most often proclaim ON-OUR-WAY-HOME . Robert was the only character in an Anderson series which was actually voiced by Anderson, himself, albeit with the aid of an artificial larynx. As Anderson describes in a deleted scene of Filmed in Supermarionation :

Then, it was very, very difficult, if not impossible to produce the sort of robot voice which would have to be monotone. So we found out that in Edinburgh University, they were creating the human voice artificially. They gave us a vibrator – of course, of course, everybody smiled at – not that kind of vibrator. And it was a vibrator that people who had their larynx removed through cancer would be able to put the vibrator under their chin, and it made a constant buzz. [Makes buzzing noise.] And then, of course, that sound was transmitted to the air inside the mouth. And I was then able to modulate that by mouthing the words. So, let's get this straight, fellas. It was not my voice. It was the sound of the vibrator which I modulated, and that it why, erm... Robert always used to say: "[Doing an impression of Robert.] On our way 'ome.".

In the series, the World Space Patrol is based at Space City, located on an unnamed island in the South Pacific, headed by Commander Zero. Zero is assisted by Lieutenant Ninety. For unspecified reasons, the 25-storey, T-shaped Space City control tower rotates; in one episode a character inadvertently makes it rotate fast enough for those inside to suffer from vertigo.

Fireball XL5 patrolled Sector 25 of charted interstellar space (although there only appeared to be three sectors marked on the space chart seen in the Space City control room). The patrols were missions of three months' duration, and the ship was on call at base between missions.

Fireball XL5 space ship

The patrol space ship Fireball XL5 takes off utilising a mile-long launch rail culminating in a 40-degree incline, or sky ramp, which, as Anderson claimed, was inspired by an old Soviet design, a concept also used in the film When Worlds Collide .

The World Space Patrol operates a fleet of at least thirty 'Fireball XL' ships (an XL30 is referred to in the episode The Firefighters ), of which XL5 is the most famous. The ship itself is made up of two detachable sections. A winged nose cone, known as Fireball Junior , contains the cockpit and separates from the main body to land on other worlds. The rest of the ship contains a navigation bay, laboratory, a large lounge, workshops and separate crew quarters, together with fuel and the main rocket motors used for interstellar travel. The main ship generally remains stationed in orbit after arriving at an alien planet.

When Fireball XL5 returns to its base on Earth, Space City, the whole ship lands horizontally, without separating, using underside-mounted retro-rockets.

Although the series uses many classic, early 20th-century science fiction themes reminiscent of the space opera of E. E. "Doc" Smith, it was a children's show and not intended to be realistic. Fireball XL5 is portrayed travelling around the galaxy at sub-light speeds (until the episode Faster than Light ), and the series observed few of the limitations of known science and rocketry. Viewers were informed that the ship's rocket motors were powered by a 'nutomic reactor' and that XL5 could travel safely at speeds up to 'Space Velocity 7', enabling it to reach the outlying star systems of charted space within a few months. Furthermore, the crew never wore space suits; instead they took "oxygen pills" to survive in the vacuum of space, where they manoeuvred in zero gravity with the aid of thruster packs. 'Neutroni radio' enabled virtually instantaneous communication within the sectors of charted space, and XL5 and her sister ships were fitted with 'gravity activators' that generated artificial gravity fields within them.

Character voices

Regular characters were voiced by Paul Maxwell, Sylvia Anderson, David Graham and John Bluthal. In common with many of the Anderson puppet shows, most of the important characters have American accents, with some notable exceptions: Dr. Venus is French, Jock the engineer is Scottish and some of the aliens have remarkably sedate British accents (e.g. episode 33, the Day the Earth Froze). Language issues between alien races and Earth were rarely encountered as most races appeared to speak perfect English.

Theme song and merchandising

Fireball XL5 had separate opening instrumental theme music and a closing theme song. The closing theme, Fireball , written by Barry Gray and sung by Don Spencer, became a minor hit in Britain. Gray would have a long relationship with the Andersons' productions, writing themes for such series as Thunderbirds and Space: 1999 . Don Spencer would become Australia's premier children's entertainer and founder of the Australian Children's Music Foundation. A group, The Flee-Rekkers, produced by Joe Meek, came out with an instrumental version in the style of Telstar .

In addition to the theme song, the series spawned a number of other licensed merchandising spin-offs including toys, an MPC playset with rocket ship and figures, model kits including a plastic kit of Fireball XL5 itself, puppets, ray guns, comic strips and annuals. In Britain, a two-page black-and-white Fireball XL5 comic strip appeared in the weekly TV Comic between 1962 and 1964 before moving to the newly launched weekly TV Century 21 comic in January 1965 for another five years. The strips that appeared between 1965 and 1968 were in colour only reverting to black-and-white in 1969. Four hard cover Annual books were published in Britain by Collins between 1963 and 1966 featuring colour and black and white comic strip and text stories, while in the United States Gold Key Comics printed a single-issue colour comic book in 1963. Little Golden Books published a hard-cover colour illustrated story book in 1964 (later released as 'Fireball XL5 – A Big Television Book' in Britain).

During the mid 1960s there were also three soft cover colouring/puzzle books published in Britain and one soft cover colouring/story book published in the United States.

Home video releases

Like most of Anderson's Supermarionation series, this one was given a "complete series" release in Region 1 by A&E Home Video. A Region 2 version featuring new bonus material was released on DVD in those territories in 2009, superseding a 2004 release with no extras. On 22 October in Region B territories, an individual Blu-ray featuring a colorised version of the episode A Day in the Life of a Space General was released. The disc also includes an episode of Four Feather Falls and an extended version of the Wonderland of Stardust documentary released as a bonus on the Region B box set released earlier in 2009.  The series was reissued in North America in a slim DVD set (only about the size of a single DVD case), but aside from a bonus PDF file of a publicity brochure for the show, and different menu design, the set is identical to its predecessor.

Cast of characters

Main

Fireball XL5 Crew
  • Colonel Steve Zodiac : - The Pilot and commanding officer of Fireball XL5 (voiced by Paul Maxwell). Zodiac was awarded Astronaut of the Year in the episode "Space City Special".

  • Doctor Venus : - A Doctor of Space Medicine, of French origin. Personally chosen to be part of his crew by Steve Zodiac and with 5 years of service on the XL5 according to the episode "The Last of the Zanadus" (voiced by Sylvia Anderson).

  • Professor Matthew "Matt" Matic : An engineer, navigator and scientist of XL5 (voiced by David Graham, speaking in a voice similar to the actor Walter Brennan).

  • Robert the Robot - The Co-Pilot of XL5 , a transparent robot invented by Professor Matic and Earth's most advanced mechanical man (voiced by an uncredited Gerry Anderson using an artificial larynx and the only main character Gerry Anderson ever voiced in one of his series).

  • Zoonie the Lazoon : - A lazy, semi-telepathic pet of Dr. Venus from planet Colevio (voiced by David Graham). During his first appearances, he couldn't say anything but "welcome home" but his vocabulary grew as the series progressed, often due to him mimicking other characters.

Space City Personnel
  • Commander Wilbur Zero : - The Operational Commander-in-Chief of the World Space Patrol and Space City's Chief Controller (voiced by John Bluthal). Despite his gruff exterior, he cares deeply for his subordinates and respects them, especially Steve.

  • Lieutenant Ninety : The assistant Space City Controller (voiced by David Graham). Ninety is young, inexperienced and the character most often on the receiving end of Commander Zero's scathing attitude. Despite the seeming high tension between him and Zero, Zero called him "the best lieutenant Space City has." In one episode of the series, Lieutenant Ninety even underwent training as an XL pilot.

Recurring
  • Jock Campbell : - The Chief Engineer at Space City (voiced by John Bluthal). He is of Scottish descent and makes it clear he doesn't think too highly of women but when Venus saves his life during an ill-fated mission, he starts to have a change of heart.

  • Eleanor Zero : - Commander Zero's wife (voiced by Sylvia Anderson)

  • Jonathan Zero : - Commander Zero's young son (voiced by Sylvia Anderson). According to the Little Golden Book 'Fireball XL5' story book published in the USA in 1964 young Jonathan was lucky enough to be a passenger aboard Fireball XL5's maiden voyage which included an unscheduled stop at the planet Geminy.

  • Captain Ken Ross : - The Pilot of several XL spaceships (voiced by John Bluthal). He often needs saving by the crew of XL5.

Recurring Villains
  • Space Spy Boris : - (voiced by David Graham)

  • Space Spy Griselda : - (voiced by Sylvia Anderson)

  • The Subterrains of Planet 46 : - (voiced by John Bluthal and David Graham)

Planets

Many episodes of Fireball XL5 were set on exotic planets:

  • Amazonia – a planet mentioned in the episode Prisoner on the Lost Planet as being a member of the United Planets Organization alongside Earth and which had banished its mad queen to an unnamed planet of active volcanoes.

  • Aridan – the desert planet that once had water but is now an arid wilderness seen in the episode "Space Pirates"

  • Conva – a regularly featured planet first introduced in the episode "Space Pen" as a planetwide prison for criminals and featured prominently in the episode "Convict in Space", in which one of its convicts escapes.

  • Granatoid – home of the Granatoid robots who appear in "The Granatoid Tanks" and described (though not seen) as having a completely technocratic society, led by a robot voiced by an uncredited Gerry Anderson.

  • Granvenia – a planet mentioned as the destination of fuel tankers that are being diverted to the planet Suventa in the episode "Hypnotic Sphere".

  • Hedera – a planet rich in plant life that was visited in the episode "Plant Man from Space" and home of a rampant strain of Ivy called Hedera helixa .

  • Herbos – a jungle planet seen briefly in the episode "Last of the Zanadus".

  • Magneton – a planet visited in the episode "Space Magnet" and inhabited by the invisible Solars.

  • Membrono – a planet that was nearly destroyed (by another, unnamed planet) in the episode "The Doomed Planet". An advanced alien race lived on Membrono's moon.

  • Minerra – a planet rich in radioactive minerals needed for earth resources seen in the episode "Space Pirates"

  • Mirana – a perpetually burning planet seen in the episode "Hypnotic Sphere".

  • Monotane – a desert planet inhabited by a space monster in "Space Monster".

  • New Earth – a planet with a thin atmosphere and little gravity that was to be colonised by the crew of the spaceship Mayflower-3 in the episode Space Immigrants until spaceship Fireball XL7, sent out to prepare for the arrival of the Mayflower-3, was captured by megalomaniacal aliens.

  • Planet 46 – home of the Subterrains and a barren planet with an oxygen atmosphere; introduced in the pilot episode Planet 46 and appearing in numerous other episodes.

  • Planet 73 – a planet colonised by Earth and attacked by the Granatoids in the episode The Granatoid Tanks .

  • Planet 82 – a planet renamed Robotvia by Professor Al Himber.

  • Platonia – a planet featured in the episode Planet of Platonia and revealed to be rich in Platinum and inhabited by silver-skinned aliens who eat 23-course meals. A trade agreement with Earth had created a power-struggle on the planet, which the XL5 crew was sent to calm.

  • Rajusca – A desert planet featured in the episode Sun Temple , in which the Earth is attacked by sun worshipping Rajuscans living in the desert.

  • Suventa – an ice-planet that is home to an unnamed brain-creature which hopes to use hypnotic satellites to take control of the universe.

  • Triad – a planet featured in the episode, The Triads , which is almost identical to earth in every way, except for being three times its size. Consequently, everything on it, plants, people, animals, etc. is three times the size it is on earth, also. The gigantic human inhabitants are friendly, but are at least 100 years behind earth technologically and were just attempting their first space launches when the crew of the XL5 visited.

  • Zanadu – a planet that featured a mysterious temple in the episode Last of the Zanadus

  • Zofeit – a planet whose inhabitants, the Zofeits,were almost wiped out (only two males surviving) by a lone alien in the episode XL5 to H 2 0 . The crew of XL5 rescued the two survivors, who were evacuated to Earth.

Episodes

No.

Title

Directed by

Written by

Original air date

Production code

1

"Planet 46"

Gerry Anderson

Gerry & Sylvia Anderson

28 October 1962

1

Fireball XL5 intercepts a planetomic missile sent to destroy Earth. On Planet 46 Steve and Venus are captured by the Subterrains – who promptly launch a second missile, with Venus on board!

2

"The Doomed Planet"

Alan Pattillo

Alan Fennell

4 November 1962

5

The investigation of a flying saucer leads to Steve Zodiac attempting to save a planet which has broken out of its orbit and is on a collision course with another planet.

3

"Space Immigrants"

Alan Pattillo

Anthony Marriott

11 November 1962

8

The Mayflower III, piloted by Venus, is carrying pioneers to a new planet. But the indigenous Lillispatians have objections to their world being colonized!

4

"Plant Man From Space"

John Kelly

Anthony Marriott

18 November 1962

6

Prof. Matic's old friend, Dr. Rootes, attempts to conquer Earth using an invasive species of alien plant life – which promptly runs amok!

5

"Spy In Space"

Alan Pattillo

Alan Fennell

25 November 1962

11

Espionage at a fueling depot, courtesy of that notorious couple, Mr. and Mrs. Space Spy. Venus is held hostage yet again!

6

"The Sun Temple"

Bill Harris

Alan Fennell

2 December 1962

7

On Rejusca, Steve and Zoonie must rescue the much-captured Venus from sun worshippers who intend to make a sizzling sacrifice of her to their solar deity.

7

"XL5 To H2O"

John Kelly

Alan Fennell

9 December 1962

12

Fireball responds to an urgent distress call from the last two survivors of a planet menaced by a weird fish man armed with a poisonous smoke gun.

8

"Space Pirates"

Bill Harris

Anthony Marriott

16 December 1962

13

The Fireball crew gets entangled in a complicated game of bluff and double bluff in order to outwit a gang of space pirates plundering freighters from the mineral-rich planet Minera.

9

"Flying Zodiac"

Bill Harris

Anthony Marriott

23 December 1962

10

Steve nearly falls victim to sabotage at a Space City circus as part of a complicated scheme by Mr. and Mrs. Space Spy to help alien nomads take over Earth.

10

"Space Pen"

John Kelly

Dennis Spooner

30 December 1962

15

Posing as criminals, the Fireball crew head for the prison planet Conva in pursuit of two Space City raiders, only to end up in Mr. and Mrs. Space Spy's lethal water chamber!

11

"Space Monster"

John Kelly

Gerry & Sylvia Anderson

6 January 1963

9

Zoonie's talent for mimicry gets the Fireball crew out of a tight spot when they investigate the disappearance of the XL2 and find themselves menaced by a space monster.

12

"The Last of the Zanadus"

Alan Pattillo

Anthony Marriott

13 January 1963

14

Zoonie falls sick – a victim of a plot by the evil Kudos, lone inhabitant of the planet Zanadu, to destroy all Lazoons with a deadly virus. Can Fireball XL5 obtain the antidote in time?

13

"Planet Of Platonia"

David Elliott

Alan Fennell

20 January 1963

3

While bringing the King of the Plantium Planet to Earth for trade talks, the Fireball crew foils a bomb plot by the king's aide, Volvo, to kill his ruler and plunge the two planets into war.

14

"The Triads"

Alan Pattillo

Alan Fennell

27 January 1963

18

Steve, Venus, and Mat encounter Graff and Snaff, a couple of friendly giants, on Triad – a planet three times the size of Earth – and help them in their efforts to explore space.

15

"Wings of Danger"

David Elliott

Alan Fennell

3 February 1963

17

While investigating strange signals coming from Planet 46, Steve Zodiac is unknowingly poisoned by a robot bird equipped with deadly radium capsules. Swift surgery by Venus saves his life, but the bird is waiting to "pounce" again...

16

"Convict in Space"

Bill Harris

Alan Fennell

10 February 1963

16

Mr. and Mrs. Space Spy issue a fake distress call. But this time a convict being transported, not the XL5, is their primary target...

17

"Space Vacation"

Alan Pattillo

Dennis Spooner

17 February 1963

22

A well-deserved vacation on the opulent planet of Olympus turns into a frenzied race against time when the crew becomes embroiled in a bizarre interplanetary feud.

18

"Flight to Danger"

David Elliott

Alan Fennell

24 February 1963

21

To win his astronaut's wings Lt. Ninety must complete a solo orbit of the moon. But disaster strikes when his rocket catches fire, and he is feared lost... or is he?

19

"Prisoner on the Lost Planet"

Bill Harris

Anthony Marriott

3 March 1963

20

Answering a distress call from uncharted space, Steve finds himself on a misty planet dominated by a giant smoldering volcano – where he meets a beautiful Amazonian exile who threatens to activate said volcano if she is not helped to escape!

20

"The Forbidden Planet"

David Elliott

Anthony Marriott

10 March 1963

25

Prof. Matic's newest invention, the Ultrascope, obtains the planet Nutopia – never before seen by eyes from Earth, and reputed to be the perfect planet. But Nutopians have an invention of their own... a matter transporter!

21

"Robert to the Rescue"

Bill Harris

Dennis Spooner

17 March 1963

24

Steve, Mat, and Venus are imprisoned on an unknown world by two Domeheads, Magar and Proton, who propose to wipe their Earth memories and keep them there forever. Before being brainwashed, Steve cleverly orders Robert the Robot to rescue them... with curious results!

22

"Dangerous Cargo"

John Kelly

Dennis Spooner

24 March 1963

27

On a mission to destroy an unstable ghost planet, Steve and Mat set explosives in a mineshaft – only to find themselves trapped by the Subterrains!

23

"Mystery of the TA2"

John Kelly

Dennis Spooner

31 March 1963

23

When the crew finds the wreck of a spaceship that disappeared decades before, their search for the lost pilot, Col. Denton, leads them to the planet Arctan – where they discover Denton living quite happily as king of the Ice People.

24

"Drama at Space City"

Alan Pattillo

Anthony Marriott

7 April 1963

30

Jonathan Zero's highly unauthorized midnight exploration of Fireball XL5 turns into a terrifying adventure when the ship launches and catches fire!

25

"1875"

Bill Harris

Anthony Marriott

14 April 1963

28

Mat Matic's new time machine whisks Steve, Venus and Cmdr. Zero back to the Wild West of 1875, where Steve becomes Sheriff and Venus and Zero are bank robbers!

26

"The Granatoid Tanks"

Alan Pattillo

Alan Fennell

21 April 1963

26

Scientists on a glass-surfaced planet radio for help when they are menaced by six Granatoid tanks. Fireball XL5 responds but is powerless to halt the assault. Fortunately, a stowaway proves to be of unexpected help!

27

"The Robot Freighter Mystery"

David Elliott

Alan Fennell

28 April 1963

29

Steve Zodiac resorts to subterfuge to prove that an unscrupulous pair of space salvage contractors, the Briggs Brothers, are sabotaging robot supply freighters so that they can pick up the pieces.

28

"Whistle for Danger"

John Kelly

Dennis Spooner

5 May 1963

31

A plant disease has wiped out all vegetation on the jungle planet of Floran. The Fireball XL5 explodes an Ellvium bomb to eradicate the disease and restore the plant life – but the inhabitants are suspicious of their motives and imprison Steve, Mat and Venus in a 100-foot-tall (30 m) tower.

29

"Trial by Robot"

Bill Harris

Alan Fennell

12 May 1963

36

Robots have vanished from four planets – and the disappearances are linked to visits by a famous robot scientist, Prof. Himber. When Robert also goes missing, Steve and Mat undertake the three-month journey to Planet 82, only to be put on trial by the mad professor – the ruler of his kidnapped robot race!

30

"A Day in the Life of a Space General"

David Elliott

Alan Fennell

19 May 1963

37

Lt. Ninety is promoted to general, but his erratic command wreaks havoc. A cascading series of disasters reaches its spectacular climax when Fireball XL5 itself crashes into Space City. What a nightmare... which is exactly what the hapless Lt. Ninety is having!

31

"Invasion Earth"

Alan Pattillo

Dennis Spooner

26 May 1963

34

A strange cloud hides an invading alien fleet.

32

"Faster Than Light"

Bill Harris

Dennis Spooner

2 June 1963

32

An out-of-control Fireball breaks the light barrier only to emerge in a sea of air.

33

"The Day the Earth Froze"

David Elliott

Alan Fennell

9 June 1963

33

Icemen from the planet Zavia deflect the Sun's rays, sending the Earth into a deep freeze.

34

"The Fire Fighters"

John Kelly

Alan Fennell

16 June 1963

39

Fireballs are plunging to Earth from a mysterious gas cloud in space. Steve and his crew must contain the cloud before it reaches the atmosphere. Their plan goes smoothly until a technical fault forces Steve to complete the work by hand.

35

"Space City Special"

Alan Pattillo

Dennis Spooner

23 June 1963

38

Astronaut of the Year Steve Zodiac needs all his skill to talk Venus down after she takes over the controls of a supersonic airliner whose pilot has been sent into a trance by Subterrains.

36

"Ghosts of Space"

John Kelly

Alan Fennell

6 October 1963

35

Steve and a geologist attempt to solve the manifold mysteries of the seemingly deserted planet Electron, which is replete with electric rocks and weird, poltergeist-like happenings.

37

"Hypnotic Sphere"

Alan Pattillo

Alan Fennell

13 October 1963

2

Robert the Robot saves the day when the rest of the crew is thrown into a trance by a hypnotic sphere which has been spacejacking freighters.

38

"Sabotage"

John Kelly

Anthony Marriott

20 October 1963

19

A neutroni bomb is planted on board the XL5 and the crew is kidnapped.

39

"Space Magnet"

Bill Harris

Anthony Marriott

27 October 1963

4

The Solars have their own use for our Moon.

Translations
  • (in French) : Fusée XL5

  • (in Spanish) : El Capitán Marte y su XL5 . In the version shown in Latin-American countries, Colonel Zodiac is rechristened Capitán Marte ("Captain Mars").

  • (in Greek) : Πύρινη Σφαίρα (pyrine sphaera = ball of fire).

INFORMATION ABOUT SUPERMARIONATION:  Supermarionation (a portmanteau of "super", "marionette" and "animation") is a puppetry technique devised in the 1960s by British production company AP Films. It was used extensively in the company's numerous Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-produced action-adventure series, the most famous of which was Thunderbirds. The term was coined by Gerry Anderson.  DEVELOPMENT AND USE IN GERRY ANDERSON PRODUCTIONS: The system used marionettes suspended and controlled by thin wires. The fine metal filaments doubled as both suspension-control wires for puppet movement, and as electrical cables that took the control signals to the electronic components concealed in the marionettes' heads. Although efforts were made to minimise this, the strings used to control the puppets are often visible (more so on modern high-definition television screens), although the production teams' ability to mask the strings and the fineness of the strings noticeably improves through the various series.  The heads contained solenoids that created the facial movements for dialogue and other functions. The voice synchronisation was achieved by using a specially designed audio filter, actuated by the signal from the pre-recorded tapes of the voice actors; this filter would convert the signal into a series of pulses that then travelled down the wire to the solenoids controlling the puppet's lips. Up to and including Thunderbirds, these control mechanisms were placed within the puppets' heads, which meant the heads had to be disproportionately large compared to the bodies; the rest of the body could not be sized up to match, otherwise the puppet would be too bulky to operate.  With the advent of miniaturised electronic components in the mid-1960s, a new type of puppet was designed with control mechanisms in the chest, connected to the mouth by narrow rods through the neck. This resulted in a far more proportionate appearance for the puppets, first appearing in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. In a 2002 interview, Anderson revealed that it was his desire to move into live-action television during the production of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and that he endorsed the new, realistic design of the Supermarionation puppets as a compromise for his inability to use live actors.  Because the marionettes could not be made to walk convincingly, most scenes depicted the characters either standing or sitting, or placed them in settings that allowed the use of vehicles and other mechanical transportation systems. The personal hovercraft used in Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds were one of the devices the producers used to overcome this problem.  Occasionally, close-ups of a live actor's hand would be inserted to show actions such as turning keys and pressing buttons. This was affectionately parodied in the 2004 live-action feature film Thunderbirds, with a brief shot of a puppet hand, suspended by wires, operating the controls of Thunderbird 1.  In many cases, the puppets were modelled on the actor voicing the role; two good examples are Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds, which closely resembled Sylvia Anderson, and Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet, who looks like his voice actor Ed Bishop (although the latter similarity was reportedly coincidental). Other characters were based on well-known film stars, such as Captain Troy Tempest in Stingray, who was based on James Garner, Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, who was modelled on Sean Connery, and Captain Scarlet in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, whose voice and appearance were modeled on Cary Grant. Stingray also featured the only non-speaking Supermarionation puppet: the water-breathing woman Marina.  ANDERSON’S SUPERMARIONATED TELEVISION SHOWS: Four Feather Falls (1960) // Supercar (1961) // Fireball XL5 (1962) // Stingray (1964) // Thunderbirds (1965) // Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) // Joe 90 (1968) // The Secret Service (1969) //  The term "Supermarionation" was not actually coined until during production of later episodes of Supercar. As a result, Four Feather Falls is often omitted from lists of Supermarionation productions.  The Secret Service was actually a hybrid of live action and Supermarionation, using footage of live actors from a distance to depict driving, walking, etc. Production was cancelled by ITC owner Lew Grade before the pilot episode aired; the 13 completed episodes aired sporadically on ATV and other British broadcasters beginning in 1969. Despite the poor reception, Anderson has been quoted as naming The Secret Service as his favorite Supermarionation series.  In 1973, Anderson produced a pilot episode for another Supermarionation/live-action hybrid entitled The Investigator but was displeased with the results, so no series resulted. This is the last known occasion in which a full Supermarionation production was mounted.  Two feature films based upon Thunderbirds were also made with Supermarionation: Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1967). Numerous episodes of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and other series were also edited together (sometimes with the addition of new narration) to form movie-length features for VHS release and TV syndication in the 1980s.  In 1991, Anderson produced Supermarionation versions of the Dire Straits band members for the music video "Calling Elvis".  Supermarionation techniques were recreated and employed during the production of Filmed in Supermarionation, a 2014 documentary that told the behind the scenes story of the films and television series produced by AP Films.  SUPERMACROMATION: In the early 1980s, Anderson returned to puppetry for the science fiction series Terrahawks. In this show the characters were realised using hand-controlled puppets, mostly controlled from beneath using a system called Supermacromation, which was broadly similar to the techniques developed by Jim Henson.  HYPERMARIONATION: In 2004, Gerry Anderson produced Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, which was rendered using computer-generated imagery (CGI) and motion-capture techniques. As a nod to Supermarionation, the show is promoted as being produced in Hypermarionation.  USE IN NON-GERRY ANDERSON PRODUCTIONS: Refined Supermarionation techniques were used in the South African children's science fiction show Interster in the late 1970s. The 1980 Japanese TV series X-Bomber (also known as Star Fleet) was filmed with refined Supermarionation techniques, in a style dubbed Supermariorama by the crew. Japanese puppeteer Kinosuke Takeda produced three Supermarionation styled television series between 1960 and 1970 including Spaceship Silica, Galaxy Boy Troop and Aerial City 008. Super Adventure Team was an American comedy series shown on the cable television network MTV in 1998. It was produced in the style of Thunderbirds from 1964, with live action marionettes, but had more adult themes and suggestive situations. Team America: World Police, a 2004 film by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is inspired by and uses the same style of puppetry as Thunderbirds. Stone and Parker, however, dubbed their version of the technique "Supercrappymation" since the strings controlling the puppets were intentionally left visible.

  • Condition: Neu
  • Subject Type: TV & Movies
  • Card Size: Standard
  • Autographed: No
  • Set: Supercar
  • Number of Cards: 54
  • Custom Bundle: No
  • Material: Card Stock
  • Year Manufactured: 2017
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
  • Franchise: Supercar
  • TV Show: Supercar
  • Type: Non-Sport Trading Card
  • Language: English
  • Manufacturer: Unstoppable Cards
  • Features: Base Set
  • Genre: Animation, Gerry Anderson, Supermarionation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

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