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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 30, 2020 15:25:51 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 30, 2020 15:30:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 15:39:34 GMT -5
Gold Key surely did some great covers for the comics based on licensed properties!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 30, 2020 15:46:16 GMT -5
I'm a Fanderson member, too. In fact, first magazine of 2020 arrived in the post yesterday, plus the membership gift for the year (a book about The Secret Service). The main feature in the current issue of FAB, and I haven't read it in full yet, is an examination of the Thunderbirds episode "The Mighty Atom". This is a divisive episode that many seem to dislike. It features every character and every TB craft, but is seen as one of the weaker episodes. So there's a discussion we could have there. I haven't seen "The Mighty Atom" in an age, and cannot really remember it. 'Agent Rebecca' is currently a lapsed member.  It was getting pretty 'spensive to reach Canada. I even wait until there are a couple of Andersonic mags (out of Liverpool) before ordering from Thunderbooks to save on postage. I'm one of the few that isn't a huge Thunderbirds fan, the uniforms just looked like those for U.S. fast foods chains, that might be why they've never gone over in North America like elsewhere... although I liked seeing The Shadows in the Thunderbirds Are Go feature movie! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 15:48:13 GMT -5
Uniforms like U.S. fast food chains? I'll never get that image out of my head.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 30, 2020 15:51:03 GMT -5
One of the first LPs I ever bought was the Space: 1999 soundtrack by John Barry. I think the music passed the test of time quite nicely. even if it is clearly a product of its era. I don't know if season 2 ever got its own soundtrack. Derek Wadsworth's jazzier theme for that season was also pretty good. Come to think of it, many of the Anderson shows had catchy musical themes: UFO, for one, certainly had a great one. Fanderson with Ralph Titterton have released all manner of vinyl records and CDs over the years. There was a Space: 1999 Season Two CD set. I only have some of the Century 21 CDs reproducing the '60s vinyl EP story albums, but they are pretty cool with high quality sound! Everything Fanderson is best quality I would say. |
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Post by Duragizer on Jan 30, 2020 18:44:44 GMT -5
I watched Thunderbirds when I was a kid in the '90s. I don't recall much in the way of plot or characters, though; just that the heroes had cool vehicles and one of the villains was Yul Brynner with hypnotic eyes.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 30, 2020 19:49:26 GMT -5
Uniforms like U.S. fast food chains? I'll never get that image out of my head.   |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 31, 2020 0:03:55 GMT -5
"Stand by for Big Macs!"
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 31, 2020 2:45:38 GMT -5
The theme for today's thread: Hmm... I definitely remember the name "Fireball XL5" from childhood, but that opening is completely unfamiliar. I also recall Stingray, at least the name. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 8:28:05 GMT -5
Interestingly, my experience of Fireball XL5 is in colour thanks to some reprint strips. I think I've seen one or two episodes of the series, so I think of it in "colour terms" rather than black and white.
It doesn't seem to get the respect that later Anderson shows got, but it probably paved the way for a lot that came. I'd like to see more of it.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 31, 2020 13:30:58 GMT -5
There was a move to colour Fireball XL-5 but I don't think it got beyond a few short tests and this single episode... The voice of Robert the Robot was provided by Gerry himself (and Sylvia Anderson did the voice for Venus). Here's a neat piece on Sylvia to balance the Gerry side... file770.com/venus-if-you-will/ Paul Maxwell was the voice for Steve Zodiac, he later appeared as Elsie's love interest Steve Tanner on Coronation Street (killed by Shane Rimmer who much later starred in the pilot of Anderson's Space Police), and in Anderson's UFO series. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 14:06:57 GMT -5
In late 1991, Fleetway Publications began publishing Thunderbirds: The Comic. And a badge was given away with the first issue:  The comic initially reprinted TV Century 21 strips from the 60s. I had this comic, and the cutaways detailing the mechanics of the TB craft made good posters! |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 31, 2020 14:08:09 GMT -5
More silly puppet trivia: The Steve Zodiac puppet was recycled for a character in Stingray, Johnny Swoonara... kind of a swelled-head actor character too.  Last I'd heard the original Venus marionette was destroyed in a fiery crash scene directed by Derek Meddings (later behind the effects in many 007 films) in one of the last XL-5 episodes.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 31, 2020 14:11:46 GMT -5
In late 1991, Fleetway Publications began publishing Thunderbirds: The Comic. And a badge was given away with the first issue: The comic initially reprinted TV Century 21 strips from the 60s. I had this comic, and the cutaways detailing the mechanics of the TB craft made good posters! Those cutaways (by Graham Bleatham) were great. I only ever got Stingray #1 (with badge taped on, I took it off as carefully as possible).  |
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It was getting pretty 'spensive to reach Canada. I even wait until there are a couple of Andersonic mags (out of Liverpool) before ordering from Thunderbooks to save on postage. I'm one of the few that isn't a huge Thunderbirds fan, the uniforms just looked like those for U.S. fast foods chains, that might be why they've never gone over in North America like elsewhere... although I liked seeing The Shadows in the Thunderbirds Are Go feature movie!
