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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 1, 2008 20:48:47 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 1, 2008 21:43:09 GMT
Young Nick passed them to me to make copies but ill health has precluded that for the last few weeks. Rest assured it shall be done, I have yet to watch any of the awesomeness that is Star Fleet myself.
Andy
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Post by Gav on Jan 1, 2008 22:30:52 GMT
What's this? Some kinda geek thing?! Sorry fellas I'm off to drink a vodka beer/whiskey in the WOODS!
*looks up star fleet*
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 1, 2008 22:49:18 GMT
Nay worries. I knew they were somewhere N of the border.
I believe Martin needed some SF DVD action
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 13, 2008 22:23:44 GMT
I've finally gotten round to copying these dvds. So when I'm back from Glasgow I will get them returned to you Phil.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2008 9:43:22 GMT
Superb. They're great stuff.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 23, 2008 15:28:30 GMT
Ahhh. Just working my way through them.
It's very rare that you pick up something you thought was seriously brilliant when you were 7 or 8 more than twenty years later, and find it really was seriously brilliant. Nostalgia has nothing to do with it (as those now seeing Star Fleet for the first time will attest).
It pips Transformers Masterforce to be my number one Japanese series.
The first four episodes are excellent, but in episode 5 when the Skull shows up, you realise this is something different.
And now the X-Bomber is falling into a black hole - nooo!
Eat your heart out, Gerry Anderson.
Martin
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2008 17:44:52 GMT
Star Fleet is a classic piece of television and its just a shame that its never been shown on TV again since its original airing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2008 17:52:58 GMT
It depends which ITV region you're in. London had most of a rerun and some regions were reshowing it till the late 80s (Central)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2008 18:31:02 GMT
I live in the central region and I can remember it being on during Saturday lunchtimes but I can't remember it ever being repeated. Maybe I just missed the reruns.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2008 19:33:41 GMT
Probably. I've got a tape here - with Central region logos on the ad breaks - that's got an episode of Star Fleet followed by the Chart Show.
SF first aired in 1982/3 - the first ep was on the weekend that ITV premiered Star Wars
You got any of it now Z ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2008 20:46:59 GMT
Afraid not. I never recorded anything when I was younger because my parents had just brought a brand new video recorder and they wouldn't let anybody touch it other than themselves.
I do have however a few DVD's containing the straight-to-video compilations of the series than I copied off a friends DVDs that he got off the internet.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2008 21:15:33 GMT
The uk ones from all over the place or the US ones with minor cuts to all 24 eps?
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Post by legios on Feb 23, 2008 22:08:42 GMT
Ahhh. Just working my way through them. It's very rare that you pick up something you thought was seriously brilliant when you were 7 or 8 more than twenty years later, and find it really was seriously brilliant. The first four episodes are excellent, but in episode 5 when the Skull shows up, you realise this is something different. And now the X-Bomber is falling into a black hole - nooo! Eat your heart out, Gerry Anderson. Martin I am a bit further on that you Martin - as a result of devouring a fair chunk of episodes last Sunday. It is indeed an absolutely fantastic series. One of those shows that hasn't been harmed by it's westernisation at all. Quite the reverse really - the new music by Paul Bliss is absolutely fantastic for example. The first four episodes, as well as being enjoyable in their own right do a wonderful job of setting out the stall - here are our heroes, here are our villians, here is the sort of great spacecraft you can expect to see. Having given the viewer a few episodes to find their feet episode five is the moment where the show says "right, our heroes have a mission, lets be about it" - and the show really does get about it. Hailing as it does from a time when most shows were fairly episodic (and I mean the live action ones as well) the sense of a narrative purpose that "Star Fleet" has is refreshing. Our heroes are entrusted with their mission and they get out there and start carrying it out. There's a nice sense of narrative drive to the show. It has a distinct sense of knowing where it is going. The way the story is constructed actually feels surprisingly modern at times. A very satisfying show to watch - you definitely come away with a desire to watch another episode so that you can see what happens next. It is a visually lovely show too - really nice design work and some rather good camera work on the models (X-Bomber's stock close pass by the camera is a gorgeous piece of work). I still rate X-Bomber as one of my favourite looking TV spacecraft of all time (and the Imperial Alliance Battlecruiser is a jolly nice bit of work as well). The english voice cast do a sterling job too, with some of them putting in effort above and beyond the call (I notice these things). I like Peter Marinker (Doctor Ben) pretty much everywhere he turns up, and Captain Orion (whose VA's name escapes me at the moment) does such a wonderful turn as Chief Henchman. It is never going to take the slot as my favourite Japanese series, but it very much makes it into the pack slugging it out for second place. It is certainly my favourite show of its format - beating all of Gerry Anderson's output hollow as far as I am concerned. It is a crying shame that the series has fallen into a kind of "rights black-hole" of its own. A pity, seeing as it has stood up so well to the passage of time. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2008 22:36:04 GMT
What I have seen of Starfleet I enjoy, though the original Captain Scarlet remains my favourite puppet show by a country mile. With an honourable mention for Fireball XL5.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 24, 2008 14:41:06 GMT
I like Peter Marinker (Doctor Ben) pretty much everywhere he turns up Sounds exactly like Optimus Prime in the Battle for Planet Earth cassette tape series (download here). Possible he did all the voices and narration on that as a one man act. Dunno if anyone can second that opinion? Why does Shiro never take his helmet off? Did he go bald at a young age or something? Martin |
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Post by legios on Feb 24, 2008 15:04:08 GMT
I like Peter Marinker (Doctor Ben) pretty much everywhere he turns up Sounds exactly like Optimus Prime in the Battle for Planet Earth cassette tape series (download here). Possible he did all the voices and narration on that as a one man act. Dunno if anyone can second that opinion? I'm fairly sure it is him. Based primarily on the fact that when I first heard that over at Ralph's I said something along with lines of "That sounds like Captain Goto from Patlabor" (Peter Marinker was the VA for Kiichi Goto in the first english dub of the "Mobile Police Patlabor" films as well). We've kicked it around since and I think we've come to a consensus that the odds are good it is him. I can't track down a primary source that sheds any light on it either way unfortunately. Low self-esteem. Which is probably just as well because there wouldn't be room on X-Bomber for him to have self-belief - all the space is taken up by Barry Hercules' self-esteem. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 24, 2008 15:07:11 GMT
Cast ListI could rave for hours about Star Fleet. I think eps 4 and 5 are my favorites as the set the show up having done the initial Alien Attack on Earth story - which in itself is special as they knock out the main spaceship for the best part of 2 episodes..... There's 2 wonderful musical sequences in 4 and 5 - the first is as X-Bomber cruises through the Asteroids (said music reappears much later in the series when they're hunting for the prison planet) and the cut to the alien music as the carriers are revealed. The second is in 5 when it cuts from Lamia's shuttle with the Skull music playing to X-Bomber launching from Pluto with the main theme. Star Fleet has many Japanese classic story traits - orphaned main character whose Father reappears at a late stage, missing mentor, character brainwashed into working with the baddies And you can't go wrong with a big red robot !
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2008 17:09:20 GMT
Why does Shiro never take his helmet off? Did he go bald at a young age or something? He probably did and he doesn't want Lamia to know about it because he thinks she doesn't have a thing for bald men. Someone had to wear a helmet anyway. Hercules and Lee couldn't wear one - not with their hair cuts. The only dissappointing part of the whole series for me is the alternate puppets they used in one episode. I think it was episode five when Shiro, Hercules and Lee start laughing and the expressions on their faces make it look like they're being burned alive. Fortunately, these alternate puppets were never used again. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 24, 2008 18:08:41 GMT
Shiro wears his helmet in bed and even under his spacesuit helmet. He's not completely bald as you can see red hair poking out the back.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 26, 2008 18:25:26 GMT
Just finished the last episode. Star Fleet rules, hurrah!
I especially like this dialogue:
Lieutenant: "Master! We have the Earth on screen now!"
Imperial Master: "Good! Battle stations! But first, I will take pleasure in taunting them!"
Commander Makara's death is very cool. WHAM!
The Imperial Master's, however, is just embarrassing - defeated by a preachy little spinning girl doll.
Once more, hurrah for Star Fleet!
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 1, 2008 17:58:13 GMT
I read word that Fabulous Films may be putting official DVDs of this out. Will believe it when I see it mind !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2008 20:28:33 GMT
I'll definitely get those when they come out if they do at all.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 5, 2008 11:45:30 GMT
Out 30/06 £30 from most etailers
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Post by legios on Apr 11, 2008 20:57:37 GMT
Seriously considering putting in a pre-order for this. It is a cracking good series.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 11, 2008 21:01:04 GMT
I stopped watching the yarrrrrrrrrrr version when I heard it was getting a proper release. One to pick up when it hits the sales, which I imagine will be fairly quickly. It is a tad obscure!
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Apr 16, 2008 8:08:45 GMT
"With your devine guidance..."
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 16, 2008 8:50:15 GMT
isn't it "By Your Divine Guidance" ?
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Post by legios on Apr 16, 2008 11:37:44 GMT
Or, "By your..er...Divine Guidance......."
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2008 18:38:09 GMT
The Star Fleet DVD's have now been put back to September 1st.
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