Nigel
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Post by Nigel on Apr 14, 2008 13:27:23 GMT
Sir Gerry of Anderson turns 79 today. FAB!
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Apr 14, 2008 14:31:49 GMT
New Captain Scarlet had really fast jet dogfights and big explosions and should've had three series, damn it.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2008 17:08:31 GMT
Well, he kind of returned in Torchwood anyway:)
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 14, 2008 17:12:46 GMT
Pah! His work pales before Star Fleet. ;p
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2008 17:20:36 GMT
Stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingray! Stingrayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2008 17:56:03 GMT
Pah! His work pales before Star Fleet. ;p Martin He didn't do Star Fleet but he did do Terrorhawks at around the same time. Gerry Anderson was also responsible for this bizarre character in the late eighties called Dick Spanner who was a robotic private eye. |
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Post by legios on Apr 14, 2008 18:05:59 GMT
Pah! His work pales before Star Fleet. ;p Martin He didn't do Star Fleet but he did do Terrorhawks at around the same time. Three years between them ("X-Bomber" was a 1980 show in Japan, "Terrahawks" came along two or three years later). (I've got to say that in a straight up comparison between "Star Fleet" and "Terrahawks", and in honesty most of Gerry Anderson's shows the former comes out far better. I'd take "Star Fleet" over any of Anderson's output to be honest. ) That said, 79 is a good age to reach and he headed up a team who did a lot of very decent work over the years. (Heck, if his only contribution had been in the room he gave Derek Meddings to master his craft then that would be enough for me to give him a lot of respect). Still can't stand Thunderbirds mind you. Guaranteed insomnia cure for me. Still have fond memories of "Captain Scarlet" (or "'UFO' done properly" if you prefer) though. Duh dun dun dun duh duh dun. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2008 19:42:14 GMT
I have fond childhood memories of watching Fireball XL5 on Channel 4. It was fab.
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Apr 14, 2008 20:06:06 GMT
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Nigel
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Post by Nigel on Apr 15, 2008 8:42:26 GMT
My favourite Anderson is an unusual choice: the aforementioned Terrahawks. This is mainly due to fond memories of watching it as a young child.
I've met Gerry Anderson.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 26, 2012 17:32:10 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2012 19:08:33 GMT
This news deeply saddens me.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 27, 2012 16:07:56 GMT
He was a genious. A creative genious.
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Post by legios on Dec 29, 2012 16:58:42 GMT
He will be much missed indeed. Too important to my childhood television to be anything else.
Karl
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Post by Jim on Dec 29, 2012 18:58:25 GMT
Very sad. I remember the announcement of his Alzheimer's, and it's almost like him dying twice.
Thunderbirds is one of those series I can't even remember the first time I saw, it was just part of childhood and continued to be entertaining long afterward - such brilliant hardware!
Captain Scarlet suited me in my early teens for being a bit "darker". My box sets of UFO are among the very few DVDs to survive my recent purge, a great series. I even have some nostalgia for Space Precinct, after a school friend convinced me to give it a go that it wasn't as silly as the trailers looked - and he was right!
A real visionary.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 11, 2013 19:35:25 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 11, 2013 19:37:50 GMT
May he rest in peace. A true legend of storytelling.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 6, 2014 22:54:56 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 7, 2014 0:55:16 GMT
Will sort out the Sky box tomorrow.
Andy
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Post by legios on Nov 7, 2014 16:39:39 GMT
Definitely going to give that a watch. Been wanting to see that for a long, long time. Not having a device of recording I shall remind myself to tune to BBC Four come the hour.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 9, 2014 22:43:44 GMT
To BBC4 with you!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 10, 2014 10:01:42 GMT
Well that was a thing. I'd missed that the girl was Alan Carter's daughter and thought she was Blessed's daughter which added a very sinister subtext to the entire show!
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Post by legios on Nov 10, 2014 19:24:30 GMT
That was exactly where I was! I actually quite enjoyed it - sure it showed its heritage as intended for an educational series, but it was better at it than a lot of educational programming I have encountered. It is the sort of thing that if I had seen it as a kid it would have been one of the best things ever. (The spaceship even looked like it had radiators to get rid of the heat!). I was a bit confused by the crew make-up, but not in the same way. When Ed Bishop narrated that this and future lightship crews would be "a family unit" I wasn't sure whether that meant that all five of them were a single family unit, and therefore were a polyandrous marriage or whether they just meant they would be made up of complete family units - in which case the Captain was a widower or a divorcee. Didn't spend too much time worrying about that though - there were blueshifted stars, red giants and light-lag going on which were much more interesting. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 22, 2014 15:51:36 GMT
I begged for death throughout.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 22, 2014 17:17:13 GMT
Pretty dull.
Although there is a great drinking game for it. Every time Brian Blessed says skipper take a drink.
You will be smashed.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 23, 2014 19:16:45 GMT
But I don't want to watch it again.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 10, 2015 18:38:10 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2016 18:30:26 GMT
Thanks to Phil I have now seen the Thunderbirds 1965 project. Absolutely astounding how the makers have reproduced the look and feel of the original puppet show. There are some limitations due to the source material (the original story records are a bit pedestrian) but they've worked wonders with them. The aspect ratio is correct, the directing is correct and if you just saw clips without context you would absolutely think they were from episodes that were made back in the day. A great achievement. If it was properly commercially available I would buy a copy but it isn't so, er, I can't.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2016 17:58:29 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 10, 2016 19:39:17 GMT
Interesting documentary, although I am still not a fan of Thunderbirds.
Andy
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