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Post by spruance on Oct 14, 2008 14:39:08 GMT -6
This is the intro to the 1960s children's TV show Stingray. I have this as my signature link on another board and since I've just been over there I thought I would share it with you all. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) This was compulsive viewing in my younger days when just about every kid wanted to be Troy Tempest. No-one ever seemed to notice the strings, or the now very obvious guppies in the tropical fish tank that doubled for the ocean! ;D uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs
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Post by circled27 on Oct 16, 2008 10:31:50 GMT -6
Quite enlivening theme music. ![:-*](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/kiss.png)
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Post by Larry's 66 Diner on Oct 16, 2008 18:57:42 GMT -6
Don't you just love all those "cheesy" effects? ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ;D
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Post by tclion on Oct 16, 2008 20:06:01 GMT -6
cool I like those old commericals
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Post by Midge on Oct 17, 2008 1:12:01 GMT -6
Filmed in "Supermarionation," WOW, I am impressed! Love the fish, too. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by spruance on Oct 19, 2008 17:40:18 GMT -6
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Post by Midge on Oct 19, 2008 17:57:03 GMT -6
Those clips are great! American viewers may note that the Thunderbirds character "Engineer Brains" looks like Chris Kattan wearing Elvis Costello glasses. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Kimmer on Oct 20, 2008 12:39:16 GMT -6
Very true, Midge. I thought that "Lady Penelope" looked like a cross between Julia Roberts and Julie Christie.
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Post by diane on Oct 20, 2008 17:43:12 GMT -6
I grew up on those shows as a kid. spruance was Marina from "Stingray" - I can remember a blonde girl swimming underwater - she even had her own special music. I can always remember Torchy the Battery Boy - I remember the characters, Pom Pom the poodle etc. I can sing the song. I always thought I must have imagined it because nobody seemed to remember it. Then I read an article about Gerry Anderson and it seems it was one of his first ventures into puppetry before "Stingray" etc. Do you remember that show spruance???
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Post by spruance on Oct 23, 2008 9:07:03 GMT -6
I see from your profile that you have ....ahem... a few years on me Diane so you have me at disadvantage as far as Pom Pom the Poodle goes although I can just about remember Torchy The Battery Boy and Supercar which used similar puppetry but I'm not sure if this was from the Gerry Anderson stable and being stuck here at work I don't have time to look it up. As for Marina, I think technically she may have been a brunette. ;D You can download Marina wallpaper from this BBC website... www.bbc.co.uk/cult/anderson/stingray/gallery/07stingray.shtml
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Post by spruance on Oct 23, 2008 17:56:41 GMT -6
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Post by diane on Oct 25, 2008 1:53:13 GMT -6
Thank you for the links spruance. I actually grew up with a television in the home because mum and dad got one when they first came out. Watch With Mother, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and all those Gerry Anderson animation - I can remeber them all. I don't think there was the variety that kids have now, but I do think kid's television of 50 years ago had quality. Marina looked very sultry didn't she, and she was a brunette - maybe I was getting confused between her and Lady Penelope. I looked up Marina on another site. They didn't have a picture but they said she was the only puppet figure to be mute - so she had her own music!!
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Post by spruance on Oct 26, 2008 15:51:39 GMT -6
Diane, this is 'Marina, Aqua Marina' sung by Gary Miller. As the full song is longer than the end credits it looks like someone has overdubbed the original, hence we have Commander Shaw (seated) in deep but silent discussion with Troy Tempest (left) and Phones (right), not forgetting Atlanta and the lady herself of course. ;D
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Post by diane on Oct 27, 2008 0:04:09 GMT -6
Thanks for that - it's like I'm a kid again sitting in front of the televison!!!!
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Post by spruance on Oct 27, 2008 17:18:22 GMT -6
You ought to check out YouTube Diane, it's amazing what you can find there. ;D
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Post by diane on Oct 28, 2008 1:44:11 GMT -6
thanks for the advice. I typed in Torchy and Pom Pom in youtube and got the first episode of "Torchy " - "Pom Pom and the Toys"!!! :jump: :jump: :jump: :jump: :jump: :jump: :jump: :jump:
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