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Post by Zone Fighter on Jun 1, 2006 4:07:45 GMT -8
In the episode "Colonel McClaine" Joe 90 receives two brain wave patterns. In "Talkdown" we find out what happens when a person suffering from partial memory loss is scanned. In "Breakout" Mac and Joe visit Canada. I think its the only episode not to feature WIN.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Jun 12, 2006 16:53:14 GMT -8
Shane Weston likes bad puns.
The Joe 90 DVDs are in production order which is different from order aired. "Viva Cordova" was the last produced and in it Joe gives his age as 9. The last episode aired however was "The Birthday" (produced before Viva Cordova) in which Joe celebrates his 10th birthday. He does not have a new mission, instead some old missions are reviewed. I thought as I watched "The Birthday" that it was the one to end the series on.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Jun 12, 2006 17:15:19 GMT -8
The Secret Service (1969) - not aired in the US
Stanley Unwin as Father Stanley Unwin
Gary Files voiced Matthew Harding
Jeremy Wilkin voiced The Bishop
Sylvia Anderson voiced Mrs. Appleby
Keith Alexander voiced Agent Blake
A Roman Catholic priest posesses a device which can shrink people down to 1/3 their normal size. He offers the device to the British government and is recruted for British Intelligence Headquarters Operation Priest (BISHOP). The priest shrinks his gardener, Matthew Harding, who is realy a secret agent, and sends him to actually carry out the missions. The priest's housekeeper, Mrs. Appleby, thinks he's talking to himself when he's in radio contact with agent Harding. This is probably supposed to be funny, it isn't. The priest drives an old car which is similar to "Bessie" the car Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker drove in Doctor Who. Unlike most of the Andersons' previous series "The Secret Service" is set in contemporary England (ie 1969) instead of in the fugure.
The Secret Service blended puppets with live actors, mostly the real Unwin driving a real car. There was some use of real places in the previous series but not nearly as much as in this series. For me the
shifting from the real Stanley Unwin in movement scenes to the puppet for dialogue scenes is distracting. It's easier to accept the puppets as real people when real people aren't around.
Theme music has a bell ringing and men and women singing "dupe dupe dupe".
Stanley Unwin was known in the UK for "Unwinese", a language he invented, in which the words are spoken in such a way that they come out gibberish but their meaning is still clear because of the tone of voice. Lew Grade, thought no one would understand "Unwinese" and canceled the series after only 13 episodes. Gerry Anderson now had an ich to do live action series so there would be no more "Supermarionation" series.
"The Secret Service" is available in a 2 disc DVD set. The first disc contains episodes 1-7 with two audio commentaries, the first by "Matthew Harding" (really Gary Files of course) and the second by David Lane, series producer (normally Gerry Anderson was producer but he handed over his tv shows to David Lane, so he could work on movies, "Thunderbirds Are Go", "Thunderbirds 6" and "Doppleganger".)
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Post by RedKing on Sept 29, 2006 15:57:34 GMT -8
I just finished up the first disc of the FIREBALL XL5 series and it was quite good. I was lucky enough 2 or 3 years ago to get most of the Anderson dvds, including the THUNDERBIRDS mega-set, which is very cool. I also just got THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO and THUNDERBIRD 6 from netflix-great discs and excellent movies!
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