FIREBALL XL5

FIREBALL XL5
   UK tv series (1962-3). AP Films for ATV/ITC. Created by Gerry and Sylvia ANDERSON; prod Gerry Anderson. Dirs included Alan Pattillo, John Kelly, Bill Harris. Writers included the Andersons, Alan Fennell, Anthony Marriott, Dennis Spooner. 1 full season and 1 part season. 39 25min episodes. B/w.
   This was the second of the Andersons' "SuperMarionation" animated-puppet sf series for children, the first being SUPERCAR and the third being STINGRAY; it was the last made in black-and-white and the first to be networked in full in the USA (on NBC). Steve Zodiac is a space pilot, part of World Space Fleet (based in the Pacific Ocean); his spacecraft XL5 patrols other star systems. This is a true SPACE OPERA, in its way a predecessor of STAR TREK. Sidekicks include Venus, a glamorous blonde space doctor, Professor Mat Matic, a Genius, and Robert the Robot. Stories involved, inter alia, space pirates, a glass-surfaced planet andIce Men. Planetary transport was by jetmobile. Derek Meddings's special effects, mostly achieved through use of clever models, are good.
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