The Solarnauts (1967)
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2011
- Well, here's an oddity! An unsold pilot for a proposed 1967 sci-fi actioner out of the UK. Eye-popping costumes and sets belie an overall cheesy but charming tone. Cast of familiar but un-nameable Brit character actors, only Bond-Girl Martine Beswick and a very young Derek Fowlds stand out. Beware of LOGIK! You have been warned...
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Rest in Peace, Derek Fowlds. Thank you for all your performances.
The thing that I love about this genre ( 60s & 70s British sci-fi ) is the wonderful plastic and fabric work . The wonderful sets and wardrobe just slay me .
Don't forget the frantic, cheesy music that sets just the right tone.
This show, if I had seen it as a child, would have given me a terrible fear of stepping on triangles, but now as an adult, I deeply admire the impracticality of gliding glass booths as a transport mechanism. I wish I could commute to work in one.
Absolutely loved the Female space helmet. Bonnet and all.
I wish this pilot was made into a show. This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Whoo! Jan Leeming is the girl with black hair sitting down in head quarters. BBC newsreader for like 400 years. She was even sexier in 1967. Hell yes. Lovely lady.
I love the bongo playing and the theremin in the intro music. And the comfy foam chairs. The Thunderbird like ships and sets. The little ice cube tray calculators. Skimpy sci fi skirts This is so cool.
Lest we forget Star Trek had bongos, too! It was a popular instrument and deserves a comeback like cowbells have... 😃
And silver one piece suits.
I grew up on this kind of stuff. Yes love that help music.
the theremin sounds sort of like vocals at the beginning
I like it too but it could have maybe used a little cow bell..
Love sci-fi tv shows and movies from the 60's and 70's. Wish the show would have been longer. Thanks for the upload.
There is a whole lot of show packed into these 25 minutes, one heck of a pilot episode. I don't know how they could have kept that up for a whole season but it would have been fun to watch them try!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the sets. Groovy Baby, YEAH !!!!
It was so bad I just had to watch it to the end, absolutely loved it cheesy characters and sci fi music and low budget props.
Exploding buildings - a la Gerry Anderson Supermarionation.
Nice find, Interesting how they came up with tiny little hand held modules for doing things and that’s what we pretty much have now.
In the future, they will build seats inside out!
+Michael Martin Either that or there is an overabundance of egg crating foam, so they use it in seats. Gerry Anderson would be proud of this rubbish.
+Michael Martin
In the future they will use 1950 technology and lighted switches and reel to reel tapes instead of artificial intelligence and supercomputers.
LOL-think I am gonna make me one...
I love the effort they put into this. Such a shame would have loved at least one series
Yes - it's almost like they spent a whole lunchtime conceiving the whole thing -plot and script - and maybe the afternnon building the sets. Well, half the aftermnoon.
What a gem!! And a Johnny Hawksworth soundtrack, to boot!! Thanks for uploading it 👍🏻😂
I was put off initially but decided to watch the whole thing, it's actually quite enjoyable - I recognise quite a few production crew names (art director worked on The Avengers - and some set elements appeared in that show). Thanks for sharing.
Cast of dozens! Budget of hundreds! Plastic galore! I love it too!
I played the theme song for 3 days on a circular track....I have not been the same.since. Try it...you will feel euphoric!!! Groovy.
Wow, daddy-o! Dig those groovy cats in those GONE threads! And those CRAZY finger-foam chairs! Outta sight! This show is the GINCHIEST, baby!
cant believe im this old and still hadnt heard of this. hilarious. thanks for posting.
Bloody hell. That's Derek Fowlds. Just a couple of years later he was Mr Derek to Basil Brush. What a career.
God, I loved Basil Brush
What a gem! Go Go Boots in abundance, the music perfect, the only thing missing was Mike Myers!
+Gill T Someone else recommended the Adam West version of Batman.
I love it! So 1967! Never heard of this show with good reason. They really like their models and explosions.
Those chairs in the spaceship look very comfy. And the theremin music is really really good.
I love this sort of stuff!
Doesn't LOGIK seem a little reminiscent of Superman villain Brainiac, tho?
He's still a cool baddy!
Bravo! ambience terriblement sixties! j'adore
Man this was gold. Thanks for posting!
The spacesuits....!!!! Just worthwhile to watch for that!!!
honestly, the fight scene at the end is one of the funniest things i have ever seen!
Well I do love me my Martine Beswick!--Man she looks in anything-animal skins, gypsy clothes and spacesuits!
Outer space is groovy baby!
one of the grooviest British Sci-Fi flicks for sure. YEAH BABY!!!
Every time I watch this, I mourn the fact this wasn't made a series. Think of the new and interesting characters that could have been introduced later in the series...like Logik's long-lost twin brother, Bollix. ;D
You'd think Brit astronauts would have no problems with clouds.
A flying ash-tray with acoustic foam seat cushions. Love it!! Who was the first to use that type of space station design. Dr Who "Ark In Space" (1975) used those same inflatable doughnut rings.
She has a cool 1960s female helmet. It's got a bow on it! Lol!
shouldn't you be wearing a mask and be swashbuckling?
the goofiness makes this GREAT.🐱🐈.ty for the share.🙋
Blimey, had me on the edge of me seat they did! 😲
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the bow on her helmet.
That was actually the anti-radiation deflector shield, by Mary Quant.
Amazing, I could barely see the marionette strings. Almost as realistic as Thunderbirds. 😊
Absolutely love it. This series would have made a great line of toys. The kid in me was definitely entertained...
Their space suit helmets didn't look too secure but their stun guns were out of this world 😳
@miguelsalami /// 😮 POWER ON---Captain Power
Cracking Sci-fi from yesteryear , love the old atmospheric space movies
That main theme song is darn good shakie tushie music. Woooooo whooo whooo whoo whoo whooooooo...
Excellent and very cool! I swear I hear the theme song from McHale's Navy in the show! Anybody else?
If Gerry Anderson did this with puppets it woulda sold .
They did use puppets. See 10:35.
the gorgeous Matine Beswick next time I see her I will have questions about this!
Thanks for this pilot! What fun!
love the space helmets, it's a wonder she hasn't got a ribbon to tie it on with
I'm glad I got to see this. Kind of cool and fun.
This is The Solarnauts (1967). In London in the 1960s we had some Laundronauts, fearless adventurers who put on a crash helmet and then got in the big tumble dryer at the Laundromat coin laundry and tumbled for a while. They were like rocket test pilots really.
Awesome
😊.
This has all the feel of a Gerry Anderson show... such a shame the T.V networks never took this up... :)
I would've loved this as a kid, even though the 1967 spaceships looked like something from the 1940's. As did the whole of Great Britain at the time...
Epicness all around -- might seem cheesy nowadays, but I like this type of sci-fi. Can only wonder how this series would've played out, with perhaps a 'rotating villain of the week' and plenty of asteroids for lairs :-)
Hay Yaa'z .... Star Trek had salt shakers for medical & The Solarnauts had plastic mini ice trays for information. I'm digging the show, thanks for the upload.
Derek Fowlds became very successful on Yes Minister with his same smirk. It's worth it to wade through all the stiff, wooden models blowing up on the Solarnauts, just to see his smirk at the end of the episode. It's like he's saying "yes, I know this show is crazy, but it's awful fun too!" :-)
Oh my God, Derek Fowlds! A very young Derek Fowlds, long before his Yes Minister days and especially his Heartbeat days! Silly and cheesy, but looks like a fun show.
I still think of him as Mr Derek with Basil Brush.
boom boom
Thank you for this upload
Okay only took 3 beers and 2 joints..but I smiled all through it.
Ms Roberta Leigh (0:31) was a very important figure in British TV.
She had immorally worked with me Gerry Anderson (ring a bell?) and then made (a well-loved) series; Space Patrol (NOT the American one. These were with puppets similar to Anderson's).
I've not yet seen this. Thanks for posting.
Awesome!!!
Like the thunderbirds.
Bear in mind you'd watch this after school as a ten year old. It looks pretty entertaining then.
Derek Fowlds "Yes Minister"
Looks like he had a lot of fun!
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This would have been a TV show to last a lunchtime.
OH MY GOD, Derek Fowlds! Loved him in Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime MInister. Wrote a couple of letters and he wrote back and apologized for taking a long time to reply because my letter went to the wrong place. ROFL. So cute in this.
Thanks i was trying to place that face it was driving me nuts.
And don't forget "Mister Derek," straight man on The Basil Brush Show
R-I-P
Love it! Love it!!!
I was 9 in 1967 - I would have loved this TOTALLY without irony!
I wonder why this didn't became a world wide hit??
Funny that no one noticed that it's a 25 minute show,
in 1967 that would have been 5 minutes of commercials for the whole show.
A 25 minute show now a days has 35 minutes of commercials. It would take an entire hour to watch this on tv today.
Ps love the freeze Ray... FREEZE!
A wonderful find, thanks
I want those Chairs!
I bet Greengrass was suspected in creating the cloud until Logik turned up!!
about 2:20 - did that guy say there should be something on the weather channel? I'm gonna have to smoke another one for this...thumbs up thanks!
Good God, where did this come from? As soon as it started I shouted "Space Patrol" (UK version) a favourite of mine confirmed when the names Roberta Leigh and Arthur Provis appeared. And what about Jan Leeming the BBC TV newsreader popping up at 6:50!!!!! Brilliant.
Of course Roberta Leigh collaborated with Gerry Anderson in the early 60s, this is the sort of stuff Gerry wanted to do from the start but I for one am so pleased he didn't otherwise Stingray,.Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet etc. might never have been made.
Thank you so much for uploading this.
this is so cool. I keep finding these old shows,I use to watch Thunderbirds & some other show but I forget the name of it right now but it was a father & son team & the son was a genius. dam these shows were cheesy lol but I love it
Sounds like Joe90. Got to say, the Gerry Anderson shows were better than this!
I love how the early space flicks optimistically forecast spacious and comfortable space ships! Maybe one day. Around 10:00, ahh, I don't think I would need to be told to, "Activate the missile barrier!"
i love that little Spaceship in Flash Gordon's style and also the "Freak Out" Alien arrival on 9:00! 😱
...the music is Awesome too! dunno if it's a Theremin or Ondes Martenot, but those instruments are perfect for SyFy and Horror movies!
I'm still waiting for the invention of drinking straw based public transport systems...
2:00 They predict the use of tablets...I do like their monitors, easier on the eye than square shapes....9:50 I like the hand operated machinery,
even if it's the villain. Overall, very impressive props for Leigh & Provus productions. They come a long way from their Space Patrol puppet days.
Martine Beswick was clearly playing Dirty Gertie from Number Thirty,
awesome, totally awesome!
I think the model makers have the most fun in these movies... Well done, team!!
Glorious
Was funny and cool to watch ! Thanks for the upload !
I would have so watched this in 1967!
Martine Beswicke. What an exquisite creature.
@xaenon /// 🤔 Yep!!! her & VANITY (aka:DeniseMatthews)VERY LUCKY in thee Beauty Gene's they were given 💋 👄 💄
the wee ships are so cute and cool
Boss dude is permanently angry haha
Definitely right up there on the "so bad it's brilliant!" list LOL At least it was a British try at "space opera"...
Disclaimer: No actual science was used or harmed in the making of this TV show.
... they were so innocent.
Those chairs are awesome!
So Bad It's Good: The Pilot
+StopMinecraftVIOLENCE
Like a fine cheese and a vintage wine. - Yes, they do smell kind of like rot.
Buck Rogers, Thunderbirds, UFO, Fireball XL5, this show has it all!!!🤖💥🚀
How did MST3K miss this!?!
ty, love it
"Did you have to attend solar assembly as translator?" This line will never leave me.
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CUTE!! I love the tonka toys and leggos!;))) This would have been a fun show....hard to believe they didn't go for it......sets would have been improved if they had...pilots are to show what's possible....oh well.....
"Hey, Guv, pilot season is coming up and you know what we should do for our next failure to launch?"
"What, Heywood?"
"Rip off everything."
"Everything?"
"Everything. Star Trek, Doctor Who, Pathfinders, that Gerry bloke with the puppets... Everything. And we should make it super cringeworthy, too. Just for good measure."
"Dammit, Heywood! You're a genius! We're sure to get a tax write-off out of this!"
My god, this is so 60s! I'm half expecting to see Batman and Robin do a cameo!
+blockmasterscott, just missing the BAM! POW! BIFF! and ZOWIE!! effects during the fight sequences.
Ca-pow
Mr Roy , there's a giant but plug flying near Uranus.