This is just wonderful!!!!!!!!! I loved the theme song..wish they would release it...Loved this show! Had forgotten just how great it was! Thanks so much!
I actually had a plastic toy that was a 2 foot model of the XL-5. The cockpit/capsule seperated from it and when you opened the hatch at the top of the capsule you could remove plastic figures of Steve and Venus. Also behind their seats were two removable jet bikes. Man I wish I still had that thing. What a collector's item!
Oh Gawd. I wanna be 7 years old again! I wanna watch this & Leave It To Beaver & Twilight Zone on a big B&W TV in a wooden cabinet with vacuum tubes inside that takes a whole minute to warm up, & I wanna play with dinosaurs on the big dirt pile in my folks' backyard! Thanks for posting!
Showing my age watching and remembering these old progs, "Supermarination" wow what a word, Astounding what they could do, in days when computers were not around I'm goning to subscribe, keep the videos coming
Yes, I agree ... and if the TV malfunctions, you just figure out which tube to change and it's OK again! And the plastic dinosaurs could menace my Fireball XL5 model I got for my birthday in 1964
To me this was as real then as it is today. A programme from the sixties that foretold the future. A space craft that took off from a launchpad in and was reusable. Similar to the space shuttle. Also the head of the ship was detachable similar to the Apollo craft. Great to be a kid then.
Growing up in New Zealand in the 70's Gerry Anderson productions were the best things on TV (along with Dr Who and a very few other decent TV shows). Unfortunately this show and Supercar never played here, so I didn't get to see this.
@GCarty80 I'd wager that Gerry Anderson's FXL5 was inspired firstly by Dandrige Cole's design for an "Antares" spacecraft, which also was to be launched by a turbojet sled (boosting a 10,000 ton orbiter vehicle to 2000 feet per second along a 15-mile track).
@Factnotfictionpeople A thousand times over Fact. In fact I think it was my favorite toy. When kids used their imaginations and the living room and bedroom were new planets to explore.
I love this show, too! And I agree it would've looked more impressive in colour (yes, I know back in early 60s colour TV wasn't so widespread, sorry). P.S. What's going on with the sound in this video; there's some sort of an echo? I thought no1 could hear U scream in space Lol
PS Derrick Meddings went on to work on Star Wars!!! I also wanted to make model space ships for a living .. missed the boat.. should have taken my teachers advice and took art at GCSE. Bugger.
One of the best opening sountracks of ANY show ever. Even at 8 the end soundtrack was sucky. Wife is shouting why I watch this garbage ? It's like flying Concorde because it was there and you had to do it ! I wish XL5 was in colour though !
I loved this show! When I was a kid nothing better - very glad to see this stuff again.
This is just wonderful!!!!!!!!! I loved the theme song..wish they would release it...Loved this show! Had forgotten just how great it was! Thanks so much!
I am still in awe of this as I was when I was a Kid 50 odd Years ago. Thanks for posting this mate.
Favourite opening theme of all time, I remember running from where ever I was in the house or yard when it came on!
I actually had a plastic toy that was a 2 foot model of the XL-5. The cockpit/capsule seperated from it and when you opened the hatch at the top of the capsule you could remove plastic figures of Steve and Venus. Also behind their seats were two removable jet bikes. Man I wish I still had that thing. What a collector's item!
I remember my dad got me every single episode of this when I was young so I would have something to do when I was up early :)
Oh Gawd. I wanna be 7 years old again! I wanna watch this & Leave It To Beaver & Twilight Zone on a big B&W TV in a wooden cabinet with vacuum tubes inside that takes a whole minute to warm up, & I wanna play with dinosaurs on the big dirt pile in my folks' backyard! Thanks for posting!
Showing my age watching and remembering these old progs, "Supermarination" wow what a word, Astounding what they could do, in days when computers were not around
I'm goning to subscribe, keep the videos coming
Yes, I agree ... and if the TV malfunctions, you just figure out which tube to change and it's OK again! And the plastic dinosaurs could menace my Fireball XL5 model I got for my birthday in 1964
To me this was as real then as it is today. A programme from the sixties that foretold the future. A space craft that took off from a launchpad in and was reusable. Similar to the space shuttle. Also the head of the ship was detachable similar to the Apollo craft. Great to be a kid then.
Growing up in New Zealand in the 70's Gerry Anderson productions were the best things on TV (along with Dr Who and a very few other decent TV shows). Unfortunately this show and Supercar never played here, so I didn't get to see this.
I had forgotten all this, thanks for the posting
This was the Saturday morning fare that made every kid want to fly to the moon.
Nostalgia, nostalgia!
This show rocked!!
Absolutely love it.
Hey, I actually had the EP of this. Amazing I was about 5 years old. My favourite song is Caviar.
Thank god for the internet.. chilling stuff!
The series is available from Amazon and I just got mine!!! :) as well the complete Thunderbirds and UFO series...
@GCarty80
I'd wager that Gerry Anderson's FXL5 was inspired firstly by Dandrige Cole's design for an "Antares" spacecraft, which also was to be launched by a turbojet sled (boosting a 10,000 ton orbiter vehicle to 2000 feet per second along a 15-mile track).
I want the theme song played at my funeral. At the crematorium. I wanted to be Steve Zodiac when I grew up.
when it arches skyward after takeoff, the clouds are sideways!
yep gerry anderson brought alot of smiles to us kids back then supercar was first i think that xl5
meri bachpan ki yaaden
@Factnotfictionpeople A thousand times over Fact. In fact I think it was my favorite toy. When kids used their imaginations and the living room and bedroom were new planets to explore.
God-haven't this in 48 years
I bought the whole set of DVDs
That's me next to the PM.. memories
How come you never noticed the strings when you were a kid! Great times....
I love this show, too! And I agree it would've looked more impressive in colour (yes, I know back in early 60s colour TV wasn't so widespread, sorry).
P.S. What's going on with the sound in this video; there's some sort of an echo? I thought no1 could hear U scream in space Lol
PS Derrick Meddings went on to work on Star Wars!!! I also wanted to make model space ships for a living .. missed the boat.. should have taken my teachers advice and took art at GCSE. Bugger.
Yes I did also
@tanyaloveshair Ditto for me; I thought that ship was one of the coolest things I ever got.....even more that the Supercar.
welcum harm welcum harm...... the lazoonie....lol
another awesome adventure for Captain Zapp Brannigan, eh xD
@blabblab1212 - You're aware that Fireball XL-5 was a British production, aren't you?
Nothing was stolen. Gerry Anderson was the same creator for both shows and a few new ones!
its still cool
brilliant for the time,tv should take a few lessons from shows like this,,
One of the best opening sountracks of ANY show ever.
Even at 8 the end soundtrack was sucky.
Wife is shouting why I watch this garbage ?
It's like flying Concorde because it was there and you had to do it !
I wish XL5 was in colour though !
Why are the clouds tilted when they are ascending? lol
@GCarty80 probably got the idea from the V1
OK Steef.
strings....WHAT strings?
what year does this show be? '64?
@tanyaloveshair me too....see my post below!
if I remember correctly, these guys stole this from Supercar.