Fireball XL5
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What a weird little Sci-Fi program this was but thoroughly enjoyable none the less.
Creator Gerry Anderson wrote and produced this and it lead him on to bigger and better things, Captain Scarlet is one I remember as a child.
Set in the year 2063 and shot mostly in space, we follow the crew of the XL5 as they defend the Earth from various menaces. The Xl5 is a 300ft space ship that patrols sector 25 and defends us from rogue meteors, evil aliens and general baddies.
On board we find the crew consisting of the handsome and dashing Colonel Steve Zodiac, his able side kick, Doctor Venus, Navigating the ship is the super intelligent Professor Matt, oh and one more crew member, a dozy robot called Robert.
Along the way they will fight space battles with alien?s ships and even weirder alien organisms and even ...
Fireball XL5
I had vague memories of this from when I was a child (I was born 1964) and so I guess must have watched repeats but watching the DVDs brought the series back clearly.
Fireball XL5 was the fore runner of Stingray, Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds.
This was on tv in 1962, and Contained 39 episode.
Synopsis:
Set one hundred years into the future, it is the year 2063, and the 300ft spaceship, fireball XL5 is out in space protecting sector 25.
Aboard the spaceship is colonel Steve Zodiac, the sexy blonde doctor Venus and the transparent robot called Robert.
At the end of most missions Robert the Robot would announce his catchphrase, "on our way 'ome", due to his inability to pronounce the letter 'H'.
Also aboard was Professor Matt who was a navigation mathematics genius, who had his own navigation bay on the ship ...
Advantages: Possibly the finest incognito musical pastiche of all Disadvantages: May, alas, be seen as a curate's egg by some
influences present on 25 O'Clock and Psonic Psunspot and articulated them in slightly less 'obvious' form. Anyway, this leaves us with 'Chips From The Chocolate Fireball' which compiles both Dukes albums. Played one after the other in this context, one has to conclude that 25 O'Clock is the better pastiche of the period, whereas Psonic Psunspot has the better songs. Both of them are capable of making you grin a big, gormless moony grin. And both combine to give you a little taster of the wonderful and not-that-frightening world of XTC: a vast catalogue with treasure buried absolutely everywhere.
(Apologies for my probably-wildly-inaccurate song descriptions: I'm useless on my Sixties influences. They do say that if you can remember the Sixties then you weren't there, so maybe I was there: I am dubious though, what with the '1971' written on my ...
