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Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:15 pm
by Carport
Used to love this. Anyone else?
https://fb.watch/2Nv98aGbss/
Fireball XL5 first blasted off 58 years ago today! To celebrate, we've curated a special collection of XL5 merchandise at the Gerry Anderson store (
https://shop.gerryanderson.co.uk/collec ... collection) - and you can get 20% off these items using the promo code XL5BIRTHDAY at checkout ! The collection includes the full series on DVD, & the colourised HD episode A Day in the Life of a Space General on Blu-ray. Go XL5!
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:25 pm
by Bosscat
I wish I was a spaceman
The fastest guy alive
I'd fly you around the Universe
In Fireball XL5
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:28 pm
by Conroysleftfoot
Remember it well. Robbie the robot?
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:29 pm
by Untinted Glasses
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:33 pm
by Bosscat
Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:28 pm
Remember it well. Robbie the robot?
Robert the Robot ... Robbie was Forbidden Planet
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Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:38 pm
by Conroysleftfoot
Bosscat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:33 pm
Robert the Robot ... Robbie was Forbidden Planet20210103_133227.jpg
Yep you're right, the one in Fireball was Robert.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:38 pm
by Bosscat
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:41 pm
by Bosscat
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Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:43 pm
by Wellsy1882
Looks like thunderbirds
And that was shite
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:44 pm
by Bosscat
Wellsy1882 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:43 pm
Looks like thunderbirds
And that was shite
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:10 pm
by eastanglianclaret
Seem to recall that Burnley band Chimp Eats Banana did a daft version of the theme tune. Would love to hear it again if anyone knows of a link.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:17 pm
by Bosscat
eastanglianclaret wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:10 pm
Seem to recall that Burnley band Chimp Eats Banana did a daft version of the theme tune. Would love to hear it again if anyone knows of a link.
It might be on here
https://youtu.be/8kbSbv40W2U
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:21 pm
by claretfern
....was some of my earliest TV memories. Steve Zodiac was it?
Also Mike Mercury (Supercar)
'Four Feather Falls' was another.
Wasn't aware until it was pointed out,
I'm sure on this messageboard, that Nicholas Parsons was the voice of Tex Tucker.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:23 pm
by Quicknick
I used to love Supercar.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:29 pm
by eastanglianclaret
https://youtu.be/8kbSbv40W2U Thanks BC. It's the very last one on there - 22 mins!! Did stop fowarding at one point though to listen to the classic 'Get stuffed, all southerners are puffs'!!
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:33 pm
by durhamclaret
Quicknick wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:23 pm
I used to love Supercar.
Open roof doors!
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:39 pm
by Bosscat
Captain Scarlet my favourite ...
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:44 pm
by bobinho
Bosscat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:25 pm
I wish I was a spaceman
The fastest guy alive
I'd fly you around the Universe
In Fireball XL5
Way out in space together...
What a theme tune. Used brilliantly in the most excellent film “love, honour and obey”.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:46 pm
by Holmeclaret
It was brilliant and started a life long interest in sci fi and astronomy for me.
Does anyone remember the Matt Mason toy spaceman? The best Christmas present ever.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:46 pm
by Bosscat
eastanglianclaret wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:29 pm
https://youtu.be/8kbSbv40W2U Thanks BC. It's the very last one on there - 22 mins!! Did stop fowarding at one point though to listen to the classic 'Get stuffed, all southerners are puffs'!!
I hadn't heard of them but didn't a couple of those lads form Chumba Wumba with some lads from Leeds....
http://anarchoscene.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... a.html?m=1
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:50 pm
by durhamclaret
Bosscat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:39 pm
Captain Scarlet my favourite ...
Not forgetting the Destiny Angels
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:52 pm
by bob-the-scutter
Wellsy1882 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:43 pm
Looks like thunderbirds
And that was shite
Unfortunately we can't please some of the children.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:53 pm
by Bosscat
durhamclaret wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:50 pm
Not forgetting the Destiny Angels
Spectrums Angels
Harmony
Destiny
Rhapsody
Symphony
Melody
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/destiny.html
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:53 pm
by elwaclaret
Madness ‘B’ side for The Sun and the Rain paid homage to Fireball XL5.... and was every bit as good as the flip and was indeed visually referenced in the Sun and the Rain video.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:58 pm
by eastanglianclaret
"I hadn't heard of them but didn't a couple of those lads form Chumba Wumba with some lads from Leeds...."
Yep! Not sure about the Leeds connection (University?) but Danbert Nobacon certainly went onto form Chumba Wumba
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:01 pm
by ElectroClaret
Troy Tempest and...
"Marina, aqua marina..."
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:34 pm
by holycustard
Bosscat » Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:25 pm
I wish I was a spaceman
I would have been shot off into space if someone hadnt knocked on my mum and dads door at Butlins.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:26 pm
by CaptainKirk
Wellsy1882 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:43 pm
Looks like thunderbirds
And that was shite
Sacriledge!!!!!!!
For those of us of a certain age it was fantastic.
Sure, watch it now as a cynical adult and it will look poor but it was a part of my childhood I will never forget.
5
4
3
2
1
Thunderbirds are go!!
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:27 pm
by CaptainKirk
And what a theme tune!!!
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:29 pm
by dougcollins
Frank Sidebottom always did the Fireball XL5 theme in his live set.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:31 pm
by gawthorpe_view
CaptainKirk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:27 pm
And what a theme tune!!!
https://youtu.be/9fT_KXdQTpo
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:39 pm
by Redbeard
Thunderbirds was easily the best of all.
I and my two brothers asked our mum to have two more boys so that we'd have all five Tracy brothers when we played at it.
For some reason, though, she wasn't too keen.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 4:54 pm
by Bosscat
I had a Thunderbird 1 and my mate Simon had Thunderbird 2 with pod 4 containing a Thunderbird 4
I also had a Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle SPV with firing rocket on the front and the drop down catterpiller tracks at the back and a mini Captain Scarlet in the pop out door...
All of these went to my brothers lad in the 70's and he had UFO toys etc and also Moonbase alpha stuff from Space 1999
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:33 pm
by CaptainKirk
Who knows how to attach the Thunderbirds opening credits?
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:35 pm
by Bosscat
CaptainKirk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:33 pm
Who knows how to attach the Thunderbirds opening credits?
https://youtu.be/huPB3T0v_uQ
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:36 pm
by bob-the-scutter
Which one was, in your opinion, the fittest?
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:59 pm
by durhamclaret
Which one was, in your opinion, the fittest?
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And I thought it was just me who fancied puppets!
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:06 pm
by Bosscat
bob-the-scutter wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:36 pm
Which one was, in your opinion, the fittest?
Obviously Rhapsody duhhhhhh
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Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 10:02 pm
by conyoviejo
Who can remember Torchy the Battery Boy..
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:07 am
by Firthy
Wellsy1882 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:43 pm
Looks like thunderbirds
And that was shite
Wash your mouth out
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:45 am
by Firthy
Let's not forget the other classic puppet shows.
A Rubovia Legend
Pinky and Perky
Bill and Ben
The Woodentops
Torchie
Twizzle
And as good as they were they couldn't compete with the elaborate production of Noggin the Nog and Captain Pugwash.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:45 am
by Redbeard
Pugwash was excellent, but of course more comic-strip than 3D puppetry and very different from such as Stingray, XL5 or Thunderbirds.
And btw the real Pugwash on whom the programme was based was an old mate of mine.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:06 pm
by yosserhughes
Redbeard
If your mate was Pugwash were you Master Bates ?
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:07 pm
by Redbeard
There was no-one by that name, Yosser. It was just a made-up allegation.
In any case, I didn't appear on the programme: I would just have frightened the kids.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:25 pm
by yosserhughes
Good to know.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:33 pm
by Bosscat
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:03 pm
by bob-the-scutter
Bosscat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:06 pm
Obviously Rhapsody duhhhhhh
rhapsody_full_view_1.jpg
Well......I would do Rhapsody. But I'd be thinking of Harmony.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:51 pm
by durhamclaret
Marina off Stingray was fit, shame about the legs though!
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:18 am
by Cirrus_Minor
I remember trying to make my own Fireball XL5 with cardboard, sellotape and a pair of blunt scissors.
Re: Fireball XL5
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:24 am
by Conroysleftfoot
Anybody remember Noggin the Nog?
