You probably influenced later Sci-Fi as much as earlier Sci-Fi influenced you. The Interceptors look a bit Battlestar Galactica but the BG interceptors reminded me of UFO.
The opening act was so reminiscent of UFO; the setting, atmosphere. The comment about Colonial Viper MkI vs the much earlier Moonbase Interceptors is very well made and perceptive.
I believe I was enthralled by the Zeroids, as a kid watching the shows. But Capt. Mary Falconer, and Leftenent Hawkeye were faves because their names related to my favorite Birds of Prey.
Yes, it's superb - one of its key strengths is that it isnt condescending to the young audience - I found it scary and thrilling as a child. He certainly is a genius.
HUDSON (Heuristic Universal Driver with Sensory and Orbital Navigation); a self driving car in 2020. edit: and better looking than the current Rolls-Royce products.
3pm on a Saturday afternoon all those years ago on New Zealand TV.. and when we wernt watching that.. it was Knight Rider, Dukesof Hazard and Street Hawk on TV..God I miss those days.. such simple times even back then... and then there was the Commodore 64.. real computer games 🙃
I had forgotten about this incarnation of The Anderson's Super animation series. Im a bigger fan of UFO and Space 1999 myself but these are Flippin Brilliant.
UFO and Space 1999 I suppose are intended for an older audience than a lot of the puppet stuff. They are slower, more serious and harder to get into but they are good. They have less action than these puppet programs but are deeper (I think, though I haven't watched that many of the puppet programs so some may be deep i don't know, but I don't think they are that much) so I suppose it is what you like.
@@bangerbangerbro Anderson's Supermarionation series are indeed intended for a younger audience than his live series such as UFO and Space 1999. They're more action-packed all in all, and less about reflection. Still, you can tell a lot of work has been put in them as well, and I think they can also be fully enjoyed by an adult audience.
Loved this episode back in the day. Still holds up. General Rip Cord's freakout is still as entertaining as ever. Puppet panic just cracks me up. TerraHawks was the one Gerry Anderson show that I was able to follow from the beginning and it's great to see it again.
it was on in the us..UK an Japan all had different endings. UK the zeroids an cubes played tik tac toe...us a zeroid bounces nxt to s cube while one of the main characters sang.. Japan was like an anime type ending
Classic. The good guys don't always win. And this was set in 2020? I'd almost prefer alien invaders to current real life troubles (assuming we had Earth's defenders looking out for us.)
True, there are a number of clear homages. Then there’s the ‘it’s a dud’ gag, which went right over the heads of kids but is crafty nod to the blank firing general.. 🤫 Also relevant is “Apocalypse Now,” and Brando’s mad general gone rogue. The cast of which included Jack Nicholson, who the Ninestein characterisation was influenced by. A far more contemporary production and one can easily imagine Berwick and Anderson discussing this and the earlier “Strangelove” “Quatermass and the Pit” subplot was the British Rocket Group placed under military control. Quatermass told he was still in charge, it’s just they’ve put someone in over the top of him.. Arrogant, trigger-happy, military types (often but not always American) are a common theme in Anderson’s work. “The Man From The Navy”, “Terror In New York”, “The Imposters”, “Avalanche” etc all inform a view that conventional military types are not to be trusted, or flawed characters.
Must of taken months to find people who all had bird species with the right qualifcations :) ... ... ... is that a teddy bear? I've forgotten how much Iove this as a kid :)
Terra Hawks is the best puppet show Gerry Anderson ever made. This episode is a classic. Too bad they made the General look like a big muscle head. That would be a riot.
I know this one uses hand puppets and not string puppets and that must account for some of it but even the way the characters are animated to their voices makes it feel more like spitting image than another Anderson program if you get what I mean.
Who is your favourite Terrahawks guest character? How many influences from other Sci-Fi can you spot in this episode?
You probably influenced later Sci-Fi as much as earlier Sci-Fi influenced you.
The Interceptors look a bit Battlestar Galactica but the BG interceptors reminded me of UFO.
Yuri. The furry Napoleon.
SG1,
The opening act was so reminiscent of UFO; the setting, atmosphere. The comment about Colonial Viper MkI vs the much earlier Moonbase Interceptors is very well made and perceptive.
I believe I was enthralled by the Zeroids, as a kid watching the shows. But Capt. Mary Falconer, and Leftenent Hawkeye were faves because their names related to my favorite Birds of Prey.
I've just realised I'm watching Sci-Fi on Wi-Fi listening through my Hi-Fi (!)
Watching this now, I realize how much influence it had on me as a kid. My long love of sci-fi and horror fiction has strong roots in Terrahawks.
Yes, it's superb - one of its key strengths is that it isnt condescending to the young audience - I found it scary and thrilling as a child. He certainly is a genius.
I had a case of Zeroids once but the cream from the doctor soon cleared it up.
I think that's _haemorhoids_ gramma got that too and had to sit on cushions for a week
Who else is watching Terrahawks in 2020?😉
2021 my friend 👍
March 2021
2037 here
This guy!
2021 currently.
I'd almost forgotten about this show. Completely bonkers.
Just watched the episode which Zelda's sister had a baby, omg hahaha. Wow. Absolutely brilliant. Could not stop laughing
2023 and watching on the iPad. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
This episode is 10/10! It's Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica all rolled into one!
and every sci-fi like Buck Rogers with the interceptors coming out of the main ship.
And the Wizard of Oz.
Battlestar Trek Galactica
BattleTrek Galactiwars 5
This tv show gave me the creeps back then and it still does, absolutely love it!
Wow! I'd totally forgotten that Windsor Davies did the voice of Zero! LOL
I absolutely loved this ❤ can't believe they are taking off star wars. I was about 6 years old watching this. Zelda scared the crap out of me
I was thirty and she scared the crap out of me too !
Terrahawks in 2021 anyone?
Interesting that kids were shown PTSD from the General and freezing up as a leader
Colonial Vipers vs Cylon Fighters launched from mk1 Red Dwarf. Lol I still loved it.
HUDSON (Heuristic Universal Driver with Sensory and Orbital Navigation); a self driving car in 2020.
edit: and better looking than the current Rolls-Royce products.
My bro has a studio wooden mockup went halves to buy it. But I wish they used the Aston Martin Lagonda.
I *NEVER* even heard of this show until just a few years ago.
I did watch THUNDERBIRDS when I was a kid
The visual effects of this show still holds up.
They're not fooling me. Everyone can see they're wearing wigs !
Oh Yeah!!!!
That General on the front title has a huge head, he would look like a circus freak out of uniform and down at the beach.
Had alot to do with Thunderbirds and Stingrays , XL5 and Captain Scarlet back in my youth, first time watching terrahawks
Complete with BSG Vipers.
Another forgotten gem, my god this brings back memories 👍😁
You could get all those ships in Woolworths, happy days
For Woolworths now read Walmartco, Costcart or Amaxonebay ...
Actually it would have by now have bee Ali's Sexpress but Trum won't have it.
Now highly collectable and valuable , if still in the box.
3pm on a Saturday afternoon all those years ago on New Zealand TV.. and when we wernt watching that.. it was Knight Rider, Dukesof Hazard and Street Hawk on TV..God I miss those days.. such simple times even back then... and then there was the Commodore 64.. real computer games 🙃
I had forgotten about this incarnation of The Anderson's Super animation series. Im a bigger fan of UFO and Space 1999 myself but these are Flippin Brilliant.
Supermarionation
UFO and Space 1999 I suppose are intended for an older audience than a lot of the puppet stuff. They are slower, more serious and harder to get into but they are good. They have less action than these puppet programs but are deeper (I think, though I haven't watched that many of the puppet programs so some may be deep i don't know, but I don't think they are that much) so I suppose it is what you like.
@@bangerbangerbro Anderson's Supermarionation series are indeed intended for a younger audience than his live series such as UFO and Space 1999. They're more action-packed all in all, and less about reflection. Still, you can tell a lot of work has been put in them as well, and I think they can also be fully enjoyed by an adult audience.
@@AlexDraco Indeed.
Spacehawk didn't do a lot to help! Good railgun type turrets and as others have mentioned certainly nods to Galactica and others in there.
I think Zelda is probably based on Mrs Thatcher and the schizophrenic infant reminds me of Michael Heseltine.
Loved this episode back in the day. Still holds up. General Rip Cord's freakout is still as entertaining as ever. Puppet panic just cracks me up.
TerraHawks was the one Gerry Anderson show that I was able to follow from the beginning and it's great to see it again.
You have no idea how many paper aeroplanes I tried to fly out through a water vortex in the bath. Was on Nigerian TV in the late 80's.
I still have nightmares about Zelda
I was in love with this when I was in kindergarten. I'm from Sarajevo.
I just realised that BSM Williams from 'It ain't Half Hot, Mum' is in amongst the cast
I watched this a lot, ITS WAY BETTER THAN THAT CRAP WORLD POLICE, I MEAN DAAAAAAAAMN THATS JUST GARBAGE, LONG LIVE TERRAHAWKS!!!!
Windsor Davies as the Zeroid, is so cool though, and a stroke of genius.
Youngster always reminded me of sting.
Love this episode. Space battle!
Thats the sickest shit ive ever seen..and i have seen alot in the 80s.
Mr Gary Anderson, why wasn't this ever shown in the US? For this series of yours is flipping brilliant. It mixes SG1, SGA, with STARWARS.
Also the spacecraft from BSG in this episode.
it was on in the us..UK an Japan all had different endings. UK the zeroids an cubes played tik tac toe...us a zeroid bounces nxt to s cube while one of the main characters sang.. Japan was like an anime type ending
Anybody else search the net for the terrahawks toys they had as a kid 🤣😂🤣 got myself a nice die-cast stingray 🤣😂🤣 not even taken it out the box 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Someone send this to Alex Kurtzman. He needs a hint.
It's too sophisticated for him.
I remember when this show aired on WBZ-TV,
channel 4 in 1985-86, every saturday morning!
fricking loved this as a kid I always wanted a zeroid as a buddy
Love the stone-age computer graphics in the intro. Makes me want to play Missile Command.
All drawn by hand before computer graphics were a ‘thing’
@@GerryAndersonTV Hand drawn? I'm even more impressed than I was before.
@@GerryAndersonTV Were the "computer graphics" in the intro drawn by the same art team that worked on Hitchhiker's Guide TV series?
These were cutting edge at the time
Childhood memories
Interesting that the earth based fighters look somewhat like vipers and launch the same way.
Oh yep..
This is just thunderbirds but more terrifying and 80s
Can we please get a CG re-imagining of this series, similar to Thunderbirds are GO?
The CG re-imagining series is already in the works we'll probably get it next year
This Episode was fan-tational
Classic. The good guys don't always win. And this was set in 2020? I'd almost prefer alien invaders to current real life troubles (assuming we had Earth's defenders looking out for us.)
Yeah the real 2020 really sucks.
A B S O L U T E L Y
Zelda is behind coronavirus.
Exzakkary
Just watching as its all about to kick off in Ukraine.....
Sunday's at my great aunt's, perfect childhood,, it was like fantastic yar perfect
Im watching in 2022! totally bonkers.......
Reminder set 10,10
I watched this when I was child... what memories!
Aww man so many memories xxx
Where were THE MYSTERONS whilst this was going on
Zelda must've bought them off.
Small craft on both sides seem to have gleaned ideas from StarWars and Gallactica (not sure about continuity i.e. dates for when these aired)
17:34 Okay, why does that ship seem to have a statue mounted on its upper haul?
I want a fleet of zeroids
Go Terrahawks!!!! 2020 style
“Bleeding liberals” LOL! There is no way that Ninestein is anything other than a Conservative.
I think according to that general, anyone remotely to the left of Nixon is a 'bleeding liberal' ;)
@@sadako24 left of Ghengis Khan :D
Dr. Strangelove are you out there ???
True, there are a number of clear homages. Then there’s the ‘it’s a dud’ gag, which went right over the heads of kids but is crafty nod to the blank firing general.. 🤫
Also relevant is “Apocalypse Now,” and Brando’s mad general gone rogue. The cast of which included Jack Nicholson, who the Ninestein characterisation was influenced by. A far more contemporary production and one can easily imagine Berwick and Anderson discussing this and the earlier “Strangelove”
“Quatermass and the Pit” subplot was the British Rocket Group placed under military control. Quatermass told he was still in charge, it’s just they’ve put someone in over the top of him..
Arrogant, trigger-happy, military types (often but not always American) are a common theme in Anderson’s work. “The Man From The Navy”, “Terror In New York”, “The Imposters”, “Avalanche” etc all inform a view that conventional military types are not to be trusted, or flawed characters.
Nicola Carelse-Rhodes 16:36 Did they get sued by Battlestar Galactica?
Windsor Davies reprising his role in 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum'
This is utterly insane...
The real 2020 was way worse. The West descended to a third world dump.
Urrr Yak, slurrpin' on snot, NAAASTY
日本でも放送していました。
We had alot of manga over here back in the day 🇬🇧
Must of taken months to find people who all had bird species with the right qualifcations :)
... ... ... is that a teddy bear? I've forgotten how much Iove this as a kid :)
11:09 that karl pilkington?
still pure class, memories are flooding in lol
Hell what the earth ships needs is SG1 and the ships from SGA.
Looks so cursed now!
General Cord looks like a human Sontaran mix with his helmet off.
Pinko Inteligencio reporting for duty.
Its 2020, why the hell arnt all cars like Hudson
I am watching Terrahawks in 2021
Battlestar Gallactica i.e. the Tri shape launch shaft for the smaller type craft
Zelda used to scare me to death 😱
I wonder what are all the cast doing these days?
Melting and decaying...
Lol I have some of the toys still I’d forgotten about what they were till I saw this
All I remember of watching this show is Zelda and her (son?) eating some slimy goop, and the sphere headed robots shooting their own heads off.
@The Stormblooper I totally forgot about the noughts and crosses game! But I remember it now you mention it.
7:47 Rock O. Flash! #BuyTheGlasses
I never realised how weird this was as a kid,lol.
they were at Kates house/apartment or at Hawk's nest itself.
I'm a big Gerry Anderson fan, but this show is like a fever dream to me, anyone else feel that way? It just doesn't sit right at all.
The Big White One; hmmm...
Terra Hawks is the best puppet show Gerry Anderson ever made. This episode is a classic. Too bad they made the General look like a big muscle head. That would be a riot.
I put Zeroids on my ice cream and gobbled them up - l had no trouble with them after that
Gibt es auch eine deutsche Synchronisation??? Ich mag diese Filme kann aber kein ausländisch ( englisch) .
Love there generals seating position looks like a dish washer
I'm a hot bath man
Johnson looks like Christopher Walken
Nice to see Zelda in a action.
General Cord played by Chevy Chase or at least his doppelganger
Actually the location is the ideal lattitude on the earth for launches, near the equator, hence why Florida was chosen.
Mágoa non telo subtitulado! Que ben o pasei véndoos dobrados ó galego hai anos, na TVG!! :-)
How they managed to mould Whitehat with that cynical look is a feat of puppeteering
I know this one uses hand puppets and not string puppets and that must account for some of it but even the way the characters are animated to their voices makes it feel more like spitting image than another Anderson program if you get what I mean.
Creepy but somewhat satisfied I guess it’s not bad
Wow this is trippy as shit..
Seems quite prescient now...
When was the show first on
1983 I think?
YIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YEAH!
I did enjoy this one.