Great stuff. I have always liked the SPC.. Jeff's voice is very good, and I like the tie in to "move and you are dead" . Thanks for keeping Gerry's work in our minds, although the special effects team must get a lot of the credit too. There were some great clips used throughout the briefing.. This makes me really appreciate the work that went into "Supermarionation" .... I hope that one day we will see a new production? Is there anything new on the "Firestorm" front?
Jon Culshaw’s Jeff Tracy voice sounds an awful lot like his Ed Straker voice. Neither of them sound much like the original character voices. Much as I’m a fan of Jon (his Tom Baker impersonation being absolutely spot-on, amongst many others), I do feel his voice work here is way below his own exceptionally high standards.
Odd, I thought the Spectrum Agent Field Manual would have all the information on everything essential to the outfit's operations, but I don't remember that detail of Brains being involved in there. Guess it must be really sensitive information then.
It was Dinky who got the Anderson licence in the 60s. For some reason they switched the colour to gold after the first production run. Matchbox produced a small version in the 1990s and Corgi produced theirs about 20 years ago. The moulds for all the Dinky vehicles were sold for ship's ballast when the factory in Liverpool went into liquidation.
@Thomas Sawyer The white vehicle was the Spectrum Maximum Security Vehicle. Used to transport VIPs to VI things. The wooden crate was originally produced to go with a normal security van and was supposed to be gold bullion. It was, as you remember, relabelled "Radioactive isotopes" to accompany the MSV. I was only 5 or 6 when I got mine and that label freaked me out a bit as I thought it might be real. I hid the crate in the garden shed just in case. I got one from a toy fair sometime in the 90s, with it's crate, a battered but intact box and only a couple of chips in the paint, for £25. There was an address on the box to send off for replacement tyres if you needed them. The weight of that strong metal base and bodywork, with only the inside corridor and ramps made of plastic, took me right back to childhood. I had the same cars that you did, except I missed out on the red patrol car and got the gold version instead. I know what you mean about the value of them today, but what price can you put on the enjoyment they gave?
@Thomas Sawyer I had a habit of dismantling my toys to see how they worked. Then not being able to put them back together or losing the vital screw that held the whole thing together. Or "gently easing" pieces apart with a screwdriver and nearly blinding myself as shards of plastic flew everywhere. And Lady Penelope and Parker are probably still somewhere in the undergrowth at a local beauty spot waiting for me to remember where I was going to rescue them from.
@Thomas Sawyer I also had all these things...and still have! Not in boxes however, (who would have thought that the boxes alone would be worth so much???) but my childhood is on display in our hallway, much, as I'm sure you can guess, to the joy of my wife! I'm now trying to convince her that my "Secret Sam" case wouldn't look out of place if I got it framed and put on the wall...
@Thomas Sawyer They weren't entirely water, they brought enjoyment and encouraged our imaginations. And like you say, eventually we learned to value things more because of having had those toys. When I started re-buying my old toys from toy fairs and collectibles shops I did wish I'd never given mine away. But somehow the memory of my hand painted metallic green Fab 1 with no roof, figures or torpedoes didn't seem as attractive as getting hold of a pristine one still with it's box. I've never been to Tintagel. It's one of the places I've always wanted to go to but never got around to.
When i was a kid watching the show, i thought in the future the roads would be full of traffic, but it seems i was wrong there will only ever will be one or two cars on our roads!
I sort of prefer the SSC over the SPV mainly because it's a cool looking vehicle & can perform some pretty good maneuvers when needed. Love that shot of the SSC going round that corner. Of course it's not surprising Brains would of had some sort of influence in it's overall design.
It's always has been confirmed. The first scene shows the Zero X. Also Stingray is set in the same Universe. Gordon used to be a member of WASP before the founding of International Rescue and he used to pilot Stingray before Troy Tempest and Phones.
The first basic ones came about in the 1930s, the French came up with them and they were just a basic rim locking band to stop the tire coming free and a heavy dense foam as well as air inside the tire. In general they didn't change much, the locking rim became a standard thing for other tires for a time and then new wheel and tire rim designs made that defunct. Generally ever since run flat tires have either been a hard rubber support ring around the circumference of the wheel, in the middle or heavily reinforced sidewalls. Both intended to support the vehicle for a time, until the tire begins to disintegrate. They only really went on military vehicles, Government limousines and wheeled combat vehicles but some cars began to offer them as options in the 1970s. The most modern run flats, like self sealing ones were the only hint of a puncture is the vehicles tire pressure monitor warning the driver are fairly new. They are still fairly uncommon as the price premium can double the price of replacing the tires, people who buy new cars with them often just replaced them with normal tires when the tire change was due.
An optional extra on many a top of the range British Leyland vehicle in the ‘70s - the Mini 1275GT, and the Rover 3500 spring to mind. From memory I think they were called Denovo, and sold by Dunlop. So no doubt under development in the late ‘60s, and not all that far-fetched an idea.
@Thomas Sawyer they used a special rim so you could not fit an ordinary tyre, and yes they cost a fortune at the time, the answer was to go down the breakers and get s set of ordinary rims, the initial set was a bit pricey but it was a lot cheaper in the long run, it also meant as the car aged you could sell it,. Dunlop Denovo one of the good ideas that really wasn't!! 😁.
There was a time when TB was thought to be set around the year 2026, and Scarlet in the late 2060s. That all came from one visible calendar in a Thunderbirds episode that had the date 2026 shown; it's thought that the set decorator who made the calendar simply put the 2 and the 6 in the wrong order. Since then, it's been established that both shows happen in the 2060s, with TB simply happening earlier in the decade, to give SCARLET time to establish itself, since it would be odd ( but fun ) to have the Thunderbirds show up during one of Spectrum's operations, and the two organizations clash.
@@andrewparkin4036 Erm, not sure, I know they were based on the Ford Zephyr chassis. As well as Rover, GM also developed a turbine engine (See Jay Leno Collection), but I don't think Ford did.
I do very vaguely. Although my dad was the driver then. Then again I once stopped at a petrol station in rural France where someone came out to fill the car up and that wasn't so long ago.
These things aren’t safe enough. They don’t have enough grip and anytime you see one going remotely fast around a corner the back kicks out. This could potentially be dangerous and, as we’ve seen before, the SPC isn’t very safe during crashes. Also there’s a huuuge blind spot in the windscreen.
I would imagine that, like any vehicle over time, the Patrol Car will be upgraded and those design flaws will be smoothed out. It is a pity that the twin machine guns in the front of the SPC were never used in an episode; they would have come in very handy during a couple of chases I can think of offhand.
Wow!! It's a pity you never found The Great Jon Culshaw to be the voice artist of Jeff Tracey in the new reboot of THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO instead of the Six Million Dollar Man actor Lee Majors, sorry he just he just didn't cut it for me!!
Anderson Entertainment were not involved in the production of Thunderbirds Are Go, so had no say in the casting. That said, I didn't mind Lee's take on Jeff.
@@ACtheLegend maybe so, but in nearly every episode of the show you hear the rich tone of Jeff Tracey's voice doing the count down & then to hear Lee Majors doing the count down on the last episode? Nah, wotta let down
Why some of the puppets were so handsome/pretty and others so deformed/ugly? May be they belonged to different TV shows and were bundled together to save money and time I guess, the styles don't match.
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Oh 45 years just disappeared and I was back in my childhood with eyes pinned to the tv screen….
I love how every series is treated like a large interconnected universe.
*I miss the early 60's and all those great toys we had back then. Thanks for keeping these coming Jamie and company!*
Very glad to see the return of Tech Talk. Spectrum Petrol Car is my favorite Century 21 road vehicle bar none :)
The SPC is one of my favourite vehicles from Captain Scarlet fantastic tech talk S.I.G
I can imagine what Brains would have said to the visiting Spectrum engineers…..”Wh Wh why are your h heads so sm sm all?”
I doubt that was an issue (the size wouldn't be an issue)
“Deh-tails”
Perfect impression
Oh my gosh! So many crossovers! Funny though, I've always known it as the Spectrum Saloon Car (SSC).
Captain Scarlet was defo the best telly program when I was a kid.
I will send my SPC model to Scott Base in Antarctica as a gift then every continent will have one.
Fascinating talk on the SPC spectrum Persuite Car
Brilliant thank you, I received my Red SPC for my 7th birthday!
Great stuff. I have always liked the SPC..
Jeff's voice is very good, and I like the tie in to "move and you are dead" .
Thanks for keeping Gerry's work in our minds, although the special effects team must get a lot of the credit too.
There were some great clips used throughout the briefing.. This makes me really appreciate the work that went into "Supermarionation" .... I hope that one day we will see a new production?
Is there anything new on the "Firestorm" front?
I had the SPC and the SPV as a child. I wanted to be captain Scarlet when I grew up.
It would be nice to see these Tech Talks for the New Captain Scarlet as well.
Jon Culshaw’s Jeff Tracy voice sounds an awful lot like his Ed Straker voice. Neither of them sound much like the original character voices. Much as I’m a fan of Jon (his Tom Baker impersonation being absolutely spot-on, amongst many others), I do feel his voice work here is way below his own exceptionally high standards.
Interesting, I've read comments saying the exact opposite. I've come to the conclusion that every human ear is different lol
Odd, I thought the Spectrum Agent Field Manual would have all the information on everything essential to the outfit's operations, but I don't remember that detail of Brains being involved in there. Guess it must be really sensitive information then.
I had to dig out my TV21 library to cross check the cross section, exploded diagrams and design specs quoted for the SPC - SIG :)
I had the Corghi car when I was a wee lad back in the 60's. I played the wheels off of it!
It was Dinky who got the Anderson licence in the 60s. For some reason they switched the colour to gold after the first production run.
Matchbox produced a small version in the 1990s and Corgi produced theirs about 20 years ago.
The moulds for all the Dinky vehicles were sold for ship's ballast when the factory in Liverpool went into liquidation.
@Thomas Sawyer
The white vehicle was the Spectrum Maximum Security Vehicle. Used to transport VIPs to VI things. The wooden crate was originally produced to go with a normal security van and was supposed to be gold bullion. It was, as you remember, relabelled "Radioactive isotopes" to accompany the MSV. I was only 5 or 6 when I got mine and that label freaked me out a bit as I thought it might be real. I hid the crate in the garden shed just in case.
I got one from a toy fair sometime in the 90s, with it's crate, a battered but intact box and only a couple of chips in the paint, for £25. There was an address on the box to send off for replacement tyres if you needed them. The weight of that strong metal base and bodywork, with only the inside corridor and ramps made of plastic, took me right back to childhood.
I had the same cars that you did, except I missed out on the red patrol car and got the gold version instead.
I know what you mean about the value of them today, but what price can you put on the enjoyment they gave?
@Thomas Sawyer I had a habit of dismantling my toys to see how they worked. Then not being able to put them back together or losing the vital screw that held the whole thing together. Or "gently easing" pieces apart with a screwdriver and nearly blinding myself as shards of plastic flew everywhere.
And Lady Penelope and Parker are probably still somewhere in the undergrowth at a local beauty spot waiting for me to remember where I was going to rescue them from.
@Thomas Sawyer I also had all these things...and still have! Not in boxes however, (who would have thought that the boxes alone would be worth so much???) but my childhood is on display in our hallway, much, as I'm sure you can guess, to the joy of my wife! I'm now trying to convince her that my "Secret Sam" case wouldn't look out of place if I got it framed and put on the wall...
@Thomas Sawyer They weren't entirely water, they brought enjoyment and encouraged our imaginations. And like you say, eventually we learned to value things more because of having had those toys.
When I started re-buying my old toys from toy fairs and collectibles shops I did wish I'd never given mine away. But somehow the memory of my hand painted metallic green Fab 1 with no roof, figures or torpedoes didn't seem as attractive as getting hold of a pristine one still with it's box.
I've never been to Tintagel. It's one of the places I've always wanted to go to but never got around to.
Every scene in Cpt. Scarlett is diorama worthy.
When i was a kid watching the show, i thought in the future the roads would be full of traffic, but it seems i was wrong there will only ever will be one or two cars on our roads!
Great video and informative! Love Jon Culshaw as Jeff Tracy! S.I.G!
I love this series for the fab 1 and this vehicle😍😍😍
I sort of prefer the SSC over the SPV mainly because it's a cool looking vehicle & can perform some pretty good maneuvers when needed. Love that shot of the SSC going round that corner.
Of course it's not surprising Brains would of had some sort of influence in it's overall design.
Cannot wait for the video on the Maximum Security Vehicle MSV.
Afraid there won't be one, not enough material for a whole vid!
@@ACtheLegend That's a pity. I wanted to know more about it.
Now we know how the SPC got its shape from! S.I.G!
Terrific Thank you (:
so wait
this basically confirms that ThunderBirds and Captain Scarlet are in the same universe??
Always have been since the first scene in Scarlet aired in 1967 :)
It's always has been confirmed. The first scene shows the Zero X. Also Stingray is set in the same Universe. Gordon used to be a member of WASP before the founding of International Rescue and he used to pilot Stingray before Troy Tempest and Phones.
@@gamingninja5196
Furthermore, Captain Black was a Fireball-XL captain prior to joining Spectrum (although I can’t recall which one - XL30, perhaps?).
XL-7@@pcarrierorange
I still have mine and also my SPV
Fab film, cheers!
I never knew they had run flat tyres in the 60's
The first basic ones came about in the 1930s, the French came up with them and they were just a basic rim locking band to stop the tire coming free and a heavy dense foam as well as air inside the tire. In general they didn't change much, the locking rim became a standard thing for other tires for a time and then new wheel and tire rim designs made that defunct. Generally ever since run flat tires have either been a hard rubber support ring around the circumference of the wheel, in the middle or heavily reinforced sidewalls. Both intended to support the vehicle for a time, until the tire begins to disintegrate.
They only really went on military vehicles, Government limousines and wheeled combat vehicles but some cars began to offer them as options in the 1970s. The most modern run flats, like self sealing ones were the only hint of a puncture is the vehicles tire pressure monitor warning the driver are fairly new. They are still fairly uncommon as the price premium can double the price of replacing the tires, people who buy new cars with them often just replaced them with normal tires when the tire change was due.
An optional extra on many a top of the range British Leyland vehicle in the ‘70s - the Mini 1275GT, and the Rover 3500 spring to mind. From memory I think they were called Denovo, and sold by Dunlop. So no doubt under development in the late ‘60s, and not all that far-fetched an idea.
relax, it's only a kids show 😃; next you will be telling us you did not know there was a Moonbase in the 1960s 😃
@Thomas Sawyer they used a special rim so you could not fit an ordinary tyre, and yes they cost a fortune at the time, the answer was to go down the breakers and get s set of ordinary rims, the initial set was a bit pricey but it was a lot cheaper in the long run, it also meant as the car aged you could sell it,. Dunlop Denovo one of the good ideas that really wasn't!! 😁.
This inexplicably popped up in my feed…Thanks RUclips algorithms 👍
There is a lot of rams in the thunderbirds series
RAMING SPEED
I had one of those in the mid 60s. Although it lost most of it's paint due to over-play.
That can only be a good thing though!
The Utimax 100 machine gun would be perfect for the forward guns.
Kahelium (unsure of correct spelling) is used an awful lot in many different machines across the Anderson Verse
It’s an excellent metal for these kinds of machines…
so captain scarlet and thunderbirds are in the same universe and cannon ?
Of course, ever since the Zero-X appeared in the first shot of Scarlet in 1967 :)
I believe that before joining Spectrum, Capt Grey did a tour with the W.A.S.P.
@@frankberry6220 yup, that was covered in the Stingray Tech Talk :)
There was a time when TB was thought to be set around the year 2026, and Scarlet in the late 2060s. That all came from one visible calendar in a Thunderbirds episode that had the date 2026 shown; it's thought that the set decorator who made the calendar simply put the 2 and the 6 in the wrong order. Since then, it's been established that both shows happen in the 2060s, with TB simply happening earlier in the decade, to give SCARLET time to establish itself, since it would be odd ( but fun ) to have the Thunderbirds show up during one of Spectrum's operations, and the two organizations clash.
@@ACtheLegend Cheers,
I must have missed that one. I'll have to look it up. My memory was from a VERY old Captain Scarlet annual.
Gas turbine engine? I suppose SPECTRUM asked Rover if they could use the one Rover developed for the P6 prototype...
Weren't the S.H.A.D.O.W cars that Straker, Lake and Foster drove gas turbine powered?
@@andrewparkin4036 Erm, not sure, I know they were based on the Ford Zephyr chassis. As well as Rover, GM also developed a turbine engine (See Jay Leno Collection), but I don't think Ford did.
I remember the days when someone put your petrol in for you!
Though why a gas turbine car would stop at a petrol station beats me.
They were there to pick up an SPV not refuel :)
@@ACtheLegend at the petrol station, in another vehicle, was an SPV, which they were picking up
@@superplushtiman7ti075 and it was later hidden in a dummy oil storage tank out the back of the station.
I do very vaguely. Although my dad was the driver then. Then again I once stopped at a petrol station in rural France where someone came out to fill the car up and that wasn't so long ago.
I wanna see the engine and the dashbord 🤔
In my series guide by Chris Bentley, its called the SSC (Spectrum Saloon Car).
It's had a couple of names over the years but as the name was never mentioned on screen, SPC seemed to fit best with SPV and SPJ :)
@@ACtheLegend and the dinky toy from the 60’s was called Spectrum Patrol Car on the box.
@@stevena9305 that's right!
Ultinax 100s would be perfect for the machinegins
I have the model of this.
Sounds as much like Jeff Tracy as I do.
Yes sir Mr Tracy! :)
If you squint, this looks a lot like a Porsche Panamera except the front.
These things aren’t safe enough. They don’t have enough grip and anytime you see one going remotely fast around a corner the back kicks out. This could potentially be dangerous and, as we’ve seen before, the SPC isn’t very safe during crashes. Also there’s a huuuge blind spot in the windscreen.
I would imagine that, like any vehicle over time, the Patrol Car will be upgraded and those design flaws will be smoothed out. It is a pity that the twin machine guns in the front of the SPC were never used in an episode; they would have come in very handy during a couple of chases I can think of offhand.
But what’s the gas mileage?
no spectrum vehicle can survive against the mysterons.
Spectrum is green
The bods from the TV program Police Interceptors could struggle to keep up. Handling looks dodgy though
Wow!! It's a pity you never found The Great Jon Culshaw to be the voice artist of Jeff Tracey in the new reboot of THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO instead of the Six Million Dollar Man actor Lee Majors, sorry he just he just didn't cut it for me!!
Anderson Entertainment were not involved in the production of Thunderbirds Are Go, so had no say in the casting. That said, I didn't mind Lee's take on Jeff.
@@ACtheLegend maybe so, but in nearly every episode of the show you hear the rich tone of Jeff Tracey's voice doing the count down & then to hear Lee Majors doing the count down on the last episode? Nah, wotta let down
@@juniordawkins4193 I loved that bit, especially with Ben and Nick's score, got goosebumps!
Hmm. The SPC runs on petrol, which won't be legal in 2068.
Interesting that they are using gas turbine engines in 2067!
They probably figured out that EVs sucked.
And you call it a saloon despite the fact it's obviously an estate
Nope, it's a saloon.
Computer controlled air bags, in the sixties 🤔
The 2060s, yes :)
The patents for airbags date from the 1950s.
And, what size were computers in the 1950's?
@@petermccool9396 larger than they were 120 years later :)
I think Colonel White would have been better
I think Americans would call this a "sedan," rather than a "saloon"? 🤔
Why some of the puppets were so handsome/pretty and others so deformed/ugly? May be they belonged to different TV shows and were bundled together to save money and time I guess, the styles don't match.
Funny, I ask the same about people when I'm walking down the street . . . .