Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were pure genius, all of their shows were way ahead of their time and are still well watchable now. Todays kids do not know what they missed.
Talking Pictures are showing Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet to this day. Thanks Gerry and Sylvia for giving us these wonderful timeless shows..
My dad showed Joe 90, Stingray, and Thunderbirds to me when I was a kid. Compared to the crap that was on TV at the time, these shows really stood out to me and grabbed my interest. These shows made my childhood, and truly are some of the coolest shows I have ever seen. Thanks Gerry Anderson
Ma dad didn't get it but he got me a Joe 90 spy case was best thing ever . It Passport , wee binoculars loads of other crappy wee things but I loved it . Probley worth a Bob or two now 😳👏😂😂
Yeah. Well, Joe-90's themes was about the coolest, and yet the show itself was relatively dull, the sole exitement being that the main protagonist was under-age - and yet didn't act like it. "Joe 90" was at the time, a schoolyard slur to any male wearing glasses.
Joe 90 was a dead hard kid. I remember an episode where someone he was working with got killed and he just got on with the job, his expression did not even change, it was like he was made out of wood.
Brilliant. Loved this show as a young lad in the 60’s. Thanks for posting. Great to look back and realize how fortunate we were to have all these great puppet shows.
I really and sincerely hope that Gerry Anderson is inducted posthumously into our Television Hall of Fame some day for his many contributions to television's arts and sciences!! :) :)
The quality of this is outstanding, the design, music its just amazing. I preferred Captain Scarlet at the time but Gerry Anderson has a place in the hearts of millions
Joe 90,Robinson Crusoe ,White Horses,Double Deckers and Flashing Blade.Anyone who remembers those knows EXACTLY what I mean when I say these are the best (kids) t v theme tunes.ever!!
Rowen took me a while to realise that the theme tune to White horses had nothing whatsoever to do with white horses. Same with the flashing blade. Such innocent times back then though. I remember speaking to a spiritual lady once on a flight home and she said something from my past was trying to contact me. She said you need to think of the colour orange. I said you are having a laugh aren't you. Everything in the 60s and early 70s was orange.
avid watcher of robinson crusoe never saw the last few episodes as it was back to school before it ended bought the dvd few years ago , went right back to the 70's and saw the whole series ...finally.
I was 10 to 11 when it was originally broadcast in 1968/9. My school friends loved it, we would play at being Joe 90. I'm now 63 and enjoying watching the series again 54 years later
I was a young boy when this was on, takes me back to my childhood in the 70s. For me a happy time. Thunderbirds and stingray were my favourites. Not to forget Captain scarlet!
My brother in law lived next to Gerry Anderson in Windsor. They had the first colour telly in the street which they used to go round to watch. Futuristic
The attention to detail put into making the intro is amazing, and the theme tunes is still the best piece of music I have ever heard. Truly a work of art.
Great stuff. Like a time machine taking me back to when I was a school kid. Makes me wanna cry when I think about what this world is becoming. Keep up the great work. Much appreciated!
I was one of the lucky one's who was born in the 80s, well 1988 to be exact, watched Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons , Thunderbirds and some Joe90 syndication on the BBC here in the UK in 1992.
Was a mod icon track. My club of choice was the Biz in London Bridge dj'd by the legendary Tony Class who always finished the set with the theme from Bottom :)
@@AdrianBoyko I thought I left that comment a couple of months ago, I don't like this realisation you've brought unto me, This is a curse from an evil wizard I've annoyed somewhere,
One of the best children's theme tunes. We had it all....Thunderbirds, Stingray, Flashing blade, Champion the Wonder Horse, I could go on. Wonder if my son and the kid's nowadays with their 200 channel's will have the same happy memories.
Plus with only 2 channels to choose from you knew your friends were going to be watching it and you had something to talk about at school the next day.....
He is a kid who is a trained assassin who sits stony faced and never blinks when his brain is being mashed to jelly and has his father's memories of presumably everything including his own conception....even David Cronenburg would have a hard time making this today 😂😂
Gerry Anderson, Barry Gray and Derek Meddings, along with the other Century 21 stalwarts, bought us some of the best entertainment and memories... Not likely to ever be surpassed?
Loved the intro TeeVees :) Joe 90...my favourite TV show as a very young kid - I swear I could make the noises as he 'transformed'. When the signature tune plays, I can still see it with my eyes closed!
THANK YOU to Gerry and Sylvia.......for a childhood of Wonder and Amazement .....all of there shows were Bloody Brilliant !......the story lines to the Music....just Pure CLASS !
Groovy man! Don't hog that joint my friend? LOL I remember them days the days of radicalism in peace and crew Klux Clan hanging black people from trees
Wowww. That beginning with the arrow used to terrify me as a child mainly because of 'Captin scarlet', but the joe 90 end credit was just superb, really classy and catchy. I remember I recording on an old casette player in the 80s and was annoyed because my brother talked in the background
GREAT KIDS PROGRAMMES BACK IN THE DAY..I WAS 4 WHEN THIS CAME OUT AND REMEMBER IT WELL...GREAT SOUND TRACK TOO...A NICE BIT OF NOSTALGIA THERE..GREAT MEMORIES...KIDS TV HAS BEEN PATHETIC FOR YEARS NOW..WE WAS THE LUCKY KIDS OF THE 60s BACK THEN...🙏✌
I still can't believe that this Theme was played at Wigan Casino, And I was there to hear and dance to It. Thanks for a Wonderful and Memorial Childhood Gerry. And RIP to You Good Sir.
Barry Gray was an amazing composer, arranger and conductor, be it the dreamy Western music of Four Feather Falls, the stunning orchestral tour-de-force that is the Thunderbirds March, or the straight soft but insistent rock of Joe 90, with electric guitars, electronic keyboards and rock-steady 4/4 drums, he was at home. Never once can you say that any Barry Gray composition is a lazy rehash of another, and really, you couldn't even listen to a piece of his music you'd never heard before and say, "Oh, yes, that's a classic Barry Gray piece." But he seemed to bring the very best out of his musicians, and all his compositions, even the incidental music, stirred all the viewer's emotions in just the right way that the story demanded. A brilliant musician, whose outstanding works live on long after his death, and I'm sure will live on much, much longer.
@@roddyteague6246 Whilst i never knew at the time (I was only an infant, even though I loved and still love Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation shows, especially Thunderbirds), Gerry and Sylvia Anderson lived 10 minutes' walk away from me in New Greens Estate, St. Albans. I lived in Maple Avenue, and the Andersons lived in Francis Avenue. From what I've heard, they loved kids and would invite them in and show them photos and articles from the show. But I never knew, and neither did my parents. I only found out when they moved out, when I was 11 or 12.
@@Dragonblaster1 I remember a few years ago on the Antiques Roadshow a woman of a certain vintage produced Lady Penelope's car in a box signed by Gerry Anderson. She recalled as a kid going round to his house for a birthday party & he signed a load of these gifts saying that it would double their value. The so called expert agreed with this view!
I remember going shopping with Mum, I must have been 6 years old at the time. Woolworths had the Captain Scarlett hats. Oh the good old days when you could have cap gun and not be labeled as a terrorist!!
Okay you've just had your dad's memories put in your brain including all his memories with your mum, you as a kid and goodness knows what else little Joe is probably still in therapy
I'm in my early 50s and remember when the theme music would start and the excitement of another Saturday morning episode of Joe 90 would begin. It's got to be one of the best ever TV programmes theme music.
One of my favourite programmes. Watching in Lock down here in the UK. Love and blessing from Wolverhampton England to you all stay safe. (Put your glasses on )
Hey.... this was great in the late 60's, opening and closing sequences showed here great as well, fans will not forget all the wonderful productions that this lovely man Gerry Anderson brought to the small screen dating right back to the 50's for all us kids (and some adults) at that time.
Great TV you old dodger. I am the big 60 next month. So, this, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Batman and many others. You Tube is the biggest time machine there is! So what else do you remember my friend? Watch with mother? Doctor Who, The Avengers, Voyage to the bottom of the sea? The Apollo missions and moon landings? Where did it all go wrong my friend? TV today, IMHO is utter crap! Fly on the wall type programmes like Big Brother and I`m a so called celebrity get ne out of here. If only Doc Brown had invented a real time machine eh. I would go back and never return,
Hi! I too am a 61 year old dodger and we were fortunate to have a (Radio Rentals!) telly early on and I was a right telly addict. I remember lots of the early 60s TV shows like Mr. Pastry and of course Twizzle. As for Sci Fi I loved Space Patrol (the robots really gave me the creeps) and nearly all the Gerry Anderson stuff, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet all of 'em EXCEPT Joe 90. We lived in Ireland when it was on (only a single channel RTE then and no English channels) and it passed me by completely. We came back to England in the early 70s and there were Joe 90 toys in the shops but I had no idea what it was about at all. Thank goodness for You Tube, the best and worst of viewing and I reckon Gerry Anderson should be knighted!
Another dodger here too 60 in Jan, Superman, Batman, Beano, Topper, thanks to lady who gave them to my mom all them years ago when I was about 9 when we were poor...but happy :) My mom and dad are Coffin dodgers too !! they`re still here with us :)
Nice to hear your parents are still around, sadly mine have passed on. Great times, great TV. Despite all the modern technology we have these days I would give it all up in a heartbeat and return back to the days when we had nothing and made the most of it! If you missed a TV show it was gone, no catch up or streaming. Saturday night TV was entertaining and Christmas was amazing. All the best fellow dodger ;-)
Thunderbirds are Go, Stingray, Fireball XL5 and Joe9 - genius! The shows of my childhood - we were hooked and could hardly wait to watch (and dance to the theme songs...lol!) I miss those days so much. Can't I just jump into the "Time Tunnel" back to the 60's?!! 😄
Dad: "Joe , I'm going to transfer ALL of my knowledge and experience to this tape drive." Joe: "What's the capacity of the tape drive?" Dad: "10 megabytes"
I take it you guys' experience is all micro computers (personal). We had 20MB tapes in 72 at IBM. 10 was pretty standard in business mainframes before 1970. We're in the 12TB range today for serious business and governmental systems on tape. That little tape device shown looked like the video tape player guts from a TV news booth circa 1968. That would become the BetaMax of the next decade when they scaled it down. Looks very much like a Beta tensioning feed. Great tape system. Better than VHS by a mile. Better picture, smaller cartridge, beautiful pause and slow !o without the tear lines of VHS.
Of all the puppet shows like thunderbird captain scarlet etc Joe 90 was my fav loved the premises even as a kid just imagine being able to do anything with a pair of glasses 👓 😳 😆
I loved Joe90 and grew up to be a programmer in 1985 I guess he had an impact, the tunes were fab and Joe had such courage and always saved the day, he'd step into his machine and spin around and boom problem fixed
Well that is going to mess with Little Joe’s relationship with his Mum...... something I didn’t consider when I was his age watching this in black and white on a tv with a screen the same size as an iPad all those years ago!
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were pure genius, all of their shows were way ahead of their time and are still well watchable now. Todays kids do not know what they missed.
Can I be churlish and just say Terrahawks 😊 but most everything else even Secret Service I'm with you
@kevspencer5744 gerry was ahead of his time, and the attention to detail of the models was amazing its something you don't enough of nowadays
@@kevspencer5744 I think he came out with the video phone
They missed aspirations to a better far happier world...
Talking Pictures are showing Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet to this day. Thanks Gerry and Sylvia for giving us these wonderful timeless shows..
The closing theme is utterly majestic. Makes me cry for my childhood.
Yes, such beautiful orchestration.
Me too!
... same here.
Agreed, it's a testament to the vision and creativity of everyone who made this series, hasn't aged at all.
amazing ! arrangement is faultless
I was born in 1961 and these are still good today as they were back then, nothing comes close to the shows these days
To right me 1966 the best days ever growing up in the 60 70 was amazing Gerry Anderson was the man -god bless you
Agreed
You are so right
I too in 1961!😀
Better acting than most soap operas
My dad showed Joe 90, Stingray, and Thunderbirds to me when I was a kid. Compared to the crap that was on TV at the time, these shows really stood out to me and grabbed my interest. These shows made my childhood, and truly are some of the coolest shows I have ever seen. Thanks Gerry Anderson
Ma dad didn't get it but he got me a Joe 90 spy case was best thing ever . It Passport , wee binoculars loads of other crappy wee things but I loved it . Probley worth a Bob or two now 😳👏😂😂
Out of curiosity which generation are you from?
Not to pass any judgement on you, just wondering which era of crap we're comparing it to.
Yeah. Well, Joe-90's themes was about the coolest, and yet the show itself was relatively dull, the sole exitement being that the main protagonist was under-age - and yet didn't act like it. "Joe 90" was at the time, a schoolyard slur to any male wearing glasses.
Yes I wore glasses in 1968
👌🙏
This was Dad's eighth son. Social services are keen to establish what's happened to the other seven.
Joe 90 is a documentary
There's bound to be some obsolete, archaic law that prevents a father from screwing around with his nine year old son's brain?
The end theme is without doubt the greatest 1 minute and 15 seconds of TV title music ever recorded. Barry Gray, utter genius.
The opening theme has a touch of Joe Meek about it
Absolutely… 💯
That man should have got a knighthood for services to music. He was one of a kind.
It fills me with happy nostalgia! The end theme to Mary, Mungo and Midge has the same effect!
You are not wrong! ✊
What a genius Gerry Anderson was. Great programmes and great music. 😊
He certainly was!
Gerry AND Sylvia Anderson.
Ezekiel Ben Israel. ‘Twas Barry Gray :) Though John Barry also awesome 😎
All the theme tunes written by Barry Gray
Yeah that title sequence is dazzling
Joe 90 was a dead hard kid. I remember an episode where someone he was working with got killed and he just got on with the job, his expression did not even change, it was like he was made out of wood.
Rubber actually!
Lot of wooden acting back then, probably why he never got any acting gigs after this show.
NEVER had any acting lessons either! ;oP
That"s fucking gold! LOL
He did get a bit warped by it eventually.
Brilliant. Loved this show as a young lad in the 60’s. Thanks for posting. Great to look back and realize how fortunate we were to have all these great puppet shows.
I really and sincerely hope that Gerry Anderson is inducted posthumously into our Television Hall of Fame some day for his many contributions to television's arts and sciences!! :) :)
He should have had a knighthood for services to children's imaginations. Barry Gray as well, for his electronic effects as well as his music.
That end theme conjures up blue sky days when I was young. I had faith in the world then. What a brilliant memory.
Exactly how I felt
World is truly hopeless and dark today..
The quality of this is outstanding, the design, music its just amazing. I preferred Captain Scarlet at the time but Gerry Anderson has a place in the hearts of millions
Joe 90,Robinson Crusoe ,White Horses,Double Deckers and Flashing Blade.Anyone who remembers those knows EXACTLY what I mean when I say these are the best (kids) t v theme tunes.ever!!
Rowen took me a while to realise that the theme tune to White horses had nothing whatsoever to do with white horses. Same with the flashing blade.
Such innocent times back then though.
I remember speaking to a spiritual lady once on a flight home and she said something from my past was trying to contact me. She said you need to think of the colour orange.
I said you are having a laugh aren't you. Everything in the 60s and early 70s was orange.
avid watcher of robinson crusoe never saw the last few episodes as it was back to school before it ended bought the dvd few years ago , went right back to the 70's and saw the whole series ...finally.
Remember all of them mate good years, Captain Scarlet was my favourite though, just for the drums lol
Every school holidays Robinson Crusoe in the morning,happy times.
Oh yes
Weird @2.10 my phone rang right at the same time. I have Joe 90 as my ringtone. Classic tune and show. Thanks.
I was 10 to 11 when it was originally broadcast in 1968/9. My school friends loved it, we would play at being Joe 90. I'm now 63 and enjoying watching the series again 54 years later
Same here David 63 and luvvin it lol. !
It's all very well being transformed into a child superhero, but there's always strings attached...
but it will be ok at the end of the day ,touch wood
@@larryb4129 Made me laugh that
The performances of these characters looks so ropey.........
ha ha
@Not My Real Name: Underrated comment, bravo 👏🏾
The genius of Gerry Anderson who was 50 years ahead of his time
Agree with you...
The Jack Kirby of puppets.
Alas, given that we still don't have flying cars he was probably more like 100 years ahead of his time 🥺
Gerry Nostrodamus Anderson..the man who inspired child minds to become inventive geniuses
The 69s and 60s. Such a Golden era for theme music.
1:40 dial up internet
I was a young boy when this was on, takes me back to my childhood in the 70s. For me a happy time. Thunderbirds and stingray were my favourites. Not to forget Captain scarlet!
My brother in law lived next to Gerry Anderson in Windsor. They had the first colour telly in the street which they used to go round to watch. Futuristic
The attention to detail put into making the intro is amazing, and the theme tunes is still the best piece of music I have ever heard.
Truly a work of art.
Not as good as Fireball XL5
Singapore Soundproofing NYTC NoiseBlock *I know left!*
That is the best piece of music you ever heard? Jesus you need to get out. Not just more, but actually get out.
The arrangement of the closing theme is one of the greatest TV themes ever.
Great stuff.
Like a time machine taking me back to when I was a school kid.
Makes me wanna cry when I think about what this world is becoming.
Keep up the great work. Much appreciated!
I was one of the lucky one's who was born in the 80s, well 1988 to be exact, watched Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons , Thunderbirds and some Joe90 syndication on the BBC here in the UK in 1992.
i was watch these shows in the 70s
@@jenifferschmitz8618 I watched them in the 1960s..... and they are all still great and the theme tunes haven't been beaten
I loved this series, so imaginative. I love the theme tune too. Takes me right back to the good days of tv with a huge amount of variety.
I am 76 now and I still admire all of the work of the Andersons. This is a show I have never heard of.
Great imagination back then....so original lots of work doing without computer special fx...I loved this show as a kid...
Gosh........ This brings back wonderful memories of my childhood, and watching this series on our black and white telly 😀😀😀
I never thought I'd be 59 and still watching Joe 90.
good for you im a little younger and still loving this sort of thing at 55
@@DANGERGOUGH And I am 54 and about to start crying with joy, what wonderful memories!🤩
52 this year,, loved it when this come along, my wife's 8 year's younger than me a i brought a smile to her face 😊
Dude, I'm 90 and watching Joe 59
Some of the very best TV out there!
I never missed a show! Always a must watch. 👍🏼
This track was played at some Mod clubs I once attended in the early 1980s. Great stuff.
Was a mod icon track. My club of choice was the Biz in London Bridge dj'd by the legendary Tony Class who always finished the set with the theme from Bottom :)
Loved this as a kid but they started to play this tune at the Wigan casino last few year years before it shut ,ohh dear
I'm finding it hard to relax dad after remembering what happened to my 89 brothers
HA HA HA!
And the fact that that machine transferred all knowledge and experiences his father had into his mind,
Think about it,
@@AbbojnrYeah, this is not good, at all.
@@AdrianBoyko I thought I left that comment a couple of months ago, I don't like this realisation you've brought unto me,
This is a curse from an evil wizard I've annoyed somewhere,
@@Abbojnr Time warp factor 12!
One of the best children's theme tunes. We had it all....Thunderbirds, Stingray, Flashing blade, Champion the Wonder Horse, I could go on. Wonder if my son and the kid's nowadays with their 200 channel's will have the same happy memories.
Loved Thunderbirds.
Plus with only 2 channels to choose from you knew your friends were going to be watching it and you had something to talk about at school the next day.....
Fireball XL5 was my favourite theme tune! 🚀
What do they care? They have 200 friends and 200 likes to a pic they posted on twitagrambook
Mine was Stingray ...just been listening to it.
The level of complexity and detail required for shooting these sequences are gorgeous.
Cant get much more 1960's than this. Great memories from a time when everything seemed a lot more simple and fun.
The absolute beauty of all those moving parts and machinery. The Pixar films are dazzling but they just don’t have that realism, that TRUE realism.
The Pixar films are totally lifeless...Joe 90 puppets have more life realism to them.
@@stuartsharman3055 Totally agree. Real made models tap into something in our physche
He is a kid who is a trained assassin who sits stony faced and never blinks when his brain is being mashed to jelly and has his father's memories of presumably everything including his own conception....even David Cronenburg would have a hard time making this today 😂😂
Gerry Anderson, Barry Gray and Derek Meddings, along with the other Century 21 stalwarts, bought us some of the best entertainment and memories... Not likely to ever be surpassed?
All your memories compressed onto a few feet of tape. That's one hell of a compression algorithm 😁 I love these 60's sci fi programs
Lovely memories watching this when I was young on Saturday morning I think ❤
Loved the intro TeeVees :) Joe 90...my favourite TV show as a very young kid - I swear I could make the noises as he 'transformed'. When the signature tune plays, I can still see it with my eyes closed!
If you wore glasses at school you were called Joe 90.
Bit worried dad’s brain patterns have all his experience might scare Joe.
In the 70's Dolland & Aitchieson actually did a set of glasses called "Joe 90" in the vain hope kids would wear glasses hehehe
Or a biffa
Children can be so cruel. My nephew looked like him when he was a child.
So true! One of my be speckled friends was called 'Joe' for years!
THANK YOU to Gerry and Sylvia.......for a childhood of Wonder and Amazement .....all of there shows were Bloody Brilliant !......the story lines to the Music....just Pure CLASS !
All the theme tunes were brilliant, Thunderbirds theme tune is/was epic.
One of the best theme music ever.
Groovy man! Don't hog that joint my friend? LOL I remember them days the days of radicalism in peace and crew Klux Clan hanging black people from trees
Oh yeah also going to the neighbor's house to watch their color TV because we didn't have one
The avengers was pretty good oo :)
Thank you for doing this, it brought back soooo many memories .. I loved the show as a kid and loved the music in the Northern Soul dance era also
Where I used to live, there was an orange car with JOE 90 as the number plate! Made me smile every morning that I saw it.
Joe 90 the boy who lived inside a terry's chocolate orange.
Definitely the best comment on this video! 😂
Terry's chocolate orange..... ha! (Haven't had one of those in years!!).
Good one!
It was Chris Jarvis that started that.
... but ate every alternate piece first, so that he could see out.
Wowww. That beginning with the arrow used to terrify me as a child mainly because of 'Captin scarlet', but the joe 90 end credit was just superb, really classy and catchy. I remember I recording on an old casette player in the 80s and was annoyed because my brother talked in the background
GREAT KIDS PROGRAMMES BACK IN THE DAY..I WAS 4 WHEN THIS CAME OUT AND REMEMBER IT WELL...GREAT SOUND TRACK TOO...A NICE BIT OF NOSTALGIA THERE..GREAT MEMORIES...KIDS TV HAS BEEN PATHETIC FOR YEARS NOW..WE WAS THE LUCKY KIDS OF THE 60s BACK THEN...🙏✌
Una de mis series favoritas de adolescente y hoy con 56 años me siguen cautivando!!!! GRACIAS POR SUBIRLA EN RUclips!! Saludos desde Arg-
What a fantastic piece of music. And preformed brilliant. 🎸🥁👍
Adored these opening credits as a kid. Slightly surreal and dreamlike. Loved it.
I still can't believe that this Theme was played at Wigan Casino, And I was there to hear and dance to It. Thanks for a Wonderful and Memorial Childhood Gerry. And RIP to You Good Sir.
Some right shit got played at Wigan
I guess this didn’t air in the US. We had FBXL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet. I didn’t know if this series until very recently.
Super excellent production values! Enjoyed them all back in the day.
Love the theme tune and series , good old days
This has been my ringtone for quite a number of years now.
The UFO engine is my ringtone. Older men look upwards immediately, then smile!
is it me or is the drumming on this track insanely good?
Almost as good as stingray “anything can happen in the next half hour”!
Barry Gray was an amazing composer, arranger and conductor, be it the dreamy Western music of Four Feather Falls, the stunning orchestral tour-de-force that is the Thunderbirds March, or the straight soft but insistent rock of Joe 90, with electric guitars, electronic keyboards and rock-steady 4/4 drums, he was at home. Never once can you say that any Barry Gray composition is a lazy rehash of another, and really, you couldn't even listen to a piece of his music you'd never heard before and say, "Oh, yes, that's a classic Barry Gray piece."
But he seemed to bring the very best out of his musicians, and all his compositions, even the incidental music, stirred all the viewer's emotions in just the right way that the story demanded. A brilliant musician, whose outstanding works live on long after his death, and I'm sure will live on much, much longer.
He used to tinkle the ivories at Blackburn Cathedral!
@@roddyteague6246 Whilst i never knew at the time (I was only an infant, even though I loved and still love Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation shows, especially Thunderbirds), Gerry and Sylvia Anderson lived 10 minutes' walk away from me in New Greens Estate, St. Albans. I lived in Maple Avenue, and the Andersons lived in Francis Avenue. From what I've heard, they loved kids and would invite them in and show them photos and articles from the show. But I never knew, and neither did my parents. I only found out when they moved out, when I was 11 or 12.
@@Dragonblaster1 I remember a few years ago on the Antiques Roadshow a woman of a certain vintage produced Lady Penelope's car in a box signed by Gerry Anderson. She recalled as a kid going round to his house for a birthday party & he signed a load of these gifts saying that it would double their value. The so called expert agreed with this view!
Barry Gray's most beautiful piece has to be the 'Zero-X Theme', from the 1966 movie, 'Thunderbirds Are Go!'. It's simply sublime.
@@brianartillery Yes, even though the film wasn't successful.
Receiving your father's memories and experiences could be traumatic for a child 😳
the first programme i ever saw in colour with our new colour tv in 1969..i was 7, parents alive, happy happy days, id give a lot for that day again.
Gerry Anderson was genius !! The man was way ahead and all his superb shows prove it. Legend !!
Pushing 60 now, I was between 5-6 when this little guy was on! The magic hasn't wavered! In an era of GREAT themes, this one I think gets into top 5!
Barry Gray's themes were inspired. Particularly love the closing music, one of my favourite programmes when I was a kid.
I always love the intro to the Century21 productions with the dart etc. Great stylish stuff.
I had the Joe 90 case as a kid. Seeing it in the end credits brings back so many memories of playing with it ...and the case!
And then there's me, born in 2002, knowing this theme song by heart because dad wouldnt allow this gem to be left in the past
I seem to recall, as a child, that those briefcases were available. We all wanted to be Joe90...or Captain Scarlett.
I remember going shopping with Mum, I must have been 6 years old at the time. Woolworths had the Captain Scarlett hats. Oh the good old days when you could have cap gun and not be labeled as a terrorist!!
"Whoops, son, I gave you the wrong memory."
'Thanks, Dad. Now I've got an Oedipus complex."
My late uncle was one of the model makers for Joe90 and Captain Scarlett as well as the team that built the spaceships for Kubrick's 2001 movie
Okay you've just had your dad's memories put in your brain including all his memories with your mum, you as a kid and goodness knows what else little Joe is probably still in therapy
I'm in my early 50s and remember when the theme music would start and the excitement of another Saturday morning episode of Joe 90 would begin. It's got to be one of the best ever TV programmes theme music.
One of my favourite programmes.
Watching in Lock down here in the UK.
Love and blessing from Wolverhampton England to you all stay safe. (Put your glasses on )
Glasgow, Scotland. UK.
Dudley DY1. :-)
@@derekpugh6819 Do youse guys in the west or east midlands consider yourselves north or south? Sorry, just answered my own question lol
Kelly14UK ,I wondered where I had seen your username before,when checked your Channel,captain senible,now I know
@@FILNAT2011 Ta. Burns is one of the worlds' most colourful characters.
This opening of "Joe 90" is a real trip!
end titles are to die for, absolutely lovely!
Hey.... this was great in the late 60's, opening and closing sequences showed here great as well, fans will not forget all the wonderful productions that this lovely man Gerry Anderson brought to the small screen dating right back to the 50's for all us kids (and some adults) at that time.
Wow I am a 61 year old coffin dodger, who remembers running home from school to watch Joe 90.
Great TV you old dodger. I am the big 60 next month. So, this, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Batman and many others. You Tube is the biggest time machine there is! So what else do you remember my friend? Watch with mother? Doctor Who, The Avengers, Voyage to the bottom of the sea? The Apollo missions and moon landings? Where did it all go wrong my friend? TV today, IMHO is utter crap! Fly on the wall type programmes like Big Brother and I`m a so called celebrity get ne out of here. If only Doc Brown had invented a real time machine eh. I would go back and never return,
Hi! I too am a 61 year old dodger and we were fortunate to have a (Radio Rentals!) telly early on and I was a right telly addict. I remember lots of the early 60s TV shows like Mr. Pastry and of course Twizzle. As for Sci Fi I loved Space Patrol (the robots really gave me the creeps) and nearly all the Gerry Anderson stuff, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet all of 'em EXCEPT Joe 90. We lived in Ireland when it was on (only a single channel RTE then and no English channels) and it passed me by completely. We came back to England in the early 70s and there were Joe 90 toys in the shops but I had no idea what it was about at all. Thank goodness for You Tube, the best and worst of viewing and I reckon Gerry Anderson should be knighted!
Sure did
Another dodger here too 60 in Jan, Superman, Batman, Beano, Topper, thanks to lady who gave them to my mom all them years ago when I was about 9 when we were poor...but happy :)
My mom and dad are Coffin dodgers too !! they`re still here with us :)
Nice to hear your parents are still around, sadly mine have passed on. Great times, great TV. Despite all the modern technology we have these days I would give it all up in a heartbeat and return back to the days when we had nothing and made the most of it! If you missed a TV show it was gone, no catch up or streaming. Saturday night TV was entertaining and Christmas was amazing. All the best fellow dodger ;-)
Wow, those series were amazing. The creative, the passion, the art of them was great
Back in the day before political correctness, when you could perform dangerous scientific experiments on your own children.
LOL
I think Joe was adopted.
LOL!
Professor how on Earth are you going to test this insane machine?
Professor: Simple, I'm just going to use it on the kid!
Yup. And turn them into child soldiers. Weren't the Sixties wonderful?
I used the Sergeant Major Shut Up reinforcement on my kids. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. Seemed to work.
Thunderbirds are Go, Stingray, Fireball XL5 and Joe9 - genius! The shows of my childhood - we were hooked and could hardly wait to watch (and dance to the theme songs...lol!) I miss those days so much. Can't I just jump into the "Time Tunnel" back to the 60's?!! 😄
I like those clips that show you them then and now. It would be good to see these people today.
Oh gosh just the music still gives me goosebumps 🥰
My mother always told me; "Don't let him go putting ideas in your head."
lol......etc
Dad: "Joe , I'm going to transfer ALL of my knowledge and experience to this tape drive."
Joe: "What's the capacity of the tape drive?"
Dad: "10 megabytes"
10 megabytes! You would be lucky to get 85 KB onto a Sinclair microdrive cartridge.
10MB onto a tape? Never gonna happen. 300k 3" discs blew tapes into history, and the 700k 5.25" discs were what the future was made of.
I just liked the joke & took the historical capacity inconsistency in my stride.
I take it you guys' experience is all micro computers (personal). We had 20MB tapes in 72 at IBM. 10 was pretty standard in business mainframes before 1970. We're in the 12TB range today for serious business and governmental systems on tape.
That little tape device shown looked like the video tape player guts from a TV news booth circa 1968. That would become the BetaMax of the next decade when they scaled it down. Looks very much like a Beta tensioning feed. Great tape system. Better than VHS by a mile. Better picture, smaller cartridge, beautiful pause and slow !o without the tear lines of VHS.
As a point of reference, 5 1/4" disks held 120 kB on the Commodore 64 in the mid '80s.
If u were kid at school in 70s and wore specs u were joe 90 to everyone
The modelling on these old shows is beautiful....real, but modelly if you get my drift. The 60's was such a rich time for innovation.
A generation of great TV tunes , thanks
Such amazing style, artistic and creative imagination. 10x more cool than today's standards.
..Joe gets all dad's memories...
Joe: Dad ! That's a lot of hookers !
Dad: Shut up Joe.
The one with the hookers? Remember the episode well👍
the one where dad fucks mom. Joe: scarred for life
ROFL
Oh yeah baby !! Groovy music 😅
I wonder if he got Dad's cocaine buzz too ?
Of all the puppet shows like thunderbird captain scarlet etc Joe 90 was my fav loved the premises even as a kid just imagine being able to do anything with a pair of glasses 👓 😳 😆
‘Just try to relax Joe’ you’re only going backwards into a giant whisk that’s spinning, saturated with deafening noises.
The closing theme is the finest piece of music ever created.
AtollK1950 In the history of the universe, no finer piece of music has been composed.😀
I agree
Better than Mozart?
Yes indeed for an English Lad born in the 60s
AFTER the 1980 Tom Baker Dr WHO Music!
Love the Century 21 ident
Joe 90, Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons....ULTRA COOL even in 2021
Magnificent
Kids show that children and mum dad can enjoy with good story lines
2 tv channels and brilliant tv
Now thousands of channels and nothing woth watching
Agreed. So sad. And all that digital $ going down the drain where consumers are concerned.
I loved Joe90 and grew up to be a programmer in 1985 I guess he had an impact, the tunes were fab and Joe had such courage and always saved the day, he'd step into his machine and spin around and boom problem fixed
Some of these puppets,were also used in captain Scarlett, another brilliant show 🇬🇧👍
Well that is going to mess with Little Joe’s relationship with his Mum...... something I didn’t consider when I was his age watching this in black and white on a tv with a screen the same size as an iPad all those years ago!
Wow! joe 90 what a tune,great child hood!
One of those themes you never forget, remember watching this as a kid back in the 70's
I just start watching the Thunderbirds I am 58 I feel like a little girl when I am watching no need for a time machine your thoughts take you
Me too. Who said the 70s were grim
As theme tunes go doesn't get more iconic than this
Appropriate that there is a Mellotron in the theme because parts of the mechanism are in that thingy they put Joe in.