I'm only now rediscovering the other Gerry Anderson series beyond the Thunderbirds ✌️😁👌 Joe90 has to be the grooviest theme music of all, you could groove to all the dance craze the 60s had back then...
Barry Gray's theme tunes were utter genius, but this was and always will be my favourite. Its psychedelic excitement just brings back weekends of the early 70s in a way that only a select few theme tunes manage. Pure TV nostalgia.
A few years ago my brother was bedridden, dying from a brain tumour. Suddenly he asked, "Who was the pilot of Fireball XL5?" Not to be beaten, I rushed to Google (cos I couldn't remember), then suddenly had an idea to play him the tune from RUclips. I then began playing other classic tunes from our childhood- Capt Scarlet, Supercar, Stingray, Joe 90 etc and he called the titles out from the other room.
i watched all gerry anderson shows as a boy in the 90s. i got the 2nd wind and boy was it so much better than cartoons of the time. the music, the writing and the action in all of them was sublime for children.
Anything done by Gerry and Sylvia has the best theme music on TV. Currently watching Space 1999 and the intro music is so great. Thanks for all the amazing entertainment over the years.
I remember the theme song and the opening as well. I used to watch it when I was a kid. The theme song sounds pretty good. It never gets old and it will always be a timeless classic. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
As someone who was born 40 years after Joe 90, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray etc, hardly anyone my age knows who Gerry Anderson which is a massive shame considering he is the greatest tv producer of all time
I can't thank the MeTV network enough for having Gerry Anderson shows on their new sister channel. Sure, it meant Thunderbirds was no longer part of the Super Sci-Fi Saturday Night line up but now we get Supercar, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 with it. I'm hoping someday MeTV will start showing UFO and Space:1999.
I bought the dvd set over ten years ago, and I still watch it today from time to time. I was lucky to find a French version. As I looked back, I am asking myself how a father could let his son handling a gun and killing people with no remorse.
Can you imagine trying to get a series commissioned now about a ten year old boy who is brainwashed by his father every week into becoming a trained assassin!
How true, the 60s/70s saw a gradual reduction in Boys playing with each other "hands on". Though creative imagination was order of the day for most children, unbelievably to some today, most Girls and Boys still knew what and who they were. Then, the Childhoods of most Children were precisely that. How sad that our Western societies have become so wimpish.
Everything about that is just bloody brilliant. And the concept of BIG RAT is amazing. Years ahead of cyber punk noodlings of consciousness transference and stuff. And he’s a kid that gets to be a super agent!. I loved watching that when I was a little kid because the kid had some power. Who wouldn’t? Questionable parentage mind. It’s health and safety gone mad.
Another *oustanding* Barry Gray instro. Some great incidental themes in this series. Vic Flick, the legendary guitarist on the James Bond Theme played on the sessions. I preferred the end title version.
As someone who has never seen this show before, my headcanon based on this intro is that this show is about a psychic blonde kid who lives in a hamster ball to record his psychedelic mixtapes
All wrong; the show is about Joe, the son of a scientist working for an underground government agency who is sent to dangerous missions around the world; Joe is a 9 year old kid but by means of the BIGRAT (brain impulse galvanoscope recorder and transfer, what u call "hamster ball") he gets transfered the knowledge of any specialist in the field neccesary to acomplish his mission (he's temporarily programmed as an expert in explosives, jet pilot, oil rig worker, musician, etc)
He had a good dad, had that Joe 90... Imagine taking your nine year old son, and screwing about with his brain impulses. Not exactly guaranteed to win you Dad Of The Year, that one.
Perhaps if you factor in that his dad basically allowed Joe to preview multiple possible adult experiences as if he was an expert providing Joe with a basis to make life choices in a way no normal child would ever get to do. I would have loved to have a dad like that.
mr gray was a genius great shows but the music put them into another level learned to play keyboards as i just wanted to make tunes like this , now i do :)
Every kid of my era who had to wear glasses was instantly referred to as “Joe 90”. It defined a generation of poor eyesight with a positive attitude. You wore “Joe 90” with pride rather than, “Oi you, four eyes”. Kids are harsh aren’t they......
I think the Joe 90 theme needs to be the basis of a Zoom ad campaign. Just image this ending in a "Zoom: for all your pandemic communication needs." voice over.
I just realized the openings to Joe 90 and UFO are essentially the same. This makes sense since the same people likely worked on them though that doesn't make it any less disturbing.
Stingray, Joe 90, Captain Scarlett, Thunderbirds, UFO, Space 1999. It's like a timeline of my youth. We got this as kids, with the legendary WB cartoons. Today they get animated schlock, drawn by kindergarten kids, like Spongebob and Adventure land. It's probably the reason young society has lost its way. Thank you for YT so I can go back to a simpler time.
@@jenifferschmitz8618 'Supermarionation' they called it, because a puppet controlled from above with string is called a marionette. The irony was that they wanted to use real actors, but did not have the budget for the actors or full size sets. Yet it's the marionettes that made the shows so iconic.
Sending a brainwashed primary school kid from a dysfunctional family into life threatening situations?? What was his dad thinking? Great theme tune and titles though. I had the Joe 90 club membership
The enormous effort that used to go into children's television just doesn't exist now. They just just get a diet of cheaply made computer animated drivel.
What's your favourite memory of Joe 90? Can you remember what BIGRAT stands for?
Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer. (From memory)
The best episode was when he knew instantly where his dad's porn mags were kept.
@Blue Colt7 what you meant to say was most modern day politicians!
I'm only now rediscovering the other Gerry Anderson series beyond the Thunderbirds ✌️😁👌 Joe90 has to be the grooviest theme music of all, you could groove to all the dance craze the 60s had back then...
Northern soul classic 👍🏻
Barry Gray's theme tunes were utter genius, but this was and always will be my favourite. Its psychedelic excitement just brings back weekends of the early 70s in a way that only a select few theme tunes manage. Pure TV nostalgia.
A few years ago my brother was bedridden, dying from a brain tumour. Suddenly he asked, "Who was the pilot of Fireball XL5?"
Not to be beaten, I rushed to Google (cos I couldn't remember), then suddenly had an idea to play him the tune from RUclips. I then began playing other classic tunes from our childhood- Capt Scarlet, Supercar, Stingray, Joe 90 etc and he called the titles out from the other room.
i watched all gerry anderson shows as a boy in the 90s. i got the 2nd wind and boy was it so much better than cartoons of the time.
the music, the writing and the action in all of them was sublime for children.
coolest theme tune ever
Anything done by Gerry and Sylvia has the best theme music on TV. Currently watching Space 1999 and the intro music is so great. Thanks for all the amazing entertainment over the years.
I totally agree
Series 1 intro was soooooo much better than 2
I love the Space 1999 "In this Episode" bit
A live action movie version of this definitely needs to be made.
But it needs to keep most of the style of the original, from the weird tech, all the way to the music and stuff.
I remember the theme song and the opening as well. I used to watch it when I was a kid.
The theme song sounds pretty good. It never gets old and it will always be a timeless classic.
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Utterly fascinated me this programme
Barry Gray was a musical genius
Joe proved to kids that they really could be anything they wanted to be!
Yes... Even if it involved extrajudicial killings.
As someone who was born 40 years after Joe 90, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray etc, hardly anyone my age knows who Gerry Anderson which is a massive shame considering he is the greatest tv producer of all time
Don’t forget Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, UFO and Space 1999. And most especially don’t forget about Sylvia.
I thank MeTV Toons for having this on for me to discover on my insomnia nights 🎶
I can't thank the MeTV network enough for having Gerry Anderson shows on their new sister channel. Sure, it meant Thunderbirds was no longer part of the Super Sci-Fi Saturday Night line up but now we get Supercar, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 with it. I'm hoping someday MeTV will start showing UFO and Space:1999.
Ridiculously funky.
This sounds like a lost Northern Soul classic to me. I can hear this and imagine a heaving mass at the Wigan Casino.
What a great theme. It always excited me when it came on the TV. I have the single somewhere. Barry Gray did compose some great themes
I bought the dvd set over ten years ago, and I still watch it today from time to time. I was lucky to find a French version. As I looked back, I am asking myself how a father could let his son handling a gun and killing people with no remorse.
Happy 50th Birthday Gerry Anderson's Joe 90.
1968 - 2018. 50 Years Of Fun Action Adventure And Excitement. Thanks Mate. X
I got Joe 90 as a nick name at school...
Can you imagine trying to get a series commissioned now about a ten year old boy who is brainwashed by his father every week into becoming a trained assassin!
Been a couple of movies along those lines, admittedly with a girl rather than a boy 😃
Alex Rider comes to mind.
Or ace pilot to do night attack on enemy fighters
Well, a trained communist assassin, they'd probably go for that.
How true, the 60s/70s saw a gradual reduction in Boys playing with each other "hands on".
Though creative imagination was order of the day for most children, unbelievably to some today, most Girls and Boys still knew what and who they were. Then, the Childhoods of most Children were precisely that.
How sad that our Western societies have become so wimpish.
Sensacional essa. Série. De. Tv! Passava. Na. Tv Record. Sp. Canal. 7
I'm pretty sure they did not play or re run this show in the United States. But I love the theme song it's totally awesome.
I love this it remind me of me
Memories memories memories
Who could forget Joe 90
Everything about that is just bloody brilliant. And the concept of BIG RAT is amazing. Years ahead of cyber punk noodlings of consciousness transference and stuff. And he’s a kid that gets to be a super agent!. I loved watching that when I was a little kid because the kid had some power. Who wouldn’t? Questionable parentage mind. It’s health and safety gone mad.
The music just wants the kids to dance... the weekend starts here daddyo
Another *oustanding* Barry Gray instro. Some great incidental themes in this series. Vic Flick, the legendary guitarist on the James Bond Theme played on the sessions.
I preferred the end title version.
As someone who has never seen this show before, my headcanon based on this intro is that this show is about a psychic blonde kid who lives in a hamster ball to record his psychedelic mixtapes
All wrong; the show is about Joe, the son of a scientist working for an underground government agency who is sent to dangerous missions around the world; Joe is a 9 year old kid but by means of the BIGRAT (brain impulse galvanoscope recorder and transfer, what u call "hamster ball") he gets transfered the knowledge of any specialist in the field neccesary to acomplish his mission (he's temporarily programmed as an expert in explosives, jet pilot, oil rig worker, musician, etc)
TechnoEevee.......spot on, my dear.
@@alerey4363 Despite having watched the show when it originally came out, I prefer @TechnoEevee 's description better :)
@@mdsf01 Facts don't care about your feelings
@@alerey4363 Whatever...
When I was small the pulsating oil blob effects used to terrify me!
Magnificent.
He had a good dad, had that Joe 90... Imagine taking your nine year old son, and screwing about with his brain impulses. Not exactly guaranteed to win you Dad Of The Year, that one.
Perhaps if you factor in that his dad basically allowed Joe to preview multiple possible adult experiences as if he was an expert providing Joe with a basis to make life choices in a way no normal child would ever get to do. I would have loved to have a dad like that.
so stylish
I feel like the modern tagline should be this:
“Before Chuck Bartowski… Before Jason Bourne was a film franchise…
There was…
JOE 90”
The Drummer really goes to town on this one! Love!
My ringtone since the day phones got better after the Nokia 3310i so quite a few years now.
Gerry *AND* Sylvia Anderson’s “Joe 90”.
Respect due to Sylvia Anderson!
It was the only Gerry Anderson series I didn't like, but I did like the intro.
mr gray was a genius great shows but the music put them into another level learned to play keyboards as i just wanted to make tunes like this , now i do :)
I loved all the themes to the Anderson shows,but this is probably my favourite (with UFO)
Yeah, baby, groovy.
Every kid of my era who had to wear glasses was instantly referred to as “Joe 90”. It defined a generation of poor eyesight with a positive attitude.
You wore “Joe 90” with pride rather than, “Oi you, four eyes”.
Kids are harsh aren’t they......
My Nike name as a boy in the 70 s that and Clarence lol 🤣
Ah yes, the good old Sixties, when bizarre psychological experiments on vulnerable kids were all the rage... Groovy, baby!
The ultimate take your kid to work day
May The Force Be With You Joe 90. X
Where was social services ….?😂😂😂
I think the Joe 90 theme needs to be the basis of a Zoom ad campaign. Just image this ending in a "Zoom: for all your pandemic communication needs." voice over.
I Cannot remember one episode 🤷🏼♂️ I’m more of a Stingray , Thunderbirds , Captain Scarlet Fan .. and of course course UFO 👍🇬🇧🏴👍
Very Manzarek Organ sound.
Vox Continental organ.
Is this the orange organ?@@michaelturner4457
This looks like a vintage animatronic Disneyland Anaheim sci fi ride or a Vintage Disney world Orlando Epcot centre Ride
made a GIF from this
I just realized the openings to Joe 90 and UFO are essentially the same. This makes sense since the same people likely worked on them though that doesn't make it any less disturbing.
Could this be the most sixties thing ever?
That's when laboratories were groovy, baby
オリジナルのオープニングは最高ですね😺🎵それに比べて日本版はキャプテンスカーレットも含めてダメダメにされてしまいましたよ🙀💦
It would be nice if this video would actually load...
Hey dad do I get a badge !
Wonder if those magnetic tape loops are from a Mellotron...because there is one in the title music! :)
Stingray, Joe 90, Captain Scarlett, Thunderbirds, UFO, Space 1999. It's like a timeline of my youth. We got this as kids, with the legendary WB cartoons. Today they get animated schlock, drawn by kindergarten kids, like Spongebob and Adventure land. It's probably the reason young society has lost its way. Thank you for YT so I can go back to a simpler time.
the puppets real made these shows specail
@@jenifferschmitz8618 'Supermarionation' they called it, because a puppet controlled from above with string is called a marionette. The irony was that they wanted to use real actors, but did not have the budget for the actors or full size sets. Yet it's the marionettes that made the shows so iconic.
I can almost smell the drugs listening to this.... What a fantastic show.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I need to know if Joe was related to Lieutenant Ninety from Space City....
Austin powers approves of this
Joe 90 was Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's take on Hanna-Barbera's Jonny Quest right?
Joe 90 ace
😊
ある意味、洗脳みたいなもんでやばいなこれ！当時は問題にならなかった。
Sending a brainwashed primary school kid from a dysfunctional family into life threatening situations?? What was his dad thinking? Great theme tune and titles though. I had the Joe 90 club membership
Where were Social Services! 😂
Is this stop motion or some sort of animaltronic animation?
The enormous effort that used to go into children's television just doesn't exist now. They just just get a diet of cheaply made computer animated drivel.
Hmmm Musk Neurolink.
Lol
The real 1990 was a bit disappointing in comparison.
So is the show about a kid watching psychedelic images while being hooked to a machine? WTF?
Como nos lavaron el cerebro de chicos con todas estas mentiras de la nasa, el espacio y los satélites, primado negativo de los mejores jaja
Shame the fatheaded suggestions come on near the end and wreck it.
The only decent thing was the music, it was ridiculous program
Autism fucking rules. The message of Joe90.
1968’