The Phoenix 5 - early Saturday mornings (always frosty/Cold) watching on the erratic colour television in Scotland- the theme tune is excellent ! thank you for the happy memories !
Yes, I am sure the 'Doppleganger' team looked at what NASA and others of the time were up to. Here is a link to 'The Dove'from an earlier video. ruclips.net/video/fZmCQ94nx3g/видео.htmlsi=tn4fsAmUEiFHMaWn
At one time there was a tiny motorised scooter made to fold into itself like a suitcase, the idea being it's carried in the trunk of your car. The Jetmobile reminds me of it, redone as a hover bike. 😎👍
Fireball XL-5 and Space Patrol are recent "discoveries" I've found on RUclips. Your artwork is wonderful for these. The real treasure is seeing your take on Bessie (which finally educated me about her origins) and the Whomobile. I've seen Katy Manning reprise her role as Jo on the new Who shows, and your art of her and Jon Pertwee with the cars is another fantastic image.
Talking Picture is the best TV channel! I had heard about Space Patrol for many years. peopel would talk about this Gerry Anderson puppet show, but I sort of dismissed it as something lost to time, or a muddled memory of 'Fireball XL5', because when they descibed it it sounded just like 'Fireball'; A Black and White TV show with 'thunderbirds puppets', set in outer space etc. Possibly conflate with other Live-Action shows like Rocky Jones Space Ranger - I knew it was not an Anderson show. I am enjoyong watching it every week on TPTV. Loving the Gabla-dictum bird :)
I have a suggestion for the XL5 model. For the stickers, instead of just XL5, you should have the choice whether you want the ship to be a different number. XL9, XL18, XL27 and so on. Also, another idea for a Fireball XL5 themed model kit could be Space City with the Fireball launch rail and a mini Fireball and rocket sledge. Just like the Thunderbird 1 launch bay model kit.
I should have mentioned too that there would have to be possible rocket launcher panels. I am generally not a fan of things like models.of.launch bays as they are usually not complete and as such feel more like a diorama. For example TB1 has the area adjacent to the house - where Scott boards - which could be an interesting set up if you had a posable access ramp.
A fantastic walk through my childhood TV viewing, thanks for posting. I love the box artwork! I’d never seen or heard of Capt Zep; I’ll have to look it up.
Love the nostalgia of these video's, take me back to childhood, I did send off for the Fireball XL5 kit but never heard anything, thanks for the video and sharing your work, fantastic
Lived in Australia for over 50 years. How did Phoenix 5 pass me by?. Thank you. Always a pleasure to watch your show. Fantastic art concepts and background info.
Amazing as always. As you could probably guess from my name I was a massive 6 million dollar fan in the 70s ( I was named before the show) and one of my fondest models growing up was the Steve Austin busting through the door model, complete with removable pieces to show the bionics. I remember Captain Zed really well, definitely joining in to solve the adventure. The closest thing TV had to a choose your own adventure book in those days. Thank you for reminding me of happy days
@@MattelineInteresting that the Kitmaster molds, which were railway subjects, were sold to Dapol who are still making some of these today. What are the odds that both the Fireball AND Stingray submarine were included in that batch and promptly forgotten about by Dapol.....?
You are spot on with Star Maidens - brilliant show - I loved it and still do. Zep 1 has a lemon juicer as the nose I believe! I do remember Phoenix Five - it was really fun, though I haven't seen it in years.
Another great collection of What If boxes. The UNIT set was fun, in both 1/76th and 1/32nd ? Airfix actually did a 1/76th scale kit of the Scorpion light tank (76mm gun), with optional parts for the Scimitar version (30mm gun). It was nice to see Space Patrol get a mention.
Though the M2F2 crash is shown in the $6MM opener, the aircraft shown being launched at the beginning of the opener is the HL-10. The outward-canted winglets/outside rudders and the glasshouse canopy are visible, compated with the M2F2's more slab-sided look and bubble canopy.
Yes. And the central vertical.stabilozer. I was often amused by the use of stock footage in this show. A Phantom F4 would take off. An F104 starfighter would be seen in flight and an A-7 Corsair would.land.
@@Matteline I think what confuses some people is that after the crash, the M2F2 was rebuilt with a central vertical stabilizer and renamed the M2F3. People see three fins and confuse it with the HL-10, maybe?
The Whomobile was a fibreglass body on a Bond Bug chassis and engine. I saw it when Petrwee was touring it in 73 and IRRC is didn't look painted but had a shiny lacquered/resin finish - it was silver glitter so very trendy and glam!.
Excellent. My brothers would have killed to get their hands on the Fireball XL5 kit. If they had their way, I would have been Christened 'Steve Zodiac Senior'. Fortunately, my mother stopped my father from going ahead with this nefarious plan. Thank goodness for common sense. My children find this story hilarious. That reminds me, my kids; "Parker and Penelope", still think they were named after their grandparents.
This was excellent - as always, Matt! Sign me up for that HL-10! I did build some of those MPC "Six Million Dollar Man" kits, and I hope Round 2 will repop them the way they did for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Haunted Mansion" kits, in the near future. I also hope someone has the tooling for the Fireball XL5 kit shown at 11:28. Growing up in America, this was not available here, and I'd kind of like the chance to build one, myself. Thanks for making and sharing, Matt! 61st Like.
No number 13? Bruce Peterson, the pilot injured in the real crash shown in the Six Million Doller Man intro, apparently managed, despite his injuries and the loss of one eye, to continue flying NASA support missions, and occasional research flights! What a Guy! Glad to see the Doctor Who stuff, especially Bessie and the Who Mobile, the latter only appearing in two eps. Also glad to see Fireball XL5 in here!
Another interesting look at the "what if" kits we should have had. Thank you! Kits of Fireball XL-5 (and Stingray) would be most welcome. I'm looking at you, Mr. Aoshima-san! Models of all the lifting body aircraft exist in 1/48, 1/72, and even tiny 1/144 from Anigrand and Fantastic Plastic, but they are all in resin.
When women rule, they will choose to wear hot pants and gogo boots. That is the lesson star maidens taught me. In my country it was called Women's Planet Medusa. You can see the ship is based on a jellyfish
I have to say, the excellence of your Airfix Fireball XL5 covers makes me weep for the models not made. Not that ANY of your box tops are bad, just those Fireball ones hit really hard. 😁 And this is a rant! We live in a nostalgia world, in many ways. There is no rational reason that Airfix couldn’t make this kit today. Sure, I can list all the cold, mathematical reasons why they shouldn’t, and if they depended on a short production run selling out within a month to cover costs and make profit, might be a hard sell. But oh would it ‘hit’ in Japan. And all over the place. Buuut so many companies are oddly risk-adverse while willing to go all-in on other projects that nobody really gets excited about. But keep that Angel Interceptor! Don’t even think of modding the tooling to make the kit better! Bah. Beautiful artwork, and always a pleasure to see what you do next!
I’d be up for 1/32 polythene Dr Who sets. If we are talking 70s then Pertwee and Baker with various assistants and UNIT in one set and another set of baddies (Daleks, cybermen, sea devils, etc).
In a similar vien to Captain Zep, there's "The Dispensable" from the early 90's CBBC series Spacevets. The Pachiderm space tug, from the movie Space Truckers, would make a very colourful piece of box art.
Airfix Magazine did a series on modelling the lifting bodies. Re Dr Who I did a toy soldier set for a lad using Revel British Paratroops (not currently in production) for the Unit chaps with 1960s Airfix civilians as the Doctor and his companions and a friend cast some resin Daleks, the kid loved it. Space ships are hard to find, the Japanese did a 1:72 Fireball kit but it isn't currently available (and probably cost a fortune). I make up sets to give away, mostly to carers as they are under-paid and one kid is hooked on Fireball XL5 (its on Talking Pictures, as is Space Patrol) so I'm looking at ABS (glue-able) plumbing fittings to see if I can make a suitable detachable front end. It'll be a smaller ship, he's 7 so it'll all be 1:72nd. For the 'bad guys' I'm still experimenting with drain pipe collars to make a 'The Invaders' style ship but UPVC is a problem to glue and as these are toys to be played with they need to be sturdy.
@@Matteline Back home and checked - The UNIT soldiers were 1:76 scale Matchbox NATO Paratroops from the 1980s, I think Revel produced them when they bought out Matchbox but I'm not sure. They are now collectable and hence of no interest. Still on the market and suitable for UNIT are A Call To Arms Set 67 British Infantry of the 1970s, not so many poses but serviceable for a Dr Who set. The Tardis is available from various model railway manufacturers in this scale. Opponents are thin on the ground, there are people offering 3D prints of Daleks in this scale and you can use Romans as Thalls but most of the fantasy ranges are armed with swords and spears, so not very sci-fi..
I assume you create the artwork for the box covers? It's very good, a beautiful mimicking of the original period style. Is it all digital, or actual paint & brush?
Yes, I painted these myself. I grew making kits the 70s and I try to put the 'What If kit' with a credible manufacture - Frog ceased trafing in the late 70s so putting Star Maidens (1976) as a Frog kit. The artwork is hand painted digitally. I have a small tablet with a stylus/pen. I avoid the 'computer functions' as much as possible so that there is not a computer-y look to them because they are paintings - albeit without bruab or paint involved. I have been able to get some great looking prints.
Test pilot Milt Thompson's second book, Flying Without Wings, spent some time discussing the M2-F2 and its crash. One very odd detail; the aircraft was tail-heavy so to balance the aircraft, they added a very heavy crash cage to the cockpit instead of lead weights. This might have spelled the difference between a serious accident and a fatal one. The tank from Doctor Who "Robot" was not the series' best moment, but at least it didn't use what was arguably the most famous rocket in the world, the Saturn V moon rocket, as a Vogan missile in "Revenge of the Cybermen." I wonder if the shimmer around the Galasphere inspired the shimmer around the UFOs. EDIT: The M2-F2 was the plane that crashed, not the HL-10. Oops!
Great info on the tail-heavy HL10. And I will definitely have to check out the Saturn V. Every availa le.epiosdeof.Dr Who is available lhe on the BBC I-playrer
@@Matteline Think it's in Episode 4. It's very common to use stock footage of a launch in movies, but typically they go for something a bit more obscure. Blue Streak is in The Prisoner.
A set of Airfix 32nd Daleks, Cybermen or Sea Devils to fight thier poly soldiers ? At least you could recreate Invasion of the Dinosaurs with thier Stegosaurus and T-rex kits 😀
Great to see the Galasphere! (thats with an 'a' not 'o').Space Patrol was really an excellent series, much darker and gritty than XL5. IIRC it aired during the very early 70s here in Australia. My favourite episode as a small child was where a giant captured the Galasphere and kept it as a toy. And all episodes are here in RUclips although someone has attempted a mediocre colourisation. It also had hover scooters in it. I'm afraid your artwork isn't quite right as you show the torus as straight sided segments when the actual Galasphere had curved segments with curved portholes. The original colour was AFAIK silver possibly with red panels, and you can see it in its true colour as it appears that the Galasphere prop was re-used as part of a larger spacecraft model in Roberta Leigh's failed 'The Solarnauts' series pilot. You can actually watch this on RUclips, it first appears about 0.15 into the episode.
I only became more then just casually aware of Space Patrol since somebody went to the trouble of colorizing the episodes. It ‘s obviously fake but somehow the tinting by the software adds this “real” old early colour tinting. Enjoying that opened it up for me to appreciate the rest. About the Soundtrack: It is indeed not Barry Gray level stuff but I like the bleak electronic soundscapes a lot. They are actually quite musical and add a bit of BBC Radiophonic futurism. Are you aware of the Leigh / Provis pilot for a live action space series called The Solarnauts? If not please check it out. Very colourful, very swinging sixties. Should have become a complete series.
Does anyone remember a game show from early nineties where contestants had to make their way through a wrecked space craft to obtain certain items? Can't remember it's title or if the space ship had a name. I don't remember it being a great success but the concept was interesting if nothing else.
Another great one Matthew. The Whomobile reminds me of the Stingray submarine.
A lot of nostalgic fun. Like the artwork.
You're doing great. Keep up the good work.
Cheers. I'm another Aussie who's never heard of Phoenix 5! Will look it up. Thanks for the pics/vids. 👍👍👍
The Phoenix 5 - early Saturday mornings (always frosty/Cold) watching on the erratic colour television in Scotland- the theme tune is excellent ! thank you for the happy memories !
"Sontaran approaching, Sargent Benton. Three rounds rapid!!!"
The $6m Man lifting body isn't a million miles away from Gerry Anderson's Dove from Doppelganger.
Yes, I am sure the 'Doppleganger' team looked at what NASA and others of the time were up to.
Here is a link to 'The Dove'from an earlier video.
ruclips.net/video/fZmCQ94nx3g/видео.htmlsi=tn4fsAmUEiFHMaWn
@Matteline >>> Great video...👍
Also: *I ❤️ LIFTING BODIES*
Thanks for watching. Lifting bodies are cool. Are you familiar with Ekranoplans?
At one time there was a tiny motorised scooter made to fold into itself like a suitcase, the idea being it's carried in the trunk of your car. The Jetmobile reminds me of it, redone as a hover bike. 😎👍
Fireball XL-5 and Space Patrol are recent "discoveries" I've found on RUclips. Your artwork is wonderful for these. The real treasure is seeing your take on Bessie (which finally educated me about her origins) and the Whomobile. I've seen Katy Manning reprise her role as Jo on the new Who shows, and your art of her and Jon Pertwee with the cars is another fantastic image.
Talking Picture is the best TV channel! I had heard about Space Patrol for many years. peopel would talk about this Gerry Anderson puppet show, but I sort of dismissed it as something lost to time, or a muddled memory of 'Fireball XL5', because when they descibed it it sounded just like 'Fireball'; A Black and White TV show with 'thunderbirds puppets', set in outer space etc. Possibly conflate with other Live-Action shows like Rocky Jones Space Ranger - I knew it was not an Anderson show. I am enjoyong watching it every week on TPTV. Loving the Gabla-dictum bird :)
I have a suggestion for the XL5 model. For the stickers, instead of just XL5, you should have the choice whether you want the ship to be a different number. XL9, XL18, XL27 and so on. Also, another idea for a Fireball XL5 themed model kit could be Space City with the Fireball launch rail and a mini Fireball and rocket sledge. Just like the Thunderbird 1 launch bay model kit.
I should have mentioned too that there would have to be possible rocket launcher panels.
I am generally not a fan of things like models.of.launch bays as they are usually not complete and as such feel more like a diorama. For example TB1 has the area adjacent to the house - where Scott boards - which could be an interesting set up if you had a posable access ramp.
A fantastic walk through my childhood TV viewing, thanks for posting. I love the box artwork! I’d never seen or heard of Capt Zep; I’ll have to look it up.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoyed it, There are other videos in ther series on my channel that you might also like,.
Love the nostalgia of these video's, take me back to childhood, I did send off for the Fireball XL5 kit but never heard anything, thanks for the video and sharing your work, fantastic
Lived in Australia for over 50 years. How did Phoenix 5 pass me by?. Thank you. Always a pleasure to watch your show. Fantastic art concepts and background info.
Amazing as always. As you could probably guess from my name I was a massive 6 million dollar fan in the 70s ( I was named before the show) and one of my fondest models growing up was the Steve Austin busting through the door model, complete with removable pieces to show the bionics. I remember Captain Zed really well, definitely joining in to solve the adventure. The closest thing TV had to a choose your own adventure book in those days. Thank you for reminding me of happy days
Another enjoyable episode, thank you. I still have a dvd box set of Fireball XL5 in my Gerry Anderson collection.
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Some more fantastic 'If only' model ideas here - I would buy a few of these - but especially the Fireball models
I know. That old Kitmaster /Lyin's Maid model kit looks surprisingly good. I heard the mold no longer exists.
@@MattelineInteresting that the Kitmaster molds, which were railway subjects, were sold to Dapol who are still making some of these today. What are the odds that both the Fireball AND Stingray submarine were included in that batch and promptly forgotten about by Dapol.....?
You are spot on with Star Maidens - brilliant show - I loved it and still do. Zep 1 has a lemon juicer as the nose I believe! I do remember Phoenix Five - it was really fun, though I haven't seen it in years.
Another great collection of What If boxes. The UNIT set was fun, in both 1/76th and 1/32nd ? Airfix actually did a 1/76th scale kit of the Scorpion light tank (76mm gun), with optional parts for the Scimitar version (30mm gun). It was nice to see Space Patrol get a mention.
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Proud to have Star Maidens in my DVD collection.
Another cool video! Some very nice potential models. Good to watch this while massive thunderstorms crash overhead here in Thailand 🙂
Thailand. Wow. I bet those thunder-storms are really something!
@@Matteline it was last night.Right overhead and as we have a 'tin' roof,pretty loud rain too.Still,it's Rainy Season here,a bit like the UK 😁
I need that UNIT set in 1/76 for my train layout! Great video, I thought I was quite sci-Fi nerdy but I have never heard of some of those shows.
There is some pretty obscure stuff in this video....
Another great video! Thanks again! Always loved Space Patrol
Though the M2F2 crash is shown in the $6MM opener, the aircraft shown being launched at the beginning of the opener is the HL-10. The outward-canted winglets/outside rudders and the glasshouse canopy are visible, compated with the M2F2's more slab-sided look and bubble canopy.
Yes. And the central vertical.stabilozer.
I was often amused by the use of stock footage in this show. A Phantom F4 would take off. An F104 starfighter would be seen in flight and an A-7 Corsair would.land.
@@Matteline I think what confuses some people is that after the crash, the M2F2 was rebuilt with a central vertical stabilizer and renamed the M2F3. People see three fins and confuse it with the HL-10, maybe?
I had a Steve Zodiac on jetmobile toy when I was a little boy. It was friction powered I think.
The Whomobile was a fibreglass body on a Bond Bug chassis and engine. I saw it when Petrwee was touring it in 73 and IRRC is didn't look painted but had a shiny lacquered/resin finish - it was silver glitter so very trendy and glam!.
Captin Zep, wow that takes me back - Brilliant work as ever, thanks
I always look forward to your uploads as they take me back to my childhood and also make me aware of shows that I'd not heard of, so thank you.
I love reading feedback like this! Thanks for commenting.
Best Dr Who hardware kit idea would have been WOTAN.
Thanks for watching. Wasn't WOTAN a giant computer? So a kit would be a large scale (1/24th) 1960s looking desk and computer .
Excellent. My brothers would have killed to get their hands on the Fireball XL5 kit. If they had their way, I would have been Christened 'Steve Zodiac Senior'. Fortunately, my mother stopped my father from going ahead with this nefarious plan. Thank goodness for common sense. My children find this story hilarious. That reminds me, my kids; "Parker and Penelope", still think they were named after their grandparents.
This was excellent - as always, Matt! Sign me up for that HL-10!
I did build some of those MPC "Six Million Dollar Man" kits, and I hope Round 2 will repop them the way they did for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Haunted Mansion" kits, in the near future. I also hope someone has the tooling for the Fireball XL5 kit shown at 11:28. Growing up in America, this was not available here, and I'd kind of like the chance to build one, myself.
Thanks for making and sharing, Matt!
61st Like.
No number 13?
Bruce Peterson, the pilot injured in the real crash shown in the Six Million Doller Man intro, apparently managed, despite his injuries and the loss of one eye, to continue flying NASA support missions, and occasional research flights! What a Guy!
Glad to see the Doctor Who stuff, especially Bessie and the Who Mobile, the latter only appearing in two eps.
Also glad to see Fireball XL5 in here!
What a great story. I heard that he was not overly happy about having his crash screened every week on TV for years straight:)
@@Matteline True!
Another interesting look at the "what if" kits we should have had. Thank you! Kits of Fireball XL-5 (and Stingray) would be most welcome. I'm looking at you, Mr. Aoshima-san!
Models of all the lifting body aircraft exist in 1/48, 1/72, and even tiny 1/144 from Anigrand and Fantastic Plastic, but they are all in resin.
I'd forgotten all about Phoenix 5 and Star maidens. The theme tunes came back to me the second I found them on RUclips though 😁
It was pretty slim pcikens in the 70s, but In avidly watched anything that had a spaceship in it :)
When women rule, they will choose to wear hot pants and gogo boots. That is the lesson star maidens taught me. In my country it was called Women's Planet Medusa. You can see the ship is based on a jellyfish
The Pertwee series of Dr Who was the first BBC series to be shown in the USSR: incidentelly, the Russian acronym for UNIT was...OGRON!
Interesting. Was Ogron an acronym?
I have to say, the excellence of your Airfix Fireball XL5 covers makes me weep for the models not made.
Not that ANY of your box tops are bad, just those Fireball ones hit really hard. 😁
And this is a rant! We live in a nostalgia world, in many ways. There is no rational reason that Airfix couldn’t make this kit today. Sure, I can list all the cold, mathematical reasons why they shouldn’t, and if they depended on a short production run selling out within a month to cover costs and make profit, might be a hard sell.
But oh would it ‘hit’ in Japan. And all over the place.
Buuut so many companies are oddly risk-adverse while willing to go all-in on other projects that nobody really gets excited about.
But keep that Angel Interceptor! Don’t even think of modding the tooling to make the kit better!
Bah. Beautiful artwork, and always a pleasure to see what you do next!
Thank You
I liked the outro and incidental music on Space Patrol: it sounded a bit like a German proto-techno band called Kraftwerk.
Yeh. I really like it. Very much sounds like serious 'Science Fiction' .
Amazing art work, master... amazing.
Great stuff
Loved the video. So interesting and terrific artwork as always. Look forward seeing your work👍
I’d be up for 1/32 polythene Dr Who sets. If we are talking 70s then Pertwee and Baker with various assistants and UNIT in one set and another set of baddies (Daleks, cybermen, sea devils, etc).
Another great video Matt 👍
The Whomobile has made the occasional appearance at the Hamex Model Show events in Hanslope (Matt Irvine)
I had that album...still do somewhere
In a similar vien to Captain Zep, there's "The Dispensable" from the early 90's CBBC series Spacevets.
The Pachiderm space tug, from the movie Space Truckers, would make a very colourful piece of box art.
Space Truckers!
Airfix Magazine did a series on modelling the lifting bodies. Re Dr Who I did a toy soldier set for a lad using Revel British Paratroops (not currently in production) for the Unit chaps with 1960s Airfix civilians as the Doctor and his companions and a friend cast some resin Daleks, the kid loved it. Space ships are hard to find, the Japanese did a 1:72 Fireball kit but it isn't currently available (and probably cost a fortune). I make up sets to give away, mostly to carers as they are under-paid and one kid is hooked on Fireball XL5 (its on Talking Pictures, as is Space Patrol) so I'm looking at ABS (glue-able) plumbing fittings to see if I can make a suitable detachable front end. It'll be a smaller ship, he's 7 so it'll all be 1:72nd. For the 'bad guys' I'm still experimenting with drain pipe collars to make a 'The Invaders' style ship but UPVC is a problem to glue and as these are toys to be played with they need to be sturdy.
The toy soldiers sounds fab!
@@Matteline Back home and checked - The UNIT soldiers were 1:76 scale Matchbox NATO Paratroops from the 1980s, I think Revel produced them when they bought out Matchbox but I'm not sure. They are now collectable and hence of no interest. Still on the market and suitable for UNIT are A Call To Arms Set 67 British Infantry of the 1970s, not so many poses but serviceable for a Dr Who set. The Tardis is available from various model railway manufacturers in this scale. Opponents are thin on the ground, there are people offering 3D prints of Daleks in this scale and you can use Romans as Thalls but most of the fantasy ranges are armed with swords and spears, so not very sci-fi..
Yes - bring back the 6 Million Dollar Man model kits (Round2???)
I assume you create the artwork for the box covers? It's very good, a beautiful mimicking of the original period style. Is it all digital, or actual paint & brush?
Yes, I painted these myself. I grew making kits the 70s and I try to put the 'What If kit' with a credible manufacture - Frog ceased trafing in the late 70s so putting Star Maidens (1976) as a Frog kit.
The artwork is hand painted digitally. I have a small tablet with a stylus/pen. I avoid the 'computer functions' as much as possible so that there is not a computer-y look to them because they are paintings - albeit without bruab or paint involved. I have been able to get some great looking prints.
I'm certain it was a galasphere number 347, rather than a gallosphere unless the crew went round hanging everyone.
how about some stuff from "STARFLEET"
I remember the 'X Bomber' and a big alien ship that sort of looked like a fish.
Test pilot Milt Thompson's second book, Flying Without Wings, spent some time discussing the M2-F2 and its crash. One very odd detail; the aircraft was tail-heavy so to balance the aircraft, they added a very heavy crash cage to the cockpit instead of lead weights. This might have spelled the difference between a serious accident and a fatal one.
The tank from Doctor Who "Robot" was not the series' best moment, but at least it didn't use what was arguably the most famous rocket in the world, the Saturn V moon rocket, as a Vogan missile in "Revenge of the Cybermen."
I wonder if the shimmer around the Galasphere inspired the shimmer around the UFOs.
EDIT: The M2-F2 was the plane that crashed, not the HL-10. Oops!
Great info on the tail-heavy HL10. And I will definitely have to check out the Saturn V. Every availa le.epiosdeof.Dr Who is available lhe on the BBC I-playrer
@@Matteline Think it's in Episode 4. It's very common to use stock footage of a launch in movies, but typically they go for something a bit more obscure. Blue Streak is in The Prisoner.
A set of Airfix 32nd Daleks, Cybermen or Sea Devils to fight thier poly soldiers ?
At least you could recreate Invasion of the Dinosaurs with thier Stegosaurus and T-rex kits 😀
Thats a great idea!
whomobile??? looks like a "supercar" on acid lol
Great to see the Galasphere! (thats with an 'a' not 'o').Space Patrol was really an excellent series, much darker and gritty than XL5. IIRC it aired during the very early 70s here in Australia. My favourite episode as a small child was where a giant captured the Galasphere and kept it as a toy. And all episodes are here in RUclips although someone has attempted a mediocre colourisation. It also had hover scooters in it.
I'm afraid your artwork isn't quite right as you show the torus as straight sided segments when the actual Galasphere had curved segments with curved portholes. The original colour was AFAIK silver possibly with red panels, and you can see it in its true colour as it appears that the Galasphere prop was re-used as part of a larger spacecraft model in Roberta Leigh's failed 'The Solarnauts' series pilot. You can actually watch this on RUclips, it first appears about 0.15 into the episode.
Great 🙂
Fantastic Plastic make an HL- 10 kit, along with the M2 - F3 variant
I think there's models in 1/72nd and 1/48th. Pretty tiny in either scale.
I only became more then just casually aware of Space Patrol since somebody went to the trouble of colorizing the episodes. It ‘s obviously fake but somehow the tinting by the software adds this “real” old early colour tinting. Enjoying that opened it up for me to appreciate the rest. About the Soundtrack: It is indeed not Barry Gray level stuff but I like the bleak electronic soundscapes a lot. They are actually quite musical and add a bit of BBC Radiophonic futurism. Are you aware of the Leigh / Provis pilot for a live action space series called The Solarnauts? If not please check it out. Very colourful, very swinging sixties. Should have become a complete series.
Thanks for.commemting. Yes,.I have seen 'The Solarnauts'. Derek Foulds and Martine Beswick. Pretty oddball stuff.
@@Matteline as far as I am concerned the right sort of oddball. 🤪
@marcbrasse747 yes indeed.
Space Patrol is currently being shown on Saturday mornings on UK TV channel Talking Pictures.
💚!
Does anyone remember a game show from early nineties where contestants had to make their way through a wrecked space craft to obtain certain items? Can't remember it's title or if the space ship had a name. I don't remember it being a great success but the concept was interesting if nothing else.
I do, it was called Scavengers. I think there's some episodes here on RUclips?
@@edwinsmith-jones6205 Thank you, that seems to ring a bell now.
Didn't Bruce Peterson try and sue the 6 Million Dollar Man show for showing his crash every week?
Not to my knowledge. I'm dubious such a case would be heard.