Gerry Anderson Primer: Stingray
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Stingray was made in 1963 using a combination of electronic marionette puppetry and scale model special effects. It was APF's sixth puppet series and the third to be produced under the banner of "Supermarionation".
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What's your favourite episode of Stingray? Who's your favourite character? Let us know!
Probably, I would say, the Ghost of the Sea. An episode that focuses on how Commander Shore became a paraplegic, plus showing that he still has nightmares about it even five years after it. In addition, it was a story of heroism, honour and redemption
Set Sail for Adventure. No question. The human adventures of the Stingray crew are just as wonderful as their undersea escapades. Plus Admiral Denver for best insane Anderson character.
My favourite episode has to be "Hostages of the Deep" as Marina was very close to her untimely end when the swordfish came right down on the slab of stone; she got clear just in time! Speaking of Marina, she has being my favourite character in Stingray.
Emergency marineville. Great episode full of tension, great music. While watching it you are hooked, wondering what is going to happen.
The Big Gun & Pink Ice. Loved the score for Pink Ice
Thanks Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, actors and crew. I enjoyed them growing up in the 60s and 70s. Still do, in 2023.
Well it's 2024 now !!!
I loved this show when I was a kid. Didn't miss an episode. Watched Fireball XL-5 and Thunderbirds as well. Gerry Anderson was a genius who knew how to entertain.
Stingray, for me, was and remains the best Supermarionation vehicle of them all... followed by Thunderbird 2.
I still remember having a Stingray toy in my bath every bath night, and I'm 63!
I was invited to a birthday party when I was age 6 and would have been the only boy there. But I didn't go as I would have missed Stingray on the Sunday afternoon.Anderson productions have always been part of my life,still is even though i'm now 61!
Don't regret it, I would have done the same if I were to be the only girl going. :)
STEVE POCHLY - I have the same kind of memories, Steve - and I’m 66 this year! I met the composer Barry Gray in September 1968 when I was a 15-year-old schoolboy. It was one of the best experiences of my entire life and still fondly remembered.
@@gregfolland8452 Hi Greg I have met both Sylvia and Gerry . I was invited to Bray Studios by Gerry and as you rightly say it was a day never to be forgotten
Also in my 60s and still watch these gems!!!
@jimgall ufos - Yes, it seems that there are quite a few of us still around, mainly in our sixties, who were children when these shows aired for the very first time. For example, I would have been 12 years old when the “Thunderbirds” series took to the air in 1965. So, for us, the shows carry a powerful nostalgia - as well as being excellent shows and quite unique because of their use of Supermarionation techniques.
Wow, born in 1963, I never had these marionette puppetry series available to watch, but I'm sure I would've.
The Stingray craft is one of my favourite Anderson underwater models such a beautiful design and colours ☺
Finally! I fell in love with "Stingray" when I was a kid back in the 60's! Those opening titles still get me going!
Stingray had the most exciting and amazing opening sequences maybe EVER! I especially love the buildings diving into hydraulic underground safety AND the official drumbeat signals for the various duty stations. Cool, original for a futuristic sci-fi show. Opening sequence for Stingray is very exciting. I'm in my late 60s, a woman and I loved these shows when they were new (along with Supercar (awesome!), Fireball XL5 (great!), The Thunderbirds (saw these as reruns in the 70s here in THE USA) and of course, Stingray. I adore these shows more now than when I was a kid in the '60s, or a teenager in the 70s. I LOVE watching them over and over again; the production and effects are unbelievably excellent for their time and I LOVE that I see more details every time I binge them all. I've begun buying collectibles, including T-shits I proudly wear just waiting and hoping someone COOL know what I'm wearing and recognizes my Thunderbird shirts AND my most recent acquisition , my FAB "RAISED ON SUPERMATIONATION" T-shirt. I LOVE THESE SHOWS. And I'm not ashamed I have crushes on Scott, Virgil and Jeff Tracy, the latter become more attractive to me the OLDER I GET!!! FUNNY. I love you all, Anderfans. We have the greatest taste in TV and BLESS Jamie Anderson for keeping these TREASURES available to the inhabitants (with class) of Planet Earth. I'm incredibly thrilled these shows are available! They make me VERY happy and I love everyone who has been involved producing these fantastic works of art..past, present and future. And PLEASE get a GET WELL/THINKING OF YOU WITH LOVE AND ADMIRATION TO Mr.David Graham. Is he the last man standing???? TAKE CARE AND SO MUCH LOVE TO ALL FANS AND CREW -- now and forever. Cindy in San Diego feels the kindred hearts out there. F.A.B., Beloved Fellowship.⚘️🐕🏝🛸🚀
See below. I agree, Stingray the most Exciting opening sequence has Got To be the most off- the-hook, exciting and spellbinding that I can think of ( I love TV, but I'm picky and smart and have produced 16mm cardboard cutout stopaction WAY before Trey Parker was probably born, TV, radio, websites, etc. I know good s*** when I see it. And I've be seeing it every night for a year. I've been studying it And The Andersons, all of then.And their Top Shelf cast and crew. Brilliant! My THANKS FOR THE HAPPINESS AND PHENOMENAL, PRECIOUS ENERTAINMENT. Cindy in San Diego
I wish I still had my toy Stingray from the 60s. Never missed an episode and loved the opening sequence with “beat to quarters” drumbeat. Anderson was a genius.
Stingray was the first Gerry Anderson show I have remembered. I watched it in 1964 on an old B&W TV, I was about 8 years old. The thing I remember the most is when Marineville lowered into the ground.
Still my all time favorite intro to a TV show.
It's amazing achievement how far puppetrey went starting with shows like twizzle and torchy the battery boy to stingray in just a few years
Thunderbirds is my fav but Stingray comes a very close second. Opening titles always meant excitement and anticipation of another great episode. I'm in my 60s and my childhood was awesome thanks to the TV shows from the Anderson's.
I got hooked on Fireball XL5 before I started school, but when I was in school, all that me and my boy classmates could talk about was stingray. I will always love watching the buildings being lowered underground. We didn't have a color tv then, so it was in black and white like Fireball XL5. I loved all the episodes.
Start of Stingray probably most exciting start to any programme.
These primer videos are great! I was seven years old when Stingray first aired, and I became obsessed with it. I saw the model and puppets on display at the Children's Exhibition in Olympia, too, and I think it was one of the driving forces that led me to a lifetime of model making.
Stingray was such a fantastic series.
Is a fantastic series you mean
Although subsequently overshadowed by the success of Thunderbirds , this was Gerry Anderson`s first real masterpiece , incorporating all the production techniques and attention to detail that made his work so highly renowned . The introduction of full colour was the icing on the cake .
Loved Stingray and Thunderbirds, UFO - though as a kid the Stingray baddies used to scare me :) Was amazed a few years back to visit the funky, hip QT Hotel on the Gold Coast in Australia. They had a Stingray bar - with same sign/logo/font as the show. Even the staff at hotel checkin wore pastel coloured Thunderbirds-themed uniforms - so cool and yet sadly no-one with me even knew the Stingray show when I pointed it ...
Let us not overlook the great characterisation of X-2-Zero puppet and voice obviously taken from that classic actor Peter Lorre.
What also was amazing was the fluid and ease they made Stringray "move" in the water.
Nearly everything Anderson touched made history.
Amazing.
Another great Primer. I'm amazed by how they did the amazing shot of Stingray & the Terror Fish in the opening titles. Looks even more complex than throwing Supercar in a swimming pool & then attaching it to what looks like a rubber band when it re-appears :)
Apart from the marvellous craftsmanship on this show, the opening theme from the mastro Barry Gray for this show is always gives one a goosebumps and a sense of adventure which keeps you glued to your seat no matter what age group you are in!!
So much imagination, action, and story all packed into 25 minute episodes. Don't find that kind of talent around today.
One of the first TV shows i can remember watching as a kid and i still watch it now :)
Wonderful! This series looking at the incredibly brilliant creations of Supermarionation has been sensational. All shown in their correct 4:3 format which deserves special praise! No stretching, no cropping, NO disrespect inflicted on these TV treasures. Wonderful!
Anderson did some excellent model work. He had the ability to hire some of the best production people throughout his long career. Some of these people went to work on major films. George Lucas gave Anderson credit for doing things, model work, that he would go on to use in Star Wars.
RIP GA
Yay, Stingray primer, finally! :)
I always had a soft spot for Stingray, and the opening credits are still one of my all time favourites (more action-packed than most episodes of any other show!)
Jonny Quest: Am I a joke to you?
During lockdown I bought a boxed set of the Munsters in a charity shop & spotted Robert Easton in one ep (All-Star Munsters), I was so surprised I genuinely had to do a double take. His career as a vocal & dialect coach was quite remarkable to say nothing of his collection of historical literature. It's a great pity he wasn't more widely regarded during his lifetime. In the Jeremy Brett adaptation of the Greek interpreter the actor playing the villain def. does X20 not Peter Lorre.
Gorgeous looking show.
Incredibly high production values.
Soundtrack is bliss.
One of my favorite ! thanks gerry to have filled my childhood with all your production !
I loved the opening scene where the buildings are moved underground and the missiles are raised.
I just subscribed to your channel. My town recently started airing MeTV Toons and they show a block of Thunderbirds, Supercar, Joe-90, Captain Scarlett and the Mysterions, and Fireball X-5 or something like that. I was born in 1967 and I never got to see these shows. They are classics. A bit goofy, but that's their charm. For the time these were made they are very well done and a lot of fun to watch. I have been searching for the DVD or better yet a Blu-Ray set of Joe-90, Captain Scarlett and the Mysterions, and Thunderbirds. I haven't seen Stingray yet, but I'll bet Ill like it as well. These are some of my new classics! Thanks for sharing these amazing shows with us.
0:01 Gerry Anderson's Stingray Is A Classic Children's ITV And Gerry Anderson Television Series Of All Time Back In 1964. The Same Year Disney's Mary Poppins The Original Classic Along With Ian Fleming's Goldfinger James Bond 007 Came Out In Cinemas As Well. This Is Before Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series In 1965. Thanks Mate. X
Stand by for action!
Kaboom!
Anything can happen in the next half hour!
*STINGRAAAAAAY! STINGRAY!*
I loved Stingray. Those mechanical fish scared the hell out of me, although I was only four!
Ditto. Lucky we only had black and white.
“It’s ok Captain, I’m awake.”
Phones has the same attention span I do.
the voice actor for phones was also the radio operator in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea series, he had a side career as an accent and dialect teacher for actors to imitate foreign individuals in tv and movies.
STINGRAY always struck me as being a kids' version of VOYAGE.
I watch this in the Betamax in the mid 80’s here in the Philippines. I love this series 😊👍
I use to wake up super early on Saturday or stay up late night to watch this and ThunderBirds. I still watch on Prime my kids just look at me like I’m crazy they will never understand the greatness.
The first episode had one of my favourite Stingray moments when you see Stingray creep into shot as it's towed by the Aquaphibian sub and the music flares up: "Sir, it's Stingray!"
I forget the episode title now, but the episode where Stingray is shot up and Troy ends up in hospital was a favourite. Been years since I properly watched the series.
Fave character as a kid was Troy but nowadays I'd say Shore.
1st Episode ' Stingray' Oct4th 1964: When the World Security Patrol Sea Probe submarine is mysteriously destroyed, Troy Tempest and Phones are assigned to investigate. However, they are attacked by a strange Mechanical Fish and taken to the underwater city of Titanica, ruled by Titan. Troy protests that the WASP's purpose is investigation, not aggression, but Titan subsumes him to a strange trial headed by Teufel, Titanica's great fish god, who looks only upon friends of the Titanicans. Tuefel turns away from Troy and Titan declares him and Phones guilty, sentencing them both to death at the underwater prison of Aquatraz. But while en route, Titan's slave, Marina, helps Troy and Phones to escape.
Tempest and Sam were very strong dramatic characters. Sam's partial paralysis made him a precursor to the title character in the classic TV cop show IRONSIDE.
Which Shore, Sam or Atlanta?
The one with Stingray shot up and Troy ending up in hospital is The Master Plan. Titan has Stingray damaged so that Troy has to go out and attend to the damage. While doing so an Aquaphibian sneaks up and sprays him with a purple liquid which is a poison that only Titan has the antidote to.
I used to play with mine in the bath, as a matter of fact i still do.
Ive got my old model of stingray somewhere too
😂
I saw & enjoyed a few episodes of Joe 90, and was hooked on Thunderbirds -- but all these decades later I *still* can't decide if I liked Stingray or Captain Scarlet more!
Stingray was my first exposure to Gerry Anderson's work and as such remains a personal favourite of mine. I do agree that it has been overshadowed by Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet, but considering the magnitude of those shows it's not hard to see why. Does that make Stingray inferior? In my opinion, no. Gerry simply improved and refine what he had learned and made his shows better.
Only question I have now is, when is Stingray getting a modern reboot? Thunderbirds & Captain Scarlet have had positive reception from rebooted series, I just feel like Stingray deserves the same opportunity.
Stingray was also my first array into the Gerry Anderson world but through the '90s reruns on BBC2 in the mornings then.
I have always thought Stingray was the better of Anderson's projects. I loved how the city would descend in the event of an attack.
“Anything can happen in the next half hour!”
Robocop 2 - And it usually did!
I know, right! That sucked me in every week!
These are my top 3 shows:
3. Stingray, 2. Captain Scarlet and 1. THUNDERBIRDS!
Me too.
I loved this show and Jonny Quest
I was lucky enough to see virtually all the Anderson shows (from Four Feather Falls onwards) when they debuted. I liked Stingray the most (until Thunderbirds!) and I was madly in love with Marina (I was four at the time). As far as female characters went, I think she was Anderson's best, although some of the Angels in Captain Scarlet were pretty hot and I'm not ashamed to say that I can still remember all their names.
As well as Lois "Moneypenny" Maxwell there is another James Bond connection with Derek Meddings, who built the miniature sets for Anderson's shows also built miniature sets for use in many Bond films.
Ed Bishop, David Healy and Shane Rimmer also appeared in You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever (which also featured Century 21 computer hardware props from UFO): Rimmer also was in The Spy Who Loved Me with Michael Billington and Jeremy Wilkin.
I use to watch Stingray as a kid. I loved the theme song at the end. Classic TV. I did meet Jerry Anderson way back in the 1980's at the virgn megastore. He was signing copy's of Thunderbirds on video?
7:14 Great Scotland Yard. It's Virgil Tracy From Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series In 1965. Thanks Mate. F.A.B Virgil. X
Stingray appeared briefly in Aquaman, playing on Aquaman's dad's tv set.
Yo, I instantely clocked that 1 aswell!!!
Somehow, when I watched *"Aquaman";* when I watched the scene you mentioned; I got the impression that *Ms. Kidman, wasn't a fan of "Stingray"!*
*BINGO!*
Sting ray- Water based
Thunderbirds- Sky based
Captain Sacrlet- Land based
But what about Cloudbase in Captain Scarlet? Or the Mole or FAB1 in Thunderbirds?
@@GerryAndersonTV True, its just something I noticed.
My favourite episode is when they go on a sailing trip on an old ship and Shaw (Shore? nevre quite sure) loses his memoryb and thinks that they are back in the old days of sailing. My favourite line is the one where Phones says, "You're gonna hate me for this," when they go off course and find a giant pearl. I think Marina has something to do with it.
This one and terrahawks were my favorites. I love all Gerry Anderson show's.
7:13 Great Scotland Yard. It's Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series. Thunderbirds Are GO!!! Thanks Mate. X
You Smart Cookie clapping penguin Mate. X
I can remember every Sunday afternoon when my brother and I were very young when my mum god bless her would be getting our tea ready while we were watching Stingray (my brother and I that was) and getting us both ready for bed I must've been about 4/5 years old and my brother must've been about 18 months/2 years old and that was in 1964/65.
6:46 Clonk. 🤣 0:58 Trial by Fish lol.
Really nice well-edited, witty, well-narrated video.
We Fandersons wouldn't expect less!
Ps Show your devotion and try the opening theme bars for your phone ringtone)
That "clonk" comes from the episode called "Tom Thumb Tempest" where they find out that they're in a fish tank in X20's house and Titan is going to be holding a dinner party in that room for him and his evil buddies. It all turns out to be a dream.
I watched all of those series, I even had the fireball xlf rocket and the toys that went with the series. I have all of the series on dvd too...
Phones was my favourite character and Ghost Ship probably my fav episode.
Here in the Gulf of Mexico During the Hurricane Season I Wish All Big Building Could Go Underground Like in Stingray.
Gerry Anderson brilliant series and thunderbird and fireball XL5
I really liked Stingray as a series. I think it may have been due to not being int sci-fi yet but thoroughly into Navy ships.
The funny part about this for me is that I remember lots of every GA series *except* for Thunderbirds! My favourites were Captain Scarlet and then Stingray. I *still* sometimes randomly say "Anything can happen in the next half hour!", and "This... is the voice... of the Mysterons..."
We know, you can hear us... Earthmen.
I love how the headquarters could become subterranean… a plot device used years later in UFO.
This was brilliant!
Bring Stingray back on TV!
Loved this and the Thunderbirds as a kid. I wanted to be Marina! Great narrative BTW!
I wanted marina!!!
I'm looking forward to hearing of the Stingray score by Barry Gray going on sale :)
I'm currently watching each episode of Stingray on ITVX. I'm quite sad that there are only 10 more episodes left for me to watch. I just wish the scriptwriters had made more use of Marina - who most of the time sat at the back of the control cabin and didn't take much part in the action.
Great tv series 🧜♀️
Love Stingray
Awesome!
There's always this element to the pre-CS Anderson shows that's like, "Ah, that's so cute... how charming... hehe... whoa, what? Oh! Wow, that happened! ...Ahahaha."
Still the most exciting title sequence ever ..
I always felt bad for Atlanta...
1:12 Marina Thinks She Looks Like Ariel From Disney's The Little Mermaid In 1989. Thanks Mate. X
Fantastic opening titles sequence. Oh for the days of imaginative and creative kids tv that didn’t treat you like an idiot.
They must have shot underwater for the Stingray exiting the tunnel as you can see air bubbles rising from the tube. Certainly would make you think the rest was filmed under water all the time even though it wasn't.
Amazingly, that wasn't shot with Stingray in the water either! Just a pump in the tank releasing bubbles at the right moment.
@@ChrisDalek But how did Meddings make it appear as if the bubbles actually jet from the launch tube?
There is a video that explains this on YT.
STING RAY, STING RAY, DADL LADL LADL.🎶🎶
Wonderful 😍👍
At 5:43, did he run into the end of that control panel?
03:53 James Bond & Stingray. That was the best anime crossover ever☺️
Skeksis: *Trial by Stone* !!"
Titan: Trail by Fish! 😁
Always had a soft spot for Stingray (Though my favourite will always be Captain Scarlet). Also is that Kryten at 8:15 ?
I was 10. I was fully in love with Marina.
I don't remember the titles of the episodes, but I'll never forget Marina.
3:53 Atlanta Shore resembles Della Street from the original Perry Mason series.
I think I remember watching it as a kid. That weird propulsion on the submarine looks awfully familiar. Nowadays, you only need to say "Trial by Fish" to get my attention.
Was more of a Supercar fan at that age, but Stingray had enough action in it's opening to rival Johnny Quest
Ray Barrett was Commander Shore as well as Titan? - that actually surprised me.
Marina Aqua Marina😍
Why do I get the feeling that I want "Stingray" to have a reboot in the same style as the CGI "Thunderbirds" remake?
Damn I missed the premier.
@8:14, Red Dwarf's Kryton?
Stingraaaaaay! STINGRAY!!!
Ba-da Da-da Da-da!
I read somewhere that Marina did have ability to speak ... She did not speak because she had taken a vow of silence to protect her people. "One of these audio episodes (entitled "Marina Speaks") reveals that Marina is not actually mute at all. She and her people have been cursed by Titan; if any of them speaks, another will die. They are not certain if this is true, but none of them dares find out; and so for years they have lived in complicit silence."
I've heard that one as well but it doesn't tie in with the episode in which X20 disguises himself as a speech therapist and they ask him to teach Marina to talk. Marina was all for it and she wouldn't have been if that other story was true.
i loved it
My favourite episode is the plant of doom and my favourite character is Captain Troy Tempest Anything can happen in the next half hour
That is the episode where the fish god Teufel plays his biggest part, showing Titan the blue coral flower.
A close second would be the trial of Troy Tempest in the first episode, then Teufel appears in The Golden Sea when Titan is simply bouncing his idea of him. Then he isn't seen again in the series.
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