Space Patrol in colour. Episode 1, The Swamps of Jupiter, by Roberta Leigh
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- The first episode of Space Patrol, The Swamps of Jupiter, aired on April 7th 1963. Captain Dart and his crew are sent to investigate the loss of contact with a scientific base on Jupiter.
All 39 episodes of Space Patrol are in Black and White but I've colourised them all!
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Space Patrol is a British science-fiction television series featuring marionettes that was produced in 1962 and broadcast beginning in 1963. It was written and produced by Roberta Leigh in association with the Associated British Corporation.
I remember this so clearly from when I was a young child. My father was a tyrant and hated television because of his generational attitudes. However even as a bullied kid, I so adored this prgram I’d be sitting in fromt of the set waiting for the channel to come online so I could watch it. Back then, television broadcasts were not 24 hours, not even all day, just morning until early afternoon and then later afternoon until later evening! I look at Soace Patrol now and picj up on so many things I missed as a child. It was far more sophisticated than I remember!
My twin brother and I were riveted to the TV for this show and of course Thunderbirds, Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Captain Scarlet. Space patrol was the spookiest with that music and aesthetic. “Gamma rays on, Yobba rays on” never forget that.
We were into Fireball XL5, but even then realized this was far superior. A lot of the technical stuff was accurate -ish. They had escape velocity about right. I don't remember whatshisname from XL5 ever doing a preflight checklist either.....
@@Peasmouldia they also had a plot where they landed on an asteroid headed for earth, drilled into it and planted a bomb. This very solution was proposed for future asteroids.
@@Peasmouldia Mike Mercury
I remember watching this when I was 6 years old. Never missed an episode, along with Fireball XL5, Supercar, and Stingray. Thunderbirds came later. I also remember watching the Irwin Allen stuff like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with my parents in the evening. Great TV, great times! Thank you!
We are cut from the same cloth but I was nearly 8 when this aired. Watched all those other shows too and still am a HUGE Irwin Allen fan!
Hello from u.k
Same here exactly, if you go on UA-cam someone made a
Working model of the flying sub, from
voyage to the bottom of the sea.
Couldn’t believe it, 6ft across, and remote control
In a swimming pool.
Also on UA-cam a remote flying model of thunderbird 2
About 2 ft long.
Hope they are still on there.
For me this last couple of years, been into u.f.o.
Stuff in general,sightings, Roswell, e.t.c. Not the program
Hope this helps take care.
I tell my sons about this, they are dads themselves. Man was only just starting to go into space, mood landing was years away. I just was so Ito this that I thought this was what America looked like! All 3 of my sons know thunderbird’s, stingray and one of them even knows Xl5. What they’ve not seen is this and Supercar- I actually had a bid plastic model of Supercar, but as I was a bit young, I dropped it and cracked the canopy. I still remember that toy- 1961? I’d have been 5.
Me too…I was 5 (1963) when I saw this wonderful series…brilliant…far ahead if its time…I had a plastic Stingray to 😄😉
I was 10 when the first episode came out. Such a breakthrough series. Also watched Torchie, Four Feather Falls and all the ITV Supermarianatiion series such as Stingray etc. Very exciting programs. 😊
OMG I loved this show, I'm 68 and you have made my day, thank you
I loved this show as a kid. There were so many groundbreaking and original facets to this show - from the unique spacecraft, which was a radical departure from the standard pointy tube with fins, the electronic discordant music, and the way the effects were achieved.
Watched this back in the day, I was 6 yrs old!
Never forget opening titles,the spinning craft.
And that industrial sound, and views of the city.
Made a massive impression on me.
Weird then, weird now!
And I like weird!
Great stuff, takes me back in a good way.
Thanks.
Couldn't you watch it at night?
I would be a little Gerry Anderson trivia person, and there were many times that my friends insisted that Space Patrol was by the Andersons, but of course, it was not, massive show for it's time, sound effects were amazing.
Until now, I never knew this series even existed. Straight away the differences are apparent- the puppets are seen walking, something Gerry Anderson specifically avoided. The use of tracking shots also opens up the scene- some moments are visually stunning, and could easily be the work of Len Lye. Whether this is intentional or not is something else, but it's very impressive.
I had a very similar reaction. I'd also never heard of this, and now I've seen it, think it was miles ahead of what Gerry Anderson was achieving at the same time.
@@kingbolo4579really? I remember watching these with disappointment as a child when compared to anything from Anderson. And that would be specifically Fireball XL5, Supercar and Four Feather Falls. The faces just seemed grotesque for a start.
I watched this as a kid but in the U.S. airings it was renamed Planet Patrol to avoid a name conflict with another U.S. TV series. I think Roberta Leigh's work was as impressive as Gerry Anderson's early efforts.
Do you remember " The Thunderbirds? They were earths protectors.
I used to rush home from school to watch this. Great adventures for a seven year old. And the first electronic theme music. Beating Dr Who which first aired a little later in the year.
I totally love this series.
I bought the box set of the originals a couple of years ago.. but to see these episodes again in colour is totally magnificent.
You Sir are my hero and I salute you for such a magnificent job
Loved this in 1963 and still do - I have the box set, and it holds up surprisingly well. The Galasphere was my favourite spaceship (although overtaken by Lost In Space's Jupiter 2, three years later). Funny to remember that whenever Slim said "switching to robot control" I'd have a frisson of fear as the robot waddled into view. Those robots frightened me as a kid, but I loved then at the same time. Happy days!
I'm smiling at the idea of those robots being scary, but that's easy to say as a 59 year old. As a 6 year old I was hiding behind the sofa like every other child, in fear of the various monsters on Doctor Who. The Cybermen gave me nightmares for more years than I dare admit!
@@IKP1000 Well you can imagine the delicious fear I felt during the Robot Revolution episode! I think my childhood fear came from the idea that robots of the future would be unstoppable killing machines. Oddly enough I was immune to the Cybermen, but the Daleks... they were a different matter!
don't call me Pop!
@@IKP1000 I still have those nightmares except the robots are now politians!
I listened to the radio show in 1950.
I've never heard of this before today. The amount of work that must have gone into making these shows , the models have such details on them it can't have been easy to make all those moving parts before the miniaturization of technology
Yeah. Never heard of it either. The love and craftsmanship that went into it is amazing. Such creativity.
Yes it was way ahead of its time. Thanks to this I became a Sci fi buff.
To this day 'Gamma Ray's on, Yobba Rays on' is part of my final checklist when getting the mtorhome ready to move..
Bravo, it’s a rare treat to see this unfairly neglected series again and in colour, blimey!
I was possibly not the age group this show was aimed at, being 14 when it hit our telly but I loved it and other kiddies’ shows that featured ingenious puppetry, amusing plots and scripts and appealed to every generation. The Gerry Anderson shows being a prime example but Space Patrol remains high in the pantheon of material from the 60s and I have been very fond of the Oliver Postgate output, The Clangers is up there with the best!
Ah, those immortal words “Gamma Rays on, Yobba Rays on”, they’ve remained in my memory cells ever since and I have to add that the punch-up with the two rogue Martians was brilliant! Slim always had me somewhat baffled as to gender but I’d say that he’d fit right into twenty first society back here on earth!
My goodness! I haven’t seen this since I was a kid in the early 60s. In fact, I had forgotten all about it. Such memories came flooding back. Thanks. Anyone else think the Martian characters look like a race of Elon Musks?
Actually yes!
What a fascinatingly accurate observation!
Yobba Rays On!
Great stuff.
The only thing I remember from when I was a kid was the doo-doo-doo-doo noise the spaceship makes while it’s spinning. This is an indelible childhood memory and a good one
Thought it was yuba.
@@philipjones9458 You're thinking of Yobba. As in 'gamma rays on, yobba rays on'
@@Neil070Classic. Yobba Rays are even better than Gamma Rays
Marionettes seemed to be a large part of children’s television. The amount of work that went into this looks incredible. I bet it looks incredible in black and white. Amazing!
I just watched it in black and white.
Looks good but I prefer colour
I’m too young to remember this but they’re walking pretty convincingly!
Wonderful as watched as a child when it was first shown on TV
50 years ago I loved this , far better than I remembered and is still way ahead of an compertion at the time and for a long time after .
I watched this when I was 12 years old in Yorkshire, UK.! Thanks for posting this.
Saw an interview a while back with Andy Partridge of XTC - he loved this show as a kid & raved about it.
I'm 63 now and forgot all about this TV show.
I must have been very young when it was showing on Aussie TV...Take care everyone !
Don't think it was ever shown on Oz tv
I remember this well. Some excellent sound effects and electronic sound from the late, great, Fred Judd.
This is a work of art by itself!
Excellent job of colourising the programmes. I watched the original programmes in the 60's.
Thanks. Glad you are enjoying them. Iain
Wow - well done on the colour work, simply amazing - deserves a re-run on TV!
OMG! The Galisphere! What a flashback to childhood. I remember the musical tones it made in flight.
Could I be the only person who has that Galasphere 'in flight' jingle as my mobile phone ringtone? I couldn't resist...!
This Was My favourite Show When I Was A Child, Still Looks Good Especially In Colour, Thank You
Nice to see all the working hyperloops in space city.
I have the entire series! When I was a kid I had confused this series with The Thunderbirds.
The sound of the Galasphere in the later episodes was one I used to imitate..
I remember watching space patrol as a 9 year old. I always wondered what Yobba Rays were. A Great childrens programme.
What memories this brings back. I used to watch it in glorious monochrome 😂❗️
The good old days when we had proper actors and not the puppets we have today
Many thanks for this, watched the whole box set last autumn - the robots used to worry me too. And those leeks from Uranus.
Good to know that Australia will still be around in 2100! Though I don't know in what capacity!? No clouds over Australia ..... must have been in winter!
This show used to scare the daylights out of me when I was a kid. I'd run from the room whenever my brother watched. In fact now in my 60s it still freaks me out a little.
I’ve never seen, nor heard of this until tonight. My friend married a Brit and he sent it to me, so I suspect she may have turned him into it. You did a great job coloring this!
I discovered this series on my local public access channel ( 22 ) You Too America , while flipping through the on-screen cable guide a few weeks ago. Even though I'm in my mid 60's, I enjoy it.
Leigh. Reckon Michael Bentine was behind this. Watched in 60s. Simple entertainment with scenes of toys jumping about. Thanks mate. Dave
Well now. I have never seen this series before; I’m 66 and grew up in England. It’s wonderful! Different in so many ways to the Gerry Anderson productions but oh so good. Enjoyed this.
Very cool, haven't seen this in decades!!
Marionette’s have terrified me since childhood
Yes, I'm 63 now and must have been very young when it aired. I forgot all about this show until now. I immediately remembered the sounds and how disturbing the robots were ..I'm not sure what year it aired in Australia , but it must been early 60s.
Good grief! Talk about voices from my past. I was 8 when this came out, and I remember watching it on ITV on my parents' black and white TV. The world has changed so much. Thank you so much for your hard work. I for one would love to see more.
This was adorable! I've never heard of this one only Thunderbirds and a few others from the 70's. I loved this! Good job on coloring it.
Just super. Amazing to see this in colour! Thanks so much!
Thanks! I'm motivated now to do all 39 episodes ;-)
Iain
@@IKP1000Iain, I am just in awe at your dedication and professionalism! What a massive labour of love!
The original artists just poured themselves into these episodes; it's just wonderful to see someone carry on the tradition. BRAVO!!! Thank you.
Fond memories for all,, 👍🎥🍿
Hands down the best of any marionette production.
Capt. Scarlet was in a class of its own.
Oh my...I was seven and living in London when this was on and I do remember some of this stuff!
I remember this absolutely loved it. Thanks for this.
Sound effects were magic.
Watching this with my Granddaughter... when she came out with OMG! they look like Ant and Dec 🤣
Haha! That was my first thought as well when I saw the Martian bad guys, it's Ant and Dec, I think the large forehead did it for me! 😂😂
Wow, this is beautifully presented. The colours and lighting are wonderfully performed. Nicely done.
I was 4yrs old when this came out sure don't remember any of it I hardly even remember watching TV.
Wow! Such a lovely program!!!Thank you!
What a gem 👏👏
I was 8 when I watched this. Even remember the music.
I still love these shows ❤
I remember watching this as a child and thinking it a little scary and creepy! But it held a fascination for me as the detail and camera work were so convincing and realistic. Long forgotten little Gem!👏💖
Known as "Planet Patrol" in the U.S.
Whoah... Marla IS GORGEOUS.!!
And she has the voice of an angel.! 😉 😉
Loved it as a kid, but it's more sophisticated than I remember. Contamination control, the distinction between Patrol and military, the hibernation to avoid the effects of 10g acceleration, I even remember thinking 'what about.....', only for the script to immediately address the issue. For a kid's puppet show, it really respected the real world science. Well, apart from Venusians, Martians and Jupiter being like the Florida Everglades.....
Yobba rays on.....
Additional - isn't it a little bit racist toward Martians, who seem violent ('I love a good fight'), a bit slow, and so greedy Husky is willing to delay the mission to eat a cake he smuggled on board?
It's great to see this in colour. There is a video about the Galasphere's walkthrough.
when this was turned into a comic strip in TV COMIC, the Martians were green and the Venusians were blue
Used to love this, here we are 60 years later wondering what YOBBA rays are....
This program terrified me in places when I was about 4. I think it was the robots! I had forgotten all about it! I had this 'sound' in my head I couldnt place - it was the spaceship approaching the planet! 60 years later I STILL remember that funky sound. This was GROUNDBREAKING for its time very 'Jerry Anderson' but it had nothing to do with him! Dont forget in these days the moon landings hadnt even happened this was all 'theoretical science' but for a little lad like me it was superb but we only had a B&W set.
This one's new to me. The Space Patrol TV series I remember ran from 1950-1955 (and boy, does that date me).
Superb. I remember this as a kid and had been wondering if it was available anywhere. I always thought the sound effects were great. Thanks for doing this.
Wonderful! It looks as one should imagine it would have done!
I was just thinking; how would it have been to us watching it in colour as kids, how different would it have seemed...
- Then I realized there was no colour television then! (At least not outside the U.S.).
Thank you! Yes, I remember watching TV as a young child in the early 70s, and the announcer would say that the next programme was in colour. I got very excited, but then disappointed when it was still B&W on our B&W TV...
EXCELLENT! Fantastic! Well done! Thank you!
Well thank you for that! Glad you enjoyed it, and hope you will (or have) enjoyed the other 38 episodes here ;-). I'm planning on AI enhancing them at some point, though they might lose their "character" that way.
@@IKP1000 - I am slowly working my way through every episode. I did a jump ahead. The color looks better in later episodes. Is that just experienced gained, or different software? I can't imagine how much time you spent on the project.
@@Phase52012 Thanks mate. Yes, I did get better as I went along! I really should revisit the early ones and try again. It's all done with DeOldify, which is a free and quite easy way to colourise. You have no control over the AI colourising choices, but can choose one or two settings. The main control you have is in the pre (and sometime post) processing, which I do in the video editing software PowerDirect. If the original video is too dark, or too light, or doesn't have a good tonal range, the colourising suffers. A further complication is that UA-cam often seems to darken the videos so it's a constant process of adjustment. Adding in the various problems such as software crashes etc, and it does take a lot of time, so I'm always very pleased to get positive feedback and encouragement!
You just answered my question , I should have read through the comments first.
This must have expanded and blown so many kiddies minds ?
Space Patrol starts on 15-06-2024 @ 09:50 on Talking Pictures TV (Freeview Channel 82).
The rotating spaceship closely resembles the alien craft from the later series "UFO."
Kids of today would never be able to watch and enjoy these intelligent well-made children's shows
Can't even describe how abyssal is the gap of quality (soundscapes, details, nostalgia, creativity at its core in a nutshell) between past and modern entertainment
We never had this show in the USA. It's weird and creepy . I'd not want to wake up at 2AM and see all these little puppets at the foot of my bed. YIKES !
Every spaceman needs a compass on his wrist !
The robots scared me when I was 3 years old . I would hide behind the couch when they came on ... lol
My favorite puppet show! Just got through watching all the B&Ws. Now I'll watch them again.
Somehow although I was a kid in the 60s I had never seen this show. Much better than Supercar or Fireball XL-5.
I love the look of many old B&W movies, the art of making B&W movies was at its peak in the 40s and 50s with both artistic and technological experience at its highest. And that expertise and film stock is gone forever so the modern "B&W" attempts at that look all fall short.
That said not all B&W are worthy of such artistic respect. Early TV shows benefit from a conversion most as the quality was not so good. I'm waiting on Rocky Jones.
Even movies that are somewhat muddy in original form are interesting to see. IMO the first two Quartermass films with Brian Donlevy are not all that great looking, so I'm waiting on those too.
Thank you my friend.
Not "much better," just different. And saying that "not all B&W are worthy of such artistic respect" is an insult to those shows. They all brought something to the table. Besides, the colorisation of black and white movies and TV shows are a nice alternative, but in no way should be considered an improvement or a replacement. If your problem with a black and white movie or show is that it's in black and white, that's just superficial.
Fantastic work
Be encouraged to continue.
Haven't seen this since I was 7!.. Fantastic puppetry. Did your colourisation also mask the strings, too? Can barely see them now.
I was just wondering that myself!
Brilliant great work! I have the box set and haven't watched it yet, and unlikely to as I will be watching your great colourisations instead. Here's hope you can do all 39!
Thank you Dave! It's encouragement like this which will keep me going till all 39 are done :-). As mentioned on another video I think, it's not hard to do once you get the work flow right but it takes my poor old laptop many hours to do one and sometimes it doesn't come out right and you have to start all over. I must admit, I haven't watched the B&W either, so I'm watching in colour for the first time too. Iain
Oh I thought it was supposed to be colour, I didn't realise it was black and white.
How on earth do you colourise things ?
I'm positive that this was the series where the Robot guard patrolled the spacecraft at the end of each episode.
Wonderful series.
I don't know why, but I always thought the story lines were a bit more 'mature' than the rival Gerry Anderson offerings at the same time in the early 1960s.
I love this old stuff.
...the acting is kind of wooden .......now complete with Earth-y colours!
Some interior shots look like the inside of the Titan submersible. The puppets are goofy looking too.
Oh God, I remember this series - Captain Dart, Slim the Venusian and Husky the Martian ( who, if I remember correctly, LUURRVED sausages...!)
13:40 Ant & Dec’s first acting roles!
It’s interesting that this aired on my first birthday……April 7 1962
My goodness, Captain Dart is quite dashing in a Dartanian kind of way isn't he?
Horrible depiction of earth's future. Not a plant in sight. Brought back alot of memories though.
This show must have taken a tremendous amount of work.
This is great. 19:40 - "What the heck?" Lol!!
@14:12 Ant and Dec never looked more real 👍
Did they ever look real at all?
Well,this answers a question ive been thinking for near 5 decades.
I wasnt born until 1968 so i never saw this tv show when it was new..but now i know i must have seen it on tv as a re-run sometime in the early 70s?
But i remember the odd movements of these weird 'space people' on a Patrol,the really cool space ships,the futuristic city etc...over the years i just couldnt remember the name of the show,I would ask around 'what was that space tv show with the puppets?
People said...ahh you mean lost in space or star trek or the jetsons..no!! It was this right here!
Ive gone back in time and sitting in front of the tv eating a 'Libbyland tv dinner' with my Dad..He says..ugghh!! Switch it to Hee-Haww!!...yuk!
I doubt i saw many episodes but i saw enough to know that i liked it
🎵Now that she's back in the atmosphere with swamps of Jupiter in her hai-ai-ai-air...🎵
Love this. So scary!!!!!!
I don't remember this at all.
I am 63 - born in 1959. Maybe that's why.
Or maybe I did see it but have forgotten.
Thank You for showing this wonderful program. 👍👍 🍿 🇺🇸.
I hadn't even been aware of science-fiction puppet shows for children that preceded Gerry Anderson!
@johnsavard7583 Actually, Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5 preceeded this show by about six months. AND the creator of this show, Roberta Leigh (an assumed name for Rita Shulman) had worked with the Andersons on two of his earlier shows, prior to her going out on her own, to make this show. It seems that Shulman, who started out as a children's author, came up with some of the central ideas/characters for shows she collaborated on with the Andersons. But it was Gerry's production company, AP Films, that made the shows, and all the puppetry. Eventually, she left APF, but he obviously influenced her, with regards to the use of marionettes.
I'm 72 and don't remember this show!
They must have gone the long way if they accelerated at 10g for 24 days. At a constant 10g it would only take about half a day.
Did you account for deceleration too? 😀 But if you're right, even so it would have only taken them around one day.
In my humble opinion, I think they should stay original and in Black and White.