Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Zodiac, Venus and the Professor land on the planet Olympus for a holiday. XL5 patrols Sector 25 of charted interstellar space and is one of at least 30 "Fireball XL" … The show was produced in 1962 by husband and wife team Gerry and Sylvia Anderson through their company APF, in association with ATV for ITC Entertainment. Steve, Venus, and Matthew encounter Graff and Snaff, a couple of friendly giants, on Triad – a planet three times the size of Earth – and help them in their efforts to explore space. [23], The Jetmobiles – personal hovercraft that the XL5 crew use to explore the surfaces of planets – were conceived as a way of limiting the number of scenes that showed the characters walking, thus helping to conceal their lack of realistic articulation. Icemen from the planet Zavia deflect the Sun's rays, sending the Earth into a deep freeze. Returning to Space City on one of the new supersonic airlines, Venus, in the company of General Rossiter, has no idea that the vehicle's pilot, Major Todd, has been brainwashed by the Subterraneans - and intends to crash the airliner. Can the, While bringing the King of the Plantium Planet to Earth for trade talks, the. A similar programme often confused with Fireball XL5 is Space Patrol, produced by Gerry Anderson's ex business partner and co-founder of AP Films, Arthur Provis due to a number of similarities and settings. Steve Zodiac pilots Fireball XL5 on defence missions for World Space Patrol - their mission, to preserve peace in space zone, Sector 25. Created by Gerry \u0026 Sylvia Anderson, the show was produced by AP Films and distributed by ITC Entertainment. Gerry Anderson )[14] Script supervision was performed by series co-creators and voice artists Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, who also wrote the first episode ("Planet 46") and "Space Monster".[15]. While developing his new show, Anderson thought a brand of motor oil – Castrol XL – had an interesting sound. Fireball XL5 is often confused with Space Patrol (known as Planet Patrol in the US), a puppet series with a similar premise that was produced by Gerry Anderson's former collaborators Roberta Leigh and Arthur Provis. [6][10] At the same time, the "United States Space Patrol" became the "World Space Patrol" and the name of Colonel Zodiac's spaceship (as well as the series itself) was changed first to Nova X 100, then Fireball XL5. The World Space Patrol is based at Space City, located on an unnamed island in the South Pacific Ocean. Swift surgery by Venus saves his life, but the bird is waiting to "pounce" again. Paul Maxwell [5][6] Unlike Century 21, this concept had a hybrid format – the fantasy sequences being filmed with puppets while the framing stories used live actors. I watched this show when I was 4 - so to find it on Amazon was a fun nostalgia trip. The crew of Fireball XL-5 are sent to investigate why nuclear explasions have taken place on the planet Triad. When the crew finds the wreck of a spaceship that disappeared decades before, their search for the lost pilot, Colonel Denton, leads them to the planet Arctan – where they discover Denton living quite happily as king of the Ice People. According to Clark, the closing theme song's opening lyric, "I wish I was a spaceman", had a "timely resonance" for audiences of the early Space Age. Robert the Robot saves the day when the rest of the crew is thrown into a trance by a hypnotic sphere which has been spacejacking freighters. (1963), "Fireball XL5" Robert to the Rescue Fryer also compares David Graham's voice for Professor Matic to that of Western actor "Gabby" Hayes and the French-born Venus to Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy in the film Destry Rides Again (1939). 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