Fireball XL5
Fireball XL5 is a British science fiction television series of puppet Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, which was produced from 1962 to 1963 in 39 episodes in black and white format. A German synchronization So far there is not. She was the first European television series, which focused space travel, and the first puppet series the Andersons, which was filmed in Supermarionation format.
Further technical data
Writers: Alan Fennell, Anthony Marriott, Dennis Spooner, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
Director: Gerry Anderson, David Elliott, Bill Harris, John Kelly, Alan Patillo
Coin design by: Bob Bell
Special Effects: Derek Meddings
Editing: Gordon Dariel, Eric Pask
Format: 35mm film, black and white, Super Mario Nation
Characters: votes:
Oberst ( Colonel) Steve Zodiac, commander
And first pilot of Fireball: Paul Maxwell
Dr. Venus spacecraft doctor: Sylvia Anderson
And Science Officer: David Graham
Robert the Robot, 2nd Pilot: Gerry Anderson
Zoonie the Lazoon, Venus Pet: David Graham
Lieutenant Commander ( Commander) Zero, Commander of Space City: John Bluthal
Lieutenant ( Lieutenant) 90, his aide: David Graham
Production history
The series was created as a successor of Supercar ( TV series), Anderson's first puppet TV series in science fiction milieu. The new series should bear the title of CENTURY 21 or Nova X 100 originally, but was then named after the now -designed spaceship Fireball XL5. The label XL in the title came from the motor oil Castrol XL. The series takes place in the year 2063rd to the knitting technology, especially the pyrotechnics, high demands were made, there had to be simulated compared with Supercar for the plot numerous explosions.
Fireball was a logical development of the previous Anderson 's puppet series with the aim of aligning the puppets increasingly real people. An example of this is the character of Venus is optically Sylvia Anderson modeled, but was fitted with a French accent, which should remind us of Brigitte Bardot.
The series was deliberately designed to globalization and should reflect the development of the United Nations and the European Community in the future. In the U.S., it achieved considerable commercial success.
Don Spencer came with the theme song sung by him Fireball XL5 in March 1963, entered the British charts and remained there for 12 weeks. The highest quotation was 32nd
Fireball XL5 was the last television series the Andersons in black and white format. The successor series command Stingray from 1963 has already been produced in color in order to improve the sales opportunities in the U.S. market.
Plots and characters
The series takes place 2063rd The spaceship Fireball XL5 is part of the World Space Patrol, a Space Police, which is to protect the United planet from aliens, criminals, pirates or natural disasters. Your base is Space City, located on an unnamed island in the Pacific and is managed by Commander Zero.
The crew of Fireball consists of Steve Zodiac, Matt Matic, Venus and Robert the robot. Venus has a futuristic -looking bungalow, which is inhabited in her absence by her pet, the semi-intelligent and requires speech-enabled Lazoon Zoonie. Zoonie used in the series as the sidekick of the heroine analogous to the little monkey Mitch in Supercar.
The series is designed as a space opera. The Fireball gets either themselves into dangerous situations or help is sought. She hunts Space Pirates and space spies, turns off megalomaniacal criminals and thieves or isotope Saves Planet that are threatened by runaway price celestial bodies. In episode 1875, the Fireball crew used a time machine and lands in the Wild West.
The series was edited in the 1990s on video and is now fully available on DVD. Was published in 2009 as Blu- ray Disc nachkolorierte a version of the episode # 37, The day in the life of a general space.