Saturday, June 2, 2007

SUPERMARIONATION: The World Of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson!!!

I was watching THUNDERBIRD 6 on cable Saturday morning and came to think how many of the shows of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson I had watched when I was a child, and have still watched them on and off over the years of my adulthood, that is to say, WAY too many!!!
I loved all the programs I watched from their company, via Lord Lew Grade's ITC.
As a very small boy I watched FIREBALL XL5, then SUPERCAR, STINGRAY, and, a bit later, THUNDERBIRDS and CAPTAIN SCARLETT. When I was older still I watched UFO, with the great American actor, Ed Bishop, starring amongst those "crazy" British gals with the wildly colored hair ***smile***, and SPACE: 1999.
I really enjoyed the second batch of "1999", once Maya was added to the cast of characters. I do like Barry Morse, late of THE FUGITIVE, but I never felt that he "fit" in with SPACE: 1999. Catherine Schell, as Maya, was much more appropriate, and definitely more "futuristic" than Morse was.
I did not think very highly of some of the writing for the series, but I hung in there and kept watching, especially to see my favorite husband and wife acting team of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
I never got to watch such Anderson programs as JOE 90 and THE SECRET SERVICE, but I did see TERRAHAWKS, during the 1980's, and I really disliked that one, I am sad to say, the characters were not pleasant in either appearnce or personality-wise, in my opinion.
Some day I will see TWIZZLE and FOUR FEATHER FALLS, the earliest shows in the Anderson ouevre.
I also have to mention DOPPLEGANGER, also known as JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN, with one of my other favorite television men, Roy Thinnes, formerly of THE INVADERS.
One final note, if you get a chance to see a late 1990's film, GIDEON, you can see a great cast that includes Christopher Lambert, Carroll O'Connor, Charlton Heston (in a sympathetic role), _and_ none other than Barbara Bain!!!

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