Favorite Anderson TV Series?

[Steve Gerard]

1. SPACE:1999 :cool:
2. UFO
3. THUNDERBIRDS

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[shadokp]

1. Space: 1999
2. UFO
3 The New Captain Scarlet

KP

[Katie Bleathman]

Captain Scarlet
UFO
Stingray

[Hazel]

1. Original Scarlet
2. Thunderbirds
3. UFO

Thunderbirds and UFO fight it out for second place, and the placeholder varies according to what day it is when you ask me.

[air terrainean]

1. Thunderbirds
2. UFO
3. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Followed by The Secret Service, Space;1999 (season one), Stingray, Joe 90 and Supercar

[Chrisof]

Hmmm tough one.

1. Thunderbirds. For its awsomeness.
2. Fireball XL5. For its characters and music.
3. Stingray- For the look of the show and again music.

:)

[Silent Bob]

1. Stingray
2. Stingray
3. Oh and ...Stingray

[Autumn Cottage]

1. Joe 90
2. Thunderbirds
3. UFO
(Special fondness for a unique series - The Secret Service)

[Mark42]

Space: 1999 - still clearly the best production
Captain Scarlet - still serious
Terrahawks - watchable lightweight & funny
Thunderbirds - still great, but bit slow now
NCS - new'ish so feels fresh
Space Precinct - entertaining in it's way
UFO - class, but dated and bit slow now
Fireball - still has charm
Stingray - nice music
Joe 90 - quality show, but still worry about his feet being able to reach the pedals of each vehicle he drives!

[TonyB]

My top 5 would have to be.....

1. UFO
2. Captain Scarlet (classic).
3. Thunderbirds
4. Stingray
5. Space 1999

[Dep1701]

My favorites would be:

1. Space:1999. I particularly like year one, as I prefer the overall tone and look of the show. However I do enjoy year two as well, despite the somewhat juvenile nature of many of the stories and the overall slump in production values.

2. U.F.O. Although the look of the show is a bit dated and certain elements are now almost camp ( purple wigs, anyone? ). I thought that most of the stories were intelligent and held up well to close scrutiny.

Although I did not see many of the puppet series until more recently, I do have an interest in them and find several of them enjoyable However I am not what you would call an afficianado.

[ufokev]

1] UFO. Now, just because my forum name may suggest this, it's because I'm actually a researcher and author into the "Genuine" UFO phenomenon!
2] Space:1999 year one. For the epic scale, and "2001" look. At the time, an accurate view of how space exporation might have been if NASA had carried on with the Apollo missions, and onto Mars.
3] Thunderbirds...cos well, it was the first real Anderson series I watched from new...way way back in '65!!!!

[Steve Gerard]

UFOkev, I agree with your choices:)

[jasonsmith]

1: Thunderbirds
2:Captain Scarlet (classic)
3:UFO
4:Stingray
5:XL5

Those who know me well will easily guess my least favorite!

[hwels]

1: Thunderbirds
2: Captain Scarlet
3: Space: 1999

[Keryn]

Fireball XL5
Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons
UFO

[j3pfilms]

The Secret Service
UFO
Stingray
Thunderbirds
Terrahawks

[Mike Delamar]

Thunderbirds
Stingray
Captain Scarlet
UFO
Fireball Xl5

the rest I dont really like but do like the models from them.

Mike

[Picasso61]

1 Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons
2 Thunderbirds
3 Fireball XL5
4 The Secret Service
5 Stingray
6 Supercar
7 Joe 90
8 Terrahawks
9 Four Feather Falls
10 Torchy The Battery Boy

That's my top 10. Captain Scarlet is just brilliant - I like the darker feel to the programme. Fireball XL5 is my favourite black and white show with that super theme tune and The Secret Service for its unique blend of Supermarionation and real life. A pity it was only seen in the ATV, Granada and Southern regions.

[Branko]

1. UFO
2. UFO
3. UFO
4. UFO
5. UFO
6. Space: 1999 year one

[doctor222]

Well, for me

1. Captain Scarlet & The Mysteron - Childhood remembrance
2. Space: 1999 - Another Childhood remembrance
3. Thunderbirds - Another another childhood remembrance

Despite the excellent French DVD Box Set of UFO, i've never seen any episode.

[SargentMajorZero]

Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
UFO
Fireball XL5

[kit]

Space:1999
UFO
Old and New Captain Scarlet
Space Precinct
The Protectors, although it could have used an hour long format to flesh out the plots a bit more.

[kennetzel]

Thunderbirds
Fireball XL5
Stingray

[Fireflash]

Thunderbirds
UFO
Stingray
Joe 90
The Secret Service

[Conrad Lefkon]

Here is my countdown:

1. Thunderbirds - I remember the huge publicity the series got when it was first broadcast. The sense of awe when Fireflash took off, with the flashing lights withdrawing into the runway, is hard to describe now. At the time it seemed like a wonderful vision of the near future.

2. Joe 90 - the first episode was terrible and Joe, himself, was annoying but the wide variety of stories and locations was inspired.

3. The Secret Service - Like many people, I didn't know this existed until it came out on tape. Again, a wide variety of situations and it inspired me to try and learn Unwinese (I used to correspond with Stanley).

4. Original Captain Scarlet - The first episode with the new style puppets was extraordinarily good. I remember there being a colour photo from Crater 101 on the front of our local newspaper (the Slough studios were in our area).

5. New Captain Scarlet - A tremendous lost opportunity that could have been the start of a whole wave of CGI shows. I corresponded at length with Dominic Lavery who was just great. Did you know that it was he who was rigged up with motion capture sensors for recording the Mysteron RAT?

6. Stingray - the best characterisation in any Anderson series. Troy, Phones, Atlanta, Shore and Fisher were wonderful 'people' although I didn't warm to Marina.

7. UFO - I just loved those sequences on Earth where you would have, say, Straker's car or a mobile driving down a dark road when it would be attacked by a UFO. Those wooded locations and tree-lined roads were just fantastic.

8. Terrahawks - If this had been filmed on 35mm rather than 16mm it would be much higher. A greatly underrated series.

9. Space 1999 Series 1 - Preposterous but impressive. Barbara Bain was great but the series was let down by unconvincing dialogue and amateurish performances by 'eye candy' extras. During life-threatening moments too many of these extras would be standing around like lemons.

10. Doppelganger - I am cheating by including this but I couldn't decide between Fireball and Supercar! Great performances by Ian Hendry and Patrick Wymark with a nice cameo by Herbert Lom. When Hendry was shaking hands with Wymark before getting ready to be blasted into space his face was almost grey with apprehension.

[Virgil Tracy]

1: Thunderbirds
2: UFO
3: Captain Scarlet (The Original)

It's hard to know but Thunderbirds is best:)

[Eagle Pilot]

1. Space 1999 (Season 1) - Season 2 was awful!
2. U.F.O. (maybe it could have made the first spot, if it wasn't for those purple wigs)
3. New Captain Scarlet
4. Original Captain Scarlet
5. Thunderbirds (mostly because of the cool vehicles)

[Virgil Tracy]

1. Space 1999 (Season 1) - Season 2 was awful!
2. U.F.O. (maybe it could have made the first spot, if it wasn't for those purple wigs)
3. New Captain Scarlet
4. Original Captain Scarlet
5. Thunderbirds (mostly because of the cool vehicles)

I know what you mean about the wigs, Just why did they have them?

[captainblack]

hi to all new on the forum today fav show has to be captain scarlet some of the best storylines followed by ufo for me by the way the names dave

[Virgil Tracy]

hi to all new on the forum today fav show has to be captain scarlet some of the best storylines followed by ufo for me by the way the names dave

Is that the old or new captain scarlet?

[captainblack]

got to be the old scarlet for me

[Virgil Tracy]

Me too, but the new one is good but just not as good

[captainblack]

i agree but i have to admit i havent seen many of the new scarlet

[Virgil Tracy]

Well what I don't like about the new one is that all the vehicles are different, and they completely changed Lt Green, but as a TV show it's good

[Silent Bob]

Its funny but at about the same time as the New Captain Scarlet was airing with its new designed Skybase. Doctor Who started and UNIT had the airborne carrier Valiant. Both are very similar, but which was designed first?

On another note, alot of the new Scarlet episodes were very good. But what disappointed me most was the very lack-luster opening and closing credits. Nothing memorable at all.

[Virgil Tracy]

Its funny but at about the same time as the New Captain Scarlet was airing with its new designed Skybase. Doctor Who started and UNIT had the airborne carrier Valiant. Both are very similar, but which was designed first?

On another note, alot of the new Scarlet episodes were very good. But what disappointed me most was the very lack-luster opening and closing credits. Nothing memorable at all.

I know what you mean about Skybase and the Valiant
I can remember seeing the Valiant for the 1st time and thinking "That looks like Skybase" or something like that

[Steve Gerard]

CLOUDBASE of original CAPTAIN SCARLET & MYSTERIONS
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vs.

SKYBASE of new CAPTAIN SCARLET
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[Virgil Tracy]

And the Valiant

It looks a lot like Skybase

[Steve Gerard]

Its funny but at about the same time as the New Captain Scarlet was airing with its new designed Skybase. Doctor Who started and UNIT had the airborne carrier Valiant. Both are very similar, but which was designed first?

DOCTOR WHO Valiant had to be inspired by CAPTAIN SCARLET's Cloudbase & Skybase.

[Crimson Rage]

This week:

UFO
SPACE 1999
FIREBALL XL5

Ask me next week and I could have a totally different list. Gerry's shows are perfect for all manner of occasions and moods. Next time, I could put STINGRAY at the top because I'm in a 'Stingray mood'.

[Silent Bob]

This week, i will be mostly watching....Joe 90 :)

[Picasso61]

This week, i will be mostly watching....Joe 90 :)I just finished watching Thunderbirds, Silent Bob & I'll start watching Terrahawks. Or maybe the two Thunderbirds films....

[Silent Bob]

Some nice pix of my favourite series.

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[Andrew Kearley]

1. Space: 1999 (first series) - the most astonishing and mind-blowing tv series I've ever seen.

2. UFO - visually impressive, stylistically bonkers - but some cracking good human drama.

3. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - very impressive for a kids puppet series - tense and hard-nosed action without the lapses into juvenile humour that affect many of the other shows.

[DukeDexter]

http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu278/arthur2shedsjackson_photos/Stingray.jpg

Reg Hill: "Damn, is this meant to come off?"

[Picasso61]

Some nice pix of my favourite series.

http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu278/arthur2shedsjackson_photos/Stingray.jpg
http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu278/arthur2shedsjackson_photos/StingrayPromotionalPhotos1.jpg
http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu278/arthur2shedsjackson_photos/StingrayPromotionalPhotos.jpgMore great images, Silent Bob. Excellent!:D

[glo thorogood]

Thunderbirds is undoubtedly the best of the bunch, with the earlier Stingray and XL5 next.
For me the darkness in Captain Scarlet made it less appealing.
That said, I've watched every show avidly.
Glo

[John Johnson]

UFO.
Captain Scarlet.
Space:1999 - Year One.
Thunderbirds.

[cricket_99]

Space 1999
UFO
Thunderbirds

[air terrainean]

Welcome Cricket ! I'd put out the flags, but we don't seem to have any yet !

[cricket_99]

Welcome Cricket ! I'd put out the flags, but we don't seem to have any yet !


:) Thanks for the welcome. Consider the flag waved!

[Retroboy]

Cricket ! really good to see you here .

[Silent Bob]

:) Thanks for the welcome. Consider the flag waved!

Welcome to the forum cricket. I've put out another flag for you! :)

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[cricket_99]

:) :) Thank you!

[Steve Gerard]

Cricket, welcome to the Fanderson Forum. Good to see you here, as well as there at Eagle Transporter Forum too. :)

[TonyB]

Welcome aboard Cricket, nice to see you on here too.

[Colonel Foster]

1] U.F.O

2] U.F.O

3] U.F.O

And er... U.F.O!!!

Then Thunderbirds,Old then new captain Scarlet and I love the Secret Service!

[costrakerufo]

Hello everyone.

Just joined this excellent forum today and looking forward to making a few contributions to the discussions.

My favourites are:
UFO
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet (1967)

[Virgil Tracy]

Hello everyone.

Just joined this excellent forum today and looking forward to making a few contributions to the discussions.

My favourites are:
UFO
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet (1967)

Welcome to the forum costrakerufo, hope you have FUN:D

[Richard259]

Well just to be a litt;le different, Fireball XL5 followed by Captain Scarlet (1967). Although I liked Thunderbirds it's not a favourite. Actually preferred Stingray.

[harryden]

MacGyver is my favorite anderson tv show but I am interested in USA TV shows.

[SimonG]

Ho ho, oh my aching sides!

Anyway i digress, to business:-
U.F.O.
Captain Scarlet...
Thunderbirds
NCS
Space: 1999
Terrahawks

BTW where are all the votes for Twizzle, Torchy, Four Feather Falls, Dick Spanner & Lavender Castle?