Calling all Fandersons

[Gixergs]

Nope I really don't remember watching Fireball,as a kid anyway Stingray was the first Anderson show I remember watching.

[peter taft]

Originally Posted by Gixergs

Nope I really don't remember watching Fireball,as a kid anyway Stingray was the first Anderson show I remember watching.

That's right.... I now remember my age - YOU BAD MAN !

[Gixergs]

Yes but a Youthfull bad man ho hum if only, on the plus side my brother remembers Torchy the Battery Boy and Four Feather Falls!

[peter taft]

Originally Posted by Gixergs

Yes but a Youthfull bad man ho hum if only, on the plus side my brother remembers Torchy the Battery Boy and Four Feather Falls!

Now you have lost me.... YIPPEE

[Gixergs]

see instead of counting the rings you can age a Fanderson by his first programme.
Gerry Anderson

[peter taft]

Originally Posted by Gixergs

see instead of counting the rings you can age a Fanderson by his first programme.
Gerry Anderson

Looking at those, i am pleased i don't remember them - i know of them {vaguely} but most certainly never watched them, although my memory is slightly bad these days....

[airdave]

Twizzle and Torchy were way before my time!
My first show that I remember was Supercar!
Don't ask me to explain...I was pretty young when Supercar began. (1959/60)
So it must have run for a while? or been re-run.
But Supercar and Fireball were the first shows I remember watching with some regularity.

...oh... and Noddy and Magic Roundabout too!

I know I did not see a lot of Fireball or Supercar
but I do remember seeing most episodes of Stingray (1963, I was 4yrs old)

and then Thunderbirds (1964/65)
I did see Thunderbirds are Go in the Cinema in '66

Unfortunately I only saw a few of the first episodes of Capt. Scarlet in '67
(because of my move to Canada)

Somehow, somewhere, I got see a few episodes of Joe90, but I don't know where?
I don't think it ran in Canada?

UFO was my favorite Anderson program...but I only ever saw one or two episodes.
Again, not sure where, could have been on British TV when I was back for a visit.
I had to wait almost 40 years, until I was able to download almost every episode online!
(This was a few years ago, before the DVD releases! I met a private collector who had converted the TV episodes)

I need to go and buy the DVDs, because I am missing the last two or three episodes.

Sorry, for my trip down memory lane...its just fun remembering!
Supermarionation Is Go!

[Gixergs]

Missed Supercar too but The Magic Roundabout I would sit and watch avidly still will the originals.If only they had filmed the Jasper Carrot version.

[Zathros]

Originally Posted by jagolden01

I'm 53 and certainly remember it. One of my favorite toys as a kid was the Fireball XL5 Playset.
The hoverbike was really cool. Think there's aplace that sells repros for people trying to complete their playsets. They also sell a repro of Space City in cardboard.

jagolden01, you're only 53, and here I am thinking your "sage words of advice" were coming from some one much older than me! I'm 54!.................................

Well, that would have made a difference in 5th grade!

[GaryPilsworth]

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