If you Are Around 50, You May Rememeber This Kids Show ..

[GOPS Worst Fear]

I was a whopping 7 years old then. I had a "Thing" For Marina the mermaid!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs

Stingray (TV series)
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This article is about the ITV television series. For the NBC action-adventure series starring Nick Mancuso, see Stingray (NBC TV series).
Stingray

Original run October 4, 1964 – June 27, 1965
Stingray (1964 – 1965) is a children's marionette television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. Its 39 half-hour episodes were originally screened on ITV in the UK and syndication in the US. The scriptwriters included Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Alan Fennell (who went on to write for Thunderbirds), and Dennis Spooner. Barry Gray composed the music, and Derek Meddings was the special effects director.

Stingray was the first Supermarionation show to be filmed in colour, and also the first in which marionettes had interchangeable heads with different facial expressions. It was also the first British television programme to be filmed entirely in colour (the earlier The Adventures of Sir Lancelot having only been made in colour from halfway through its run). At the time the US stations were gearing up for full-time colour broadcasting, although Independent Television in Britain did not begin colour transmission until November 1969.

Supercar had featured a vehicle that could travel on land, sea and air, and Fireball XL5 featured a spaceship. The next logical step was a series about a submarine, which presented a number of technical challenges.

Scenes featuring model submarines or marionettes underwater were actually filmed on a dry set, with the camera looking through a narrow water tank containing air bubblers and fish of different sizes to simulate perspective, thereby creating a convincing illusion that the models or puppets were underwater. This was enhanced with lighting effects that gave the impression of shafts of light refracted through the surface of the sea.

Scenes on the ocean's surface were filmed using a large tank filled with water and blue dye. To prevent the edges of the tank from showing it was deliberately overfilled so that the water would constantly spill over the edges and conceal them. These techniques proved so successful that they were also used for underwater scenes in Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet.


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..Then that Aqua Marina song I can never get out of my head!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKX78GBVr9w&mode=related&search=

[qdemn7]

1. Actually

I never watched Stingray. My two favorite Supermarination shows were Supercar and Fireball XL5.

Here it is 40+ years later, and I'm still waiting on MY Flying Car....DAMMITT!!!! :cry:

[edbermac]

2. I remember those except for Supercar.

Just recall a few episodes of Stingray and Fireball; Thunderbirds I liked the best.

[bmbmd]

3. I wish I was a spaceman

the fastest man alive.
I'd fly across the universe
in Fireball XL5.
My heart would be a fireball
a fireball
Everytime I looked into your starry eyes.


Nope-never heard of it.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

6. LOFL

laugh Out Fucking Loud!

Waaaaaa! Haaaaaa!

[MrScorpio]

4. I remember a whole bunch of those Anderson shows

Loved them all

[GOPS Worst Fear]

7. You know that "dates" us don't you?

It makes me feel 50, although I remember Stingway so fondly..

[MrScorpio]

8. The Thunderbirds

SUPERMARIONATION!

Yeah, we're a bunch of old codgers

[bikebloke]

5. I remember it.

That's the first time seeing it in colour though.

[Kutjara]

9. Don't forget...

..."Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons." That and Thunderbirds were my two favorites.

[GOPS Worst Fear]

10. Good News! You can get the series on Ebay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/STINGRAY-5-DVD-Box-Set-The-Complete-Series-NEW-DVD_W0QQitemZ170149781050QQihZ007QQcategoryZ41589QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Thunderbirds+series

[Tyler Durden]

11. I remember them ALL.

Fireball XL-5 and Supercar were favorites.