Thunderbirds vrs Captain Scarlet --- who do you like better ?

[phil]

Sorry I didn't spell "foul" correctly. To quotes a great American, "Doh"!

[Bo8a_Fett]

Good call phil
agree with you

[phil]

Fowl!!!

Both shows are great and they are too different to compare.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Definately Captain Scarlet.......the spv was one of my favourite vehicles in all anderson tv.The stories were much more adult and there was a sense of continuation unlike the "rescue of the week" format of Thunderbirds....not that i'm knocking Thunderbirds as it too was a great show...especially the alligator and sun probe episodes.
The names of the Tracy brothers were after the first 5 Americans in space, Troy Tempest was modelled on James Garner and the voice of Captain Scarlet was based on Cary Grant.

[clemso]

Thunderbirds is my favourite and holds a lot of nostalgia for me. Captain Scarlett was a pretty cool show, but it is the space crafts/ships/vehicles that Make Thunderbirds top dog. They had great merchandise too. I am currently collecting T 1-5 plus fab 1 made by JR 21 Rosenthal. I think Mego would have been well suited to both these shows, what a shame.

Clem...

[palitoy]

Moore and Cook are completely awesome.

[Mikey]

Anybody ever see this old Peter Cook sketch ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_wCMywEM0

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[HardyGirl]

Well, since I've only seen Thunderbird Are Go! & Thunderbird 6, I gotta go w/ Captain Scarlet. I never saw any of Gerry Anderson's puppet shows until the Sci-Fi channel ran them in '92. I remember showing it to a kid I babysat and he asked me why were the action figures on TV? (He used to play w/ my 12" GIJoes). They do look more like action figures than puppets which is probably why I like them. But out of all the puppet shows, Stingray is my fave. I like the stories better, and Troy Tempest is a really likable type of hero. My class even likes them. And since a kid named Marina used to go to my school, I used to sing that ending theme to her. I even have 3 Stingray figures: Commander Shore, Troy Tempest and Marina.

[phil]

I have the Secret Service on DVD and it is kind of a strange show but it is
fun and has the usual charm of Anderson's Supermarionation shows. Watching
it in French must have been interesting.

[Surfsup]

I loved Thunderbirds as a kid and still do. I can sit down now and watch episodes and enjoy every second. The intro has to be one of the best ever IMO, it that doesn't grab you then nothing will.

I liked Terrahawks for one reason and that was the Zeroids, it gave the show some much needed humour.

[Boris71]

I liked terrahawks show but i think thunderbirds and sting ray were definately the best coolest ships and charcters and I love the over sized head style, I use it in my designs and characters still today

[jwyblejr]

Thunderbirds win with me by default. It's the only one I've seen. Do miss G4 running it and have the little extra trivia bits.

[palitoy]

I completely missed Terrahawks somehow, so I had to look it up on iMDb. Anderson really beat that team-of-scientists-protecting-the-planet theme to death, didn't he?

Yeah, Terrahawks was supposed to be a return to past glory so I assume the theme was intentional. It was made in the mid eighties and had horrible syndication in North America, so it was pretty easily missed. It aired in my neck of the woods at 5am.

[ABMAC]

I completely missed Terrahawks somehow, so I had to look it up on iMDb. Anderson really beat that team-of-scientists-protecting-the-planet theme to death, didn't he?

[palitoy]

I remember it being sort of dry that way, although I needed to characters to speak slowly at the time.

I found some Terrahawks on clearance here and bought it thinking the kids would like it. It's one I found the least appealing, the puppets are muppet like (no lower torsos) and everyone is kind of creepy looking.