Fireball XL5 - The Complete Series
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Actor: David Graham, Gerry Anderson, John Bluthal, Paul Maxwell, Sylvia AndersonBrand: A and E Home Video
Writer: Gerry Anderson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1014 minutes
Published: 2003-02-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- In the year 2063, the World Space Fleet is extending mankind's reach beyond the solar system. Leading the charge is the incredible spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by the dashing Colonel Steve Zodiac. Steve and his steadfast crew patrol the vast reaches of Sector 25, where strange races inhabit distant planets. An early masterpiece from producer Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, Space: 1999),
DVD Reviews of Fireball XL5 - The Complete Series
DVD Review: Fireball XL5 - still fantastic 50 years on
Summary: 5 Stars
It is 2062, and the World Space Patrol, set at Space City, watches the skies with its fleet of XL spacecraft. The hero of the half hour, Colonel Steve Zodiac, is the pilot of Fireball XL5, the interplanetary rocketship protecting Sector 25 beyond the Solar System from alien invasion. With Steve Zodiac in command, his crew consisted of Venus, a doctor of space medicine, Professor Matic, the science officer, Venus's pet Zoonie the Lazoon, and Robbie the Robot, the rocket's mechanical co-pilot. I was 6 when Fireball XL5 aired and ever since I've been a SciFi and realSci fan, going on from XL5 to the likes Dr Who, Lost in space, the moon landings and a PhD in astrophysics. However despite the oddities of the witty 60's script, the spaceship Fireball XL5, and its accessories like the hover scooters, are a fantastic iconic design (particularly in the colour stills). The storylines are quite strong for a kids series, and the aliens are quite convincing - although we seem to see many of them again quite soon as the fishpeople in Stingray. In many ways Fireball XL5 is has a younger feel to it than later Anderson projects, so I expect boys nearer 5 to 7 would appreciate it most (or those now around 50 who first saw it at this age). I quickly bought this DVD set when it was going particularly cheaply on Amazon.
My son at 6 really took to the two XL5 videos I had, and like me he really really loved the Steve Zodiac song sung by Don Spencer at the end of each of episode, and we often used to have sing-alongs with it in the car. Although it was nice and thoroughly `modern' to let Venus (voiced by Sylvia Anderson) leave the nappies and washing behind and come along as part of the crew, it's not long before the good Dr of Space medicine is making the coffee or tripping over and screaming for male assistance. Typical Dr Venus quote `Oh I am a Tootie' - which I presume must be some sort of 2060's space bimbo. So Venus provides the backup for the two batchelor men, like doing the ironing, cooking, cleaning up after them, while also juggling a highly succesful career. Typical Professor Matic quote 'Now now, Venus, none of your feminine intuition. Let's stick to the facts' - I expect they had to cut what happened next.
My only regret is that the XL5 series hasn't been colourised in the same manner as the early B&W Bewitched episodes, as the XL5 spacehip would look great in colour. My son (now 9) hasn't taken to the whole XL5 series as he now can't tolerate the black and white TV - however he absolutely loves the B&W AP Films co-production `Torchy the battery boy' from 1958 so perhaps he is actually both too young and too old at 9 for this level of SciFi sophistication. What do I care I bought the series for my 50th birthday - and he's happy with Joe90 and Terrahawks in full `HudsonColour'. And even now "I wish I was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive. We'd Fly around the universe in Fireball Xl5. Way out in space together, conquerors of the sky, My heart would be a fireball, a fireball, and you would be my Venus of the skies."
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