Fireball XL5 - The Complete Series
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Cinematographer: Ian D. StruthersWriter: Gerry Anderson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1014 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
DVD Reviews of Fireball XL5 - The Complete Series
DVD Review: Get this now!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a fan of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's work, and while this is "early" Anderson, it's well worth getting to see how they perfected their craft.DVD Review: Better than it was the first time...
Summary: 5 Stars
Man does this bring back memories. I was just a little space squirt when this series originaly aired. I've wondered off and on through the years whatever happened to the series and HERE IT IS! Yep, the plots are weak, and you can see the strings, but it's still cool. Buy it, if you're reading this, you know you want to. DVD Review: I Remember the Days
Summary: 5 Stars
In the days of this series, life was simple. I would make sure to watch the episodes each Saturday on our round-tubed RCA Victor black and white television, and wouldn't give a hoot if there were puppet wires showing, or the effects were "cheesy" according to the great technology of today. My school lunchbox, and a toy that I played with until it totally fell apart were both Fireball XL5. I had an actual model of the ship which fired plastic rockets, and included the minature hover craft and our two heroes. The vehicle would separate into two pieces making it even more "neato." When the DVD box set came out, I was totally surprised. I had no idea that this show was even still in existence, as well as remastered into some fine memorabilia. I made sure to add it to my collection. The memories that it brought back were incredible, and my younger relatives have enjoyed watching such a vintage show. My brother came to visit and as a surprise I pulled out a disc of the show, and it was like the old Saturday mornings once again. If you enjoy this kind of "animation," and were fans of shows such as Stingray, and Supercar, then Fireball XL5 is for sure a keeper.DVD Review: Ultra-cool cult classic!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Superb Classic 60's TV- What I loved the most about this show, when I was a kid, was the music-I feel it has THE best music of ALL the Anderson shows. My 4 year old loves this DVD set.DVD Review: Takes you back
Summary: 5 Stars
If you were a kid in the 60's this show was a Saturday morning must-see. The DVD (without commercials) allows you to cut through the (corny) story lines quickly, much faster than having to wait through the cliff-hanger commercials. The mesmerising marionettes was cool for the time - Venus was a wooden love goddess.
Description of Fireball XL5 - The Complete Series
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 and daring Colonel Steve Zodiac. With his steadfast crew--the brilliant professor Matt Matic, the lovely space doctor Venus and Robert the Robot--Steve patrols the vast reaches of Sector 25, where strange races inhabit distant planets.In 1962, legendary producer Gerry Anderson (Space: 1999, UFO) turned his attention to space for the first time. The result was FIREBALL XL5, a rarely-seen gem that paved the way for later supermarionation masterpieces like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons. This definitive collection includes all 39 black and white episodes of FIREBALL XL5, digitally restored and presented in their original production order.
Return to Galactic Sector 25 as FIREBALL XL5 flies again in this DVD set.
Producer Gerry Anderson is something of a legend in his native England, based primarily on the popular TV series Thunderbirds, its various spinoffs, and this, its 1962-'63 predecessor. All were produced in "Supermarionation"; i.e., they're puppet shows--not especially sophisticated ones (to say the least), but ones that many viewers seemed to adore. This five-disc boxed set contains all 39 episodes of Fireball XL5, totaling nearly 17 hours (plus extras).
The stories concern the efforts of captain-hero Steve Zodiac and his crew (including Steve's love interest and a talkative robot, voiced respectively by Anderson's then-wife Sylvia and Anderson himself; the pair were also cowriters) to protect "Sector 25" of the solar system from alien invasion. They battle killer rays and alien criminals, visit mysterious planets, and escape from all manner of perilous circumstances... they use ray guns and fly around with "thrust packs" and on "jetmobiles" (reducing the need for walking, which puppets don't do so well)... in other words, typical sci-fi fare. But while the animation is laughable (little attempt was made to disguise the strings that hold up puppets and props alike) and the effects primitive, there's no denying the show's campy charm (indeed, people who study such things consider it to be an important influence on the sci-fi genre in general). Is it a bit too much of a good thing? Probably not for anyone willing to make the investment. DVD extras include photos, a couple of featurettes, and audio commentary on two episodes (voice actor David Graham on "The Doomed Planet" and director Alan Pattillo on "Space City Special"). --Sam Graham
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