Supercar - The Complete Series
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Actor: Cyril Shaps, David Graham, George Murcell, Graydon Gould, Sylvia AndersonBrand: A and E Home Video
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, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 850 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- The seminal supermarionation series soars onto DVD! Deep in the heart of the Nevada desert, at the isolated Black Rock laboratory, the brilliant Professor Popkiss and his colleague Dr. Beaker created Supercar, "The Marvel of the Age." Capable of racing from the depths of the ocean to the edge of space, this extraordinary vehicle takes the heroic pilot Mike Mercury and his precocious sidekick J
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DVD Review: The marvel of the age, indeed
Summary: 4 Stars
I have fond memories of this series from when I was about nine or ten (viewing it again I realize that I probably actually saw no more than eight or ten of the segments), and I was surprised and delighted to see it available on DVD. In an isolated laboratory in the desert at Blackrock, NV, an easy drive from Batesville and a couple of hours' bus time from Carson City, a three-man team has labored for five years to produce the vehicle of the future. The men are the craggy, bedroom-eyed American test pilot, Mike Mercury; jolly, bespectacled German, Prof. Adolf Popkiss; and the brilliant but terminally absentminded Britisher, Dr. Horatio Beeker, whose eccentricities often land him (and sometimes the rest of the team as well) in trouble. The vehicle, Supercar, is, as Mike says, "like an airplane, only better": she can fly from Nevada to New York City in 15 min. (not only super- but hypersonic), or loaf along at 1000 MPH ("low safe cruising speed")--2500 MPH at an altitude of 50,000' provides best fuel economy; she can operate at 4 1/2 miles below the surface of the sea, or in low earth orbit (100-1240 mi. up); she's even been known to travel the British motorways, though her altimeter keeps insisting she's going to crash if Mike doesn't put another 150 feet under her belly plates, and her armor is so stout that she shrugs off bullets without so much as a dent. On her first mission following the completion of testing, she rescues Bill Gibson, his 10-year-old brother Jimmy, and Jimmy's beloved pet monkey Mitch (much more intelligent than the average monkey, but equally mischievous) after their light plane ditches in the Pacific and their life raft goes astray in a heavy fog, and for reasons never fully explained Jimmy and Mitch are invited to stay at the lab with the team while Bill goes on to operate his small indy trucking business and later enter the astronaut corps. Thereafter Supercar and her team assist people in trouble (from a Chinese oldster threatened with the destruction of the temple he cares for, to a deposed political leader) and tackle criminals, spies, and assorted other baddies, most notably the fat and sinister Masterspy and his cowardly cohort Zahrin (who, though they're Russian, are eventually revealed as freelancers, stealing secrets and devices to sell to the highest bidder, and occasionally doing a job for hire, as in "Hi Jack") and the British white-collar criminal Harper and his Cockney muscleman Judd. The team is also very much aware of being a team, and willingly goes the extra mile for one another: once when Mitch becomes ill, Mike flies Dr. Beeker to the Amazon jungle in search of a plant that may cure him; when Prof. Popkiss has an appendectomy and needs a transfusion of blood from a rare group, Mike takes his doctor to an isolated research station in the Arctic to obtain plasma from a fellow scientist.
As other reviewers have observed, the strings of Supercar and the puppets all too often show (apparently invisible thread hadn't been invented yet), body proportions aren't always right, there are various cartoonish explosions that leave people smoke-stained and dishevelled but uninjured, and the lab and control consoles are implausibly simple, but for what it is, the special effects are surprisingly good (especially when Supercar's jets fire), and there's a good deal of creative use of stock footage--artillery against the horizon, African wildlife in its native habitat, a Naval ship at sea, a nuclear blast. There are also some implausibilities of plot, notably in "Island Incident" (how did the deposed General get from his island nation to the California desert, and once there, in those days before cell phones, how was he able to contact the Supercar team for help?) and in the fate of the recurring bad guys (why, once the team has them in its power, don't they end up securely in prison?). The violence quotient, however, is very low (though there's occasional shooting, particularly in one segment where the team is besieged at the lab by Masterspy and cohorts and Dr. Beeker shows himself to be a determined marksman with a machine gun, nobody is ever killed), and there's a lot of humor, some of it rather subtle, some more kid-friendly (as when Mike, testing his new pilot-ejector seat, twice ends up atop a cactus). As an adult I can still enjoy and appreciate this series and wish it could have lasted longer. (Believe it or not, somebody online is working on a full-video continuation!) Kids, even today's sophisticates, should like it too, especially with Jimmy as a focus for their own fantasies (as he once says, "I bet lots of kids would love to be where I am").
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