Stingray The Complete Collection [DVD]

Bought for a teenager. She loves the old classic tv. Another one for her collection

After Launching Fireball XL5 Into Space Gerry Anderson Looked Below The Waves For His Next Series. Stingray The super submarine next To The Seaview on Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was The coolest submarine on TV. Stingray introduced Hero Troy Tempest along with sidekick Phones The pilots of The super sub with Stingray Gerry Anderson's writers could put The sub and it's crew in any situation one episode Had Stingray Travelling To Loch Ness in search of The fabled monster another featured Troy in a This Is Your Life episode showcasing some of our Hero's past Adventures. seasonal episodes around Christmas were olso added For a certain Generation of us The closing credits To Stingray featuring Gary Miller's lush vocals To The song AQUAMARINA remain with us I can still get Goosebumps listening To This. The song was a reference To another of Stingray's main character's Marina The muted beauty Troy rescues from The first episode. The other women in Troy's life Atlata Shore voiced by non other Than Miss Moneypenny Herself Lois Maxwell. Stingray comes spread over five Disc's with an interesting set of special features and why not for The First ITV series To be shown in colour. commentary from Gerry Anderson on The pilot episode memrobillia and stills Gallery's plus The infamous Des OConner sketch Taken from His show with Des in The bath and Stingray surfacing priceless. Stingray as been released previous but really it's worth The upgrade for ITV's repackaging of The series featuring Troy Phones Marina & Stingray on The Dust jacket and if you already own The repackaged Captain Scarlett you will know what I mean. each episode of Stingray proclaimed Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour It Did and it will Do again for you when you revisit This TV Classic.

Despite its intended UK home market having no colour TV in 1964, Gerry Anderson looked to the future and to selling the series to the American networks, and made ‘Stingray’ in colour. It was a good decision. All 39 episodes of this classic sci-fi series about Troy Tempest (character based on the actor James Garner), his sidekick ‘Phones’ Sheridan and the silent aquatic Marina in their atomic sub Stingray, protecting the human race from malevolent undersea races are presented here on a five-DVD package in their original running order.Besides the technicolour, other innovations for this series included interchangeable heads for the marionettes enabling differing facial expressions (sometimes just for a few seconds in a scene) and two strong female characters – though Marina doesn’t speak as she comes from an undersea race of mute telepaths! In keeping with most of the action taking place under the sea, the series deploys some impressive blue/green lighting effects and an often atmospheric soundtrack.Even though no restoration has been done on the original episodes, they still look more than OK. For a TV series aimed at kids in 1964, the storylines are generally strong with bursts of plentiful action as the crew of ‘Stingray’ encounter sentient undersea races both friendly and hostile, but they often have a light touch too. The characters are surprisingly well realised, from the chronically cantankerous Commander Shore to the conniving secret agent X20 who sounds like the actor Peter Lorre, and the series villain Titan whose character seems to be based on Mussolini but speaks like Sir Laurence Olivier.The atomic submarine ‘Stingray’ is, however, the star of the show. The Andersons sure had a flair for designing futuristic looking machines for their TV series and the sleek, fish-shaped blue & yellow sub is one of the most enduring and memorable.(and BTW, does Marina remind anyone of Melania Trump? Look closely...)

takes me back to when I was a kid

As a thirty-something idly searching for the programmes I remembered as a kid, all the Gerry Anderson programmes featured high on the list - and I am now totally hooked! This box set is exactly what it says; all the episodes made of Stingray. This was the first TV series entirely made in colour and features the exciting music and groundbreaking special effects that are a trademark of the era and of Anderson. The technology might seem pretty archaic compared to now, but this is MORE than made up for in characerisation and narrative. Stingray contains larger-than-life characters with well thought out personalities, far-fetched adventure stories and is pure entertainment. The baddies and heroes are caricatures, the thrills so thrilling that it verges on ridiculous and it has healthy humour for adults and kids alike. If you like your entertainment to be fun, honest and straightforward, then you'll love this. Of all the Anderson series, this is probably the one with the highest tongue-in-cheek ratio - and there's something contagious about hearing the voice actors thoroughly enjoying what they are doing. And that title music has to be the most breathless piece of Barry Gray ever - even the orchestra sound like they are having a whale of a time!

Finally took the plunge and ordered the standard issue dvd collection.Nicely packaged and securely delivered .On a big screen telly the original transfer flaws are obvious (similar to TPTV quality) but in my opinion the onscreen patena just adds to the charm of this series ;It would be nice to see it remastered in blu-Ray but I’m guessing it would be niche and too expensive to do .The sound is ok though but don’t expect hi-fi quality .Worth having if you’re an Anderson fan.🚀

Great dvd

Très bon état

Tja, was soll man groß sagen: Weckt Erinnerungen an die Kindheit. Meine Tochter findet es putzig...Bildqualität und Ton sind angemessen. Würde ich jederzeit wieder kaufen.

When I was a child Stingray was one of my favourite shows.I spent hours drawing my versions of the submarine and the characters, though not the girls, I couldn't draw girls. CBC Canada, broadcast Stingray on Sundays right after a show called Hymn Sing. I would endure watching Hymn Sing (trust me, as a child, it was like spending 10 years stuck on an ice floe) just so I wouldn't miss a second of STINGRAY ! Viewing it again after all these years, I see why I loved it so much. It's like watching a 30 minute toy commercial, or more correctly, watching someone play with toys for 30 minutes. The shows ethos seems to be, blow things up now and ask questions later, which is perfect from a child's point of view. The music is also exciting, it Swells whenever Stingray blasts out of the submarine pen.The theme music has cool horns and percussion (bongos??!!). All in all it's a wonderful box set. WARNING the dvds may not work with players formated for North American use. I've had success watching them on my all region Sony blu-ray player.( check internet for info)

Ottimo cofanetto per una serie davvero mitica degli anni '60, opera del geniale Gerry Anderson. Non do 5 stelle solo perché la qualità video, pur essendo ottima, non è al livello degli omologhi cofanetti di "Thunderbirds". Il cofanetto è in inglese con sottotitoli solo in inglese.