Small Brown Dog Artwork and related

[Old Wombat]

Ah, Thunderbird 2! My favourite since I was knee-high to a grasshopper!

[apophenia]

Is it just me or does this one have a bit of a WALL-E vibe to it?

[Small brown dog]

Is it just me or does this one have a bit of a WALL-E vibe to it?

Those eyes look so right 
Maybe all the Tbird craft should faces something like Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends.

You may have started something here

[apophenia]

... Maybe all the Tbird craft should faces something like Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends...

Love it!

[Small brown dog]

Stingray





I think without doubt or fear of contradiction that the greatest ever opening scene of any TV series has to be Gerry Andersons Stingray. Yeah I know it’s all subjective but even now after almost 50 years I still get that tingle when it runs. Its so damned exciting you just get caught up in it and you actually believe that “anything can happen in the next half hour”.

Now just to throw a spanner in the works I do have to state that very quickly that  as a kid I began to think that not one of the stories ever lived up to the opening sequence and that awful ending “Marina” song was so sickly sweet I was scared all my teeth would rot and fall out ...or maybe that was later when Ayesha Brough and Gabriel Drake were rewiring my brain in UFO.

Anyway, there is that great but crazy scene in the opening sequence where Stingray leaps out of the water with a Titan Terror fish following. I always wondered what the back story to that might have been and I figured it was a last ditch attempt to shake of the Terror fish which had previously snuck up on Stingray and let loose a couple of torp’s . So some decades later I thought I would recreate that underwater attack scene from my childhood head.

I imagine there are some that wonder what the hell I’m on about re the opening sequence so here you go and remember this was 1964 …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45NtEXv7DZs

By the way, I think that following hot on the heels of Stingray has to be the opening sequence to the Prisoner but I’m happy to be persuaded different.

[robunos]

XLNT . . . !!
The thing I could never work out with Stingray was why, if the Bad Guys were aquatic creatures that lived under the sea, when there was an attack warning, the WASP base hid itself underground in case of an air raid . . .


" Marina, Aqua Marina, what's that strange , and haunting, smell of fish when you're near . . ."


cheers,
Robin.

[Old Wombat]

I noticed some definite elements of the Thunderbirds theme music in the Stingray theme music.

Stingray wasn't something that had much impact on my childhood, nor was Captain Scarlet.

Thunderbirds did.

I don't know why because I remember having seen episodes of all of them but only Thunderbirds made any real impression on  me.

[Small brown dog]

XLNT . . . !!
The thing I could never work out with Stingray was why, if the Bad Guys were aquatic creatures that lived under the sea, when there was an attack warning, the WASP base hid itself underground in case of an air raid . . .
shhhh....applying logic breaks the spell 

" Marina, Aqua Marina, what's that strange , and haunting, smell of fish when you're near . . ."
That made me LoL 

cheers,
Robin.

[Small brown dog]

I noticed some definite elements of the Thunderbirds theme music in the Stingray theme music.

Stingray wasn't something that had much impact on my childhood, nor was Captain Scarlet.

Thunderbirds did.

I don't know why because I remember having seen episodes of all of them but only Thunderbirds made any real impression on  me.

Oh hell yes, Thunderbird's was "it" as far as I was/am concerned. Nothing touched it then or since.
Lots of the Barry Grey music written for stingray became reused as incidental music for Tbirds.

When I become the next king of England, as I should be, I would make the Thunderbird's them the national anthem and all the emergency vehicles would have the Stingray bongos for sirens   

[perttime]

I remember watching Thunderbirds as a kid and loving it. At some point, I built an Angel Interceptor model, just because I thought it was a cool design. I had no idea about its context, or Captain Scarlet. I remember seeing an episode or two of Captain Scarlet later on. I don't think I've ever seen a Stingray episode.

[Buzzbomb]

Stingray was of my time, so I love this drawing.

Stargazer Models used to do a Resin kit of stingray, but no more sadly. I will have to ask if he still has the moulds next time I see him

I noticed some definite elements of the Thunderbirds theme music in the Stingray theme music.
Stingray wasn't something that had much impact on my childhood, nor was Captain Scarlet.
Thunderbirds did.
I don't know why because I remember having seen episodes of all of them but only Thunderbirds made any real impression on  me.

I find myself totally opposite, Fireball XL5, Space Patrol, Stingray and moreso Captain Scarlet were more in my zone than Thunderbirds

[apophenia]

...When I become the next king of England, as I should be ...

King Canis the First?  I'd vote for ya