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  • Re: [NEWS} "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" to have a puppet episode

    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to YourName@YourISP.com on Sun Jul 27 04:30:42 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.sf.tv

    In article <1063jq1$2jd7e$1@dont-email.me>, YourName@YourISP.com wrote:

    The talentless generation lazily copying an old Stargate episode,
    albeit with Muppets rather than string puppets. Obviously they have run
    out of sensible ideas (if they even had any to begin with!), so is past
    time to end the show.

    I hate this trope, but it's been around longer than that.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 31 09:57:37 2025
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
    wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Thu Jul 31 13:55:26 2025
    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
    wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)


    Yes. XL 5 was the second supermarination show.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Fri Aug 1 10:14:15 2025
    On 2025-07-31 16:57:37 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
    wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)

    Gerry Anderson did a lot of puppet shows (and a few live-action shows).
    The ones I mentioned were simply examples, perhaps the best known ones,
    hence "etc." on the end. Fewer people, especially Americans, will have
    heard of the earlier shows like "Fireball XL-5", "Four Feather Falls",
    "Torchy the Battery Boy", or "The Adventures of Twizzle". :-)

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  • From EGK@21:1/5 to anim8rfsk@cox.net on Thu Jul 31 19:21:53 2025
    On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:55:26 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
    wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)


    Yes. XL 5 was the second supermarination show.

    Part of the most recent episode out today, July 31, does a sort of parody of the original series episodes.
    If you had ever told me I would be infatuated with Christine Chapel in the original series I would have said you were nuts but here we are in Strange
    new Worlds :D

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to Your Name on Fri Aug 1 02:45:40 2025
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-07-31 16:57:37 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
    wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)

    Gerry Anderson did a lot of puppet shows (and a few live-action shows).
    The ones I mentioned were simply examples, perhaps the best known ones,
    hence "etc." on the end. Fewer people, especially Americans, will have
    heard of the earlier shows like "Fireball XL-5", "Four Feather Falls", "Torchy the Battery Boy", or "The Adventures of Twizzle". :-)


    Two words: SUPERCAR



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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 1 06:51:40 2025
    On 8/1/2025 2:45 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-07-31 16:57:37 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
    wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)

    Gerry Anderson did a lot of puppet shows (and a few live-action shows).
    The ones I mentioned were simply examples, perhaps the best known ones,
    hence "etc." on the end. Fewer people, especially Americans, will have
    heard of the earlier shows like "Fireball XL-5", "Four Feather Falls",
    "Torchy the Battery Boy", or "The Adventures of Twizzle". :-)


    Two words: SUPERCAR

    ...

    Anim, you need some remedial counting lessons.

    :P

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 2 11:21:05 2025
    On 2025-08-01 09:45:40 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-07-31 16:57:37 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and
    wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)

    Gerry Anderson did a lot of puppet shows (and a few live-action shows).
    The ones I mentioned were simply examples, perhaps the best known ones,
    hence "etc." on the end. Fewer people, especially Americans, will have
    heard of the earlier shows like "Fireball XL-5", "Four Feather Falls",
    "Torchy the Battery Boy", or "The Adventures of Twizzle". :-)

    Two words: SUPERCAR

    Yep, that would be another of Gerry Anderson's many puppet TV shows.

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to Your Name on Fri Aug 1 19:02:20 2025
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-08-01 09:45:40 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-07-31 16:57:37 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
    On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:43:04 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:

    In Stargate SG-1 it wasn't an entire episode, but just part of an
    episode where a TV producer found out about the Stargate project and >>>>> wanted to make a TV show of it. The episode had a few different
    variations of that imagined TV show cold be like, including the
    string-puppet version similar to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds,
    Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

    Wasn't Fireball XL-5 also a puppet show? (Albeit considerably further
    back than Thunderbirds)

    Gerry Anderson did a lot of puppet shows (and a few live-action shows).
    The ones I mentioned were simply examples, perhaps the best known ones,
    hence "etc." on the end. Fewer people, especially Americans, will have
    heard of the earlier shows like "Fireball XL-5", "Four Feather Falls",
    "Torchy the Battery Boy", or "The Adventures of Twizzle". :-)

    Two words: SUPERCAR

    Yep, that would be another of Gerry Anderson's many puppet TV shows.



    The first in SUPERMARINATION!

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 1 21:06:21 2025
    On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 19:02:20 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
    wrote:

    Yep, that would be another of Gerry Anderson's many puppet TV shows.

    The first in SUPERMARINATION!

    I knew there was a special trade name but 50+ years later one tends to forget...

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Fri Aug 1 23:57:05 2025
    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 19:02:20 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
    wrote:

    Yep, that would be another of Gerry Anderson's many puppet TV shows.

    The first in SUPERMARINATION!

    I knew there was a special trade name but 50+ years later one tends to forget...

    I am pretty much a SUPERCAR mega fan.



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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sat Aug 2 19:00:07 2025
    On 2025-08-02 04:06:21 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
    On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 19:02:20 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
    wrote:

    Yep, that would be another of Gerry Anderson's many puppet TV shows.

    The first in SUPERMARINATION!

    I knew there was a special trade name but 50+ years later one tends to forget...

    So did anim8trfsk. ;-)

    It needs an extra letter 'o': "Supermarionation". It comes from the
    term 'marionette' (a puppet controlled from above using wires /
    strings).

    Technically the first Gerry Anderson TV show to use the same ideas was
    the earlier "Four Feather Falls" (the first of his puppet shows and
    adverts to use lip-syncing), but his first TV show to actually use his
    coined term "Supermarionation" was indeed "Supercar".

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 3 11:43:40 2025
    On 2025-08-02 06:57:05 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 19:02:20 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
    wrote:

    Yep, that would be another of Gerry Anderson's many puppet TV shows.

    The first in SUPERMARINATION!

    I knew there was a special trade name but 50+ years later one tends to
    forget...

    I am pretty much a SUPERCAR mega fan.

    Supercar and Thunderbirds are probably my two favourite Gerry Anderson
    shows. :-)

    Although I did watch them, I awlays though Joe 90 was a bit boring and
    Captain Scarlet a bit weird.

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