Joe 90

Joe 90 is a British science fiction supermarionation series from 1968, created by Sylvia and Gerry Anderson. The series was created for Lew Grades ITC Entertainment byCentury 21 Productions, and was first broadcast on ATV. In total, the series of 30 episodes. It was also the last Gerry Anderson series that was created by using Supermarionation.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The series is set around 2012-2013. The main character in Joe 90 is a 9-year-old child named Joe McClaine. Joes adoptive father and computer expert, Professor Ian McClaine, one day finds a machine that he the BIG RAT, (Br I G Record mpulse alvanoscope And Transfer) calls. This BIG RAT can copy knowledge and experience about certain issues from the brain of an expert in that field, and transfer them to another person so that person is also an expert. Macs friend, Sam Loover, a secret agent for the World Intelligence Network (WIN), gets to use the machine to Mac about Joe so that he can go to work for WIN. The reason they want to use for this purpose is because Joe hostile spies will see him not as a danger directly, since he was only a child.
 * Analysis 2
 * 3 other media
 * 4 Episodes
 * 5 voice actors
 * 6 Credits
 * 7 Reference
 * 8 external links

The series follows then Joe on different missions. Before the start of each mission gives Professor McClaine Joe the necessary knowledge via BIG RAT. ==Analysis[ Edit] == Like Anderson's previous series turns the plot of Joe 90 often to rescue, worldwide secret organizations, complicated futuristic machines and gadgets, terrorism and disasters that threaten the world. For example, Professor McClaine a flying car.

The puppets in the series Captain Scarlet were like in the newer models with heads that had the correct ratio relative to the body. Many of the dolls from Captain Scarlet were reused in Joe 90, except the Captain Scarlet, Captain Blue and Lieutenant Green-puppets.

Anderson tried his new series to focus on a wide audience. On one side was the series clearly a children's series, starring also a kindpersonage. On the other hand contained Joe 90 called the dark and violent story line that even though it was used in Captain Scarlet. An example is the episode "Project 90", in which Professor McClaine being kidnapped, held hostage and threatened with a drill. This led to reviews from critics who felt that the scenarios were not suitable for a child. The series can be seen because of the young hero as a forerunner of other espionage films/series with children in the lead role, such as Spy Kids .

To keep the series realistic was the voice of Joe pronunciation by a child actor, Len Jones, rather than a mature woman like that in Anderson's previous series always had been the case.

The series assumed that the cold war would go through until the 21st century. The bad guys in the series often had a Slavic accent.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series made just like Anderson's previous series using music composed by Barry Gray.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The character Joe varied greatly in terms of personality between the moment before he underwent his treatment in the BIG RAT, and the time after. If Joe had undergone treatment and are an expert in something, he always wore a distinctive glasses.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The influence of the series was in the 60 's, 70 's and 80 's noticeable. On many British schools were children who pretty Spry (and not really loved) were called, "Joe 90". Joe 90 was also in the years 70 and 80 a (somewhat grove) name for everyone with glasses. The fact that former British Prime Minister John Major showed similarities with Joe was often the part of ridicule, especially by Rory Bremner. ==Other media<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="143" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Various Joe 90 comics, annuals and activiteitsboeken were produced around the time the series was broadcast for the first time.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1990 created a great interest in old classic TV series from the 1960s and 1970s. As a result, many Anderson series were rebroadcast. Similarly Joe 90. A short-lived comic book series was released around the same time.

<p lang="en" len="975" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Plans for a live-action film adaptation of the series have been around since the 1960s and came very close to even in 2003,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBC-Joe90Film_1-0" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBC-Joe90Film-Disney_2-0" len="179" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  but are not yet realized. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Voice Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Credits<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Len Jones — Joe McClaine
 * Keith Alexander — Sam Loover/various characters
 * Sylvia Anderson — Ada Harris/various characters
 * Rupert Davies — Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine
 * Gary Files — various characters
 * David Healy — Shane Weston/various characters
 * Martin King — various characters
 * Elizabeth Morgan — various characters
 * Shane Rimmer — WIN scientist Kelly/various characters
 * Jeremy Wilkin — various characters
 * Created by — Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson
 * Characters created by — Joeseph Herbert, Sylvia Anderson
 * Writers — Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Tony Barwick, Shane Rimmer, David Lane, Desmond Saunders, Keith Wilson, Pat Dunlop, Donald James, John Lucarotti
 * Script Editor — Tony Barwick
 * Producer — David Lane
 * Executive Producer — Reg Hill
 * Production Controller — Desmond Saunders
 * Production manager — Frank Hollands
 * Directors — Desmond Saunders, Alan Perry, Leo Eaton, Ken Turner, Peter Anderson, Brian Heard
 * Music composed and directed by — Barry Gray
 * Visual Effects Supervisor — Derek Meddings
 * Senior Visual Effects Director — Jimmy Elliot
 * Visual Effects Directors — Shaun Whittacker-Cook, Bill Camp
 * Puppet Coordinator — Mary Turner
 * Puppet Operators — Charmaine Wood, Wanda Webb, Rowena White
 * — Julien Lugrin, Paddy Exposure cameramannen Seale
 * Supervisor Art Director — Bob Bell
 * Art Directors — Grenville Nott, Keith Wilson
 * BIG RAT by — Century 21 Film Props