Stingray (TV series)

Stingray (1964 - 1965) supermarionationtelevision series is a created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The series was produced by AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment.The series consisted of 39 episodes which were first broadcast on ITV in England.



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[hide] *1 Story and characters  ==Story and characters[ Edit] == An episode always started with the introduction "Stand by for action! We are about to launch Stingray! Anything can happen in the next half hour! ", accompanied by a few action scenes.
 * 2 Background
 * 3 voice actors
 * 4 Episodes
 * 5 other media
 * 5.1 comics
 * 5.2 Invaders from the Deep
 * 6 Translations
 * 7 external links

The series turned completely to the Stingray, a highly advanced submarine built for speed and maneuverability. Stingray is the flagship of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP), a 21st century security organisation located in Marineville in the year 2065. In case of attack, the whole city with hydraulic legs disappear below ground. Marineville is located 32 kilometres inland. Stingray is launched from the city through a tunnel which leads directly to the Pacific Ocean .

The pilot of Stingray is Captain Troy Tempest (modelled on James Garner). He is aided by navigator "Phones", so called because of his ability to mimic sounds hydrophone (his real name, George Sheridan, was mentioned in the advertising campaign for the series, but never in the series itself). Troy and Phones go always on board Stingray via a chair along a pole descends to the dive boat. They get their orders from the wheelchair to a bound Commander Sam Shore, whose daughter Atlanta Shore is also a WASP employee.

Throughout the series, the crew of Stingray, a large number of underwater residents against both enemy and friendly. The "Aquaphibians", a submarine Warrior race, come settled for in the series, often under the command of King Titan, whose puppet was accidentally or (modelled on Laurence Olivier). In the pilot episode was Stingray attacked by Titan's troops, after which Troy and Phones were captured. They were rescued by Titan's slave girl Marina (modelled on Brigitte Bardot), a beautiful mute young woman who can breathe though under water. Troy is immediately impressed by Marina, to jealousy of Atlanta. After their escape is Marina also regular member of Stingray's crew. Later she gets also a seal as pets, called Oink.

Many episodes revolve around Titans plans to destroy Stingray and Marineville. The fact that none of these plans fails is often due to the incompetence of Titan's spy Agent X-2-Zero (modelled on Claude Rains). ==Background[ Edit] == Stingray was the first supermarionation series, and even on a larger scale the first British series, which was filmed entirely in color.

The scripts of the episodes were written by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Alan Fennell (who would later also work on Thunderbirds), and Dennis Spooner. Barry Gray composed the music and Derek Meddings was responsible for the special effects. Supercar was about a vehicle that land, sea and in the air could travel, and Fireball XL5 was about a spaceship. Therefore it seemed logical that the next step had to be a submarine .This provided quite a few technical challenges for the production crew.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Stingray represented a huge breakthrough compared to Fireball XL5, both in the field of special effects and story. Underwater scenes with puppets and dive boats were actually filmed on a dry set. Between the camera and the models was a thin tank filled with water, air bubbles and fish of different format posted. This aroused the impression that everything was under water. This was further strengthened with light effects. Scenes set on the water's surface were filmed in a large tank of water with a blue dye. To prevent the edges of the tank were visible, the tank was continuously refilled so that water flowed over the edges and edges so covered.These techniques proved so successful that they were also applied for the underwater scenes in Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Stingray was also the first series in which the puppets had interchangeable heads to show different emotions and facial expressions. The love triangle between Troy, Atlanta and Marina has certainly for a children's series a pretty adult undertones.

<p lang="en" len="173" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The character Marina is unique for a Supermarionation series because they never talk, except in the episode "Raptures of the Deep", in which they talk with Troy in his dream.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the 39 television episodes were also three radio plays included with the original voice actors. In one of these radio plays, it was revealed that Marina in reality can talk, but that her nation is cursed by Titan;as one of them speaks, will be another die. ==Voice Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" 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);">] == ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" 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);">] == ==Other media<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" 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);">] == ===Comics<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In TV2000 is a series of stories appeared, entitled "Marina, the girl of the sea". These some of the characters from Stingray for (Marina, her father aquafibianen Aphonis and their people with their terror, Titan and his fish), but not the people of the Mainland (such as Tempest and his colleagues). This series begins with the curse by Titan, so that Marina and her father no longer speak. ===Invaders from the Deep<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><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 style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1981, four episodes of Stingray ("Hostages of the Deep", "The Big Gun", "Emergency Marineville", and "Deep Heat") merged into a film version of the series called Invaders from the Deep. On Thanksgiving Day (14 november) 1988, this film used for the first episode of the series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . ==Translations<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" 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);">] ==
 * Troy Tempest.... Don Mason (speaking), Gary Miller (singing)
 * Phones.... Robert Easton
 * Commander Shore.... Ray Barrett
 * Atlanta Shore.... Lois Maxwell
 * King Titan.... Ray Barrett
 * Agent X-2-Zero .... Robert Easton
 * Oink.... David Graham
 * French: Flotilla sous-marine