Stingray TV Show Intro (1964)

[glenn1340]

what the hell was "supermarionation" whatever it was it looked great when I was 13

[KenoshiAkai]

Back when men were marionettes and everything was in danger of exploding at any given moment.

[Grim9490]

Anything could happen in the next half hour!

[HardWarUK]

We now live in a "anything can happen in the next half-hour!" type world!

[mainface]

lyrics anyone?

[luizsems]

It was the best in tv!!! I love it

[ejl1000]

The 60s was so epic.

[jggallow01]

damn that SuperMarionation!!!

[boyrichboy]

I used to love this show when i was about 6 or 7 :D

[robbyrockstar]

Not quite Team America World Police....

[darrenholcomb42]

This entire opening theme track would SOoooo work in a retro porno.

[darrenholcomb42]

Residents in Florida, the mid west and the Gulf need houses like that.

[xr8dpixel]

lol ive never seen this...its cool my childhood memories were of the thunderbirds in Oz

[TheStealthX]

STINGRAAAAAAY STINGRAY!

[animatetime]

5 people ride around in a giant fish and talk in a bubbly-gubbly-watery kind of way.

[Laceykat66]

More effort went into this opening than 3/4 of the Fall lineup this year.

[Orlor]

Where can you find the lyrics to this?

[unitron]

"Anything can happen in the next half hour" every time you think this from now on...

[deeya]

In these CG days, you just don't see effort like this anymore..........

[t70thehommie]

That is the bomb!!

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[CaptainGrimsdale]

This is the first time I have seen this in colour.

[huiale14]

Supermarionation.... Super Mario Nation, now that's a game I want to play

[captainpanic08]

Those puppet bastards killed Steve Erwin! :(

[captainpanic08]

@captainpanic08 Irwin even. Duh.

[petrokemikal]

SSSSSSHDAND BYYYYYYYYY for ACTION !!!!!

[backinthedayok]

5 people are anti-puppites

[gurwilla1]

A town thats goes underground for protection, amazing weapons and loads of explosions now thats what kids tv should be all about, not the total cr** they show now. 45 minutes of total out and out fantasy.

Oh and by the way, troy Tempest was actually based on james Garner who was a huge movie & tv star then

[pensylvania65000]

@gurwilla1 Ummm...

The clue's in the phrase "Anything can happen in the next hour"

[TranscendentLion]

'Stand by for action!' *BOOM*

Best way to start a TV programme.

And I've just had the brilliant thought that somebody should do a Stingray movie with John Travolta as Troy Tempest.

[lapisredux]

typical americans....discover an undersea civilisation and destroy it :)

[clivegb1]

Another fun fact - Robert Easton, who "voiced" Phones (the radio operator), played a (real life) radio operator in the 1961movie "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

[restcure]

it was always good to know that WASPs command center had a monitor that was in videcolor

[marcd30319]

Fun fact: Troy Tempest was based on James Garner.

[Battle5tarRJC]

I love Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Fireball XL, but for me Thunderbirds takes first place hands down.

[langley2205]

Great theme tune, though whoever wrote the lyrics was overpaid. It's just the word 'Stingray' over and over again!

[hiroki0823able]

再放送で何回も見ましたがこのオープニングはやっぱりジェリーア­ンダーソンシリーズ感がありますね！

[jmpdecombe]

You have to be a complete moron to destroy those beautiful videos with the gigantic URL of your web site at the bottom. Lady Penelope would not be amused.

[lightningpete]

Even in the sixties they recognised deaf people and equality in television?!

[n140ethan]

0:36 he had to let one go, didn't he?

[TrappedIn1968]

I love playing this clip over and over, with the volume way up ... and I may just drive my wife crazy.

[frepi]

@0:54

Who cares about laws of physics!

[frepi]

Barry Gray is a genius



[spceman]

Can't believe I'm saying this, but there's still something impressive about that miniature world they created.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

@spceman Oh no, absolutely! The sheer amount of work in designing and building all of those sets must have kept an army of model builders very well employed. Those Japanese people making "Godzilla" movies could have really learned a thing or two if they'd worked on those sets!

[Jesse4sd]

I just love the sliding pole seats and the buildings lowering under ground.

In those days, it was all about hydraulics and pnuematics "anything can happen"! :-)

[jal777l]

I totally agreed with ann bec without those puppets, everything will go wrong.

[davidmaysful]

anything can happen in the next half hour

[CYBERDOODY]

STAND BY FOR ACTION!

[CreoleCommando]

Man you just feel the techo optimism from these 60's period shows, no thought for the downside of atomic power etc.

[ziggybin]

ooh i wish i was a kid again pissing in the grid again, watching all those gerry anderson shows

[OmegaDude22]

Supermarionation wtf? 0_o

[lsimat1]

i was brought up on this stuff well before its time 

[rifraf]

I liked the bit when they said "Stingray"

[Athlete25V]

古い割りに画質がキレイですなｗ



[deaneglancy]

Better theme music and acting than Eastenders!

[JackWProductions]

@deaneglancy Eastenders is depressing!!!!!!

[MrSluggo666]

@deaneglancy lol !

[budyzr63]

Holy moly that takes me back, I have been trying to figure out where I heard STAND BY FOR ACTION for the longest time. Thanks for helping me remember.

[spurdog90]

LOL!!! that takes me back....

PS When "Titan" and Stingray jump out the water, surely this is impossible..... Dur!!! Being a kid eh!

[GitForceGemini]

Otherwise awesome theme tune that goes camp at 1:12.

[ripcord1022]

I used to watch this show and even had a model of the Stingray submarine.

[FOSEEBOY]

this really WAS Saturday morning, 1964!!!!

[sheilatx]

i remember this show!! haven't thought about it in years so many thanks

[charlessmyth]

'Anything can happen in the next half hour'. And it usually did :-)

[EvilGorm]

You never saw Troy Tempest and Scott Tracy in the same place. Hmmmm.....

[richard10661066]

great show...

[1958ENTERPRISE]

The drum beat on this makes it one of the best sound tracks Gerry Anderson put to his productions.

[1958ENTERPRISE]

Isn't this an awesome intro to the program. Gerry Anderson ROCKS

[TheRealBoroNut]

Marinaaaaa

Aqua Mareeee-naaaaa

What is this strange and wonderful smell of fish

Whenever you're near?

(Sigh)

[remlap48]

Actors were really stiff back then, weren't they? Geez.

[Panostechdeck]

imagine 89.7 το ραδιόφωνο όπως το φαντάστηκες!

[altfactor]

In Marineville, the World Aquatic Security Patrol (WASP) must have kept conga drum musicians on-call 24/7 to play their conga drums when the "Battle Stations" alarm was sounded!

[bradshawvincent]

totally exciting intro and i was just the right age for it (about 10)

[andreestes]

I have not heard that theme song for 45 years, but was able to sing along and remember the bongo-drum section like it was yesterday.

[charlessmyth]

@andreestes Impressive lyrics ;-)

[ProtoKun7]

@andreestes The fondest memories stay the longest.

[davidpar2]

that's cool how it starts out in b&w before becoming color

[GNeuman]

That was a right weird menagé trois that Troy had going on with the admiral's daughter and that mermaid..........

[DDRPaladin356]

I think this might be my favorite of the Gerry Anderson series i've seen. I've seen Captain Scarlet (rewatching now actually) which i like, but is so dark and serious. And of course thunderbirds which was pretty nice, but, for some reason I find myself liking this one because of how light hearted it is.

[ozjenva]

Rofl, jeezuz I am old.

[MJKnight07]

Living proof that Old-Skool shows are still awesome today

[ann2cathy]

If all those puppets hadn't been defending us in the sixties, we wouldn't be here today.

[CitroenGS]

@ann2cathy Lol, just imagine Spongebob Squarepants on the place of Captain Scarlet...

[mediaassassin]

@ann2cathy LOL

[trent8002003]

Love the villain subs. one fat and one thin. They stole the show from the Stingray.

[MindstormXL]

Steve Irwin swam too close to Marineville...

[spuggyHD]

Stingray, stingray, da-da-da-da-da-duh LOL

[cabmanbruce]

Still like all these old intro GREAT

[dmc41987]

Loved this show as a kid, I had the toys as well

[jackloobyloo]

i used to love this when i woz about 5-6 but now im 13 i still love it but when ever i see the 1st explosion i cant help but say WTF BOOM ! LOL XD

[pbanta62]

@jackloobyloo LOL comment. 

[Th3M1tch]

0:47

Anything can happen in the next half hour

ES!

[cosycleaner]

Actually I fell for Atlanta - Lois Maxwell's lovely voice and the looks of Jackie Kennedy.

[InfiniteMushroom]

I miss the days when one could defeat the Forces of Evil with cool rockets and nuclear submarines shaped like rockets. Even in the 70's, the Forces of Evil could be beaten with muscle cars and big rigs.

*sigh* all the makeup has come off the Bad Guys now and they ain't playin'. Rocket planes, Burt Reynolds, and the Dukes of Hazzard are no match for Goldman Sachs, Monsanto, and the U.S. government. Rulers of hell,

devourers of souls, and destroyers of nations. It's not fun or cool anymore.

[TheRickynow]

I still love Aqua Marina ...sighs...

[geo327]

1960s the best kids tv i know i was one

[PeteMills333]

Guess Anderson liked Videogames. SUPERMARIOnation. Get the hint?

[prodprod]

This is unquestionably the greatest opening for a TV show in the history of the world.

[blipco5]

It still looks real!

[MrGimli2]

in videcolor lol now we have 3D tvs LOL

[Elzebub666]

STANDBY FOR ACTION! *BOOM!!!!*

[crich316]

Supermarionation was how they electronically moved the mouth in time to the voice. My mates dad worked on developing the hardware.

[slinky460]

Troy Tempest is awesome and a cool dude.

[deezal59]

Whatever happend to Supermarionation anyway?

[kissarmyrules]

SUPERMARIONATION

FTW!!!

[lovelawnangle]

troy's eyes look really stoopid at the beginning

[baraxor]

This was my favorite action series back in 1966.

Killer Barry Gray theme.

[sporteeee]

Thunderbirds underwater!

[oktobercat]

The world is hell today bcause of people,s hyper selfishness and corperate greed, the 60,s generation were and are more human and mature , this can,t be said 4 the chav generation ,good people and the authorities have  to tolerate in this modern society, with it,s diet of high tech, poor quality media content, memories are good, media of integrity and moral truth are better.

[Azanti]

Yeah the intro was the best thing about the show which didnt have that much action as I recall.

[ANIKES]

kids of the '60s were watching such stupid TV series, that is why the world is a hell today

[kolbpilot]

I realize now why I didn't see this show back then. Born in '58 my first memories of black & white TV were growing up in the early-mid '60's in southern Florida base housing. But my mom was strict about TV watching so I didn't see much from that time frame. This would of been cool, though. When you got a giant fish chasing you, you know it's serious. Anything can happen in the next half hour. lol.

[kevorkazito]

supermarionation

[rodtemplar]

oh the memories, where have the years gone :(

[576924]

Check out George "Dubya" Bush at 0.46. I think he should have stuck at being a puppet instead of running for President.

[576924]

Check out, George "Dubya" Bush at 0.46. Maybe he should have stuck to being a puppet instead of running for President.

[Rico8458]

i was 7 years old when i use to watch this back in 64, i loved this programs back then. life was better back then too. our money had silver. lol

[skiscot]

Ive been sitting here waiting for the " next half hour ",,, nothing happened dammit

[FischerWei]

Awesome. I was 5 at the time and barely remember this. I remember that underwatere ship :)

[ponchodoc]

Ha Ha Ha,this is unreal,Cuz I'm so old I remember it....Remember the thunderbirds???Merwoman id'd like ta' F$#%K dat one!hahahahahah

[burnticeblues]

i remember having the boat and the fish from this, dunno wer they all went

[CubanCheGuevara]

Wow. This is pretty bad. Even taking into account the era it was made, I feel sorry for the kids who were forced to endure it.

[valdez87]

Creative lyrics :D

Wasn't this like Thunderbirds with handicaps? An old man in a wheelchair a merwoman and a deaf mute... or maybe he wasn't deaf, just mute... I forget...

"Anything could happen in the next half an hour" lol

[valdez87]

Wait, no, the merwoman couldn't speak right? My bad! :D

[RPULTZ69]

Stand by for Action! KA-BOOOM!

[grumbeard]

Sorry to some people here who like this show but if I didn't know this series came fbefore the thunderbirds then I would have said it was a wannabe series. Although I must agree the music is funky.

[rhillner]

@grumbeard it was before

[MindyDewison]

im 60 now and the music is still funky!!!

[Juliaflo]

The music is funky, indeed, and I will NOT tell you my age, LOLOL, just suffice it to say that I have a birthday coming on March 30.

[tanukisan666]

Marina -- a hot mute mermaid who can't talk. Does it get any better? (:

[markko17]

"Anything can happen in the next half hour!!"

[tubesteakbooky]

those were the days, these days suck.

[Juliaflo]

You said it.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[Thunderbirdfanman]

There's great selection of replica puppets for sale of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 etc at televisionpuppets dot com

[Hoomi2]

Ah, memories. I used to watch this when I was a little kid. On a visit to Marineland way back when, I was disappointed when my brother told me to look at the stingray in the big aquarium, and I couldn't see the submarine. Looks so cheesy now, but to a kid in the 60s, it was awesome.

[ricknblack]

fekin awesome,still my fav...

[dlancy1961]

Anything can happen in the next half hour....... Ohhhh yeah!

[wellingtonian]

I'm standing by for action!

man it brings back memories.

[speedskiff2]

Is this the same Gerry Anderson that went on to produce "Space 1999" ?

[VGRetro]

Of course.

[garyfromuk]

Correct. And Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett, Joe 90 and UFO.

[Beamshipcaptain]

Yes. Gerry's first sci fi live action was DOPPEGANGER (JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN-1969), that I saw on the big screen in 1969 when I was a kid. I gew up thrilled and wowed by Gerry anderson TV and Cinema.

[DSVOP]

Yessir, the same:-)

[morgandude2]

This is so cool! What you have to remember is that when this show was aired, almost anything you saw on a TV ...IF YOU HAD A TV!...was in grainy black and white! Gerry Anderson was The King!

[lukeslandspeeder]

i barely remember these shows on tv maybe. think i saw em 2 times as a kid. they were almost done for by that time in the 1970"s. gatcha man took over.

[Aaeyren]

Loved this show. Took me a while to figure out he was saying "Marineville, i am calling battlestations"

[xenbear]

good grief a fan since the sixties and you just for the first time clarified that line. Amazing :D

[Barnstormer1969]

Shows like 'Stingray' and 'Thunderbirds' were really cool shows. I remember watching them in the early 1980s when I was a kid on WGN Channel 9 in my hometown, Chicago. These type of shows were really an improvement over the cookie-cutter cartoons of the 1960s.

[winguln]

Un capolavoro della tv Britannica.

Fantastic.

[Semajfrom1989]

I used to have the toy of that in the early 90s, haha. The Stingray boat, this is bringing back memories.

[nkakainth]

thunderbirds where way better

[Militantcheese]

HELL NO, sting ray blew shit up.

[DirkTheWicked]

Gerry Anderson was one of the greatest minds on television.

[timeclock4000]

''STAND BY FOR ACTION!''

[visor109]

Anything can happen in the next half hour!

[RadioBazterd]

Hey! - I still watch it!

Great stuff.

[hibob418]

This was my favorite show as a kid. Looking at it now, I see just what great craftsmen the Brits who made this show were. Incredible miniatures, meticulous detail. Same TLC and mindset that goes into shows like Wallace and Grommet. Thanks for the post!!

[animatetime]

Still the the most exciting moment of my life so far at 0.37. Never matched till now.

[ipisking]

I loved that show....

[numberstation]

Enough excitement in an intro to make a child shit itself.

[CDiane]

Yes Lawd!

I LOVED this show as a kid!

[123strauss]

Great comment mate . I know just what you mean ...enough to make a boy faint

[rageatm4life]

@numberstation hahahahahha

[starfly7]

@numberstation or to shit in your mouth..........

[numberstation]

@starfly7 There's more wit inside those little puppet's heads than you'll ever have in yours,son.

[starfly7]

@numberstation Those little puppets dicks are more than you'll ever have between your legs, Son.........

[numberstation]

@starfly7 ....and I bet you love 'em,don't you?

[windogmassey1]

@numberstation glad to know i wasn't alone :P

[dmc41987]

I loved this show, brings back good memories.

[xzane14]

awesome stuff...

[xxxxxemocorexxxxx]

think the puppet for troy tempest was modeled after James Garner google him and lok at the pics when he was young and youll se what i mean

[FlyJaw]

Hot damn I forgot how awesome that intro was.

[shanesclayland]

last song in Steve Erwins head

[g0moz]

i just realised one of the puppets looks like george w bush ..

[mangosox9589]

yeah your right after all he was a dummy

[visor109]

If you are talking about Troy Tempest, he was REALLY modeled after James Garner.