Torchy the Battery Boy (Episode 1 - part 1)

Premiere episode of the Gerry Anderson/Roberta Leigh puppet series which was in some ways a forerunner to "Space Patrol".

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Entertainment

Tags:

• gerry
• anderson
• thunderbirds
• torchy
• battery
• boy
• space
• patrol
• roberta
• leigh

[auspete]

I was just about to reply to uncleangler's comment... but something or someone deleted it. What I was going to say was - isn't it a shame when people look at products of an innocent age (such as this) and not only have no concept of that innocence but feel the need to make it dirty as well. Very sad, I think.

[sp1midholm]

Mr Bumbledrop sounds rather like Prof Haggerty from Space Patrol - was it the same actor?

[auspete]

@sp1midholm I think Haggerty was voiced by Ronnie Stevens. I'm not sure if he was associated with this show.

[unclefesterful]

my god i used to watch this about a hundred years ago

[mattlove1]

@unclefesterful Half a hundred!

[mattlove1]

@sp1midholm According to IMDB.com, Kenneth Connor voiced Mr. Bumbledrop. They confirm that Ronnie Stevens was Prof. Haggerty.

[batteryboy1011]

I thought I made battery boy up o.o oh well nd this is a cute show with puppets!

[sythead]

ah memorys.thanks for uploading.

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

As a Gerry Anderson superfan I had to check this out. A beginnning of what would become great supermarionation eventually. The voices are quite good at least - that is:

Torchy Olwyn Griffiths

Mr. Bumbledrop Kenneth Connor

Flopsy Jill Raymond

Bossy Boots Jill Raymond

King Dithers Kenneth Connor

Narrator Jill Raymond

Other Voices Olwyn Griffiths & Patricia Somerset

[85mmshell]

@auspete willy plz

[azzorroww]

you see the strings no matter everyone was learning in these early days and i would say gerry anderson too what a wonderful innocence the music expressed and the voice actors give a belivability in the script the voices give definition of chrachter respecting age if you did not have the puppets the voices would convey the storys emotion as gerrys puppetiers wonderfully did here through voice.

[drwhatson]

@aardvarkmcgillicuddy ...you just HAD to tell me that!!!  :-D

[aardvarkmcgillicuddy]

@drwhatson  husky, the martian was mad for sausages...

[drwhatson]

@aardvarkmcgillicuddy I remember 'Space Patrol' as that was several years later I think, but I don't get the "sausages" reference...

PS. My impressionable young sister even had two robots named Robert & Robbie (from 'Fireball X-L5' and 'Lost In Space') among her circle of imaginary friends! (absolutely true!!) Truly a star-child of the sixties! LOL