Further to my SWORD ambulance reference we had some great comments [BTW I'm OK thanks!]. Yorkie reminded me of the TF2 ambulance in the SOLO strip. I've posted it in full here from 19th August 1967. You can see in the cutaway mention is made of a 'stretcher hold', which certainly suggests that TF2 was an ambulance, but how did they get in and out? [I'm sure there's an even clearer reference to this in SOLO but just can't find it]. Confusingly in the last frame but one, one solar week later, the patient appeears to be in the 'probe ship' at the Booster Rockets fore. Another ambulance? I agree with EvilEd that the Moonbus would have made a natural ambulance as well. And Toadster's observation about SWORD mopping up enviro-disasters got me thinking that SWORD was a sort of 'green' Thunderbirds. I remember a British '60's film called DOOMWATCH, which was just that, a bio-rescue squad [anyone seen it?] sugesting that it was a popular theme [and fear?] in the sixties [maybe even the Fifties if you include Quatermass as a sort of enviro-team?]
Did Thunderbirds or any of the other Anderson shows include futuristic ambulances?
Was there a special Eagle set aside for medical emergencies in Space 1999? I know there is a model, but was it ever in the series?
ReplyDeleteDoomwatch was actually as BBC TV series, possibly later made into a film. I think Kit Pedler had something to do with it. One of its stars was , as I recall, Robert Powell.
ReplyDeleteDoomwatch was actually as BBC TV series, possibly later made into a film. I think Kit Pedler had something to do with it. One of its stars was , as I recall, Robert Powell.
ReplyDeleteI was always rather amused to spot the same Matchbox ambulance I had in various photographs in TB annuals. :)
ReplyDeleteThe Space 1999 Medical Eagle did appear in the series and had red stripes on its pod. (Episode Earthbound)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/models/eagle/e1/w2meagle1p.html