One of my most profound experiences of Anderson must be Stingray. I grew up with the early shows all around me and Stingray probably made the earliest impression - Commander Shores voice booming over the speakers as Marineville descended underground to Barry Grays evocative music, still makes me sit up and watch every time.
Stingray toys mostly passed me by as I was a little too young at the shows height, but I did receive the nifty Lone Star elastic powered bath toy, which I still have today.
When Vivid Imaginations and Carlton rolled out a new series of toys a few years back, I was gratified to see they were fairly accurate. I still need to pick up the Matchbox Marineville playset though!
From top we have simple Lone Star model, missing the prop, then the large action figure Stingray, with firing missiles, the clockwork version with one inch Troy and the Matchbox diecast Stingray/Terrorfish set.
And a no-prize for telling what PWOR stands for - - but not you Scoop! ;-)
Very nice, I've got the Lincoln Stingray, which is cool. PWOR: Proceeding With Orders Received?
ReplyDeleteCorrect! score one for the building man!
ReplyDeleteMy absolute late bloomer favourite as well. Found out a while ago that Stingray was shown on early Finnish television under translated name Captain Storm.
ReplyDeleteOf all Stingray merchandise one item stands above all for me, the Waddington's Progress jigsaw which features behind-the-scenes shots of the production of the series. I think that is quite unique a motif for a jigsaw puzzle.
The Stingray Memorabilia Museum site states that the pictures were featured also as spreads both in TV21 and Look and Learn.
Would be fun to know in which issues, and see proper scans of the production stills.
Cheers Arto
There is a doublepage spread in the 1965 TV21 International Extra which might be the feature you mention, Arto.
DeleteI'll upload it for your perusal.
Cheers Scoop, you must have learned all your TV21's by heart!
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