Here’s a look at some of the vintage Stingray jigsaw puzzles that were released when the series originally aired in 1964.
There are a set of four Waddington ‘Ponda’ wooden 20-piece puzzles 71/2” x 51/2” : Marineville; Troy and Phones in the injector bay; Stingray in it’s pen; Troy and Phones on their Monocopters.
The front of the boxes featured a photo which was the same size as the puzzle.
Waddington also released four larger 101/2” x 13” ‘Vari-piece’ cardboard jigsaw puzzles: On Patrol; Briefing at Marineville; Captives of the Aquaphibeans; Troy finds Marina.
Waddington’s Vari-piece ‘Progress’ jigsaw, a much larger puzzle at 211/4” x 161/2”. This shows a montage of Stingray background scenes. For TV Century 21 readers the same montage appeared in the 1965 TV21 International Extra.
In the United States Whitman Publishing produced a Stingray ‘Frame-Tray’ jigsaw puzzle dated 1965.
A competition that appeared in TV Century 21 to win a Waddington's Jigsaw if you had a winning 'Identicode' number..
Whoa those are cool Scoop!
ReplyDeleteI do like a jigsaw puzzle, Ed!
DeleteSo do I Scoop, but except for a couple of Tom Corbett puzzles I haven't really bothered to collect them.
DeleteI pick the odd vintage one up if I see it at a reasonable price, Ed.
DeleteThere was one puzzle from my childhood I remember vividly: an open cab fire truck racing up the street with a dog chasing alongside it. I noticed it once on fleaBay but the seller was asking too much.
DeleteExcellent collection Scoop, and hard to compile too.
ReplyDeleteMy absolute favourite is the Progress puzzle. I would love to know how they sold the behind-the-scenes mofif to Waddington. Glad they did! Must be the only one of its kind, and a great document of the AP Films era.
Absolutely, Arto. I agree with you about the Progress one, unusual for a jigsaw I suppose.
DeleteThe UK Stingray puzzles are awesome! Using those great photographs really make them. Marineville was such a beautiful set…
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, in the US, all we got was that godawful Whitman puzzle, with that terrible drawing - which I vaguely recall seeing in a store and rejecting on sight! Needless to say, the US got very little cool Supermarionation merch. SFZ