Gerry, you have no idea how much we enjoy your productions....The New series was just as wonderful as the 60's. Updated but also very recognizable as to not distract from the original magic.
In the snobbish world of British TV he was just a man who made "puppet shows for children"! The young trendy media types never understood how ahead of his time he was. He and the team practically invent the modern special effects industry. They were still using equipment he and the team invented 30 years later!
Gerry Anderson was an absolute genius. His concepts and characters were a brilliant bit of forward thinking.Like Gene Roddenberry he had great hopes for mankinds future accomplishments.Sadly the big toy manufacturers often seemed to have more input than he did.But thankfully he got to tell his stories.Thanks CaptainScarlet300 for the time and work you did.
My father brought me a DVD of Thunderbirds when I was in the first grade. My Dad had watched Thunderbirds as a kid, and as soon as he showed me the batch of episodes from the DVD, I was then hooked onto Thunderbirds and the rest of Gerry Anderson’s great shows!
Brilliant 60s dark sci fi series produced by the legendary Gerry Anderson thankyou for the memories of the series you made that will always be part of my life.
Oh my God - I had the poster of the opening-image (Captain Scarlet diving to avoid the falling drums) on my bedroom-wall for years as a young boy !. I still have his car, although it's a bit battered now, I'll never part with it - this brings back so many happy memories !!
THANK YOU for this. I'm 56 yrs old I remember the original captain scarlet show. The New CGI LOOKS GREAT. MAKE MORE, I'M sure it will go over big PLEASE!
When I was a kid in the US, there were no Captain Scarlet toys, so as an avid model maker, I made an SPV, the Spectrum Skybase, three Falcon Interceptors, and the full cast, all using HO scale Airfix figures. Only many years later was I able to get an actual Interceptor model at our local hobby shop.
WHERE HAVE THE POWERS THAT BE BEEN HIDING THIS AWESOME PROJECT? Please excuse my 'shouting'. It's just that I have heard of this Gerry Anderson program, but have never seen it in Chicago, IL. (At least, not in ENGLISH). Now I learn that there is a 'CGI' 'continuation',of the series. As a certain Warner Bros *"little black duck"*, wails *"WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE TELL ME THESE THINGS?!!!!"*
For those criticizing CGI you need to understand that CGI can do amazing things and can have very different looks. Because we start to get use to the standard look for CGI its easy to forget how versatile the medium is. Look at the Lego movie, that was full CGI but was made to look like real legos. I'm sure if a puppet like look was needed as long as the budget is available and given to the right animation studio you could make something very realistic.
@@ThePuppetwizard Now hold on. You can't say they will never catch on when many popular children's series have been made in CGI for the past 2 decades. In other words, your statement was invalid an entire generation before you made it.
I know that, *"The New Captain Scarlett,* isn't a hit with a lot of the older fans. But I think it's got a lot of potential. Personally, I would dearly love to see *quite a few of the new CGI Vehicles, become scale models!*
Amen. This series was a bit unlucky to come out at the time when Airfix - who gave us the original Angel Interceptor - was on the verge of bankruptcy, and indeed did go under in 2006 (albeit ultimately rescued from oblivion by Hornby). That, and ITV poorly airing the series - which Gerry publically condemned at the time - didn't help either.
Newer is not necessarily better.... there was something about the puppet shows that was just pure excitement and thrills, this cgi just does not have that....
As I grew up watching this in the 60s, I feel the same way. But we have to realise that this new version was made for the children of TODAY - 50 Years later.
The puppet version lets you know that they are actually models/toys brought to life which in theory, you (as a kid), can make/control at home. You feel a connection. The CGI version places itself behind beaurocratic walls, and pushes you to the audience seat as a spectator. Accurate graphics but no connection.
Captain Scarlet deserves to be made into a live action movie or series. It had the potential to be great especially if they keep that sinister darkness in it. Just don’t balls it up like the thunderbirds movie.
They just finished the second season of Thunderbirds are Go. You can stream all episodes here or Amazon has the full first season. It is a fantastic show where they integrate models with CGI. kisscartoon.es/Cartoon/Thunderbirds-Are-Go-2015-Season-2/
"Hollywood" will kill it :( I'd like to see a new "UFO" series, but I suspect that that would also get ruined. Captain Scarlet and UFO - my two favourite Gerry Anderson shows.
Gerry Anderson himself proved that combinations of Supermarionation & live action could work really well, though I think it'd take a damn good director to pull it off today, which there's certainly less of.
A "Live motion picture" of any or all of Fireball XL5; Stingray; Thunderbirds (by The Anderson Team); Captain Scarlet; Joe 90; and UFO. PLEASE, SOMEONE!
My dad introduced me to Cpt. Scarlet when I was about five or six. Now, I'm 2 weeks from being 17 and I still love it as much as I did then. When I was little I played it too with my friends - not too hard seeing as all my friends were boys, but like you I don't do it any more sadly. I think it IS just as inspirational, if only it had as much publication these days as Thunderbirds, for example, does ^^
Jack Kirby created the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier in 1965. It has had several redesigns, and looked very little like a sea-borne aircraft carrier when it first appeared- it was more like a rotorcraft airship. Anderson's Skybase was either inspired by Marvel's comics or an original independent creation in 1966.
i remember seeing the advertisement for this on the tv, personally i thought it was a good reboot of the captain scarlet franchise, i love the original still, but i like this aswel :)
There are so many people here bagging this show. Well, everyone's entitled to their own opinion including me. I watched both seasons and I loved it, I'm just sorry that, as with the original series there was no conclusion. I would have loved to see a definitive solution to the Mysterons, a peace, an alliance or a final destruction. In both shows there seems no point in the Mysterons continuing their aggression. There has to be something they want, something that will finally appease their need for revenge. People keep comparing his work to his original works. Honestly, in my opinion, Thunderbirds was his greatest achievement, a masterpiece that no one could imitate then, now or in the future. Don't compare just enjoy. There can only be one Mona Lisa so anyone who paints a painting of a woman smiling will forever have their work compared to the Mona Lisa. The new Thunderbirds has it's own merits and I enjoy it for what it is just like the new Captain Scarlet. Geez, just sit and enjoy it. All I ask is a final solution to the Mysterons, this war of nerves can't go on forever and that's where I think the story line has its limits. It could have ended by the end of the second season on either show but instead they cancelled and left the story open both times. Thunderbirds was and is just a different rescue every week but Captain Scarlet has a story that should have been completed.
Entertaining Video! And Narrated by The Late Great #GerryAnderson Himself! If this Special *Captain* *Scarlet* DVD Feature was released in 2008, then Gerry Anderson was dead just 4 years later. It seems very natural and chronological for Gerry to have gravitated towards the Digital World with his Puppet Characters from an earlier era. I'm really glad he got to see a CGI Scarlet Project Completion DVD released before he Passed! Women of the now Me2 Gen movement should note Gerry Anderson blazed an early Equal Opportunity Path for Women Characters and constantly put his Female Lead Characters right smack into the fire of Supermarionation Action! His (and Sylvia Anderson's) "Lady Penelope" from The Thunderbirds, got me thru puberty with her Pistol in her Pink Car driven by her Butler/Chauffeur/Spacial Action Man, "Parker".
Same, I used to watch this all the time before school when I was younger. I even rarely found some Captain Scarlet comic magazines in the store, among the almost weekly Thunderbirds releases.
This series was awesome!! One of the best things was the redesign of the Angels crafts and the vehicles in general. I only seem to have two faults with it, one Lt Green being female, there was something about the original guy that was missing in this series, the biggest fault though was the famous 'drum beat', that was one thing that shouldn't have been changed.
I agree from the single episode I've just watched but they do use the famous 'drum beat'. They've changed it slightly and I feel it *is* weaker than it was, but it's better than not using it at all. Lt. Green should never have changed sex though.
Oh this is just marvelous, still the CGI looks a little low resolution, still a little cold, but if were only brought up to things like the last Toy Story definition, wow!
At the time I really disliked the CGI remake, but over 10 years on I'm pretty fond of it, it's pretty cool to see someone go from black and white puppets to bright and colourful CGI, neither is better but it's interesting to see
I loved both of these series - just wish that new CS had proved to be more of a hit, would also have been nice to have a link back to the earlier series such as the odd SPV (now disused) being parked in the background etc Ah well- at least new CS made it to the screen unlike UFO series 2 and Space 1999 series 3.....
Personally I feel thats where the character, stumbles, I won't say he falls, because I will concede that he is a menacing villain, and for a kids show he does kill in several episodes. What I don't like about him is that he's not the shrunken eyed zombie he was in the original. But to be perfectly fair Anderson wrote the character so he can do what he likes to him, and I do like the fleshed out history between him and scarlet. He just holds a different screen presence perhaps more cunning now.
Now is the time for some re-runs, I'm sure a lot of the original fans like me would like a 2nd bite of the cherry it's as if the new versions get made assembled into a series shown once then straight to the vault
Its a family childrens show which I haven't refreshed on but hopefully was enjoyed Jerry and all . The Angel's were the best ,it's a hypersonic biplane now with electro active trailing edges and still retains a lovely long sleek nose to compute any possible manouver of airflow. Hopefully the Mysterons didn;t change much but reflected the core questions which Insight will finally achieve.Also the S logo is well preserved figure 8 like fingers and spiders legs, to saturns perhap's oxidising polar balance.The inertial pressure suit and sleep mode might be more than Russian cannons, perhaps it will last into the hypersonic era for an encore.
@kcsnakebite I watched the original shows as a kid in the sixties and think the aircraft combat is darn good. Indeed, if you had MiG-15 vs F-86 action over Korea there would be little better if it used these techniques. This CGI could be used to show the right models of ME-109s fighting the right models of Supermarine Spitfires or Eindeckers against Airco DH-2s over the trenches of the Western front. I think Gerry's crew did a smashing job.
I feel I have to temper my judgement of the new series with the realisation that, for me, the charm of the old series is now mostly nostalgia. When I was a kid I used to play at being Destiny Angel, my cousin was Captain Scarlet and his little brothers were always the Mysterons. This gave my cousin the perfect excuse to beat up his little brothers. I'm not a kid anymore and my cousin has sadly passed away. So, maybe the kids of today will find it as inspirational as we did, who knows?
Yes I suppose this one lacks the charm, but I think that charm was more nostalgia. Personally I do have a soft spot for his series. Really what I think Anderson was doing here was trying to make up for Franke's shoddy work on the Thunderbirds movie, and I don't blame him. This series embodies what Anderson loves to do in television is use puppetry in some form. But your right, bring back Silvia!
It is interesting that despite being a couple of years old, the new show already looks so dated in terms of computer graphics. The original is over 40 years old and is still fun to watch. I expect in 40 years time, the new show will look archaic and completely unwatchable to it's audiences.
Honestly, it's difficult for me to get into the new CGI after growing up with the Supermarionation series. Those puppets gave each and every show a certain charm that CAN'T be replicated by a computer. I applaud the effort to bring back the essence of the show. I hope that they live up to the hype.
No disrespect, being a traditionalist, In my humble opinion CGI spoils the character and the uniqueness of the shows, and spoils what I admired about the programmes. I would like to see more puppets, they are more believable and had a certain charm. What we need today is more flashing multicolumn lights and push buttons banks of reel to reel tape computers with mystical mathematical numbers. As being in the older age bracket, and not being the target audience, I understand. I think the magic of the shows from the 1950s/60s and the reason they were/are successful is the way they were made for children with adults in mind with adult storytelling.
I haven't actually seen one of these from start to finish yet, so I'll reserve judgement. However, I'm 55 so I grew up with the original program, along with Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and the like and it's the limited technology in the making of these that give them their characteristic charm. From the snippets I've seen so far, I doubt if the new version will cut the mustard for original viewers like myself. However.... for kids NOW... Great, because they're already familiar with the current technology. If they saw the originals that we watched they'd probably laugh at how pedestrian they were in comparison, so it's all a matter of perspective really :O)
I think back in that day, kids had very few choices in entertainment. Today, considering the myriad of shows, games and movies that kids are bombarded with, I feel like even the highest quality production will be somewhat lost amongst the crowd. Plus, the elements that make kids today interested in the original shows is the amount of craft that went in to creating the puppetry and models, it's very different that what they usually see.
eeeboytvr The Gerry & Sylvia Anderson shows were playing in constant rotation in the US through the 70s at least. I didn't see Supercar until Comedy Central played them but the rest I've seen many times.
-I know some are not crazy about cgi, the original had more realism, but this does look good. When & where is this shown, or does 1 have to buy the series as dvds or view online? Sure some things get lost in translation like the theme music, but I'll watch!
@PhwalalabahX I think of that more in the same way Babylon 5's CGI looked completely unrealistic, it's not that important because it was stylised and supposed to look that way. some nearly 20 years later, people still watch those first episodes of Babylon 5.
I remember Captain Scarlett, as a child, and I in my 50's now,and Gary never mentioned the SPV, Spectrum Persuit Vehicle, my favorate. Instead of that Chita, he should bring it back.
The original Captain Scarlet made use of new puppeteering techniques and electronic devices to lose the marionette strings. I didn’t get to see this reimagined show, however it is clearly using a budget for CGI as the textures are not as realistic as say, “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within”.
the sad thing is that this animation won't be watched anymore let alone from the next generation because do to the quality it has become unwatchable, smth the old puppet shows never will be
