Joe 90: Season 1 Episode 1 - The Most Special Agent (Full Episode) 

Captain Scarlett and Joe 90 were my favourites. Genius models and action sequences. There was absolutely nothing better as a 70’s kid than your regular half hour in the Gerry Anderson universe.

I’m 58, haven’t enjoyed this for years. Great stuff

Wow! When I was a kid I used to love Joe 90. The main theme is fantastic. Now after all those years the show still catches my attention! Thank you so much for bringing back this show!!

Joe 90, Thunderbirds, UFO, Captain Scarlett, Space 1999. Jerry Anderson thank you for making my childhood from the late 60’s to the mid 70’s so awesome. I salute you sir😁😁

"Joe 90" was my favorite show as a young pre-teen boy. I totally forgot about the advanced science ideas this series was based on (direct brain download - wow! 😵‍💫). Thanks, Gerry Anderson, for sparking my imagination all those years ago!

I remember watching Joe 90 and Thunderbirds as a kid after school...couldn't get enough..especially the machinery and vehicles..I loved it!

The golden age of children`s tv entertainment .

"But don't come crying to me if you get hurt." Professor Ian McClaine - World's Best Dad.

BRILLIANT ......Takes me back to my childhood great time great memories ......of 1968 I am now age 56

This show is AWESOME IM 57 and its saturday morning all over again for me.. thank you.

Unbelievable. Another example of genius Gerry Anderson. The production is incredible!

So long as the characters never have to run, we've got a series.

"No transistors - just integrated circuits". That was incredibly precient for 1968! They didn't appear in consumer radios much before the early seventies.

FANTASTIC......None of this CGI nonsense, ahead of its time. Script is great as well, far better than some modern day stuff.

"I'm going to transfer my knowledge to Joe... along with my love of cuban cigars, brandy and Miss Emily Shvanhorst and the whipped cream .... oooops...."

He fit his entire mind on 20 feet of tape amazing.

That MIG looks suspiciously like one of the 'angels' planes from Captain Scarlet!

Old English cottage?... With an authentic Jacobean spiral staircase no doubt. 🤔 My childhood would have never been the same without these wonderful shows.

The Anderson's never cease to amaze. What imagination, and look at all the intricate detail. They don't make em like they used to #fact

Never ever seen this Gerry Anderson production Thanks for sharing!

Gerry Anderson’s models are still amazing. Mig-242 actually looks functional and intimidating unlike a lot of fictional fighter jets.

The American head of the intelligence agency is literally called Uncle Sam.

The production and designs are sublime. Without doubt the 'hippest' of the ANDERSON UNIVERSE.

my favourite when i was a kid. it holds up so well even now. those models and sets are gorgeous!

Watched this in early 70"s on CTV in Canada on Saturday mornings. Great guitar rifts here too.

Loved the still photography and voice over work at 24mins. They really captured the moment with that.

Totally loved the theme tune, 10 outta 10.

I love Joe’s mockney accent.

An absolute classic.....days of innocence 👍🏻

The Theme tune alone is a complete "MONSTER" of Northern Soul and yes that certain club forever associated with Northern Soul in WIGAN ....AKA WIGAN CASINO.....did spin this on classic 7" vinyl!!!!,now that's a legendary compliment if i ever heard one!!!.The kids programs in the 1960's unleashed some of the very finest Northern Soul Classic tunes that still cut it today....now that's impressive ..

Joe has probably aged a lot better than I have in the intervening years!

I remembered Thunderbirds but I had forgotten about Joe 90. I don't think that I saw all that many episodes as a child.

2:00 seeing your own conception through your father's eyes

Quite an evolution by Gerry Anderson’s production team in the puppets and sets from Supercar in 1961 to Joe 90 in 1968.

Let`s take a look at the Mig 242. What amazes me is the design of the dorsal structure and the nose towards the canopy strikingly resembles the actual existing Mig29 Fulcrum. It appears more that way if we take a look at the side view. It is also equipped with the twin-vertical stabilizers which even slightly leaned outward. The swing wings are identical as they were used in Mig23 so the creators tried to make the aircraft look more like the Mig by adding the sense of reality. The prop model was reusing and modified the Angel Interceptor appeared in Captain Scarlet. The Angel was already designed to look this way and she had the sophisticatedly sculpted aerodynamic feature which did partially look like Mig29. Personally speaking, the Angel rather had a vibe of the Lockheed F104 StarFighter and it is hard to believe that these model planes were designed and built in 1968 when this show was aired. Obviously, the U.S. didn`t have the "Teen Fighters" ( F14, F15, and F16 ) which we had to wait to have existed till the early '70s. In addition, the Mig 29 came out somewhere in 1986 and was officially introduced to the Western nations at the Farnborough air show in 1988. I have no idea how much research they did on to the Mig fighters but it is so amazing that the design of the jet took the decades ahead which couldn't be possible to exist back then. Let`s get down to the drama portion. This episode was dealing with the national threats in the middle of a confrontation between Wests and Easts during the cold war era. The story was involved with espionage and the vibes of a thriller as the plot is about stealing Russia`s most sophisticated highly advanced fighter aircraft which Wests are no match. The screenplay sounds like a thriller novel Firefox written by Craig Thomas and published in 1977. The book was subject to a 1982 film adaptation produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. The script of the Joe 90: was written and shot almost 9 years prior to the publication of the novel Firefox. I honestly have no clue if this episode has inspired and motivated Craig Thomas, the author of the novel, however, it is going to be the toughest maneuver of all to track down and find out what the truth was hidden beneath as those highly classified jets. I`m going to conclude my comment for saying thanks to those who uploaded this video and gave us an opportunity to watch it again. The episode was beautifully shot with the well-written script and putting in so much devotion to making everything to come real. They really should deserve more respect and honor. They earn it.

One of the most iconic theme tunes ever.

The Cyrillic writing on the factory placard is genuine Russian: "M.I.G. Plant Moscow Department Final Assembly".

I love the way his dad connected the device to a beatbox. I've watchd Joe 90 lots of times as a kid, but I never saw the first episode so I never knew what it was about.

"This small gun will shoot 200 times without needing to be reloaded" hahaha!

Ive been looking for episodes of Joe 90 all over the intenet for ages and this is all ive found.Thanks for sharing.

UNCLE SAM 🇺🇸 As a child, my little brain didn't get that reference at all, until just now.

Wow! Awesome! Watched Joe 90 as a kid...it was brilliant entertainment for a young lad back then. Was gonna say that I didn't know some episodes were in colour...then I remembered that our TV was black and white...😂😂😂

Loved it I am 51 and it took me straight back

Imagine seeing that vehicle coming out of your neighbours garage 6:26. Such a great show for its time.

Wait a minute...this is the plot to Clint Eastwood movie "FIREFOX" in the early 80s.

This is where a mother is invaluable!

Ha, the unethical joy of experimenting on his own son.

A overwhelming desire for a "packet" of Cola Spangles and a bottle Cresta frothy "pop" now been planted in the old grey matter.

Gerry Anderson's finest. Life like puppets and sets. Genius.

0:49 "Hang on pal, give me 5 minutes to turn my head back in your general direction."

Sept. 7, 2018---Thanks for the video....this is one series I never heard of.

I was half expecting "Team America: World Police" to burst into the scene at any moment and shoot anything that moved.

I loved the fakeout towards the end and Joe's father has a shouting match with Uncle Sam about his son being a special agent

Sam's car was what they envisaged cars in the 21st century would look like and they were spot on with the streamlined shape and massive rear spoiler.

The set design is crazy cool.....

This is a piece of Art. It’s beautiful to just look at.

The music is a killer, groovy 60's.

Anybody else noticed the similarity between Joe’s dad and John Voight from the first MI film? Great memories of watching this as a kid. Thanks for uploading

Back to my childhood. Wonderful stuff during COVID-19.

I think technically Joe 90 was the best of all the puppet productions and in many ways my favorite.....

This is the most terrifying thing I've seen all day.

Wow I thought I knew every sci-fi there was but this one totally escaped me during my lifetime

I defininitely like this more now than back then, when I found it a tad cruddy after previous Supermarionation adventures like Thunderbirds (the best!), Captain Scarlett, Supercar, etc. The plot was a bit thin here, although the lecherous expressions on the little bugger's face (11:20-ish) were a treat to behold. The predictions of the future stood up pretty well, I thought. So thanks for making this available, and in such great quality!

Brings back memories loved it !😊

Children's TV shows of 60s was all about quality, great memories.

OMG Joe 90 used to be one of my favorites when I was a kid, im 55 and from Argentina by the way, I was talking to my friend William from the USA and he said he've never watched it before 🙄I couldn't believe it!

I was always surprised that the Fire Department showed up at Gerry Anderson's studios after these effect shots. Captain Scarlet is my favorite.

Never heard of Joe 90 till I was watching the Gerry Anderson toys video.

😂😂 I think the movie Firefox, pretty much ripped this episode off.

aesthetically the best looking puppet show ever made

Its eerie how that Mig 242 has elements of the later real MiG-29. A really *good* guess !

I know I'm odd, but the way the Russian guard says 242 is funny. Incidentally, the 242s were modified Angel Interceptors from Captain Scarlet. Most of the puppets seen in Joe 90 were originally made for Captain Scarlet too, including both Sam Loover and Shane Weston. That theme tune... some groovy stuff!

This must be the movie Ben Afleck learned to act with.

Brilliant, magnificent, amazing, and pure genius!

You would think Joe's mother would have something to say about all this

Now this is a real child's show!

Still one of the best TV programs intro music ever :)

Surely after all his exploits, he'd at least get a Blue Peter badge too!!

I have the french version on DVD and I still enjoy it. Great series. The french version is very well translated, as well as the other series like Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet (I also have this series in French).

It would be great the return of joe 90 in series

bugger me, i had hair last time i watched this.

I was waiting for Austin powers to walk through the door when that music comes on. YEAH BABY.

So... Joe has the memory of his father conceiving him with his mom? What a mind job! After reading more comments, I see that many others thought the same! Nice! It is a great work to of modeling and stop motion. It must have taken weeks to do a full episode!

This tv serie was aired here in my country in 1973...dubbed to spanish... It is really a pleasure to watch it again.. In english...

21:27 "Sure I've obtained clearance. You precocious little turd."

that is me joe. us joes are clever and witty.

More than anything else, it was B.I.G.R.A.T. and THAT car that did it for me. Suddenly I'm an over-imaginative seven-year-old. Fantastic.

Love the atomic age 50s/60s furniture, great show I miss it.

Love the very tight turns and perfect 45 degree dives. Brilliant and exciting TV for us, then and......now. Seems like the premise of Firefox was based on this episode.

I’ve met his son Jamie and if that is anything to go by Gerry must have been a very nice guy.

Jokes aside, this is some really good miniature set design. The base of the spinning chair thing at the beginning appears to be the bottom of a position rotary switch. Blends right in.

The music of the opening theme is COOL! ‘Reminds me of surfing.

This show should be brought back, as it was. Same as all the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson shows. I think kids today would appreciate it as we did when we first saw it. I was born in the 60"s. Most of the shows back then we far greater than we knew.

To anyone complaining that CGI cannot create such realistic visuals, the LEGO Movie wants to have a word with you

Simply great! The aesthetics are much better than Thunderbirds. Joe 90 never did run in german TV IMHO, so it's absolutely new to me.

14:04 the timing on the laughter is brilliant

Ahhh,a nine year old with a gun.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I remember sci fi channel showing this back in the 90’s. Didn’t realize till much later I was watching shows from way before my time

Once again brilliant barry gray music.

"Uncle Sam" lol.