The Making of Space Patrol with Roberta Leigh and Arthur Provis

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Space Patrol, sometimes confused as a Gerry Anderson production was a science fiction puppet series produced by author Roberta Leigh and cameraman Arthur Provis.
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@GerryAndersonTV Год назад

What do you remember of Space Patrol? You can grab the Blu-Ray here! shop.gerryanderson.com/products/space-patrol-the-complete-series-blu-ray-region-b

@OdeeOz Год назад

As a kid, in the 50's and 60's ... I remember thinking it was a comeback of the Live Action 1950's Television show of the same name. but in the U.S. it was called Planet Patrol. Then seeing the commercial for it on BBC TV, I thought it was trying to be _Fireball XL5._ But watching the series was a lot of fun, that us kids acted out on the Playground too. 👍👍& 5⭐

@paulbacchus1015 11 месяцев назад

I am planning to spoil myself and buy the Blue Ray dvd of Space Patrol, because after watching your vid, my love affair with the TV show has come back for the first time since the 1960s, I remember me and my cousin Julie wanting an episode at Christmas time, it involved a planet inhabited by a flying lizard creature, a highly creative series.

@OdeeOz 11 месяцев назад

You are gonna laugh all day @@paulbacchus1015 after watching it. 💞👍👍

@davidhynd4435 Год назад

As a boy I absolutely fell in love with Space Patrol. I was hooked from the very first time I saw that opening sequence. Space Patrol had a dream-like, other-worldly feel to it which, along with all the amazing electronic sounds, was exactly right to fire a young boy's imagination. Thank you to Roberta Leigh and Arthur Provis (and others). Even as a sixty year old I still have wonderful memories of watching Space Patrol.

@Steeyuv 11 месяцев назад

Same here!!

@rogerpearson9081 11 месяцев назад

Same here. It still stands the test of time as a 63 year old. It still led with some really original concepts like the Gallisphere and sleep travel. Not even sci Fi had that yet.

@simonbnyc Год назад

As a small child I found the electronic theme music to be absolutely terrifying. Of course, this kind of robotic, machine-like percussive sound was a precursor to "industrial music" some 10-15 years later.

@scofair5551 Год назад

I grew up with this show- vague late afternoon almost gothic series. Highly innovative programme with interesting characters ie Slim , Captain Dart and strange Husky. Incredible hardware. especially the scope of the Space City. Roberta and Arthur had nerves of steel!

@philjamieson5572 Год назад

I'm 65 now and, like many folk out there I'm sure, have vivid memories of this tv programme and how amazing it was. I think that so many sci-fi shows owe a great deal to Space Patrol.

@mandolinic 11 месяцев назад

I just love the Galasphere take-off sequence shots with Larry and Slim looking at the monitor as the craft leaves the tower.

@johndzwon1966 Год назад

This was one of my favourite Sci-Fi TV series when I was brat. I was over the moon when I found out that Space Patrol was released on Blu-ray.

@pzbolivar 11 месяцев назад

I agree with Ms. Roberta Leigh, the show is very good almost today. Their scripts are marvelous and the FX too.

@briangriffiths114 11 месяцев назад

What made an impact with me is that the Century 21 had great difficulty getting their puppets to walk smoothly, despite the otherwise superb quality of their productions, and yet on Space Patrol the puppet looks almost human in its gait. Very interesting video!

@ThatsnewsTV 28 дней назад

I loved Space Patrol, especially how the craft travelled.

@FIREBRAND38 Год назад

I remember watching this when I was a kid in 1964 on WPIX out of New York. The music and the sounds stuck with me. Not to mention the appearance of the Galasphere in the opening credits just zooming past and receding into the distance.

@stevesobot5372 11 месяцев назад

Excellent series, loved the spooky feel to the opening sequence, also the sparing use of background music made it even more mysterious. Streets ahead of it's time, thank you Roberta & Arthur.

@QualityCandor Год назад

The moody answer to the pulp thrills of Fireball XL5, and inarguably the best of Leigh's forays into sci-fi. Love the atmosphere of the series, and some of genuinely sinister under (and over) tones. Proud to own the Network blu-ray before they went under.

@stevenlitvintchouk3131 Год назад

I used to watch it as a very young kid. It had an unusually serious and even dark ambiance for a show aimed at young children. I found a few of the episodes genuinely scary at that young age. I still remember the episode where the robots went crazy and one of them slugged Marla, knocking her unconscious. Not what you'd expect in a children's puppet show.

@QualityCandor Год назад

@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 That episode is wild. Funnily enough, it's just that sinister quality that also made the series work in a way Leigh's other stabs didn't. "Paul Starr" was a trainwreck and "Solarnauts" was leigh cramming what should've been an hour-long show into a half-hour. Both lack the strange, eerie dignity of "Space Patrol."

@warthog473 Год назад

@@stevenlitvintchouk3131She said it was targeted at older kids, not kindergarten kids.

@cecilycasey3197 Год назад

I remembered this from when I was a child. Loved it to bits and wondered why Anderson never did any more with it! Now I know it wasn't one of Gerry's, but it was certainly worthy of the genre.

@philipc2025 Год назад

I remember Twizzle and Torchy The Battery Boy. I still remember the Torchy theme song lyrics. Space Patrol I think was the genesis of my love of science fiction. Husky, Venus, Captain Larry Dart, the gabbler dictum bird, Gamma Rays on 'check' yobber rays on 'check'..... No idea what yobber rays were.😊

@charlesflint9048 9 месяцев назад

I loved Space Patrol as an 8 yr old, and I still love it today ( particularly in the re-coloured versions now)

@stevenlitvintchouk3131 Год назад

I was hoping that the video would explain how they came up with the design of the Galasphere. Its shape was unique at a time when most SF spaceships (even for adult TV or movies) were just glorified V-2 rockets.

@aramboodakian9554 11 месяцев назад

I would say the Galasphere was the designed after Werner Von Braun’s space station concept. I loved the sound it made like a musical top with a sci-fi bent.

@TheDunc1 Год назад

A very gracious thing to do, helping Roberta Leigh's legacy.

@davidweaver4702 Год назад

Its funny how certain things take you back to your childhood. Space Patrol is one of those thing. I can still sing to myself the sound of the Galasphere travelling through space. All the amazing electronic sounds. The stories were good as well. As others have said, i still preferred Fireball XL5, but for space things, this comes a very close second. So much so, that ive pre-ordered the bluray, and will watch it avidly to recall my childhood yet again. Thanks for bring it back Anderson Entertainment 👏👌❤️

@AceOThorns Год назад

Honestly never encountered this series until now - but boy, did they nail the puppets walking.

@VBaskin2010 Год назад

Space Patrol Deserves a reboot!

@chriskennedy7534 10 месяцев назад

58 yr old Aussie who spent years trying to match "spinning spaceship & freezing the crew" memories of a puppet cartoon I vaguely remembered from childhood So nice to see this behind the scenes interview Thanks for posting

@OH-HELL-NO... 11 дней назад

Had never heard of this show. Just seen a episode on Talking Pictures TV channel. Unbelievable. I'm 58. Can't believe I've never heard of it. I know all other Gerry Anderson shows. 😊

@m14butch Год назад

I too watched growing up in NJ on WPIX-TV. It was the "Music" and robots that always stuck in my memory....Oh to be a child again!

@stevemartin239 Год назад

Thanks for sharing these wonderful memories! The opening & closing credits, were so far ahead of their time!

@mikesmith2905 6 месяцев назад

This was one of my favourite shows as a child, nice space craft, cracking space city and the theme music was just the pulsing sound of the city. With space suits instead of 'oxy-gum' and humans hibernating while the robots flew the shipas a sci fi fan I thought it was one of the better efforts out there. Never did find out what the Yobba rays did though.

@Rabbit-moon-qj3uh 9 дней назад

I love this series! I got my Blu-ray set! ❤❤❤

@paulkinnear2727 Год назад

Xl5 had Space Patrol beat in almost every department (puppets, models, sets, music and voice cast), but where the Roberta Leigh series excelled was in how sophisticated the stories were. Yes there were some inconsistencies (how could the whole series take place in 2100 when some episodes include months of space travel time?), but on the whole the stories felt far more 'grown up'. For the record, I do prefer XL5, but credit where it's due

@madcyril4135 Год назад

Couldn’t put it better myself! Closing titles on space patrol, have stuck with me for life! Views of the city, and that industrial metronome sound! I’m 66 now and I think it paved the way for my obscure Taste in cinema! Great comment of yours take care.

@Bartok_J 11 месяцев назад

My mother cut a bush in the garden in the shape of a Galasphere. The topiary took various forms over the years, but, nevertheless, it was always referred to as "The Galasphere" until her death some 50 years later.

@geoffreykeane4072 11 месяцев назад

The colourised episodes on RU-vid are fabulous. The plots would often have been quite scary for children.

@cjlist9731 Год назад

the more I see this, the more intrigued I get. I was deciding whether to get the Network set & now I have the chance too again, ironically through Anderson Entertainment 😊

@peterrobbins2862 9 месяцев назад

I remember watching space patrol as a kid

@ferraridinoman Год назад

Yobba rays on! Zobba rays on!! All set Captain!

@davidrosler5413 Год назад

Not a fraction of Anderson's shows but behind the scenes? THIS I want to see!

@Petetarus Год назад

I just preordered my copy

@johnglielmi6428 Год назад

I don't remember this show, But I do remember The Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Supercar, Joe90, Fireball XL5, Space 1999, UFO and have almost every one on Bluray or DVD. I just need Space 1999 and UFO

@paulbacchus1015 Год назад

I remember Space Patrol very well, and for a long time confused it with a Gerry Anderson tv shoe.

@joeking4206 Год назад

This show gave me nightmares. I think it was the theme music. Extremely haunting.

@danieljudegennis Год назад

Oh god! I remember watching this a very young child in the 1960s but never remember the name of the series.

@reb3102 Год назад

I picked up the previous blu-ray set. Haven't finished it yet, but an interesting series.

@lesliemclean4381 11 месяцев назад

Spot on! Damnskippy.

@smithpm81 Год назад

brilliant show

@cedarcam Год назад

I always thought it was a Gerry Anderson creation but more scary than Supercar and Fireball XL5, It was only later I found it was made by someone else. I have seen the series in more recent times and the stories are well written. No wonder I did not remember much of them from years ago. Fireball is my favourite of the two though. I always liked those more as a kid.

@WillaLamour Год назад

Available again? Awesome!

@glen1555 Год назад

It was broadcast at the same time as Dr Who. I watched Space Patrol then on a Monday kids in the school playground were being Daleks

@colinu9209 3 месяца назад

It’s not a good sign when you have to have the words hover jet on the side of your hover jet so that you know it’s a hover jet 😂 . Loved this series as I kid .

@bettyleeist Год назад

I never saw;Space Patrol,but,I do remember;Fireball X-L five!It used to come on,on Saturdays at:1;00 or 2;00 O’clock,I think?Nbc or even,probably,CBS put this on,I think?

@chuckmaddison2924 11 месяцев назад

Oh my God , instant onset touretts What can one honestly say.

@dicapriodelorean2888 Год назад

finally, Fireball XL5 at home

@johnclay7644 Год назад

Gerry worked with a lot of people in the busy 1960s different.

@mikesilva3868 Год назад

😊cool

@iandeeley9033 Год назад

I did once saw an episode on the ANDERSON TV Website, and to be fair, it was good for it's time! (Though I STILL prefer FIREBALL)!

@anthillmob100 Год назад

it has been oiut on blu ray before..i have a copy..will there be any extras on the new set?

@francisoleary7010 Месяц назад

Honestly I wonder whether Gene Roddenberry was aware of this production. A ship’s architecture that looks nothing like the space rockets of other sci-fi visions, a mysterious propulsion system way ahead of conventional thrust engines, a crew that included exogenous personnel with pointed ears… hmm. I loved SP although I remember only a brief season. So utterly unlike anything else at that time. I was obsessed with all things space and sci-fi and SP was as exciting and different as Star Trek was later to be.

@SpideyVids Год назад

I used to love Space Patrol when I was a kid - such a shame it was shot in black and white, it would have looked brilliant in colour.

@philjamieson5572 11 месяцев назад

Yeah; my thoughts exactly. Supercar has been colourised by some geniuses on RU-vid so you'd think someone could do this brilliant series.

@SpideyVids 11 месяцев назад

@@philjamieson5572 The colourisation in Supercar looks so good that if you didn't know, you would swear it was shot on colour film.

@philjamieson5572 11 месяцев назад

@@SpideyVidsYes; That's exactly what I thought when I watched the colourised sequences of Supercar. Space Patrol is, I think, worthy of that.

@harryconnett4353 Год назад

Do you guys know if any of the other Roberta Leigh exist in the archives

@kmac499 11 месяцев назад

I still finsih the odd checklist with Yobba Rays On.

@anthillmob100 Год назад

if they only used a solenoid to move the eyes as this video suggests..the question remains HOW DID THEY MOVE THE MOUTHS?

@paynemationmedia1092 Год назад

Good question

@Jeffers1960 Год назад

the hovercraft looks familiar🤔

@randlerobbertson8792 Год назад

I loved space patrol as a young lad.

@zagreus139 Год назад

This behind the scenes stuff isnt on the blu-ray

@dogwalker666 Год назад

Only know Space Patrol as the "Old Time Radio" series.

@johndzwon1966 Год назад

From vague memory, I think there was a human (not puppet) American made sci-fi TV series called Space Patrol, and as a result, Roberta Leigh's Space Patrol was screened with a different title in the U.S. In fact, I just Googled it, and apparently it was called "Planet Patrol" in the U.S.

@dogwalker666 Год назад

@@johndzwon1966 There was indeed a 1950 live action TV series using the same opening and characters as the radio series, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vTz_4-3WLt4.html they also made a series in colour in 1962, The Roberta version also has one episode on RU-vid.

@gerry5134 Год назад

I don't think I ever saw this show 🤔

@paynemationmedia1092 Год назад

Why was this under Anderson entertainment, if it wasn't produced by Gerry Anderson?

@lesliemclean4381 11 месяцев назад

Where is a sizable model of the Galasphere space ship model.I have super car,fireball XL5,Stingray and the Thunderbirds models.But I see no planet patrol it was called in the United states.Spaceship model for my collection?

@disneydaniel3163 Год назад

I found a show to be scary with the sound effects

@johndzwon1966 Год назад

The robot marching back and forth in the Galasphere's control room used to give me nightmares!

@aaronatherton7431 Год назад

There was a live action series called Space Patrol at the time. Was it the same series?

@ChrisMannphoto Год назад

No the live action one was a US production made in the early 1950s - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qfmNM18QgbU.html

@aaronatherton7431 Год назад

@@ChrisMannphoto How did the copywrite work with that? Sixty, fifty are not that far apart.

@ChrisMannphoto Год назад

@@aaronatherton7431 I imagine they were not so bothered about such things in those days.

@stevenlitvintchouk3131 Год назад

@@aaronatherton7431 That was why the title of Leigh's show was changed to "Planet Patrol" for the US market.

@aaronatherton7431 Год назад

@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 Now I know.

@hughporter1919 Год назад

It will be confused as Gerry Anderson Production now. 😂😂

@rambo1152 Год назад

I don't know what the guys at SpaceX who came up with the idea of "Mechazilla" were smoking, but I do know they must have been watching the end credits of Space Patrol at the same time. Strange, this is the first time I've noticed the Post Office tower in the set. Was it an architects model I wonder, the real thing wasn't completed until 1964. Roberta taking all the credit for FC Judd's electronic music score. Typical.