You know how it goes – you book a lovely holiday with your mates full of sun, sea, and surf, only for your boss to cancel it and send you on a mission to the centre of the Earth. Oh, what’s that? You’re not familiar with that issue? Well, this is Stingray, so you’d better get used to that sort of thing happening. Subterranean Sea is one of those points in the series when the production team have just had to throw up their hands and declare, “Who cares if it makes sense? Let’s just have fun with it and hopefully the people watching at home enjoy it too.” And, d’you know what? That sounds like just the right attitude to me.
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Stingray – 11. Emergency Marineville
Emergency Marineville was chosen as the second episode of Stingray to be broadcast. The episode also formed part of the Aquanaut of the Year clip show at the end of the series, and the linking material which later became The Reunion Party broadcast in 2008. It was weaved into the compilation film Invaders From The Deep released in 1981. It was also among the first episodes to receive a home media release of sorts in the 1960s with a silent 8mm home movie reel from Walton Films. Clearly, from the very beginning, Emergency Marineville was considered something special and it’s been wheeled out time and again to be the flagship of the entire series. So, what makes it so darn popular? Well let’s get on with it and try to figure that out…
Stingray – 10. The Ghost of the Sea
The Ghost of the Sea offers us that rarest of opportunities in a Supermarionation series – the chance to learn just a smidge about a character’s back story and their life before the events of the show began. Now that isn’t to say character development is lacking from the Supermarionation shows, in fact quite the opposite is true. We learn a heck of a lot about our heroes from the ways they interact with each other and respond to crisis after crisis. But the biographical history of characters is a subject rarely touched upon outside of a few throwaway lines of dialogue here and there… until now that is…
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