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Just started watching The Third Day

I've seen it before but I like Jude Law and it's a bit different

I'd recommend it if you stuck for something to watch and you don't mind something a bit Wicker Mannish

I used to love that show when it was first aired. But Supercar was my first love. Fireball was pretty much Supercar in space. I gather there was another Gerry Anderson series called (?)The Secret Service that featured Father Stanley Unwin, which is a downright bizarre concept. I must take a look at it one day. Unwin's voice is supposed to be the real Stanley Unwin, and I've always liked his output.

Very neat! I will have to take a look for both of those series! I was looking through Amazon Prime and just happened to find it. My Uncle has a toy model of the Fireball XL5 rocket.

I was born in 1954 so it came around at the right time for me. I loved that show...I even thought it was better than Thunderbirds!

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I eventually owned a miniature model Supercar, though it wasn't till some time after my initial obsession with the show had faded somewhat.

Here's The Secret Service:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... qIfaNcyVnC
First episode is "A Case For The Bishop" which is presumably the best place to start.

But you might not like it:
"Lew Grade, Century 21's owner and financial backer, responded negatively to a test screening and cancelled the production. Grade believed that the inclusion of Unwinese* had made it impossible to sell the series to the American market."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Service

*Unwinese is a bizarre comic distortion of English used by Unwin in most of his other works - in fact until seeing this show I didn't know he ever spoke normal English, but he does so in the series, only using Unwinese in hostile situations, to confuse the enemies.

I was born in 1952 and am old enough to remember Anderson's first series, "The Adventures Of Twizzle" (1957-8), "Torchy The Battery Boy" (1959), and "Four Feather Falls" (1960). Gradual evolution of his childrens' stories from their quaint, humble beginnings. By the time he did "Thunderbirds" I was beginning to lose interest, probably something to do with becoming a teenager who was anxious to break out of the chrysalis of childhood. But all that changed a few decades later.

Then there was Supercar and Stingray in the early and mid 1960s. I was very much into Thunderbirds, but could never get engaged with Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons or Joe 90, both from the late 1960s.

Fireball XL5 had a wonderful song with its closing credits!

New series of black mirror

There's a new series?

Yeah on netflips

You're right Is it any good?

I just saw the first episode of Gerry Anderson's "The Secret Service." It's definitely bonkers. Father Unwin owns a secret gadget that he uses to temporarily shrink his son down to Action Man size so he can do sneaky things to defeat the unscrupulous foreign spies.

I just watched Fireball XL5 the other day, or it might have been early morning. I'm not sure I have ever watched the show before. It seemed very familiar. When I was child, I use to watch Thunderbirds when I was a child. I recall really enjoying the ships. The ships in Fireball XL5 seemed familiar, but I'm not 100% certain I watched it as child. The more I think about it, the more I think I'm fabricating memories. The ships really do look familiar. I've found it is on the Internet Archive as well as YouTube. It is also on Tubi TV. I may have to watch it just to know if jogs my memory.
This is the ship that I remember as a kid. I don't know if Thunderbirds has one like it or not. I remember really liking it (eyes popping out of my head liking it), and that was around 1963 or 1964. I was born in 1959.

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Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2020)

finished watching disc 6 (last disc )

Episodes 13, 14, 15, and 16

There were lots of things (ramblings) I wanted write about it as I watched, but only say I had some false memories about what happened in some episodes. False memories are always interesting, and a bit delightful.

I know a second season had been slated, although I'm not sure anything has been done yet. The creator has been working on other things, as has Park Eun-bin. I am okay if it is never made, although having just finished season 1, I do hope it happens some day because there are a few dangling plot points that can still be explored.

Just finished Season 3 of The Wire. Didn't enjoy it that much, though it had its moments. Too many characters and the hip-hop talking went too fast for me to decypher, so I didn't really follow the plot very well at all. And as Idris Elba was shot near the end of the season, he won't be in Season 4. But the final song - "Fast Train" by Solomon Burke - made it more worthwhile. Loved the song, and discovered a good soul singer I'd never heard of before.

Dark Winds.
SNL.

Not a Gerry Anderson series, but still from that era. Original episodes made in black and white.