The Making of Captain Scarlet | Documentary

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  @Brooman56 · 4 years ago

  Still watching all episodes.  I'm 67 years old and proud 👏

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• MI

  @MichaelSaunders-y2m · 2 years ago

  No CGI or live action remake could emulate this brilliant series

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• RI

  @richardmattocks · 4 years ago

  I’ve always thought that while Thunderbirds is more “wow”, Captain Scarlet is the moment that all the technology and skills of Gerry and his team shone the brightest. Everything coalesced with everyone at the top of their game. The puppets looked amazing, the effects off the scale and stories had a real edge.

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• CA

  @CarlB_1962 · 4 years ago

  Watching this made me so happy. I was in awe of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet as a young child and it amazes me that I can watch them now, aged 60, with a new kind of awe - an appreciation of just how brilliantly made the series were. Gerry may not have wanted to be making shows with puppets, but the shows he created have fired the imaginations of generations of children, and will continue to do so for many more generations to come.

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• WA

  @WayneScott-w7z · 1 year ago (edited)

  I'm almost 63 and I will still watch it now. Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, UFO and Space 1999 are a must watch for any old school sci-fi fan and big heaps of love and respect for Gerry & Sylvia Anderson because they helped shape my love for sci-fi and even astronomy. ❤🎉

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• FO

  @folginator · 4 years ago

  Still think this was the best of Gerry’s shows.

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• CO

  @Cotictimmy · 3 years ago

  I'm 62 years old now (in 2023) and I still remember watching Captain Scarlet as a child and loving it.

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• UF

  @ufoclips1 · 4 years ago

  Captain Scarlet really is indestructable and timeless.

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• IA

  @iansands8607 · 3 years ago

  I'm 64 now so I grew up watching Supercar, Stingray, Thunderbirds etc, but my favourite will always be Captain Scarlet. I'm still a Gerry Anderson fan to this day, when you look at the special effects they created for these shows back then they're amazing even now. Thankyou to Gerry and his team for some great childhood memories.

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• SC

  @sculptureshard377 · 4 years ago

  I'm a sculptor and 70 now, yet I still look at life though the eyes of an artist, in terms of shape, colour, form and movement. I remember being highly influenced as a child by Gerry's early productions, all of which created my love of marionettes. As I grew, I would carve my own versions of Mike Mercury and Steve Zodiac out of wood, sew the costumers myself on my mother's sewing machine, and create hair out of cotton, then spend hours playing with them in my private world in the garden; many of the puppets ending up on parachutes etc. I could not be drawn away from the screen when Thunderbirds aired, and I was 15 when Scarlet began to air. I was hooked, as the puppets were so life-like and proportionally correct. I knew then I wanted to create puppets for a living, and wrote to Gerry sending a drawing. He responded, his letter and accompanying  pamphlet subsequently stolen by a family member, but I sent two of my own carved creations via post; they never arrived, intercepted I think by someone in Royal Mail. That's life I guess, and life got in the way, a civil war, marriage, children and finally an extension of my art as a technician in the field of prosthetics and orthotics.Had those puppets arrived, who knows where I would be now and where life would have led. Great production, thank you.

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• CA

  @cardboard3716 · 3 years ago

  the fact that I'm 14 and I was born 40 years after this was aired and I love it, shows how timeless these shows are

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• CM

  @cmartin_ok · 4 years ago

  Takes me back to my childhood (I'm another one commenting who's now in his 60's); Gerry Anderson was a genius. Not only were the programmes entertaining but if you look, for example, at Thunderbirds, he predicted wireless technology, video phonecalls and smartwatches 50 years or so before they came to exist, plenty of other examples of things he foresaw - wonder if he ever thought that they would become commonplace?  It's believed that the entire UK special effects industry spun off from Thunderbirds. An amazing man whose legacy will surely live on for many more decades

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