Some Light Stuff.

I have been surfing around the internet when I came across this old UK series which has a cult following today. The name of the show is Fireball XL5 featuring marionettes in a science fiction setting.

Decades later, this show is still pretty good. The shows created by the team of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson have a cult following, as do their other shows, including The Thunderbirds, which I don't remember much of.

Courtesy of YouTube, this is the first episode of the series (in reverse order, of course):

Part Three, with the theme music I still remember after all of these years (some 46 years):





Part Two:






Part One:



I am probably going to end up getting the DVD of this series.

Here is some information about Don Spencer, who sang the theme song, which was a hit in the U.K.