Stingray - The Complete Series
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Actor: David Graham, Don Mason, Lois Maxwell, Ray Barrett, Robert EastonBrand: A&E
Producer: Sylvia Anderson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1014 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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Movie Review: Aquarium-Based Adventure Series
Summary: 5 Stars
You wouldn't think it'd be possible to imbue a puppet series with all the flamboyant colour and camp of the 1960's - yet here it is.
'Stingray' is gloriously of its time. A deliciously CGI-free world of deep-sea despots, mechanical war-fish, relentless xenophobia and populist rough justice.
It's the completely believable adventures of the Marineville-based World Aquanaut Security Patrol: Troy Tempest, Phones, Atlanta, Commander Shore, exiled sea-nymph Marina, and their self-righteous policing of nasty races skulking and scheming at the bottom of the sea. (And now to the serious stuff....!)
Much fun's to be had spotting the real folk the puppets are based on: Marina is obviously Ursula Andress, Shore displays more than a hint of Spencer Tracy, evil scourge Surface Agent X 2 Zero's voice is clearly Peter Lorre - in fact only Tempest himself remains unclear. I always thought it may be some early 60's crooner like Dickie Valentine - the jury's out anyway.
([Edit]: Someone suggested James Garner which is a great call!)
'Stingray' has the most exciting opening credits sequence of any tv series ever.
Oil rigs collapse, a whole marine base disappears underground, huge noisy war-planes raze the sky, explosions, shootings, missiles, a jarring jump from black and white to vivid colour; all accompanied by the rousing and urgent theme music, in my opinion never bettered, by Barry Gray.
On the un-PC front 'Stingray' is a joy. The 'Loch Ness Monster' episode is APPALLINGLY offensive and the WASPs seem to a have a very civilised - if unfashionable - shoot-on-site policy;
Phones: "Hey Troy, I'm picking up a small craft on the echo-finder."
Tempest: "Prepare Sting Missiles!" .
They smoke, drink, play poker and there's an underwater prison: Aquatraz (!) which makes Guantanamo Bay look like the Holiday Inn.
The 60's endorsed sexism is admirably emphatic. Both female characters have massive crushes on Tempest (of course) but instead of filling his boots, he acts so gallant, coy and condescending - he gets neither.
Personally - although Andress/Marina is desirably mute - I'd go for Atlanta.
She's a hot red-head, dreamily voiced by old Moneypenny herself Lois Maxwell, and is the daughter of Commander Shore, so there's more chance of promotion...
The only down-side to 'Stingray' is that it was commissioned for children so no-one gets even slightly killed.
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