I was never into the Gerry Anderson stuff as a kid, but I vividly remember the opening credits to his "Fireball XL-5" which I thought was the coolest outerspace thing ever when I was knee-high to a colorful expression. His other stuff never made it to my local airwaves, and retrospectively, boy does it look cheezy!
For young Peter the rocket stuff alone was probably something, no? Plus the idea of riding flying scooters wherever you want to go. Even if you have to have a weird expression on your face the whole time! And there are (spoiler alert!) strings attached.... (hahaha)
I was *very* young when I saw that show. I had to be told later that it involved puppets. But I was really enamored of that multiple-rocket spaceship launch. In retrospect, I probably remember an older brother playing at that launch with a spaceship made from American Bricks (A lego knockoff from the early 60's) rather than much of the show itself.
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Wow, here's the start of Fireball XL-5. Nowhere near as cool as I remember it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yKFrI7KDxc
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