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You can write a book review and share your experiences. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Sigurd Hlodvirsson (circa 960 – 23 April 1014), popularly known as Sigurd the Stout from the Old Norse Sigurðr digri, was an Earl of Orkney.The main sources for his life are the Norse Sagas, which were first written down some two centuries or more after his death. Home About Mac Music Gallery Videos Contact dirt road. It was a dirt road in the country Through the cornfield behind the farm I grew up back there.
Fiftysomething women who were little girls in the early 1960s will probably remember Sara and Hoppity (1962-63), a 50-episode television series about a little girl and her mischievous doll with one leg shorter than the other. Men of a similar vintage will recall Space Patrol (1963, Planet Patrol in America), a 39-episode science fiction series incorporating elements of Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation techniques. It sold around the world, achieving the highest ratings of any children’s show up to that time, and even featured on the cover of Variety magazine.
Planet Patrol, as it was called in the U.S., was — still is — a trip.
Christopher McDonald was born and raised in New York City, New York, to Patricia, a real estate agent, and James R. McDonald, an educator. His breakout role was in Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise (1991), followed shortly by playing Jack Barry in Robert Redford's Quiz Show (1994).
When I saw it as a kid, I thought it was a Gerry Anderson production and was disappointed by the poor design. Seeing it as an adult, I marvel at how much more adult the stories were and how they tried to adhere to actual science. And the music itself, not at all like the orchestral Barry Gray, was arguably ahead of its time and had to have been influenced by Delia Derbyshire (who orchestrated the original theme for Doctor Who).
She was basically the “mother” of Gerry Anderson. He produced for TV her puppet shows well before he did his own. He’d probably argue that working for her “typecast” him. But it launched him on his legendary career and led him to create immortal TV series.
After the break, the first episode of Planet Patrol.
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Bonus: Roberta Leigh with a color pilot and more advanced puppets, Paul Starr:
(I would swear Barry Gray did the music for that, uncredited!)
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At past blogs:
Rare 1960s TV: Space Patrol
YouTube: Gerry Anderson’s Very Rare Torchy
Same-day update: Thanks to the Internet Archive, the very detailed fan site that used to exist for Space Patrol.
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Second same-day update: It’s been bugging me that I wrote this post without reading the entire obituary first. If you didn’t click through to read it, do it. Read all of it. She was one hell of a talented woman with a career that puts many men to shame. She broke ground in many different fields and it seemed she had her fingers on the pulse of things and had success after success. If she was alive and young today, you’d be reading glowing profiles of her genius as someone with success after success in the field of tech startups. I’ve read the obit more than once and I sit here still amazed. Read it. Be amazed too.