Stingray: Century 21 Tech Talk [1.8] | Hosted by Brains and Gordon Tracy [Thunderbirds]

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Marineville! I am calling battle stations! Anything can happen in the next 8 minutes! (Although it'll probably be a tech talk about Stingray!)

[@colinp2238]

The advanced propulsion system wires?

[@rhyscollingwood23]

That was really good that stingray the famous submarine has gave a lot of good of old memories. By the way I have little question i like to ask is thunderbird 5 gonig to be episode nine tech talk and if it is I would like to see it because to tell the truth about it well thunderbird 5 has always been one of my favourite machine and i would like it to be the next episode and i just would like to say I enjoyed all of the tech talks.

[@turbopokey]

(Rapid bongos ensue...)

[@pawpatrolthunderbird4569]

PWOR im ready and Stingray is a go

[@whovianhistorybuff]

P,W,O,R

[@ListerDavid]

I love Stingray, it’s sweeping lines and popping colour scheme. She is one of my top vehicles from the worlds of Gerry.

[@iandeeley9033]

Love the bit at the end where TB4 helps Stingray defeat the Terror Fish! PWOR!

[@andrewshearsby8125]

a beautiful edit

[@cjlist9731]

if only that had happened for real. maybe one day.

[@ACtheLegend]

@@cjlist9731 it is real...its official

[@steverogers500]

Another great entry in the C21 TT! Chris Thompson's artwork is stunningly awesome. The piece de resistance 'The old one-two' was brilliant - the stuff of 60s childhood dreams!

[@kiwitrainguy]

"Fire WASP interceptors"

[@isaucier]

Another great video, Stingray is a beautiful ship. Really nice to see the nod to Captain Gray too!

[@matthewbland8432]

Yes, really interesting. Is it canon that Captain Grey and Gordon served alongside each other?

[@daverage4729]

I was a huge fan of Captain Scarlett. Love how the shows all link into each other. Was quite pleased too to see that little bit of info about captain gray.

[@andrewshearsby8125]

love how all off Gerry Andetsons worlds are inner connected. wish he could've done a Thunderbirds/stingray/captain scarlett crossover

[@Thrawn1]

In the thundiribrd comics Stingray did do a cross over but it was only 3 panels in a bigger story

[@andrewshearsby8125]

@@Thrawn1 ah thats comics i mean an actual episode or movie.

[@nbfre]

well stingray could always show in thunderbirds are go (the tv series not the movie)

[@andrewshearsby8125]

@@nbfre that would be amazing. well more episodes are due soon

[@nbfre]

@@andrewshearsby8125 i know and i'm so hyped :)

[@krizzys]

Ahh Stingray, my gateway drug into Supermarionation. It was probably already a quarter of a century old when I first saw it, and it was, and still remains, absolutely brilliant.

[@brettmiddleton7949]

I hear that loud and clear! Though my gateway drug was _Fireball XL5_ and it was brand new when I first saw it.

[@Keefa24]

I go back to remembering Torchy and Twizzle, if I can mention those here. This series of KZbins is so good. Lovely to hear David Graham again in his various guises. Excellent. My family have adopted one of Brain's sayings: "I don't think they're gonna make it, Mr Tracy". It is great to include Stingray in these briefings. Well done and keep up the good work! Cheers from me in Oz!

[@donaldclay9535]

In the Fall of 1964 I was 7 yrs. old This and Hanna-Barbera Jonny Quest Blew My Mind. I Wish I Got a Toy Stingray for Christmas.

[@redips123gaming3]

Stingray probably one of my favourite Gerry Anderson’s tv shows🙂🤪👍

[@michaelalexander43]

While living in Cleveland during the 1960s, I only got to see three of Gerry Anderson's fantastic creations airing on local TV. Supercar in syndication early 1962 when (I was four), Fireball XL5 aired nationally on Saturday mornings on NBC starting in September 1963 Stingray was also in syndication aired around early 1966. I didn't get see any Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons until I moved out to Southern California as an adult by the early 1980s on VHS tapes. Stingray added to my childhood wonderment of the fantastic.

[@jackmessent3490]

Great video! David Graham is certainly very talented. I have been privileged to have met him on several occasions.

[@Digscomics]

I think my favourite part of these videos is the stuff about the raft development. The pre-Stingray submarines were pretty cool and it's fun to finally see why Stingray is number 3.

[@COBO2]

Very nice continuity with the other Gerry Anderson shows.

[@DoctorAustin]

Imagine what they could do today with CGI and Stingray, and especially Fireball XL5. However, since they had to build absolutely everything, these Anderson productions were pure art and craftsmanship.

[@williamellis6975]

I still love Stingray

[@davisgreen2099]

My childhood revisited! Deepest thanks Mr. Anderson!

[@quillerpen]

I love the little touches that make to puppets seem real - 2.45 when Troy turns his head to glance down the shaft as they are dropping down to Stingray

[@LewStringer]

This is great! The shared universe of TV21 is back!

[@theatragon2163]

“Anything can happen in the next half hour!”

[@GerryAndersonTV]

And it will!

[@colinp2238]

The tower collapses!

[@keithcall7795]

Just started watching Thunderbirds again on ME TV Sunday mornings. Hadn't seen Stingray in years. Still great.Thanks for posting. Doesn't Gordon Tracey look like Dan Quayle? I noticed that at the intro to Thunderbirds. Thanks again.

[@WalterDWormack214]

Watching these "Tech Talks", I totally miss *"Ray Rayner's Rocket to Adventure!"* It was an old mid 1960s weekday afternoons television program that ran on *WGN-TV, Channel 9,* in Chicago, IL. Mr. Rayner, wore spacesuit, and sat at a console of his spaceship, with five screens, each one would let him see a different program. One day, it would be *"Eighth Man",* the next day, it would be *"Gigantor",* my favorite of the progams that ran was *"Stingray"!* I totally loved that submarine!

[@ketchup5344]

Ive just realised how much i love the design of the stingray craft. In design terms it is exquisite. I used to have one. I used to play with it in the bath. And the stingray. 😅✌

[@hannahwerlangbecker8725]

Hi for all! in my 61 years old I love the Scarlet Capitan, Stingray and Thunderbirds team....I never forget these adventures! why these series dont release again? waiting ever...G.A. ...when I see my Angel model AIRIFIX.

[@schwarzebaron77]

Nice to hear from you after all these years Brains.

[@kiwitrainguy]

He still hasn't lost that stutter though.😀

[@lukegreen5341]

0:06 Super Awesome Fantastic Job Brains And Gordon Tracy From Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series. A Bit Like Bert And Ernie From Jim Henson's Sesame Street. X

[@DeanPickersgill]

Excellent, that's all I can say, I love these 'Tech Talks' with Brains!

[@bernardjay379]

Stingray great childhood memories.

[@matthewkingston4824]

love stingray wish this program would come back to tv please

[@dr.quackenbacker5247]

March of the Oysters is lit af

[@terryroberts505]

Let's not forget the programs end theme aqua marina song by Gary Miller

[@AndrewChapman]

FINALLY! We get to see other WASP vessels. And with their numbers just like Stingray.

[@Tuberuser187]

That dry dock pic is

[@dalethelander3781]

Ha! David Graham. How delightful!

[@lukegreen5341]

0:49 Gordon Tracy From Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds The Original Series In 1965 As Seen On ITV Thinks He Looks Like Marty Mcfly From Steven Spielberg's Back To The Future The Movie In 1985. Thanks Mate. X

[@Dan-Payne]

Bring us a Gerry Anderson Cinematic Universe, honestly

[@krizzys]

The GACU...just imagine!

[@timepoet77]

I agree.

[@cjlist9731]

it's all connected!!! it just needs to be brought together into that kind of media. had the exact same thought.

[@pcarrierorange]

The old one-two at the end there was great!

[@hovermotion]

Stunnng production and editing..

[@VBaskin2010]

It all leads up to the big one of all, the legendary and iconic ThunderBird 5!

[@Michator]

Fantastic work the lot of you! Really enjoyed this. Cheers, look forward to future episodes

[@colinp2238]

I used to love the Aquaphibians when they talked and the Peter Lorre agent X20 I believe he was called? Best aliens ever.

[@ufoclips1]

I called them hot water bottles,well,thats the sound mine made,was`nt it agent X9?,it`s been a while....

[@kiwitrainguy]

In "The Master Plan" Phones and Troy combine to talk like an Aquaphibian so as to bluff their way in to Titanica.

[@bonetower]

Was waiting for this one! Loved this show as a kid on sunday evenings

[@stephenfarthing485]

In one of the new animated series of Thunderbirds - There's a model of Stingray in a fishtank in the lounge. Thought you should know this.

[@stephenfarthing1522]

What about the Angel Interceptor jets? Of Spectrum?

[@heathertiplady]

Oh my goodness, I'm loving these Tech Talk videos and all the ways in which many of the Supermarianation shows are connected. I can't help but wonder how Mysteron threats and/ or other situations (e.g, attacks from Titan, natural diasters or a collaboration between some of the villians within each series) would affect the characters. How would the Tracy brothers' former friends and colleagues react to the knowledge that they form the core of International rescue & vice versa? And, what would the implications be? That's something I'd love to find out.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

If you have even wondered how they filmed Stingray underwater, they put a thin glass tank of water with a bubbler in front of the camera, then had a dry Stingray and other moving craft on wires move around behind the tank.

[@james68908]

they did that with supercar and fireball xl5 too.

[@soundblaster1987reviews]

I never knew Captain Grey of Spectrum was involved in this series! I need to watch Stingray again...

[@andrewshearsby8125]

i think it was only in tie in books written by Gerry Anderson and co.

[@josephdolman]

Yeah he was never mentioned in the actual series I have watched every episode of my stingray dvd collection but seeing how stingray came before both thunderbirds and captain scarlet I don't think gerry anderson had it all thought out from the beginning.

[@alanruyten8226]

It was in a Spectrum agents CV feature from a Captain Scarlet Annual. Each of the main characters had a back story and it said Captain Grey served in the WASPs before Spectrum. But doesn’t it say a lot about how these fab Tech Talk episodes are written and created that this sort of crossover detail is included! Well done again to the C21Tech Talk team 👍

[@litten2133]

My god you madlads actually did it, more gordon characterisation pog

[@crispycritterz]

YES! More crossover!

[@Raptormon132]

Wow! Who would have thought that Gordon Tracy use to work for the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (W.A.S.P.). So I guess my fan theory of Thunderbirds and Stingray being linked together and taking place in the same earth is true. That must mean Commander Samuel Shore of W.A.S.P. and Jeff Tracy must also know, or at least know of, each other. I even wonder if Brains might have had something to do with the construction of Stingray, and equipment at W.A.S.P.'s base? And I also wonder if International Rescue gets equipment and other things from secretly with W.A.S.P., and that members of W.A.S.P. are secretly agents of International Rescue?

[@ACtheLegend]

See Thunderbird 4 Tech Talk for more info ;)

[@stephenpochly7003]

When I was about 8 I was invited to a birthday party of a school friend. I would have been the only boy there but I didn't go. Stingray was on that afternoon I didn't want to miss it and there were no videos at that time

[@kiwitrainguy]

You spent your time wisely.

[@stephenfarthing1522]

Stingray is the ' Spitfire' to TB4's 'Hurricane' slower but a steady weapons platform.

[@RailRocketRicky]

It does make you wonder why Stingray wasn't even adapted into Thunderbird 4, if you take my meaning; I'm sorry to say it but Thunderbird 4 looks nothing like a submarine.

[@stephenfarthing485]

Because TB4 is designed for depth penetration and can remain at 36,000 feet longer than Stingray. Different types, different capabilities.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

@@RailRocketRicky I don't think stingray would fit in Thunderbird 2's pod.

[@stephenfarthing1522]

@@whovianhistorybuff - good point - Stingray is three or four times bigger than TB4.

[@jjmac3561]

According to your other Stingray video, Marina was the one who rescued Troy and Phones by untying them. Then they of course took her with them when they escaped.

[@kiwitrainguy]

She also swam between the Mechanical Fish and Stingray to tie up the tether so that Stingray could be towed back to Marineville.

[@williamschwartz7428]

TB4 destroying a Terror Fish was awesome!

[@stephenfarthing1522]

William Schwartz - demolition torpedoes can demolish Titan's Terror Fish.

[@mistermadmachine6311]

Underwater rescue was never more awesome

[@maxinepage1646]

Stingray wow what a show, i was glued to my set back in the 1960s , and still watch them today, any chance of a remake ?????

[@moodyguymick]

No remakes........Please !!!

[@thatblenderguy7566]

I Need An Full Episode With Gordon Tracy And Troy Tempest Right Now! Stingray And Thunderbird 4

[@sandersides_forlife3339]

So we know that Scott Tracy used to work at USA Air Force and Gordon at WASP and Stingray but what was Virgil’s job before International rescue and please do a Centuary21 Tech talk please thank you

[@whovianhistorybuff]

There isn't really a bio on virgil's pre-international rescue career, just that he was a graduate of the (I take it fictional) Denver School of Advanced Technology and astronaut training at the tracy college.

[@kieronfoster940]

i love theas tech talks and i love the scean at the end thunderbird 4 and stingray working togher that would of also been cool to see in the show a crossover of thunderbirds and stingray i also love reading fanfics about that but any way cool tech talk like all the other

[@MdickieFilms]

Gordon's voice sounds like brains

[@RailRocketRicky]

Gordon Tracy and Brains are both voiced by David Graham, who is also the voice of Parker.

[@narrowmindedrailworks]

Great video tech talk, would love to see some of the other Stingray tech like Commander Samuel Shores chair!

[@allenjones3130]

The Tech Talk about Sam's wheelchair should be narrated by Sam himself! Tempest and Sheridan make a great team.

[@m.p99]

Brains sounds older and wiser 😘

[@GerryAndersonTV]

55 years older and wiser...

[@andrewmilner3480]

Great stuff!!

[@occamsrayzor]

I never knew I shared the same birthday as Gordon Tracy :-)

[@spluff5]

I didn't know it was confirmed that Stingray and Thunderbirds were in the same world. Stingray is a really sexy looking sub

[@ACtheLegend]

And Scarlet and XL5 :)

[@quillerpen]

It is canon that Gordon was a member of WASP before IR was formed, and one story in the TV21 comics did combine characters from Thunderbirds, Stingray and Fireball but that was before Scarlet was created so there was no crossover with that. Just as well really - I'd hate to think of a Mysteronised TB1 or Mole!

[@fightboss]

Awesome Job! this something I've wanted to Learn about for Awhile! any plans to Profile the Spearhead Bomber from Stingray? Keep up the Superb & Entertaining Work!

[@nikitamckeever5403]

Need a bit of work on the voices but thanks , a great show from way back . I spent many a Saturday morning watching all the Anderson shows 😁

[@GerryAndersonTV]

The voices are performed by the original voice artist, 55 years after the original show was made.

[@SgtScorpious]

330 a.m.? Oh boy my favorite time!

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Hahaha. Sorry about that :) Timezones, eh?

[@SgtScorpious]

@@GerryAndersonTV lol no worries

[@Kashi-K]

www.deviantart.com/chrisofedf/art/Stingray-Turning-up-the-heat-718651882 and then at @1:23 www.deviantart.com/chrisofedf/art/Stingray-The-Story-Begins-267712036 if anyone wanted to see the full thumbnail

[@jetshot2218]

So is the Thunderbird 5 episode going to be the last one?

[@theblu-rayanddvdcollector8742]

Whens stingray coming to blu ray!!?

[@tracytron7162]

5:30 Wait, I thought that was the predecessor of sonar?...

[@unforgivenband7160]

always a classy design

[@RJSRdg]

Are these Tech Talks the first official crossovers between the different Anderson series?

[@Michator]

Canne wait!

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Nor can we!

[@andrewholliday251]

.....but still no explanation for those green windows as seen from inside Stingray!

[@stephenfarthing485]

Thunderbird 4 is slower but a very stable weapons platform like the Hawker Hurricane and Stingray is the Spitfire fast and powerful. I think it is the best means of expression of description.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

They're both designed for very different missions stingray is for patrol and combat thunderbird 4 is for search and rescue comparing them would be akin to an F-14 tomcat to a sea king helicopter they both do different jobs and do them both very well.

[@stephenfarthing485]

whovianhistory buff 2345 - I didn't mean to say that the two craft were doing the same thing. To a degree TB4 is capable of defence of self. Though it's not a first option. Since it is a rescue submersible. Stingray is more capable in combat but has some capacity of sea rescue, but in a more limited sense. The analogy of the Spitfire to the Hurricane is how I best explain the difference between the two. Stingray has the edge in combat over TB4. But when it comes to deep sea rescues TB4 has the edge on Stingray. It doesn't mean that the two can't work together. As Titan found out - the hard way.

[@natying35]

Is stingray bigger than or Thunderbird 4

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Much bigger than TB4

[@natying35]

@@GerryAndersonTV so that means thunderbird 4 is the smallest thunderbird

[@ACtheLegend]

@@natying35 smallest by a long way. TB4 is 30ft TB1 is 90ft TB2 is 250ft TB3 is 287ft TB5 is 400 ft

[@allenjones3130]

So Thunderbird 4 is armed too, eh? No surprise there!

[@BMordecai]

BATTLESTATIONS BATTLESTATIONS, PWOR!

[@r.jackson7162]

A fun video. But I was always under the belief that there was more than one Stingray patrol sub like the Fireballs and Skysub.

[@malcolmcog]

Our cat knocked my Stigray off the windowsill and broke the coning tower ! Grrr !

[@Trek001]

Does this make Phones' name canon?

[@ACtheLegend]

Of course, it's the Official Gerry Anderson channel :)

[@Trek001]

@@ACtheLegend I was checking because it's never been mentioned on screen as far as I can remember... Now for TB4 to go into battle against Stingray

[@aricgill1290]

Who else enjoys seeing the Stingray Easter eggs in the Thunderbirds 2015 series?

[@tristangriffiths7998]

Lol brains and Gordon are practically the same voice

[@ACtheLegend]

Funny that, it's like theyre voiced by the same actor ;)

[@arguspanoptes9510]

Gordon Bennett it's Gordon Tracey.

[@TaylorZanderFrancis]

I had NO idea that the Supermarionation shows had an expanded universe and shared worlds... I thought it was a joke, but that quote basically makes it official, right?

[@quicksilver238]

It was the comic strips in TV21 that began the integration of the Andersonverse if I'm correct.

[@brettmiddleton7949]

I'm almost entirely certain that _Stingray_ and _Fireball XL5_ were explicitly connected in an episode of _Stingray_ that indicated WASP was a sister organization to WSP. But I'd never heard of any connections to the other shows.

[@Riccardo_Silva]

I was taught that the noun "swordfish" is pronounced "soordfish". Can someone please clarify? Thank you in advance! ;-)

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Pretty much! Sawd-fish/Sord-fish 😊

[@Riccardo_Silva]

@@GerryAndersonTV thank you!

[@bukster1]

Who needs those limp Thunderbirds? Stingray was prepped for war. Mess with Stingray and you get a sting missile to teach you to mind yourself.

[@ACtheLegend]

As the video shows, Thunderbird 4 is also armed with sting missiles, and the other Thunderbird craft are armed with a variety of cannons and missiles too. Wouldn't fancy taking any of them on.

[@kiwitrainguy]

@@ACtheLegend And don't forget the machine gun in the radiator grille of Lady Penelope's RR car.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

This video is eight marine minutes long exactly.

[@AndrewHeller-jn7dx]

What is: "PWOR"-?

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Proceeding with orders received

[@AndrewHeller-jn7dx]

@@GerryAndersonTV Tx., A.

[@spluff5]

I always did think Stingray was a superior sub to T4

[@whovianhistorybuff]

I'd say Stingray is superior to TB4 in the same way an Apache helicopter is superior to a Sikorsky S-92, the Apache is a combat helicopter gunship and the S-92 is designed as a search and rescue craft.

[@jimenatorresbarriga7114]

Date of birth: February 14th, 2043

[@timepoet77]

What does PWOR stand for?

[@ACtheLegend]

Proceeding With Orders Received

[@stephenfarthing485]

Oh fiddle! I was going to say that! Thank you Andrew, for beating me to it. Oh well! At least I can confirm that as well!

[@timepoet77]

Andrew C Thanks

[@gamingninja5196]

All we need is what FAB stands for.

[@stephenfarthing485]

Gaming Ninja51 - Fine and Bravo I think it means! Oh yes! And it is a guess on my own part.

[@moodyguymick]

You'd expect Troy Tempest to give the lowdown on Stingray.

[@ACtheLegend]

Troy was on standby duty at the time but said he was sorry to miss out.

[@kennyfordham6208]

Hmmm...Gordon Tracy sounds a lot like Brains.

[@ACtheLegend]

Well they always have done, for a very good reason ;)

[@radioactiveredfox2921]

As a kid I never got it. Now hearing it for the first time as an adult I'm laughing so hard my sides hurt

[@ACtheLegend]

@@radioactiveredfox2921 don't forget Parker and Kyrano too!

[@SteveMrW]

So, Stingray has number 3 on it's tail fin.......How many 'Stingray's' are there?

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Read more here: www.gerryanderson.com/the-w-a-s-p-fleet/

[@No_More_Wrath]

Come on, Brains. We all know it’s you pretending to be Gordon.

[@oxcart4172]

They could've got someone else in to imitate that other voice!

[@GerryAndersonTV]

Both characters were played by David Graham, who voices both characters again here, 50+ years on.

[@rogerpattube]

I thought Brains was now an Indian gentleman.

[@GerryAndersonTV]

This is classic Thunderbirds Brains