Stingray Theme Song - Aqua Marina - ATV/ITC (ITV) 1964 - Gary Miller

[@AndrewGosling-bz1lw]

I was born 1960, and i had a crush on her. Later in rhe mid 80s i heard the song and i went cold, no other song has ever done that

[@kazmaniaD3633]

Did you marry a woman who reminded you of her?

[@Cami.Lightw0rker]

This brings tears to my eyes I was born in 83, I loved Troy and Aqua marina watching that as a kid because it still aired on BBC2 at that time during the 80s I remember this song word for word- it’s funny because I now work as a reiki master wrking with magick and rituals and when ever I think of my special person I get messages that he hears this song when he thinks of me It’s funny you said it made you go cold- that’s soul recognition

[@MrMadmalable]

I was born in 1955, hands off she was mine first😂

[@bob-sb2zu]

For me it was always Venus from Fireball ,such an enchanting accent 💘💘

[@sitcorocket]

A no strings relationship?

[@ElizabethAnneChurnside]

❤😊I loved and sang along with this song ,I,m 68 now ,still get that feeling

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Nice!!

[@vinny9708]

I want to go back to when I was 5 in 1964 and everyone is still alive

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I really do understand!

[@ValTwineDeaner]

Oooh, me too. I was 4 in 1964 - wasn't it a great time to live.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

@@ValTwineDeaner We were such a blessed generation - what a great time to grow up!!

[@roycoombes7002]

Me too,simpler but happy time we had

[@davidpoulton2860]

Wonderful idea, i was 6 in 1964,I'm 63 now.

[@christinedavey7793]

It was my favourite programme Stingray I was born 1962 🩷

[@tenzinsangpo5652]

I was born in 1963. And I remember that song since I was 3 I thought it was my imagination. At last I could find this. Now everything has sense.

[@Goldenboi37]

I just saw stingray for the first time yesterday and I absolutely love this song! 🔥And I'm a 70's baby.

[@genebolyard3720]

I was 10 years old when this show aired and this song remained in my memory for the next 60 years. Love this!

[@poppy1779]

It just popped into my head this morning, it was playing over and over again in my head so I had to swing by and listen to it. This is about a month after your comment. Cheers!

[@alexpang5054]

I'm 6 years old again and in love !

[@laurenceseale2822]

Troy Tempest what a name!

[@robertmcintyre9073]

Greatest song ever to be on a, puppet show. I was 5 when this was out. Early 90s....working with an elderly uncle i suddenly started singing this he joined in and we both sang our hearts out.? Great Memories.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Agreed!! Don't tell fans of the Muppets though :)

[@mehcol]

Sweet!

[@davidpoulton2860]

6 in 1964, now 63, loved the show as a child, in infants school 1962 to 65. We would get home as soon as we could to watch the show

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I was only 3 in 1964, and the puppets used to scare me until I was a bit older!!

[@DavidJenkins-f8g]

I which this thos film over the weekend in dvd as lovely as ever just love e everything abt it

[@kelsangkelsang]

Its nice to know that I wasn't the only one who had a crush on Aqua Marina. If she met someone I'd be happy for her.🙂

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I'm not sure how things worked out for her in the end. We could do with a sequel to clarify this. I guess she's quite old now.

[@garyhillman4993]

Who loves Marina in 2024 , just me ?

[@paulgriffiths6060]

Oh to be young again

[@user-jc4ms9rl4q]

Too painful to watch, because those days will never come back…

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I know what you mean ...

[@ElizabethLilley]

Thank you for sharing this! We moved to England for two years in 1965 when I was 7, so I became entranced with all the TV programs from between 1965 and 1967. My mom and I loved Thunderbirds, Stingray, and The Avengers. Such a lovely time. I give special credit to the underrated composer Barry Gray for his beautiful romantic and/or suspenseful compositions and his talented orchestra. His scores for each episode, - intros, outros, and background - were just perfect.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Yes, those shows were so wonderful. Such a lovely time!

[@Peggystube]

I left my tv on and woke up to hearing "Captain Scarlett and the Mysterons" I bout😂 cried and laff at the same time....oh what memories seeing this again....I too😔 miss my family💗

[@lynnebell9396]

I spent ages in the local swimming pool trying to swim like marina. I even talked my mum into buying me a green/blue swimsuit so I could be like marina. Alas, it didn't work. I'd just float to the top of the water.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Wonderful!!

[@AndrewGosling-bz1lw]

I never learned to swim

[@mariaginty4890]

My name is Maria and when I was about 6 watching this, I used to pretend that he was singing Maria not Marina. Darn lol 😆

[@AndrewGosling-bz1lw]

I never learned to swim . I never got over my fear of water ,oh bless you, you could have not picket a nicer charater

[@lindambird2180]

Oh my goodness, I loved that show and I remembered most of the words to the song.. I remember being sad that it was such a short song.. 😹

[@paulgriffiths6060]

I was born in 1960 I liked Atlanta, commander shows daughter stingray her self was a beautiful craft the frogmen were great too.

[@RogerBaileyOnCars]

My girlfriends dad named her Marina having been enthralled by this song and by aqua marina

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Nice!! Glad he wasn't so enthralled by Fireball XL5 or she could have had a difficult time at school!

[@treasalynam8940]

Was always super jealous of Aquamarina...😢😢😢I ❤❤

[@rachaeladams8449]

Beautiful I couldn't dream of any man singing to me like that

[@TheSSMusicChannel]

So many young lads' heartthrob..... well she was mine.... The age of innocence or what?

[@minicle426]

"I've created the perfect woman" ~ Gerry Anderson

[@afriend9428]

*so romantic and dreamy LOL*

[@westwindsailer]

I've looked for Marina all over the world, from the sunny beaches, and surf spots of Kauai , all through Hawaii, through windward and leeward Islands of the Carribean . South to Ipanema . From the beaches and bars of Barcelona up the coast , Marseilles, toulon, Nice , Genoa onwards to the Amalfi coast . From Ithaca ,to Athens...through the Aegean. Marina where art thou?

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Oh, she's elusive!!

[@keithlawton-n7h]

A woman of very few words but wow

[@glennaltpeter8917]

I was seven or eight years old, and had a crush on Marina!!

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Lovely!

[@philipcollins218]

As a child I thought they were singing - “ backward Marina “ - because she could not speak !

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I was always a little bit spooked about why she couldn't talk!

[@johntate5722]

I think there was an episode where she spoke...it was some kind of hypno trip that troy went on i think as if he were king of the underseas

[@Cami.Lightw0rker]

Even though she couldn’t talk her and Troy always understood eachother Very special connection

[@bluedale6563]

Troy had it bad for her...dont blame him lol

[@davidgray2653]

Goldenage of television Joe 90 sting ray fireball xl5

[@jimbrown8842]

brought up on stingray,fireball XL5 ,supercar,Thunderbirds......also space patrol, which I liked better than fireball.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Interesting ... I was only two when Space Patrol came out so I missed it.

[@jeffstart1025]

I named my daughter Marina after this song. 🧜‍♀

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Love it!!

[@morganplatt6762]

And Troy Tempest was Modeled on James Garner.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Yes, indeed! The likeness is unmistakable :)

[@afriend9428]

*That’s nice*

[@johntate5722]

Now i didnt know that...thx for that info

[@bob-sb2zu]

I believe Atlanta was based on the Dela Street character from Perry Mason who was Barbara Hale .

[@socorrohurtado4277]

Esa era mi carcatura favorita y tengo una hija k lleva el nombre de Marina ...

[@LostsTVandRadio]

It's a lovely name!

[@thebaggiebabe]

My grandson is named after Troy Tempest

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Much better than 'Phones'!

[@Clipper_Damez]

I was born in 1976. That's it. That's all.

[@gibsonduvall]

I didn't realise the current trend for ridiculously long eyelashes and crazily filled lips came from Stingray puppets - Who would've thought it🤷. Just a pity the women who do this to themselves don't look as good as Marina - or have mirrors... or friends.

[@joeblack8915]

Or brains.

[@Cami.Lightw0rker]

Yes I thought the same! It was almost like a premonition into the future of how some women would model themselves

[@RobertGraziose]

Troy was in love with her, but he also liked the other girl from headquarters. Poor Troy.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

And they called it puppet love ...

[@RobertGraziose]

@@LostsTVandRadio "puppet love" lol. Steve Zodiac in Fireball XL5 did ok also.

[@paulrafter6756]

I agree

[@次男浅野]

サンダーバードのジェリーアンダーソンプロの「スティングレー」から。日本放送時には流れなかった名曲です

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I didn't know that. Was another song used?

[@次男浅野]

@@LostsTVandRadio When i watch this program child yet.But i didn't listen this tune.Maybe listen what's other japanese song.

[@stevetillcock7361]

Great composition. Wasted on children on TV shows.

[@drewsagar2634]

After all these years it just occurred to me this marionette looks like Julie Newmar aka My living Doll & Cat woman Wonder if its a coincidence

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Normally the Andersons claimed (with a twinkle in their eyes) that any likenesses were just a coincidence lest Hollywood should sue them! Of course it was another matter entirely with Cliff Richard and The Shadows who appeared in one of the Thunderbird films. In that instance the real group did a screen test so that the puppet makers could capture a good likeness.

[@drewsagar2634]

Makes sense the other resemblance I thought would be Ursula Andres

[@ModshackMerlin]

Some Brigitte Bardot in there too.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

@@ModshackMerlin Definitely!!

[@glennaltpeter8917]

Wasn't Julie Newmar in "My Living Doll? Maybe the Doll was Marina?

[@AndrewGosling-bz1lw]

Same here, I preferred the c21 drawing

[@bob-sb2zu]

Sounds to me that he's singing aqua maria not marina ? Or is it just me ?

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Oh that's interesting. I've always heard it as Marina ... but is that just because I know her name?

[@astanfartin1647]

butter

[@richardsalinger]

❤😂❤

[@agricultures]

6 0 9 4THALOVE

[@FF-so3su]

Always thought the show was in b+w

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Yes, before ITV started broadcasting in colour in 1969 this programme was only seen in black and white in Britain. With good foresight (and of course an eye to the US market) the show was made in colour.

[@robinlambert3917]

Less wooden acting than the soaps on BBC Itv?

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Tee hee!!

[@Turismo271]

Who's the Singer?

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Gary Miller is the singer

[@Turismo271]

@@LostsTVandRadio Thanks!

[@johntate5722]

Didnt gary miller do "look for a star"...i think

[@Rotherman]

aged 4 in 64 .. brilliant song, tune, and Garys voice, but what about the lady in the background? truly harmonises and gels this tune together, thanks for the lovely memories of a an innocent childhood.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

You're welcome! Hmmm... I wonder if anyone knows who the female vocalist is.

[@mehcol]

I was too. Fab times. jeez I was a bit precocious and felt me pants stirring at Aqua Marina