Terrahawks Kate Kestrel SOS

[@KevinJonDavies]

Early in my career, I animated the SOS inserts for this video plus the titles for Terrahawks.

[@maverick619432]

That's really cool, it was my favourite show as a lad.

[@DanielRVW]

Totally awesome. Thanks for you work

[@annduline]

any idea how you can get all the music from the terrahawks the only one i ever had was sos

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

so what

[@juliesmoochy3996]

I absolutely loved terrahawks, made my childhood so much more special. Thanks for everything you did ❤

[@Kaioh85]

Had no idea that there was a music video for a song from Terrahawks. Loved the show as a kid in the 80's. Recently fell back in love with it again thanks to the DVD set.

[@VideoQuestEx]

LOL: I had no idea that they ever made a live-action music video of the "S.O.S" song from "Terrahawks"! So very 1980s, but I ain't complaining!

[@richallenxbox1976]

I used to love this, one of those catchy songs of the early 80s that you can't help singing along to, like the kind of stuff that was on Top of the Pops every week.

[@DanielRVW]

Totally fantastic song. Great vocalist too.

[@hughbreidenbach]

"Don't know who the singer was or what her career afterwards. I've heard they don't like to be reminded of these things nowadays." Tough. Her name's Moya Griffiths.

[@francisokudu1733]

It's all wrong there is a puppet master(handler) also The studio manager whose name is chic king which sounds like a pimps name

[@David.L291]

@@francisokudu1733 only if you have enough of a narrow mind to think in this way, pathetic assumption tbh

[@David.L291]

Moya Ruskin was the singing voice of Kate Kestrel, she also portrayed her in the official video for "S.O.S". Kate Kestrel's speaking voice was provided by Anne Ridler. Moya performed several songs as Kate Krestrel and portrayed Kate in person. She went by the stage name Moya Griffiths. She also appeared on the Wide Awake Club in 1984 Agatha Christie's Poirot in 1989 Murder on the Mews as a singer, The Bill in 1990 as a West Indian Woman, Prime Suspect in 1991 and Julie and the Cadillacs

[@fabulousminge]

Wonderful! A great memory. I wish this was available on iTunes!

[@bee-beargaming]

This song is great

[@Ming64]

Shut up this was our best ever music video, and still is.

[@ryanstephenkristoferkearns1319]

Really good song from the TV series

[@Beermastergeneral]

Since this video Kate / Moya has starred in major leads in London West End and abroad and can now be spotted at her club in trendy Kensington.

[@mantabond]

The singer's name is Moya Griffiths.

[@strade100]

I actually remember this video back in the day, around the time 'Terrahawks' aired - I think it was on a saturday morning kids show or whatever. Even so, Kate Kestrel means more to me now than I was at 11 or 12 years old - what a honey!!!!!

[@SuperRecordman]

I have the vinyl 7 inch single of this as I am an 80's music fan...many memories! :) :) :)

[@alcyon2sp]

my god, i really love this, reminds me of everything of the early to mid 80's. so magical.

[@4321mikexxxx]

@quillerpen The singer is Moya Ruskin, a good friend of mine, she and her husband Baz own a piano bar in london opossite high street Kennsington tube staion. You should drop in, its a good night

[@britshop1]

That,s what i was looking for, next time i'm in London i will go see.

[@Kapricorn1]

Holy Moses, haven't seen or heard this in oh 30 years great :-)

[@plazasta]

30 years?! 0.0

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

Me too. Think the song's shite though :)

[@redsamuraininja]

This music is from the 80s since I grew up watching Terrahawks videos in the 90s.

[@VinnieBartilucci]

They should have put a LOT on the DVD box set. Ironic that Kate's biggest hit was about International Rescue. Nice cameo by super-producer Stu D'apples

[@debsfan2007]

The Singer shown here is Moya Griffiths, who used to do Kate's singing voice on Terrahawks. She was 19 years old back then. My mom and I are watching this now, and we love this. This song was one of our favorites.

[@gorebash3306]

this is Moya Ruskin, love it :)

[@buzzsawpete]

Fabulous. I loved this track back when It was first on terrahawks. Horray, Thanks soooooo much for posting it

[@storyseeker2000]

The singer is Moya Ruskin. She was the singing voice for the character Kestrel.

[@adlad75]

Cheers for the heads up about #MoyaRuskin ! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJOkiX6ve7iIfNE

[@buzzsawpete]

i just bought the entire collectors edition dvd box set of terrahawks. its so fantastic i didnt realise there were so many episodes that I didnt see

[@CaptainOatwright]

This was used to promote Terrahawks in 83/84 - Gerry Andersons re-venture into puppet TV - hence the reference to Mr Tracey and International Rescue! Good to see Stu Dapples again (Kate's producer in Terrahawks!)

[@signcrash]

So bad it's great! Thanks for posting.

[@TalesFromTheScript]

@4321mikexxxx That would be great. I'd deffo pop in if I didn't live so far north. But if I'm ever in London I''ll be sure to visit! Glad Moya is well . I think this is a great tune! - very catchy and uplifting! A big fan of TERRAHAWKS!! It was religious viewing for me in 1983-4 as a 16 year old - every Sunday afternoon without fail! Send her my best wishes, won't you - and thank her for giving us Kate Kestel 's (SINGING voice. Of course, Anne Ridler provided the regular dialogue) :-)

[@Targetsignal2]

Awesome song and video. It would make a good fighter plane squadron theme as the beat is so cool!

[@Slothgreedenvy]

Awesome song, thanks for putting it up[!!

[@quillerpen]

more information on this; according to Gerry Anderson's Biography (What made Thunderbirds go, by Simon Archer/Marcus Hearn) the singer was a 19 year old named Moya Griffiths

[@TavsIsAbout]

God it was just a brilliant era to be a kid in - one day time travel will happen and we shall all return.

[@mistofoles]

"Communications breaking down??" She's not kidding! Kate Kestrel was in "Terrahawks", not "Thunderbirds"!!

[@CharminglyShallow]

I bought the 45 for this classic - I bask in your jealousy!

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Wow. That is the most realistic puppet Gerry Anderson ever created! :)

[@UncleFeedle]

What the hell?!? I remember the whole Kate Kestrel being a popstar thing, but have no memory of this!!

[@quillerpen]

@Perplexer1If you're still after the music it was published on the 'Sleeping with astronauts' CD by the Fanderson group. That was a couple of years ago so don't know if it's still available.

[@StrangerUK01]

@Perplexer1 It was released on the Fanderson fan clubs specially released Terrhawks CD a few years ago.

[@dunebasher1971]

I think this clip from The Saturday Show on ITV was possibly the one and only time this video was ever broadcast! I remember watching it at the time, and I later picked up the single in a bargain bin for 50p. Still got it somewhere. Wonder why whoever uploaded it felt the need to burn that horrible "SOS" graphic into the whole thing, though?

[@ronniec8218]

this song is good.

[@ranma24601]

This song and all of the terrahawks songs and themes are available on a cd album, but it is an exclusive and you can only get it from the fanderson website, and you have to be a member to shop there. Worth thinking about tho isn't it...?

[@battywattywoo]

When I was on holiday in 1985, I befriended a girl who was apparently jealous of me because I was a year younger than her, but had more signs of puberty. Whilst I was envious of her because her name was Kate, like my lovely heroine!

[@Cindylover1969]

Actually, not all the songs (the CD only has three of Kate's songs; as mentioned above the masters for the others are lost). But it does have Richard Harvey's theme tune and demos of alternate themes, and six complete episode scores. The synth music dates more than Barry Gray's big orchestral scores, but it's fun.

[@gan9e]

Kate Kestrel gave me a prepubescent twinge in my yet undeveloped man-handle...

[@denshiblocks]

Absolutely terrific!

[@StrangerUK01]

I don't think I've ever seen Kate Kestrel's "real" person, what a stunningly beautiful young woman she was!

[@Perplexer1]

Love the song. Does anyone have a CD quality MP3 by any chance ?

[@Realm-of-Horror]

I remember this song from an episode of Terrahawks, and remember it was released as a single. However I don't ever recall seeing this video and don't believe the song actually made the UK charts.

[@digipeeper]

No it is the other way around. Thunderbirds came out in 1966 where Terrahawks started in 1982 the same year Peter Davison became the Doctor!

[@lindaholmes9289]

Brilliant song didn't chart in 83 unbelievable i pick it for 50p in a box of ex jukebox records then days are gone im afraid 😀😇👍

[@raniwasacyborg]

This song suddenly becomes rather spooky when you realise that Terrahawks was set about 40-odd years before Thunderbirds... Kate Kestrel had hidden psychic powers, maybe? :P

[@223Fi]

cyborgrani Nonsense! Absolute balderdash, my dear fellow. Thunderbirds was a 60s puppet show. There's no evidence to suggest that both Thunderbirds and Terrahawks take place in the same universe :-P Good point, all the same, hehe.

[@TalesFromTheScript]

Such a shame they didn';t include this on the TERRAHAWKS complete box set. Would have been a nice little bonus to an already fine bunch of extras!! Great feel good song!! :-)

[@TreforTreforgan]

Well I never knew that! Thanks.

[@tropicalcatdetective]

Ahaha. Classic! I have no recollection of this at all! And if its a Terrahawks tie-in why the hell are the lyrics about Mr Tracey and International Rescue from Thunderbirds fame??

[@loonaleigh]

I got this on record from Ebay its classic.

[@user-ns3lb8ky5l]

This is an awesome song. If you listen closely, you'll realize that the song is about Thunderbirds. Pretty cool I know.

[@hardman659]

super catchy song

[@toodyface]

@spatchmann Yep, I always wondered why given there were none in the series itself?

[@RichXbox360]

@stuprestonexperience Do you see? That was his catchphrase, and mine on most forums..

[@Retro-Future-Land]

Nice Landrover @2:27 :) Great catchy tune!

[@Ashworth6]

I actually quite like this song in spite of myself. It has a rather ABBA-esque feel to it. Ooo and "The Saturday Show", I haven't thought of that show for years!

[@elguido1000]

they should have put this video on the terrahawks dvd box set..

[@Raptormon132]

Yep! It sure is, the one & only.

[@OrbGoblin]

The puppet saxaphone solo just won me over...

[@Darren79]

Moya Griffiths was only the singing voice, Kate Kestrel was voiced by Anne Ridler. There were quite a few more songs but I believe the original recordings have been lost (only about two or three survive).

[@TreforTreforgan]

I know; so wrong yet so right. I'm getting stiff just thinking of the paradox.

[@hippobitch]

Kate Kestrel was the best future puppet singer ever!!

[@strade100]

The 'real' Kate Kestrel - yummy!! So had a crush on her back when I was a pre-teen!!

[@David.L291]

so annoying with that sos fixed on the screen but apart from this a pretty good song , she's my kinda robot lol :)

[@adlad75]

If you haven't already seen it, the Gerry Anderson youtube page has a proper version posted up (minus the SOS over-type). kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHbEfpqmrpqYjdU

[@NotATube]

Decent song, interesting curiosity of the time, but what's with the static lettering over the top? It looks like it wasn't part of the original broadcast, so why someone slapped it on, I don't know.

[@damianalexanderwebb]

whoever marked this comment as spam is clearly doing so indiscriminately. Having a 7" of this song is beyond cool. BEYOND!

[@RichXbox360]

@strikeclone pfft.. This kicks the abomination we entered last night well into touch! No wonder we came last.

[@DoctorKandosii]

I'd save the world just so I could be her hero.

[@RichXbox360]

The song is very catchy, like most Pop songs of the early to mid 80s.

[@Raptormon132]

This is a great song! I recon this song should be on the show "Dinosaucers".

[@andrewboyle1978]

Looks like Kate Kestral, but the lyrics of the song mention "Mr Tracy" and "International Rescue" which is "THUNDERBIRDS" and not "TERRAHAWKS", so I think the song is well mixed up!!

[@MegaLoopylee]

I think the song was a terrahawks call out to the thunderbirds for help sos

[@Ashworth6]

Thats not quite correct to say the CD is exclusive to Fanderson, I got the Terrahawks CD soundtrack off E-bay about 2 years ago for a tenner. Then again, you can find just about anything on E-Bay these days if you look hard enough.

[@DJPeteypie]

So Moya Griffiths does stage acting now? Searched for her on the net but apart from this and something called the Vampyr in 1992 it's coming up dry. Anyone any info on her?

[@smackmiranda]

Which one was the puppet? I think it must have been some kind of law in the 80s that every pop song had to feature a tasteful sax solo in the middle. Bring them back, I say!

[@LiamTheGreat]

according to her scant imdb page, Moya Griffiths, she was in The Vampyr: a soap opera in 1992. But is she related to Derek Griffiths?

[@simpleminded1uk]

Was it a soap opera? I think it was an actual opera. I remember it quite vividly actually... and her in it, I think. I recall a line of dialogue from a disgusted taxi-driver (I think) character, reading a newspaper about a woman murdered, "If there's one thing I can't stick / it's a bloke what cuts a chick.' I think the following lines had something to do with 'mug of tea love double-quick', but I may have got that bit wrong.

[@leharve80]

Mr Jeff Tracey of International Rescue, the thunderbirds.

[@richallenxbox1976]

I have the complete series DVD box set of Terrahawks, what volume is is the episode where this song features on?

[@noddyfan1877]

It features in the episodes "Play It Again Sram", "Terratomb" and "Cry UFO".

[@leharve80]

the girl posing as kate kestrel is called Moya Griffiths.

[@csgptg]

@gl7oaks yeah you're right about that, and, i gotta admit, this song is cool.

[@hbsaxby]

Super 80's Flashback! Shame about the SOS on the screen, would've been nice to get a better look at the gorgeous singer!!

[@deliciousdazmo]

#UN#, great work. How did you make this? I showed it to my partner. Thanks. From Thatch Close.

[@davidsweeney111]

Great this takes me back, found your video quite by chance, does anyone know what year this was ? Thanks again ;)

[@hilarioph]

I am check on Limewire is not there :-(

[@TUBEADE]

I think the singer is Moya Griffiths. Does anyone knows where she is? I wonder what she is up to these days.

[@buzzsawpete]

Yeah, but terrahawks and Thunderbirds were part of the same thing so there were always meant to be crossovers between the shows, but I dont think terrahawks lasted long enough to haave any. I loved terrahawks I managed to get the entire series on DVD.

[@buzzsawpete]

but if terrahawks is set before thunderbirds, then why are they referencing it in the song. I always thought they were set at the same time period.

[@Marcus-mk1cv]

Mr Tracy? That's Thunderbirds not terrahawks has anyone noticed that?

[@TheHahashishi]

@BillyIsATwat23 what if the MP3 file was 1411.2kbps

[@utopiandreamer04]

Where can I get the lyrics...my friend wants to sing it for a talent contest

[@freak7art]

LMAO!!!!

[@GuanoLad]

Is that Stew Dapples on saxophone?

[@MaxwellLeslie]

THERES A PUPPET PLAYING A SAX SOLO, highlight of today

[@rajnirvan3336]

The song was more of a call out to Thunderbirds. Terrahawks vehicles were similar to IR vehicles eg Terrahawk could be equivalent to TB1. Battlehawk compared to TB2 Treehawk to TB3 Spacehawk similar to TB5. What would have been awesome had all the Gerry Anderson puppets got together for help and the villans eg The Hood Zelda Titan and the Mysterons all get together and end up being against one another's idea

[@r.i.pyoutube6881]

Shut up.

[@DJPeteypie]

This was actually the first ever single i bought. I was about 8 years old though, so I can get away with that!

[@_DuxNet]

owned !!!