Gerry Anderson Primer: Terrahawks
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- In the year 2020, follow the adventures of the Terrahawks, a taskforce responsible for protecting Earth from invasion by a group of extraterrestrial androids and aliens led by Zelda.
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Have you tried the audio series? What's your favourite thing about Terrahawks?
I've listened to the entire first season of the audio series on Spotify. It's really great, defiantly a very underrated Gerry Anderson series as a whole. Some of my favriote things about the show are The Battlehawk, The Zeroids, Dr Ninestein and It-Star. I also love Dick Branston from the audio episodes.
Pre ordered all 3 audio series wish there was a series 4
shane poole We don't need a 4th series when there's a reboot coming.
trainlover 16 why not both?
@@GerryAndersonTV Great point, would that be a possibility?
I'm 43 and just cannot believe I sat there as a kid watching this with absolutely no idea just how weird and hilarious it all was.
I'm 43, myself and all I can say is, Cocaine is a hell of a drug. And by that I mean, it's kinda obvious Gerry had taken a puff of the magical rocks when crafting this beauty.
Exactly!! I was 9, and I'm pretty sure the 9 year olds today would be terrified!!
@@jdbarr769 joker I think he is part of a satanic cult
@@jdbarr769 Zelda is the wicked witch of the west western world
@@jdbarr769 escaping from reality could be trauma based the attention to detail could be ocd
I loved the noughts and crosses at the end of each episode
Hete in the States there was a different version of the ending credits. It was an animation of one of the Zeroids bouncing up and down next to one of Zelda's Cubes during the song entitled "Living in the 21st Century." We didn't get the tic tac toe ending on this side of the pond.
I used to think that the winner of the x and os game at the end was a result of who had the upper hand in that portion of the story
The concept of Tiger and his clones was always fascinating to me. It was these details that were “just there” that made these shows so rich.
Especially as to what happens in the original TV episode "Gold". It's good that the audiobooks go more into that concept.
The fact that this video lasts for 10 minutes and 10 seconds, I love the attention to detail! Lol
Steve Page Lol!
Exactry!
Terrahawks scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, I remeber the nightmares vividly, but it was truly amazing and the zeroes were my favourites. 👍😁
Terrahawks was certainly unusual, that why i keep watching and personally the zeroids were my favorite.
Windsor Davies was probably the best part of the show :D
When I was a kid, Zelda terrified the crap out of me.
same....i bought the blu rays recently and its still creepy.
You’re not the only one.
I used to hide behind the couch when Zelda was onscreen....
I thought i was the only one!
Lol, same!
The opening sequence is so good it gives me chills.
Wow...a part of me believed I’d dreamed this show up....but no it was real!
😂😂😂
Starfleet was another one of my fave shows along with this
have brian mays 10 inch cover of theme amazing
Loved Starfleet watched every episode (I think Saturday mornings?) and then on the day of grand final episode, my dad had a corporate event in Central London, families to attend, and I missed it!!! I screamed and cried! Then this Christmas my Dad (now in his mid/late 70's) bought me the full series DVD :)
@@rozzbozzgames There should have been a Terrahawks & Star Fleet crossover episode, with Lamia (the F-ZERO-1) falling in love with Sergeant Major Zero! (Cy-Star + Captain Orion would have made a cute couple, too; also, Hercules + Kate Kestrel.)
They would have both been aired at approximately the same time. Although, Starfleet was first having started broadcasting in '82, but ran until April/May of '83.
Loved both series when they come out, both series also appeared in Lookin magazine.
We used to watch this show with others in Nigeria, used to love watching it as a kid!!! 😁
I bought the DVD boxset back in 2004 and now my 14 year old Son now watches them, we love the Terrahawks
Get him the audio series for Christmas 😊
I've been watching the first 8 or so episodes of UFO, 2 episodes of Stingray and much of Thunderbirds and watching these Gerry Anderson Primer videos I am fully realising the completely original yet insane genius of Gerry Anderson and all his series. Truly a legend. How one person can think up such fantastical ideas and bring them to life like these is unbelievable.
I wouldn't be surprise Terrahawks gave kids nightmares
@@russellm.hossain6985 CHOCKY?
@@russellm.hossain6985 the Dalek's use to scare kids so much they would hide behind the sofa. My aunty use to hide behind the sofa. Now kids are scared of the weeping angels. My youngest daughter hides behind me or her mum every time the weeping angels pops up in Doctor Who. Even my nine year old daughter is frightened of them and they are scary
Well I was scared in the 80s of nosey bonk shit me right up
Can confirm
Terrahawks gave me nightmares! I was a bit young for Chocky though. I think my older brother was in to it for a while?
Thanks for showing this had the pleasure of receiving a gift of some of the Terrahawks merchandise from Gerry when it came out. His sister was Clark to the magistrates court in my town and my mother was a magistrate and told her how much I enjoyed watching the show, so Gerry sent a gift and really nice letter.
That was really nice of him.
I loved this show when i was a kid, it was fantastic. I always thought it's infinitely superior to Thunderbirds. I'd love to see a modern version of this. The different zeroids were awesome
My all-time favourite television show. I love it as much today in 2019 as I did in 1983. I could happily sit down and watch every episode from start to finish right now :)
AYYYY it’s gonna be 2020 soon, let’s hope Zelda doesn’t invade us..
Now that it is 2020, it seems she'd be the least of our problems lol
@@StarKillerLucas Really? You Mean it is 2020, and the Planet Earth is being threatened for a 2nd Wave of Shelter in Place, and Trump is still boosting to be President Again? His he the Alien from the series????
It's Corona who invaded us instead
Absolutely love Terrahawks. After rewatching 40 years later.
Watched this every morning before school, absolutely loved it. My favorite things about this series was the characters and the writing. It went to places Thunderbirds never could and that was a great jaunt for a kid's imagination
"I have many faces, but none of my own."
That was VERY creepy.
I like these voices. I wanna see this now.
It was my ex wife
Man forgot all about this, Zelda and the other villians freaked me out, still watched it though, TY for the video!!!
Is it me, or does the main good guy character (Tiger Ninestein) look a lot like Blue Peter’s John Noakes?
I cannot believe it's been 36 years since Terrahawks first aired on ITV. I was born 1 year later. I own the novelization.
Gerry Anderson's works are one hell of a SF aesthetic. 😁
Used to watch this after doing my homework at 4:30 in the evening on NTA. I had the biggest crush on Kate Kestrel 😍😍
Zelda scared the crap out me as a kid!! Loved that show
This was probably my most favourite weekend program back in the 80s, I didn't realise they now have an audio drama comeback, I'll definitely be checking that out! Thanks for putting this together, very fond memories...
Zelda and the Grayson Perry(Sistar) looking Terrahawks were indeed very scary as a little Yorkshire lad, fine work.
Also anything with Windsor Davies' voice is a winner.
Wow that’s awesome! I used to love Terrahawks when I was little. It was my “Thunderbirds,” and because they never reran Thunderbirds in the 1980’s this and CaptainScarlet and Stingray were my only exposure to Gerry Anderson show’s back then. I must search out the new 21st century episodes !
Used to watch this every Sunday at home with my parents Loved it
The style of these Terrahawk puppets like Tiger, Kate, Hawkeye, Mary, Hiro, Yungstar, Zelda, Sistar, Itstar, the way they were sculpted and designed, really nicely done and their own personalities. Great stuff. Thank you for this incredible and favorite series of mine growing up with it in the 80s, every Saturday very early morning.
Great video on an underrated series in my opinion :)
Oh my god!! I have not seen this since the 80's!!! Blast from the past!
This show had the best acting in the Anderson universe...
And the best SFX
SPFX 😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍
I had a family of two young boys when this aired, it was too strong for the younger but his brother loved it. As for me, it became a firm favourite, I wish I’d kept the VHS tapes!
Available on DVD and Blu-Ray plus 24 new audio episodes. Time to revisit?
I remember when the Terrahawks for a month on Children's I.T.V. were presenting intros into the programmes like other celebrities of the time each month.
I remember that too
Showing my age here, but I remember watching this. I’m sure I was in Germany as my dad was in the armed forces. And we had one channel and love watching this. Zeroids where my favourite :)
My favorite show ⭐️ ❤️ ⭐️
Bonkers. But awesome. That pregnancy announcement took me back!
I was lucky enough to get invited to Bray Studios when Terrahawks was being made by GerryAnderson.
A signed photo is one of my most prized passions.
I can still remember Zelda in a cupboard and Zero on the set.
Love Terrahawks.
So do I m8. Defiantly a very underrated Gerry Anderson series as a whole.
As I recall this was shown mid Sunday afternoon. LOL !
Loved this as a young boy. Terrifying at times 🙈
I used to really look forward to this show, Saturday about 11am I think.
Holy shit this is a show I completely forgot about, it's all coming back now!!
I loved this back in the day, the opening theme music was awesome
I thought the SOS song Moira Griffiths performed was great. A well-made pop rock composition
I have fond memories of Terrahawks as a kid of the 1980's, but yes it was indeed a weird ass show i do recall however. Kids i went to school with were still into; Starfleet/X-Bomber which ITV showed up until 1984 or so. Terrahawk's tone was massively weird by comparisons like this video points out, goofy and comical one minute while shocking and darker the next episode etc's.
Glad it got revived in he audios by Big Finish but i haven't heard them at all yet. As i feel its the one Anderson show that needed and required proper storyarcs. Neither Zelda nor the Terrahawk characters had much backstory.
I was into Starfleet more too, and it featured Denise Bryer as a more villainous villain - far more tyranical, and worthy of her come uppance at the end.
Agreed!
Oh my!
I almost forgot about this show!
Thanks Radio Televisyen Malaysia for airing this show back i the days lah!
This gave me nightmares as a kid !!!
Thanks for helping me find the name of the series, I loved it as a kid.
I didn't get to see it during its original run. I was lucky enough to watch it as part of the Sci-Fi Channel's animation block that they aired weekday mornings. It aired right before Robotech back in the fall of 1993.
Zelda scared the bejesus out of me but this was a great show on LWT.
There is a little bit of 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' about Zelda and her 'family'.
Why? It's just a video game character
I think it was broadcast Sunday 12pm. Frickin loved it.
By the 80s things had changed and kids didn't want puppet shows anymore. As a kid growing up in the 80s I was more into Knight Rider which holds up well even today. My brother was into He-man along with millions of other kids. So a puppet show like Terrahawks was not even on the radar. Gerry Anderson didn't move with the times. He was still stuck in the 1960s trying to recreate 60s television in the 80s which simply didn't work
Voice actor Windsor Davies visited Dunedin, New Zealand years ago. He went to see his brother who was the minister at First Church here. It was quite a surprise to learn his brother did that and lived in New Zealand.
The length of this Video in the list says 10:10. In the video, it's 10:09. 10-10 being the affirmative term used by Tiger and his Terrahawks team during missions. A favorite show, the puppets are great.
Loved both series, but couldn't help not thinking the audio used the wrong sound for Hawkwing compared to the iconic roar of the original, and it left me disappointed.
Quick! Destroy those CDs for that heinous error. That’ll teach the Earth scum. ~Zelda
I am now 42 years old from Pakistan.I was only 6 or 7 years old when I started to watch terrahawks.i was a big fan And never Left an episode of it.
I have to say that as a longtime Anderson fan I felt a bit alienated by this series. I didn't like the way the puppets moved and the storylines left a bit to be desired. Having said that, it improved as time went on and had some good characters and model work. I especially liked the Zeroids !!
Really looking forward to Firestorm.
Thanks for the really informative video. I gotta say it's very difficult to find anything Terrahawks out there that actually mentions anything about the villains.
You should definitely try the audio series! It delves into their backstory, their motivations... all sorts!
I will sometime, thank you! I've known about the Audio Series being out there for a few years now; I just needed to know where to look. The posts here are quite helpful.
What I meant by my earlier post was that more often than not online there's far more talk and information about the Terrahawks themselves and rarely anything about the villains. Your videos helped to bridge the gap. And yes, I want to dive into the audio episodes. I've heard some clips already and they're promising.
I would have preferred to live in Terrahawks 2020 than the 2020 we had.
As an older viewer, Terrahawks was FAB!
These puppets walked right up to the uncanny valley, and then fell straight in, hitting every bolder on the way down. Very creepy!
amazing... completely forgot about this but recognised everything
It was super weird as a kid. I must have liked it as I had at least two of the toys (large battle hawk and a large Zero on his pedestal).
The cuddle killer bear was a good idea.
I had no idea about Ninestein being a clone. The way TV used the be: you missed an episode: you pretty much had no way to catch up.
Terrahawks played catchup to StarFleet (aka X-Bomber) which was apart from humour, was superior.
I didn't think much of Thunderbirds or Stingray; but fortunately I decided to try Terrahawks, as something to fill the void left by the ending of the magnificent Star Fleet.
In the actual year 2020:
UPSIDE --> No attack on our base on Mars.
DOWNSIDE --> NO base on Mars. OR the Moon. Just a FREAKING PANDEMIC on Earth....
I still say “I have a theory” in a bad American drawl whenever I can. Just grabbed me as a phrase back in the day and stuck. I doubt anyone else I say it too understands why but I don’t care. It makes me smile.
I miss this show so much
Tried the new full cast audios?
There was a point in my childhood which was frankly frightened to death by some TV shows, and this was one of them. I watched an old episode recently on youtube; the one where Zero goes to the hospital, and dreams his friends are the aliens. Im 43 now, and it still freaked the daylights out of me. There were some Space 1999 episodes which were more traumatising but this was meant for kids. The ships were cool, and the wigs look exactly like Space 1999, so I wonder if that show was meant to be a live-action spinoff??
I dont think there were many toys for Terrrahawks, but where I lived they had these wired jellys. They came in a plastic and foil flat pack, a bit like Star wars figures, but made of multicoloured rubbery jelly. At least Zelda was as hideous as she was funny, and I still laugh at her outrageous put-downs.
Aww!!
Luv my childhood.
I loved the Sgt. Major. This was a staple of my childhood.
Even a remake like stingray, thunderbirds will never be the same like the original Terahawks as it was best redone as there were less strings you could see as better than before.
At the end we always knew who won each episode
I must admit I was one of the older Gerry Anderson fans who grew up with his work from Thunderbirds through to Space:1999 and each show seemed to be a step up from the one before. When Terrahawks made it's debut, I was in my early teens and it seemed like a step backwards at the time. It lacked the sophistication of Supermarionation or the fantastic effects and set designs of his live action sci-fi. Now looking back, it's interesting and more enjoyable now than I appreciated at the time.
Agreed.
now i have to find some episodes to watch
I don't know if this show ever made it here to U.S. shores, but I have alot of Anderson's shows (entire runs) including Thunderbirds and Space: 1999 (U.S. DVD boxed sets), and British DVD imports of Supercar, Fireball XL-5, Stingray, Captain Scarlett and the Mysterons, Joe 90, UFO, and Thunderbirds Are Go (plus the two feature length films made in the 60s). I also imported a DVD boxed set of Space Patrol, even if it's not an Anderson show. I wish Stingray, Captain Scarlett, and Thunderbirds had lasted longer. They're my favorite Anderson shows. We also get Thunderbirds Are Go and Stingray on Amazon Prime Video.
The only way you can get the show in the USA is on DVD from A&E Home Video.
@@timepoet77 Thanks. That makes sense, as they released the 6 Thunderbirds DVD box sets that I own. :)
Yes, the series was syndicated in the U.S. in 1986, IIRC. I saw it on WPWR-TV in Chicago.
Loved Terrahawks in my early 20s and still love it now. The 3 Audio series from Big Finish are amazing with A Clone of My Own, My Enemy's Enemy and Enemies, Negotiation and Deceit being outstanding stories; the later having a jaw-dropping OMG ending! Listen beyond the end credits! All in all Terrahawks was, is and will be again Won-der-Ful!
I watched this as a child when it was aired in Jersey . Sometime between 1970 and 1974 . liked it then , I don't miss it.
It wasn’t made until 1983. Think your memory might be playing tricks! 😉
@@GerryAndersonTV No I'm certain . 1st aired , only state I've seen it . It , according to this reel , has new episodes . Those were produced in 1983 .
@@kennethbranche1412 Umm... bro. That was a reply from the -actual production company-, this is the official production TH-cam account. I'm pretty sure THEY KNOW WHEN THEY MADE THEIR OWN SHOW!
Loved this prog, I'd forgotten how mad it was
0:03 Is Scott Bakula in everything?
it was so bad, so wrong, but so good lol
This show creeped me out...and it was hilarious too:)
I used to loves this show.
I remember this being quite a decent, if slightly mental, show when it first started. LWT showed it late afternoon or early evening as I recall. As it was quite dark outside I guess it debuted in the autumn in 1983. I also remember there was some merchandise like toys available. Weird watching this clip how closely the puppets resemble the Spitting Image puppets, something I hadn't really noticed beforehand.
It is unfortunate that Gerry Anderson had so many money struggles throughout his career. When you think about the world famous legacy he left generations you'd think he was minted when he died but apparently not. I gather he sold the TV rights to his back catalogue such as Thunderbirds back in the late1960s (in an era before home video and repeat fees had ever been thought of). He also had an expensive and messy divorce from Sylvia in the mid 1970s that left a lot of ill will too. By the time he had made Terrahawks the home video market was slowly evolving and the show was a moderate success. So effectively he needed to keep working. It probably wasn't until the 1990s that the public properly started to appreciate his legacy. When he died in 2012 he was financially comfortable but he certainly wasn't rolling in money thanks to some poor business decisions he had made years earlier.
Maybe its because I came across this show as an adult that I don't see the attraction. Rather I find myself asking "How can you watch this?", something my dad use to ask us about various shows back in the 80's.
Awww, you didn’t mention Hudson!
Poooooor Hudson
I liked Hudson. Is it just me or is the reply from the official account a bit rude?!
@@GerryAndersonTV it was filmed in hudsoncolor after all
Who knew that 2020 would be a bad year. Lol
I really wish this show would have aired in the USA.
It would make a good reactions video. "Americans watch fucked up British Children's sci fi puppet show"
@Timo Crompinen
From what little I was able to gather, it might have been a big hit on Nickelodeon much like Danger Mouse was.
This was my favourite!
Killer theme tune by Richard Harvey
My fav kids show ever!!
This will be great!
Zelda gave me nightmares as a kid lol
I love this show
I calls my mother in law Zelda lol she says you cheeky bugger Lee lol
On a related note, did anyone used to think that the Zelda puppet looked very similar to Michael Heseltine's puppet in "Spitting Image".
I was in my 20's when this aired
At the time I thought great another Gerry Anderson Show . But instead . It freaked me the hell out because of the way the faces looked starting with Dr Frankenclone but don't even get me started with the witch's
Eeeeeeyyyyyyuuuuukkkkkk !!!!!!
On the other hand the robots are funny as all hell .