FAB Facts: The Inconsistencies and Calamties of Captain Scarlet's End Credits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- In the 60s, captioning episode of TV was an expensive business. As Captain Scarlet had so many characters, a larger cast was needed. But with actors coming and going so frequently, it was difficult to establish continuity in the end credits...
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Before the era of home VCR recordings, it was rather difficult for home viewers to spend much time looking at the credits for anything. Blink and it's gone. You had a few people making their own kinescope films. And you had public libraries willing to loan out film projectors and movie reels. My family did this in the early 70s. Until then, I don't think we had a way to just stop what we were watching and even read the credits.
Not true. When Captain Scarlet was airing, the credits were still slow enough to read them all.
I find the opening credits in Captain Scarlet quite interesting with who they chose to include/exclude. Seems they lined Destiny up as being the lead Angel but, throughout the show, Symphony adopted that role more so.
I was always disappointed that the others never got to do that much. Melody was arguably the most important of the others, but Harmony and Rhapsody barely did anything!
The books definitely gave all the Angels a fair role compared to the TV show for some reason. The third one in particular has them centre stage.
Lian-Shin Yang is in the film "The Yangtse Incident" as the Communist Army member that takes all the photographs between the Royal Navy officers and the Army when they keep meeting. From all accounts, she was a talented singer, pianist, painter and translator speaking five different dialects of Chinese - such a shame we lost her to breast cancer in 1970 at an early age
She was Dr. Jackson's aide in UFO "Exposed."
I read Lian-Shin Yang died in 1970 at such a young age. I hadn't heard she had breast cancer
I thought the title meant you were going to be discussing how Captain Scarlet escaped all those deadly sedations that were depicted in the images of the end credits, not the voice credits, lol. Oh well, it was still an interesting discussion though! :o)
I always associate Charles Tingwell as the long suffering Inspector Craddock to Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple....
Charles "Bud" Tingwell continued with a long career in Australia when he returned from the UK. He was in police drama, Homicide. He had a late career as guest star on the Late Show's spoof, "Charlie the Wonder Dog" and in the movie, The Castle. Wonderful actor, greatly missed.
@@michaeldeal8060 Yes, good actor all round. I know it's not quite the same, but Scottish actor Mark 'Jim Taggart' McManus, started out in Oz in 'Skippy' before coming home to fight crime in Glasgow. (PS His parents fostered Brian Connelly of The Sweet.
I think in all eras the general viewer pays little or no attention to the credits and they are present essentially to give due recognition to the actors and production personnel. Most viewers would struggle to tell you appeared in a TV show or film aside from maybe the starring cast and sometimes even then only one or two of them. They might recognise a face or voice but generally pay little attention to names. I certainly think credits are important and that certainly all speaking cast should be credited. It's worth pointing out though that occasionally actors or crew may not want to have an on-screen credit, sometimes out of modesty but in a few instances they may be unhappy with how the production went and don't want to be publicly associated with it.
I always thought that Cary Grant "voiced" Captain Scarlet.
Francis Matthews doing his best Cary Grant impersonation.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Francis always spoke that way. Just listen to him in 1969's Crossplot, starring the man whom Captain Scarlet was modelled on... Roger Moore
@@mikewilson714 Yeah, I've seen him in lots of things. I read once that he was trying to sound like Cary Grant in Captain Scarlet. Not much effort required on his part really.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 haha. No, not really! You can hear a little Cary Grant in Ian Ogilvy's delivery in Return of the Saint, too.
Francis Matthews got the role of Captain Scarlet after Gerry Anderson heard him playing Cary Grant in a BBC radio play.
Shane Rimmer may have not been credited as an voice actor in the show, but he was credited for being a writer for two episodes *Avalanche* and *Expo 2068* Both set in Canada where he is originally from.
Edited: Shane had co-write *Inferno* with Tony Barwick.
That is a picture of Melody Angel voiced by Sylvia Anderson, not Harmony Angel voiced by Liz Morgan.
I wished they have used the second theme of Captain Scarlet for the opening intro too because the original is creepy and scary.
How many times do I have to tell you? It's supposed to be creepy and scary to establish the dark tone from the start. Not to mention, this isn't even the subject of the video.
That was kind of the point...
It’s distracting to have a second person commenting.
itv or what ever they were called when captain scarlet was shown used to play the credits at triple speed or not at all, so it was impossible to read the credits.
2:38 how so? They're puppets, like animation, it shouldn't matter, it's not real.
THAT is your justification? A more logical argument would be that actor's job is to be someone they're not. After all, none of it is real because it's a TV show. But to answer your question, this is already the most racially diverse Supermarionation show, and considering that they already had a black actor voicing Lieutenant Green...do I really need to finish this sentence?
@@imfsresidentotaku9699 Oh go on, do.
Does anyone also notice how the Mysteron voice is different in 'Shadow of Fear'? I'm meaning the 'This is the voice of the Mysterons' segment.
Getting ethnic minorities on TV back then (especially a kids show) was difficult enough. I know Lt Green's voice actor praised Captain Scarlet highly for this little gesture alone.
Even back then there was a thing as reruns. Although credits at the end were probably more for the actors and crew to show proof of work on their resume than anything the audience cared about as they switched off the TV as the credits rolled..
Yep, even down to technical jobs on a production..these would be listed on someones CV. As with any industry mistakes in HR can lead to very nasty and expensive lawsuits. By the time Captain Scarlet aired residuals were well established and peopel wouldn't get them if there is no proof they worked on them, again you've possibly got a lawsuit. Credits on a production are extremely important.
There was also instances where the wrong voice was used for a regular character. For example, in the episode "Flight 104" there's a point where Destiny Angel is reporting on the developments about how Scarlet and Blue had taken the controls but the aircraft wasn't responding. Although the puppet was responding to impulses, the voice of Rhapsody Angel was used in error
Also happened in "Traitor" when Maj. Stone calls Johnson in for a confidential talk, and Makin's voice was used to acknowledge.
@@grahamspragg7494 yes, I forgot about that one
Like Maxwell and Tingwell, co-star Martin King is also left the show of Joe 90 in production of Relative Danger and his credit is still keep just like that.
Oy Jamie, what does _Cor_ mean in Yank?
“Wow. That’s nice”
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Great video...👍
Charles Tingwell also did the narration for the programme when Flying Scotsman was in Australia in 1988.
Fun Fact: Paul Maxwell was one of the main five performers in Gerry Anderson media. The others were Sylvia Anderson, David Graham, Shane Rimmer and Jeremy Wilkin.
Great 🎉
Ahhh, Shane Rimmer and Ed Bishop, two actors I would have liked to have met. Not so interested in celebrity and modern day actors, but they were in so many of my favourite British sci-fi series and films of that era back when I was a lad. How cool to have had the opportunity to have chatted with Messrs Tracy and Straker.
Where do shots like 1:41 come from? I don't ever recall an episode where Dr Fawn wore a cream cap and tunic, and Lieutenant Green definitely doesn't have that complexion.
Although I can’t comment on Fawn, if you’re referring to the character to Scarlet’s left as Green, I believe that’s actually Gray. I imagine the green background behind him probably distorts the image a little, tinting him greenish.
The episode is Flight to Atlantica, I believe. The conference room is barely used, but it definitely appears in that episode.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Flight to Atlantica was a classic and I loved seeing Captain Blue drugged, shouting "Yippee!"
I remember Charles Tingwell in the 1960’s hospital drama Emergency Ward Ten.
Liz Morgan went on to do a later episode of Joe 90 but was uncredited on that.
Great FAB FACT as always! By the way, I've just bought Big Finish's Captain Scarlet collector's edition from Amazon and so far it sounds really good! S.I.G
I rate these Fab Facts S.I.G.!
Can tell me how come we never see the angles land back back on cloudbase
It was shown. The Angel Interceptors fly VTOL-style and land on a ramp, which, presumably, had a mag lock. Then the ramp was lowered.
I'm amused by the still of Symphony Angel, Captain Scarlet, and Captain Blue. The latter seems to be a bit overly familiar with Symphony, kneeling as he is, with his hand on her thigh. 🤔🤔🤔 😆😆😆
Never has the term "getting wood" been truer 😂
Symphony and Blue were always a couple in my eyes, always thought so after "Manhunt".
Great show and subject. Another possibility is continuity of production scenes, they may have recorded audio and shot footage out of order, then having to reorder the audio recordings, so details like who recorded what on what day and matching it to the episode being filmed may have been misaligned, as different scenes are filmed and recorded, the final episode as we see wouldn't have existed until the very end.