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I was recently having a chat with a number of youngsters - well youngsters to me, about 20/21, and I was telling them about the puppets we used to watch on TV back in our day. I regaled them stories about viewing iconic puppet shows such as Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray and Joe 90.

Yes, you could see the strings I continued, and the puppets movements were jerky - but to us, people of our generation, it was cutting edge technology at it's finest.

There was also Fireball XL5

"Some day I'll be a spaceman
The fastest man alive
And fly across the universe
In Fireball XL5 . . ."

Okay, we could see the strings, and no one moved properly, but that's why we have an imagination---to see past those little faults. The Martians in Quatermass And The Pit, for example, were a joke, but there were still some scary moments within the film and the dodgy effects didn't get in the way of an intelligent, thought-provoking central idea.

Here you go Caractacus.

Pretty good going, me getting so many of the lyrics wrong.

Cheers, baggieb.

speak for yourself old man when you say"ourday"
werent my day I was later (1972)

Supercar was a early one and Four Feather Falls then came The Secret Service

Pinky and Perky - and does Olly Beak count?

Does Pussycat Willum count too.

I've been trying to think of that puppet series Gerry Anderson did in the 80's? I think it was the last one he produced?