Captain's Library & Theatre: FIREBALL XL5 "Moon Masters" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Puppets...

Art by George Wilson

Sent to the Moon to investigate energy beams affecting Earth's orbit, the crew of patrol ship Fireball XL5 encounter aliens who capture Colonel Steve Zodiac and Doctor Venus...

This one (and only) issue of Gold Key's Steve Zodiac and Fireball XL5 was meant to be the first of an ongoing series like the previous Anderson show Gold Key adapted; Supercar.
However, for reasons unknown, no other issues were ever published.
Written by Paul S Newman and illustrated by Mel Crawford.
Fun Facts:
The model for Steve Zodiac on the painted cover by George Wilson is Steve Holland, best known as the model for James Bama's Doc Savage paperback covers which define the "look" of the Man of Bronze for the last few generations of fans!
Fireball XL5 is the only Gerry Anderson show to air on a network (NBC) rather than syndicated to local stations! (It ran as part of NBC's Saturday morning kid-show block in 1964.)
Both Gerry and Sylvia Anderson did voices on the show.
(Sylvia was Dr Venus and Gerry (using a voice filter) was Robert the Robot.)

As a special treat to Supermationation fans...The premiere episode of the series "Planet 46", written by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson!

Captain's Theatre: Video of Captain Video!

Here's a couple of episodes of the LIVE broadcasts that Ed Norton would sit in front of the TV and watch with rapt attention.
Both The Honeymooners and Captain Video and His Video Rangers ran on the same tv network, (the now-defunct DuMont Network), so the legendary Honeymooners episode "TV or Not TV" was not only great comedy, it was also a free plug for another show on the network!

Starring Al Hodge (the radio Green Hornet) as Captain Video and Don Hastings as the Video Ranger. the episodes shown here include commercials performed live by the actors (in character), who then had to continue doing the storyline!
If you liked the 1960s Dark Shadows or still watch soap operas, you can appricaite the joys of trying to sync actors on several different sets as well as primitive special effects!
Compare the episodes with the comic story that ran in two parts HERE and HERE and you can see a major difference in scope due to budget limitations.

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