{"id":6097,"date":"2011-01-24T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2011-01-24T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:30:31","slug":"paul-starr-1964-science-fiction-puppet-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/01\/24\/paul-starr-1964-science-fiction-puppet-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Starr &#8211; 1964 Science Fiction Puppet Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WXSlmZt4qlM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WXSlmZt4qlM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Humorous, cheesy and somewhat difficult to sit through!\u00a0 It&#8217;s got robots that are Dalek imitations, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerry_Anderson\">Gerry Anderson<\/a>-style figures, vehicles and headquarters!  This is the 1964 pilot episode for a puppet science fiction TV show that never aired. <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.tesco.net\/~space.patrol\/SpacePatrol\/After.htm\">Paul Starr<\/a> featured <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Bishop\">Ed Bishop<\/a>, the actor who later played Commander Straker in the classic 70s <a href=\"http:\/\/ufoseries.com\/\"><em>UFO<\/em><\/a> series, in the lead role.\u00a0 The show was created by Roberta Leigh who had already produced <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.tesco.net\/~space.patrol\/SpacePatrol\/Home.htm\"><em>Space Patrol<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 In this episode, atomic power plants on Mars begin to explode and Paul Starr must investigate a threat to take over the red planet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kwIgLEEbi8U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kwIgLEEbi8U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HjZ0yQJFiIs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HjZ0yQJFiIs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humorous, cheesy and somewhat difficult to sit through!\u00a0 It&#8217;s got robots that are Dalek imitations, Gerry Anderson-style figures, vehicles and headquarters! This is the 1964 pilot episode for a puppet science fiction TV show that never aired. Paul Starr featured Ed Bishop, the actor who later played Commander Straker in the classic 70s UFO series, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,367],"tags":[2526,1595,1597,1594,1528,1596,144,2484,173,633],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-tv-shows","tag-1960s","tag-ed-bishop","tag-gerry-anderson","tag-paul-starr","tag-puppets","tag-roberta-leigh","tag-sci-fi","tag-science-fiction","tag-television","tag-ufo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}