Supercar

After hit and miss production, Gerry Anderson and Arther Provis came up with Supercar.
Supercar has a number of problems which stop it from being a "master piece" as so many Anderson fans are willing to make out.

First is the terrible theme song, it literally feels like my soul is being sucked out of my brain through my nose as I paticipate it what feels like a carninal sin. Theres what sounds like a 1950s jazz singer who I keep expecting to say something like "thats hip daddy-o", slaughtering the storyline of every episode while we see "action scenes", which are actually just supercar flying about and causing untold pollution on its way.

Anyway, the general storyline concerns the bad guy "general spy" (so there's a rank system now?) as he tries to commit acts of EVIL, he does this with his beta skinny male flunky (stereotypes fill this show) as they go about causing general mayhem, this is off set becuase they can only use a few puppets becuase of the small budget, so we can never hear calls of "ahhhhh we're gonna die!", just "oh a fiendish person has X, send in supercar"

Meanwhile Mike Mercury with a monkey and a young boy as his side kick (where is this kids parents, did they hear the theme song and run for it?) run about and stop these so called evil acts, in fact they don't do anything, supercar is the main hero of this story and completely nullifies any impact these character have in the program.


Now this wouldn't be so bad if the dolls didn't look like they had been crafted by a blind retarded man who was beaten with sticks while trying to create stereotypes out of raw meat armed with a pointy stick and his own bare fingers. Some of these dolls look like they belong in a horror movie like "Puppet Master" rather then a 1960s Anderson "classic". The lip movment on the professor is actually painful to watch and makes the viewer want to rip his/her own lips off.



All in all, the storylines are "ok" for children, as this show was made for them, and the actual background music is ok (ugh the singing). But I would personally stay away from this title, as it reeks of low budget and horrifying puppets that might go "bump" in the night.

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