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Removal[edit]

I have reluctantly removed the theme song lyrics as a copyvio. They can still be found in the Page History. Lee M 00:45, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comments[edit]

Please consider joining the project! HowardBerry 19:18, 11 November 2005 (UTC) Star Trek fact removed[reply]

I decided to remove the following from the trivia section:

"In the 2009 Star Trek film the Ending Credits are in the same style as Fireball XL5 with "zooming" of the credits against a background of plants, moons and craters."

This could easily been a coincidence and unless there is evidence to support the claim that the Star Trek credit came from Fireball XL5 I think this sentence should be left out of the article.122.106.89.22 (talk) 18:51, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. The original wording didn't claim that the similarity was on purpose, but is it worth noting even if coincidental? On balance I think it's worth noting in all cases, - put it this way, wouldn't the 2009 Star Trek's director J.J. Abrams be impressed by the coincidence if it were a coincidence? Yep. And it's probably no coincidence anyway. So I've restored it with new beginning "Perhaps coincidentally" and rephrased a bit to say that it was the backgrounds that zoomed (the credits didn't zoom). The Tetrast (talk) 04:40, 22 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Fireball xl5 dvd.jpg[edit]

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"Space Patrol (known as Planet Patrol in the US)"?[edit]

I remember that show here in NYC and I remember it as Space Patrol, not Planet Patrol. The Tetrast (talk) 03:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia[edit]

The trivia is overtly dramatic. It's not necessary. We can mention the earthquake, but take out the extreme drama. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.229.35 (talk) 01:49, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It seems completely unecessary, and downplays the information of the article. It is written like a DVD-Box description. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.45.103 (talk) 03:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

this is not trivia. this information is vitally important to the maintenance of western civilization. do not remove any of the data here, unless you want to share the fate of the these pitiful fools.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:43, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Setting[edit]

Although Gerry Anderson cited an old Soviet design as the inspiration for the memorable launch sequence of Fireball XL5, a similar launch sequence was depicted in George Pal's When Worlds Collide (film). Anderson was likely thinking of the Keldysh bomber, a design for a suborbital rocket bomber that was essentially copied by the Soviets in the late 1940s from a theoretical design prepared for the Germans by Eugen Sanger during WWII called the Silbervogel. Both the Silbervogel and Keldysh were launched on long tracks through the use of rocket powered undercarriages. Mysteron09 (talk) 17:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Planets[edit]

This list should be removed, or the text incorporated into the list of episodes, as it is essentially a trivia list. Ross Fraser (talk) 05:04, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - plus that is unsourced. I will remove. -- Beardo (talk) 23:36, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merchandise[edit]

I have the remains of an XL-5 magnetic dart game. Bought it new back in the 60s (Canada). Photos could be taken. AMCKen (talk) 06:07, 30 October 2012 (UTC) There was a plastic model kit of Fireball XL5 that could be glued together, and painted. It was maybe a foot long.(171.6.159.65 (talk) 10:22, 17 February 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Budget[edit]

I have found nowhere the cost of "Fireball XL5" series or its revenus. So I did some calculations.

Based on "The Adventures of Twizzle" budget of £27,000 in 1957, and that didn't use special effects, we can estimate that the budget of all 39 episods of "Fireball XL5" was over 40,000£ or over 120,000€ actualised (2014). For information, the average salary of a man was 200£ per year.

If not many people could confirm this, it is however a relatively good value that could be published.

NB. For the budget of Twizzle see, http://www.teletronic.co.uk/gerry_anderson.htm

For past/present currency conversion see http://fxtop.com/fr/conversion-devises-date-passee.php

- Luxorion

-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:7e8:c049:801:d5b4:929c:fa62:b26f (talk) 16:27, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Self Contradictory[edit]

This article states this, then goes on to contradict it:

"Robert was the only character in an Anderson series which was actually voiced by Anderson, albeit with the aid of an artificial larynx."

But:

"Granatoid – home of the Granatoid robots who appear in "The Granatoid Tanks" and described (though not seen) as having a completely technocratic society, led by a robot voiced by an uncredited Gerry Anderson."

I've changed the first of these to state main character as that is the wording used in the section on Robert the Robot. Stub Mandrel (talk) 21:51, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Network Blu ray release[edit]

Can someone include the recently released network blu ray and the special features included. 92.13.199.200 (talk) 18:19, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]