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Did these classic British sci-fi shows star puppets or people?
This quiz has some strings attached.
The United Kingdom was quite obsessed with puppets back in the Sixties. Sorry, marionettes. Sorry, supermarionettes.
The husband-and-wife production team of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were the pioneers of "Supermarionation." They used the string-dangled puppets in several sci-fi shows such as… well, we're not giving that away.
But the BBC also offered other cult classics beyond Doctor Who. We've gathered some British classics from the 1960s and 1970s. All you have to do is guess whether they (primarily) starred puppets or real human actors!
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Thunderbirds
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Space: 1999
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The Tomorrow People
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Stingray
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Supercar
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Timeslip
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Joe 90
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Sapphire & Steel
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Fireball XL5
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
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Adam Adamant Live!
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UFO
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Blake's 7
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The Secret Service
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Space Patrol
Did these classic British sci-fi shows star puppets or people?
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4/15 I guess I don't know British sci-fi all that well, as least not these shows, oh well.
14/15 never heard of Timeslip
11/15.
7/15 can’t tell a puppet from a person
13/15. Some of these I have never heard of. UFO is one of my all time favorite British sci fi shows.
15/15 For me these were some of the best shows ever created. Gerry Anderson was the British version of Walt Disney. Fireball XL5 blew me away as a kid. Both his Supermarionation and Human actor shows are amazing. Hope some of them will show up on Me TV.
11 out of 15. Is MeTV bringing British super marionette shows to the schedule? Oh, please let them replace Saved by the Bell.
I agree, Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp would be an improvement.
13 out of 15. Not bad since I didn't really know several of them.
12 out of 15. Almost all of them I read about in the late, great sci-fi film magazine, "Starlog."
6/15. The few times my husband and I have the same score
10/15 all guesses and never saw any of these shows. 😀
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6/15 guessed on them all!
10/15 and mostly guesses. I vaguely remember seeing Stingray as a kid. My brother got me a Thunderbirds dvd for Christmas a few years ago, mostly as a joke. It was a hoot watching it. 😀
11 out of 15. Mostly guesses though - I only remember seeing Thunderbirds and Supercar and they were both played on Canadian channels that were received in Michigan Interesting quiz!
15/15. Loved Gerry Anderson shows.
11/15. I don't remember all of these appearing on US television.
Me either. I had to guess a lot (10/15).
10/15. I had to have a Fireball XL5 lunchbox when I was in second grade. Being a girl it was considered a boys lunch box. I carried on about how great it was and I did get it. I thought it was so cool. After that I had a laugh in one. I still have the thermos from the laugh in lunch box. 😝
13/15... Used to watch Blake's 7 when I was stationed in the UK. Good show!