The SHADO Mobiles are one of my favourite ground vehicles in the Gerry Anderson universe, that and the SPV from Captain Scarlet!
@nor08453 жыл бұрын
Yes, SPV was my favourite, loved the fold down tracks. Seem to remember driver faced rearward. Had Cpt S outfit for my action man too. Happy days.
@varanid93 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@billy.g35973 жыл бұрын
As a child I had one of these as a toy. It was a heavy die cast model with a flip over roof that revealed a missile launcher. The launcher was a spring loaded affair. The missile was rubber tipped piece of plastic. It took only a second to fire but bloody hours to find !!!.
@1337flite3 жыл бұрын
I think that was made by Dinky Toys - I had one too.
@fugawiaus3 жыл бұрын
My favourite toy as a kid. That and the spv, also thunderbird 2 with tb4 in the pod.
@ianmunkyg10263 жыл бұрын
Hours? I’m still looking for mine....!!!!!!
@meson1833 жыл бұрын
+1 I, too, had one of these toys. Back when they knew how to make tough toys.
@troffmeister683 жыл бұрын
yep dinky
@MarkSW3 жыл бұрын
I’ve always loved the tracked vehicles in the Anderson world. They have such an unique sound effect.
@matthewblack72063 жыл бұрын
Generally stock sound effects from the V-12 Rolls Royce Merlin 'Meteor' engine, used in many British tanks.
@scofair55513 жыл бұрын
Those shows- so unique, original and watchable. Love Gray's scores.
@ricardoterreroslazo8017 Жыл бұрын
All the model on this series are great and amazing. Pure technical effort of the Anderson World of the 70s'
@Ayeskint2 жыл бұрын
I loved UFO - I've got the episodes on disk, and at 55 years old I still have my 1970s Dinky Toys Shado mobile and interceptor, both still pretty much in one piece and they can still fire their weapons. The mobile's tracks broke early on, but I replaced them with tracks off another toy (probably my Chieftain tank). I still love all that stuff! Getting older is unavoidable, but nobody can force you to grow up.😄
@Jarvis-MkII3 жыл бұрын
The actor portraying General Straker always hits the right tone, he has the right balance of professional yet melancholy.
@moreheff2 жыл бұрын
John Culshaw. It is in the credits
@Jarvis-MkII2 жыл бұрын
@@moreheff Gee thanks... for replying to my comment from over a year ago... Timely, very timely!
@moreheff2 жыл бұрын
@@Jarvis-MkII LOL
@ickleshouse Жыл бұрын
The Mobiles are still cool even now! One of my favorite toys as a kid.
@dogwalker6663 жыл бұрын
I always wanted one of these, I mean a full sized one.
@grumpyoldman34583 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@troffmeister683 жыл бұрын
i have 3d modelled the vehicles and placed them in the crysis 1 pc 3d game engine as part of my hobby modding
@oldgoat1423 жыл бұрын
Would make a helluva camping vehicle.
@barriewright28573 жыл бұрын
First question how are you going to stop noise Knaybours and second how are you going to explain to the government you have a armoured vehicle with heavy fire power in the garage ! How are you going to get it in the garage . Don't forget taking it out too give it run out the noise ! , then there's the risk you might run over someone cat or dog or God forbid someone's child. From a old man who wanted the real thing too but had make do with corgi or was it dinky toy, anyway like you i will dream on 🤣👍😎.
@dogwalker6663 жыл бұрын
@@barriewright2857 actually there is a guy lives not far from me has a collection of Tanks! So as long as you dont have and ammunition you would be ok, The noise is easy as long as you use it between 8am and 10pm, it would need to be plated to run on the roads just like any kit car, and the tracks would need rubber inserts if you wanted to use it on the public highway just like any tracked vehicle. The biggest problem would be fuel consumption.
@ZoneTelevision3 жыл бұрын
One of the best Sci Fi shows ever
@Trek0013 жыл бұрын
General Straker sounds much more cheerful this episode compared to previous ones
@tubewatcher31003 жыл бұрын
The Shadow mobile is my favourite vehicle. As a young boy, I would imagine driving one when I grew up. The submarine with the underwater launched jet plane is super cool but I just couldn't picture myself being a crew member because of the fishnet shirts.
@troffmeister683 жыл бұрын
its fishnet tights for the male troops in todays day and age , oohhh matron !!
@stuartliddle72282 жыл бұрын
Clearly made with love. Great stuff, thank you.
@hopebgood2 жыл бұрын
Shado Mobile. I got one of these as a Christmas pressie. And apparently so did many other kids in my class cos we had a sort of "Show and Tell" about our fave Christmas pressies and I remember the classroom floor being awash with Shado Mobiles! :)
@EidolonMedia3 жыл бұрын
Your dedication to the absurd is impressive.
@ryanstephenkristoferkearns13193 жыл бұрын
The SHADO mobiles I remember those coming out of trailers and when they come out of the SHADO transporter aircraft.
@dlamb28403 жыл бұрын
I had the Dinky Mobile and an Interceptor! Loved them but was always sorry they never produced a Skydiver.
@barriewright28573 жыл бұрын
O gosh memory rush, my child hood just popped into my head. WAIT THAT TRANSPORTER.....! that aircraft really exists !? OMG Jerry Anderson was a visionary.
@A.G.798 Жыл бұрын
Nach der Filmszene mit der Wasserbombe im See, hat mein Vater (Gott hab ihn Seelig)mit mir, ich war 10 Jahre alt,im Gartenteich mit Kanonenschlägen Experimentiert, um die Unterwasser Explosionen nachzustellen,das war ein fantastisches Erlebnis! Alles Dank UFO.
@crazya34663 жыл бұрын
Luv the 70s synthesizer musical scores,brings me back🖒.. cA
@trevorrandom3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to drive one of these right now!
@landhopper42963 жыл бұрын
One great episode when they lobbed depth charges into a lake and then ferociously shot up the UFO when it surfaced. I watched that with my dad as a kid - fun for the whole family - actually found the concept of the show scary as a kid, especially the one when they’re dumping nerve gas at sea. Can’t imagine kids programmes being made the same today!
@markwoodhouse42843 жыл бұрын
I'm watching the re runs on Forces TV. The themes are very adult, just the other night the closing scene was a pull back of "Arthur Daley" as he suffocated to death on the moon's surface because his space suit had a cut in it caused by an exploding UFO. Not kids stuff!!
@patriklauk85563 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all the fantastic uploads! Who’s the voice of General Straker?🛸
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
Jon Culshaw :)
@andrewflashchannelgibbs53843 жыл бұрын
Except for the water the effects still look great. Fantastic work.
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
Water and Fire, the two curses of the miniature effects world, incredibly difficult to integrate 100% convincingly as they don't scale! :)
@joaoantonio39522 жыл бұрын
Maravilhoso! Sensacional! Grato pela postagem.
@doktor_ghul3 жыл бұрын
Ah, the SHADO Mobile...second only to the SPV in my book for all around cool and respect. If you saw three Mobiles rumbling in the area you were in, GET OUT OF THAT AREA RIGHT NOW.
@paulcolmer90463 жыл бұрын
Shado had such cool vehicles , though Thunderbirds was close it was the Mobile that was coolest for me.
@FandersonUfo3 жыл бұрын
GR12KJ - how quaint to put a licence plate on a top secret vehicle - 🛸👽💚
@billy.g35973 жыл бұрын
The licence plate format of 2 letters, 2 numbers, 2 letters is based on real life. This format is used on all British military vehicles, even to this day.
@FandersonUfo3 жыл бұрын
@@billy.g3597 - ty sir - Gerry would never overlook a detail like that - he was a genius in all that he did
@pauld69673 жыл бұрын
@FandersonUfo It works the same in real life. You make a covert vehicle look as normal as possible. If someone notices it is a bit "odd" they tend to write it off as a version they aren't familiar with. However, a missing license plate will catch a police officer's attention and that piques curiosity which could lead to an encounter, questions and/or cover being blown.
@MontytheHorse3 жыл бұрын
And put the name SHADO all over every vehicle. 😀
@ricdale78133 жыл бұрын
This is a Good one. Well done.
@lencolgan9873 жыл бұрын
The product enterprise models back in the day had a decent price point and looked pretty good also, skydiver and stingray stand out for me
@Alex-fl3zy Жыл бұрын
Il mio mezzo preferito della S. h. a. d. o.! Ne avevo uno verde della Dinky Toys negli anni 70...e pure l'intercettore, rigorosamente senza missile che veniva sistematicamente perso. Bei tempi......!
@MrFlaviojosefus3 жыл бұрын
But, in my view, the Shado-mobiles have a huge drawback that is the huge glass window in the front. This drawback could be possibly mitigated if the window were made of transparent aluminium (aluminium-oxide), but even though they constitute a weak point.
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
They can stand up to explosions as seen in 'ESP'
@MrFlaviojosefus3 жыл бұрын
@@ACtheLegend Yes, I saw this episode, and I wondered for a long time if the Shado-mobile could have survived the blast had it not these huge windows in the front.
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
@@MrFlaviojosefus well it survived with them, so one imagines it would have survived without them :)
@stephenpochly70033 жыл бұрын
The Shodo Mobile was yet another iconic vehicle from the Anderson stable. The only shame is the colour of the Dinky model. Why were they not produced in the tv colour. The very find models that Dinky made would have been better in the original colour.Just like the Interceptor and Thunderbird 2 why change the colours?
@intercommerce3 жыл бұрын
Probably thought they'd sell more. My moonbase Interceptor was metallic green (& orange) instead of white!
@janreznak8813 жыл бұрын
@@intercommerce As was mine :(
@rosalindacaseley69963 жыл бұрын
I had he Dinky toys version of this. Love it 😎
@andrewmacdonald80769 ай бұрын
Classic design, would not look out of place today 🥝🇳🇿😎
@alanruyten82263 жыл бұрын
Great briefing! Well done guys! Did Derek Meddings design the mobiles?
@dogwalker6663 жыл бұрын
Never noticed before but the high voltage flash on the control mobile is upside down, oops too late to correct it now.
@johnhart6228 Жыл бұрын
A perfect and beautiful looking vehicle. Designed to do the job
@redpoll46283 жыл бұрын
Can't remember which episode, which features the mobiles coming out of the lorries, shown in the clips here.
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
Hi Nigel, it happens a few times, but the first one is The Square Triangle :)
@MrPDoff3 жыл бұрын
These are my favourite of all G A Vehicles.
@OdeeOz3 жыл бұрын
_Marketing Idea Ahead!_ These Tracked and wheeled S.H.A.D.O. vehicles look to be R/C *Radio Controlled* models that worked very well in the suspension of disbelief viewing the show. I wonder if Anderson Enterprises, has plans to sell/market the Models as kits, pre-built, or just the blueprints ... for modelers to relive their fave FAB episodes.
@troffmeister683 жыл бұрын
i have 3d modelled the vehicles and placed them in the crysis 1 pc 3d game engine as part of my hobby modding
@jamesthecat3 жыл бұрын
@@troffmeister68 That's really cool, well done!
@claudiogonzalez40273 жыл бұрын
Great!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏
@MrRevan9913 ай бұрын
they need to do this for all of shado's vehicles and bases it would make a great companion for the technical manual
@ACtheLegend3 ай бұрын
Skydiver, Interceptor, Moonbase and UFO are available as other episodes :)
@MrRevan9913 ай бұрын
@@ACtheLegend cool ty...into a playlist they go
@wescarr15262 жыл бұрын
It probably inspired the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
@lencolgan9873 жыл бұрын
Have the old product enterprise one ( still in good nick !) 😊
@plymouth57143 жыл бұрын
I missed out on that one! Many years ago when the Plymouth 'Runway' model shop had a closing down sale I got the Product Enterprise Stingray and SPV a week apart, reduced to £19.99 each, was going to get the Fireball XL5 the following week but they'd all gone!
@thereisnospoon2773 жыл бұрын
I love how you take this so seriously.
@frankfisher993 жыл бұрын
There's nothing more serious than alien invasion
@stephenfarthing4853 жыл бұрын
This was also amphibious. And could travel on the surface of water at 30 knots.
@wescarr15262 жыл бұрын
How about one on the Moonmobiles?
@jakedee41173 жыл бұрын
Very cool. Probably based on the Soviet Antarctic cruiser "Kharkovchanka' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkovchanka
@muttman3253 жыл бұрын
That's not a very flattering picture of ed bishop at the start. Loved my dinky mobile btw. Cousin chewed the tracks off. Odd family mine.
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
It's not a picture of Ed Bishop, it's an image of General Straker :)
@astrocitizen Жыл бұрын
5:30 -- And the people at SHADO were certainly fallible... Straker mentions the final years of the war... wonder if these GA videos are going to come out and give the back story and the who, where, and why's of the UFO invasion and how it ended.
@jamesthecat3 жыл бұрын
Beautifully written coda!
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
Thanks James :)
@darrensmith69993 жыл бұрын
Love the Mobiles i have Dinky Shadow 2 had it since i was 8 im 55 now haha
@user-po8zy5dn4k8 ай бұрын
I'm getting a shado mobile for my 54rh birthday, Xmas 1973 part 2, lol
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman2 жыл бұрын
It would be SO COOL -- as well as SO FAR BEYOND MY BUDGET -- to build a full size replica of a SHADO mobile. There is -- or was -- at least one full size replica of the _chariot_ from 1960s *LOST IN SPACE,* although like the version of the TV show it was based on a SNOW KAT vehicle.
@troffmeister683 жыл бұрын
i have 3d modelled the vehicles and placed them in the crysis 1 pc 3d game engine as part of my hobby modding
@user-nx3wg9fg1e Жыл бұрын
It predicted Infantry Fighting Vehicles like the
@richardjstuart3978 Жыл бұрын
I have mixed feelings about the Shado Mobile. There good vehicles, but I'm used to great from Anderson. Compared to say, the Joe 909 Car or the Spectrum vehicles, the Shado Mobiles are a bit pedestrian. Actually the toy was better where the whole top fliped over to reveal a reall big missile. In UFO season 2 maybe we can see some additional ground forces. Maybe a SHADO tank.
@lencolgan9873 жыл бұрын
Ed bishop with a dash of George bush 😆
@rayrose55943 жыл бұрын
watched this when i was kid.thought it was real cool............................................
@exarmyofficer3 жыл бұрын
Would that not be a "C" in Defence were that a Canadian base?
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
In the alternate timeline of the series all NATO countries adopted the US spelling for all military matters :)
@MontytheHorse3 жыл бұрын
Should also be Canadian Forces Base, but again, it could be an alternative timeline thing.
@iamgod64643 жыл бұрын
Where they Diesel or Petrol Powered General Ed?
@LoneBrowncoat3 жыл бұрын
Old fish and chips cooking oil.
@iamgod64643 жыл бұрын
@@LoneBrowncoat Excellent. The Crew could have Fish and Chips while they're hunting for UFO'S. What a great organisation S.H.A.D.O. was for looking after its workers.
@jamesthecat3 жыл бұрын
@@iamgod6464 Also ensures their bodies won't be chosen by the aliens!
@iamgod64643 жыл бұрын
@@jamesthecat Yes, all that grease will clog up their Green Liquid Breathing Apparatus.
@alf.29293 жыл бұрын
FYI: Jon Culshaw, aka General Ed Straker, I know you're trying to do an American accent and for the most part it's on point except when you pronounce "mach." You're using the Brit's pronunciation "mack." The Americans pronounce it as "mock."
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
Ah, but the General has spent a lot of time in Britain over the years, picking up some of their habits :)
@reddog1833 жыл бұрын
It also sounds nothing like Ed Straker sorry but it doesn't.
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
@@reddog183 well each to their own, I think it's fantastic :)
@reddog1833 жыл бұрын
Ed Bishop had a very listenable and unique voice very difficult to mimic and was very underrated.
@craigcuthbertson36363 жыл бұрын
Warrior and Bradley are both under 22 feet and Bits less than 12 feet
@charlesmclaughlin44442 жыл бұрын
Jeez oh, you could have got a better photograph of Ed Bishop.
@GerryAndersonTV2 жыл бұрын
It’s meant to be a much older Straker…
@jimbodimbo9812 жыл бұрын
All I have to say is….Gabrielle Drake
@Dragonewiz3 жыл бұрын
LOST-N- SPACE ROVER...LOL...!!!!
@craigcuthbertson36363 жыл бұрын
These measurements seem a little big I figure about 22 feet for the mobile 76 feet for the eagle and 24 feet for the saucer
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
The saucers are huge.
@lancraft3 жыл бұрын
Why doesn’t Straker gave his silver hair??
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
What silver hair?
@ionageman3 жыл бұрын
Why have I never heard of this .. oh yeah , I’m not in the correct region
@tub193 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that no military as built one. be brilliant
@tub193 жыл бұрын
Is that a amphibious vehicle used by the Marines
@brenglover723 жыл бұрын
They did'nt have stealth thanks to that noisy diesel engine.
@stewban0073 жыл бұрын
Very true. They were certainly noisy.
@ACtheLegend3 жыл бұрын
@@stewban007 *Yells* "WHAT DID YOU SAY? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU OVER THAT AWFUL RUMBLING SOUND!"
@stewban0073 жыл бұрын
@@ACtheLegend 😂😂😂
@stephenlang31353 жыл бұрын
Bet China builds these vehicles for there military.