Nobody who saw this as a kid will ever forget it. Of course there were the incredibly detailed sets, the amazing aircraft and submarines, the flashy special effects. The model work is so good it's impossible for most of us to even figure out how big the puppets were. This is a timeless classic, no doubt as intended to be all along.
But I have to confess this TV show blew my 5 year old mind when it came on. I literally couldn't figure out if the puppets were real people, even with the obvious strings moving them about... I think i was too bashful to ask my parents about this but I distinctly remember a lot of confusion while watching this since the puppets seemed pretty real (consider the rock-bottom quality of the rest of children's programming then and the general lack of good special effects - a lot of TV was pretty cut-rate, cheap productions. And along comes these, really very life-like puppets...I think it might be fun to prank the kids with this show, honestly.)
If you get a chance to watch an episode of "Thunderbirds", you might want to have a look (although "Team America" captures the puppet work perfectly, without taking itself quite so seriously).
But I have to confess this TV show blew my 5 year old mind when it came on. I literally couldn't figure out if the puppets were real people, even with the obvious strings moving them about... I think i was too bashful to ask my parents about this but I distinctly remember a lot of confusion while watching this since the puppets seemed pretty real (consider the rock-bottom quality of the rest of children's programming then and the general lack of good special effects - a lot of TV was pretty cut-rate, cheap productions. And along comes these, really very life-like puppets...I think it might be fun to prank the kids with this show, honestly.)
If you get a chance to watch an episode of "Thunderbirds", you might want to have a look (although "Team America" captures the puppet work perfectly, without taking itself quite so seriously).