There is only one story this week. Never mind the credit crunch, money munch or indeed the end of the world. For this week, one of the best children's TV shows was released on DVD and although in short supply, I have got my box set. That show is Star Fleet, and was one of the first shows we recorded on VHS tapes in our house that I kept for years until they basically wore out. I can still remember watching episode 5 having spent the day at my dad's surgery helping him insulate the piping with that polystyrene stuff. It was the first episode that I kept on tape, and being allowed to keep the tape and the rest of the episodes was a really big deal (to me, anyway). Managed to bore everyone in the house for ages watching it over and over again, but hey, I was a kid, and that was my job..
This show was adapted from a Japanese puppet show and frankly knocked Thunderbirds and Terrahawks into a cocked hat. And then stamped on it. A lot. It had plot, it had characters, it had some serious hardware and it wasn't afraid to kill off major characters in dubious circumstances: in this show, the good guys didn't always fight fair..
For those of us in our mid-thirties who had been bitten a few years earlier by the Star Wars bug, this show was required viewing on Saturday mornings circa 1982-3. There was simply nothing to touch it, and watching it now, restored and cleaned up, it's still seriously cool. Already bored the wife with it, but hey I'm a kid and that's my job. Oh no, hang on..
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