Saturday, February 19, 2022

Saturday Film Club: The Investigator

Unpopular opinion: Gerry Anderson shows looked great - but the stories were rubbish. Space 1999 - what the hell was going on there with it's hippy-dippy metaphysical stuff? And Thunderbirds, at least they sort of made sense, but plot holes ahoy. 

I still love them though. 

Anyway, I didn't know about "The Investigator", a show that didn't even make it all the way through a proper pilot episode. You can see why - two teenagers shrunk to 1/3 size for no apparent reason and a plot revolving around stopping the theft of a painting. 

Still, there were a couple of funky vehicles, and Dinky made models of them despite the searies never happening.

2 comments:

Paul B. said...

They did have some strong female leads tho' (even fighter pilots), unusual even today.

Phil Parker said...

Good point - they were ahead of their time in some respects.