Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Lachlan Coulson
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
StuOz
This deserves a user review simply because it the only MEMORABLE Australian television series about a spaceship. In my 1970s childhood I was a huge fan of this series, the loud theme music with the cornball narrator talking over the music was almost enough to make it cool.Thanks to YouTube, I have been able to re-visit this series in this century. In a B&W episode, the ship encounters fog and rain in space and it is these kind of moments that I like most as it resembles Lost In Space and Land Of The Giants. In fact, at first glance, the costumes and cockpit set do have a very Land Of The Giants-look to them. Which is cool. But from what I saw on YouTube, there was just way too much talk and not enough action. Maybe I need to see more? In Australia, I heard that low budget Phoenix Five was screened at the same time as the big budget US series - Land Of The Giants - and this concerned the producers as kids would go for the bigger budget product. So Phoenix got a poor timeslot.Since every old show comes to DVD, I guess this one deserves a DVD release as well, I would probably get it but not for too much money.
barrydefoyle
Amazed to see comments from others remembering this program, since even dedicated tube-heads of my acquaintance (some of them professionals !) don't recall this one. It must have a been a regional ITV distribution thing in the U.K. I can vouch for the fact that it was screened on Ulster Television (UTV) pre-1974 (though I'm not sure exactly when).Unfortunately, my recollection of it extends to little more than the unforgettable title and that a solid part of its appeal lay in the fact that the titular ship was relatively easy to make from old cardboard toilet rolls. This belongs to a select group of T.V. shows ('Ace of Wands' and 'The Tomorrow People' spring to mind) that you could emulate and play outdoors - often on 'bicycling' spacecraft !
info-5918
God...the only Aussie to comment on this show!. Only remember it when I was really young, but it made an impression on me as a kid. Not sure what adults thought of it. I remember the model shots being a bit dodgy, and it had freaky futuristic sounding music.I'm sure it would of made Dr who look very sophisticated! :-). Would love to see clips from it. No one in Australia ever mentions this show, and I daresay not many would remember it. The only person I know of that knows it is my g/f, who is a hardkore SF fanatic and knows everything. Hmmm... wonder if Youtube has it? Australian Sci Fi has come a long way since this...thankfully!
britten_mark
Wow Leachy, I remember it from Tyne Tees Saturdays mornings too, introduced by Neville Wanless (remember him) and that woman with the dark haired bob who always wore slightly too much lipstick but was strangely attractive??? Can't remember too much about it other than the sets were very dark and the spaceships were very pointy and futuristic to an impressionable 7 year old. Like so many series it just seemed to "end" (presumably when the TV company lost interest and stopped importing it). This fate seem to befall a lot of TV from the colonies, do you remember the Lost Islands? Did they ever get off or are they still stuck there!? I have looked on and off over the years for any mention of it but seems largely forgotten, at least in the UK, which is a shame. I wonder, does this have a cult following in Oz? Is there a fan site anywhere?
