Monday, November 20, 2017

Daytime Heroes: Terrahawks (1983)

British producer Gerry Anderson, after spending the 70's developing live action series (i.e. UFO, Space 1999) went back to his puppets with 1983's Terrahawks. Three 13-episode series were produced in England between 1983-6, and at least one season was shown here in the US that I can remember. However, it's been a very long time since Terrahawks has seen the light of day on American television.

As with most of Anderson's sci-fi series, the show is set in the future, in this case, in the year 2020.

Here is the intro:



Terrahawks was not only the first puppet series that wasn't produced for ITC, but Anderson's last puppet show as well. The series was co-produced with London Weekend Television.

Rating: B.

2 comments:

Jeff said...

I remember seeing this show in syndication on some NY channel in the 1980s. I thought it was a rerun from the 70s

hobbyfan said...

It depends on where you lived in NY at the time, Jeff. IIRC, I think it may have been on the Fox affiliate in my area, or on cable via WSBK in Boston. All I know is that we didn't get the entire series.