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Joe 90: Volume 3 [DVD] [1968]
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Episodes 13 to 18 from the Supermarionation series about the schoolboy secret agent who can take over other people's brain patterns. 'Most Special Astronaut' has Joe attempt to rescue some astronauts trapped on an orbitting space station. 'Arctic Adventure' concerns a nuclear device that has gone missing in the Arctic Circle. 'The Fortress' finds Joe attempting to rescue a captured W.I.N. agent from an impenetrable fortress. 'Project 90' follows Joe as he attempts a daring balloon rescue. 'Colonel McClaine' sees Joe take charge of a convoy ferrying volatile liquid explosive across 200 miles of perilous terrain. Finally, in 'The Race', new technology allows Sam and Joe to share a dream in which they are rally drivers taking part in a race from London to Monte Carlo.
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Joe 90 was Gerry Anderson's penultimate puppet show of the 1960s, following Captain Scarlet (1968) and preceding the little-known The Secret Service (1969). In 2112 professor Ian McClaine has invented the BIG RAT (Brain Impulse Galvanoscope, Record And Transfer), a machine for copying knowledge and experiences from person to person. WIN (World Intelligence Organisation) uses this to prime their top undercover agent before sending him into the field on missions which range from foiling international terrorists to recovering a nuclear weapon from beneath the polar ice. So far so good, but in perhaps the most mind-boggling concept ever to reach children's TV, that agent is McClaine's nine-year-old adopted son, Joe.
Somehow even as it stays true to the Gerry Anderson techno-fantasy formula of secret organisations, gadgetry, and action-packed adventure full of spectacular explosions and violent death, Joe 90 remains blithely unconscious of its own implications. The missions are as globe-trotting as anything in Anderson's classic Thunderbirds series, and sometimes Joe does save lives, performing a risky brain operation or rescuing trapped astronauts. Yet even then his criminally irresponsible father brainwashes the lad each episode before placing him in a highly dangerous adult situation. Though the production values remain way ahead of anything else being done on British TV at the time, the question remains how did this ever seem like a good idea?
On the DVD: Joe 90 comes complete in a five-disc box set of the entire 30-episode series. Each disc contains six 25-minute episodes presented, as usual with Gerry Anderson DVDs, behind a lovingly crafted menu. As expected the 4:3 picture quality is superb and the mono sound is full, detailed and without a trace of distortion. Each disc contains several pages of character biography and background information on the show, a photo gallery and varied extras such as location stills or a gallery of promotional images. --Gary S Dalkin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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