what's your prized Captain Scarlet possession?

by **jimbo** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:36 pm

Everyone one has a favourite item (some rare)---what are yours?
Mines my Century 21 Spv by the way.

by **Elentari** » Sat May 20, 2006 3:01 am

My 1967 Captain Scarlet Annual - the one with the biographies. I already had other Anderson annuals but none of them have the detail and info that this one has. It's the kind of book that should have been produced for each and every one of Gerry Anderson's TV shows.

by **shaqui** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:37 am

About 200 colour and b/w 10" x 8" photos which were available through Polly Products in the late 80s and early 90s, and printed from the original photos and transparencies taken by Century 21 at the time. The detail in an original photo that size is amazing...

It's been suggested we should do some new TV Century 21-style newspaper fronts using these for the GACCH website... which we may do at some point.

by **Kambei** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:29 am

Probably my Scarlet/TV21 Annuals and DVD collection

by **Doc** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:23 am

My army of captains - it's all about the numbers, baby!

I *choke* never had an annual...

Doc :wink:

by **Kambei** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:09 am

Oh. I forgot to add my Francis Matthews autograph

Website · by **Sage** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:36 am

'The complete book of captain scarlet' I suppose, as a resource for me as a fanfic writer. The DVDs too of course.
My brother was into it in the early 90s so we still have a few of the toys and things around somewhere.
So just the usual stuff, nothing rare or anything. Though would love to get copies of the spin-off novelisations.

by **Marion** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:51 am

Sage, you can find those on eBay - often for very reasonable prices....
I have built my collection mostly from that source, although I did buy the 90s merchandise at the time - FOR MY DAUGHTER - you understand? :wink:

I lost my TV21s and Lady P comics in the 70s - my father threw them away and kept the stuff he thought 'might be worth something one day' - bad move, Dad!
I suppose my favourite items are my Captain Blues: 2 speaking dollies, one unmade Severns model (I darn't risk ruining him) and my lovely Captain Blue Teddy Bear - which Colonel Chris sent me! :grin:

But of my publication collection (and I love all my books, comics etc - it's a Librarian-type thing :oops:

) I have a special soft spot for the first item I got off eBay - 'the Angels and the Creeping Menace' novel. I spent my precious 2/-6d on a copy in the 60s and it went to that great dustbin in the sky in the 70s. I missed it - and it was determination to replace it and the memories it held that gave me the courage to use eBay. I am not a natural web-surfer! After that - I was hooked and I dread to imagine what I've spent to get the small collection I have now :angel)

by **Kambei** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:22 pm

Sage wrote:'The complete book of captain scarlet' I suppose, as a resource for me as a fanfic writer. The DVDs too of course.
My brother was into it in the early 90s so we still have a few of the toys and things around somewhere.
So just the usual stuff, nothing rare or anything. Though would love to get copies of the spin-off novelisations.

I have all three novels. The novelisations are not too bad, but I have read better fan fiction on this site. John Theydon didn't seem to understand or grasp some of the charcters, or perhaps they were written from notes before the series was made or came out.

I agree. Surf Ebay and you can come up with some bargains.

by **shaqui** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:16 pm

Maybe not my most prized, but posibly among the scarcer, are these two Easter Egg boxes by Barratt from 1993 and 1994 (I think). I always check out EEs in case some confectioner decides to produce one, and I found one to tie in with the early 90s repeats, but the second I didn't know about - until someone at work decided to treat us, and knowing my interest in things like that, managed to find one!

I also have a dentist's promo leaflet for the Captain Scarlet range of toothbrushes produced in the 1990s. Again not particularly prized but a rare oddity...

Website · by **Sage** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:41 pm

Marion wrote:Sage, you can find those on eBay - often for very reasonable prices....

Excellent

My dad's addicted to ebay so shall get him on to that (he's collecting the model cars from the James Bond movies).

I lost my TV21s and Lady P comics in the 70s - my father threw them away and kept the stuff he thought 'might be worth something one day' - bad move, Dad!

Ugh can imagine, my dad had loads of the original Thunderbirds merchandise as a kid but gave it away. Now he's a total hoarder for that kind of thing.

I have built my collection mostly from that source, although I did buy the 90s merchandise at the time - FOR MY DAUGHTER - you understand?

Oh of course yes
All the CS stuff in our house totally belongs to my brother. I'd never kidnap* the DVD boxset for months on end and make him near grovel to get it back. :wink:

*I live away from home for uni.

by **Mary** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:18 pm

The only items I had "back in the day" were what I made myself, from memory, because there was nothing else available. Unfortunately GI Joe size action dolls had just gone off the market (early 70s, too many real Joes were coming home from Vietnam in boxes) so I had to make do with "Action Jackson" dolls, only 8" tall and not nearly as many outfits or accessories available, but I was able to make a fairly competent Spectrum uniform. This is the only one that has survived, and someone pointed out the doll has seemed to "age" while the puppet did not; "Dorian" Green perhaps?:

Other than that? I've picked up quite a few things on eBay and elsewhere after discovering the series, but perhaps my most prized possessions I didn't buy. They would be the handmade Scarlet and Blue figures, custom-made from Action Man dolls in the late 80s/early 90s, from a fellow fan who sent them to me as a gift without ever meeting me face to face. This kind person also sent me another parcel containing some original 1960s merchandise that "he had duplicates of" and didn't want anything in return other than for me to get well (I was undergoing chemotherapy at the time). I will never forget his name or his kindness.

by **Kambei** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:38 pm

Mary wrote:The only items I had "back in the day" were what I made myself, from memory, because there was nothing else available. Unfortunately GI Joe size action dolls had just gone off the market (early 70s, too many real Joes were coming home from Vietnam in boxes) so I had to make do with "Action Jackson" dolls, only 8" tall and not nearly as many outfits or accessories available, but I was able to make a fairly competent Spectrum uniform. This is the only one that has survived, and someone pointed out the doll has seemed to "age" while the puppet did not; "Dorian" Green perhaps?:

Can't see the image. Could you post it again please?

I have to admit. I made my first set of Scarlet figures for exactly the same reason. Hardly anything available.

by **shadokp** » Sat May 20, 2006 3:26 pm

I have two promotional fold outs from the series so I guess those are the top on my list. I do have a two shot photo of Francis Matthew and Ed Bishop (sitting next to their respective replica puppets) signed by both (met Matthews in person). That is probably more precious to me.

KP

by **Kambei** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:35 pm

Thank you Mary. I can see it now. You did a very nice job on that costume, especially considering the type of figure you had to work with. Would like to see more like that.

I see what you mean about aging. Have you read the Doctor Who/Gerry Anderson series pastiche 'The Indestructible Man'? His grey hair fits right in with the description of Green in that book.