Secondary Characters - list their appearances .

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:39 am

I have noticed with the secondary characters that there are several "extra" marionettes used to portray different ones. I'm not great at identifying them yet but I"m pretty sure that the reporter in "The Launching" is the same marionette who portrayed Captian Indigo in "Spectrum Strikes Back."
I keep seeing the various drivers or scientists and thinking 'they've used that one for someone else.'

so, can we come up with a list of the "extras" and what roles they "played"????
for naming them, to keep them straight, i think referring to them by their first role would work. then we could say 'Indigo marionette was also the reporter in the Launching" and so on.

i have several of the 'extra's that i recognize, but i haven't mapped out their appearances yet. But hey, I'm only on my second run through the series since I rediscovered it after 36 years. Surley you board vetrans can just list this like it is nothing......

it ought to be amusing, if nothing else.

Sasha

by **Gun-wielding Lombax** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:08 am

The Captain Indigo puppet actually appeared even earlier as Macey in "Big Ben Strikes Again"...

Considering that almost every single puppet outside of the regulars plays more than one character, this will be a pretty huge list. Indeed, to my memory only two guest puppets play unique characters in the series: one of Kruger's henchman in "The Heart of New York" and one of the doctors in "Treble Cross" I don't recall appearing anywhere else. The World President doesn't count because although he reprised that character in seperate episodes, even he later became Dr Sommers in "Expo 2068".

A lot of these puppets also reappeared in Joe 90 and The Secret Service, including the regulars. Even Captain Scarlet himself. Perhaps the most notable is Sam Loover in Joe 90, whom in Captain Scarlet portrayed the Lunar Controller ("Lunarville 7"), Rhodes ("Noose of Ice"), the Supreme Commander of Earth Forces ("Point 783") Dr Denton ("Place of Angels") President Roberts ("The Launching") and Colgan ("The Inquisition").

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:58 am

then it will give us something to keep posting about for a long time!

a different sort of trivia.

Sasha

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:39 pm

i spotted the 'indigo' puppet serving drinks at the party in Model Spy.

and, the dark haired model from that episode is the lab assistant who gets mysteronized in The Place of the Angels.

Sasha

by **Marion** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:15 am

Maybe the thing to do is post a picture of the puppet's head and see if people can list the appearances?
Try this one:
Picture number: 001

Name the 'guest starrring role' and any subsequent appearances for this puppet.

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:50 pm

ack, that puppet has been in everything.
He is the David Morse of the puppet world, having supportive roles everywhere! Hopefully it built up his resume and he managed to get a good solid role for himself eventually.

are you wanting where that particular photo is from? I"ll have to ponder the uniform.

but i do think this will be a fun game. hopefully others will agree.

by **Marion** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:59 am

I guess it would be an idea to identify the source of the picture if possible - although I didn't mean one person has to list every appearance necessarily- like the Trivia quiz - I know some of the retreads were used many times...
I thought to give it a day or two and then post another one.
(Thinks: should have numbered the picture for people to refer to.
Lets call this one number 001, shall we? :wink:

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:12 am

well, off the top of my head, i want to say he was General Tiempo.
but i don't think that is where this pict is from.

Sasha

by **Marion** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:33 pm

Yes, he was Tiempo - and that's where the picture is from (Operation Time).
He is also the piano player at the restaurant in 'The Inquisition'.
Any more from anyone?

by **Carrie** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:51 pm

Additional appearances for the General Tiempo puppet, you mean?

According to one of the episode guides, this revamp puppet was used eleven times in total, and had the unique distinction of appearing as three different characters in 'Inquisition'.
Other notable appearences were as General Ward in 'Avalanche', Schroeder in 'Crater 101', Dr Baxter in 'Treble Cross' and as the pilot of the SKR4 recovery vehicle in 'Inferno'.

by **Marion** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:02 pm

As Carrie produced a whole list of sightings for character 001 - here is another one to have a go at:
Puppet number 002

Where do we see this chap?

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:37 pm

That is Dr. Kurnitz from Dangerous Rendezvous, which I just watched last night

Sasha

by **Marion** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:17 pm

Yes, the puppet is 'Dr Kurnitz' - but in which other episodes do we see it if any?
Can anybody help with this? Hopefully the answers can be collated into a definitive list of where the 'retreads' appear, so even if the list has moved on and you notice an appearance by a previous 'character actor' - add the details to the thread.
Thanks.

by **Carrie** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:47 pm

Was he a guard in the pilot episode 'The Mysterons'? Perhaps some dedicated soul out there can confirm this for me. . :grin:

This puppet IS notable for being the character of Shane Weston in Joe 90, where he changed his hair colour to black.

by **Sasha Metcalfe** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:55 am

Is he also Goddard in The Trap?
- that just came to me out of the blue as i was working.