Details

Release year: 1973

Storyline

The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their world a better place. The pair are miniaturized to assist The Investigator more easily, and assigned to prevent the theft by Stavros Karanti of a 14th century masterpiece from a church on Malta. John and Julie are presented with a car and a boat, scaled to accommodate their miniaturized size, and set out to thwart Karanti's plans...

Top credits

Directors

Gerry Anderson

Writers

Cast

Charles Thake — Karanti
Peter Borg — Christoph
Sylvia Anderson — Julie
Shane Rimmer — John

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Did you know

• The expensive custom built radio controlled car and speedboat proved to be susceptible to signal interference from external sources that wasn't discovered until the production crew took the models out of the workshop and onto location filming. This was another reason why the series never went into production beyond the pilot show and Gerry Anderson instead started developing his next project, SPACE 1999.

• Although the series was never commissioned, UK toy manufacturer 'Dinky Toys' were so confident in the project (before the pilot had even been finished) they started working on designing toys based on the vehicles in the pilot. When the show wasn't picked up they redesigned the packaging and colour scheme and the toys were released anyway as generic futuristic vehicles.

• Pilot show for a proposed television series that never sold. The mixture of live action and puppetry proved to be extremely hard work to make and edit together and when no broadcaster showed interest in commissioning a series, Gerry Anderson abandoned the concept.