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Fireball XL-5

Season 1
Steve Zodiac pilots Fireball XL5 on defence missions for World Space Patrol - their mission, to preserve peace in space zone, Sector 25.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Planet 46

    October 28, 1962
    26min
    TV-PG
    A missile capable of destroying Earth has been fired by Planet 46. The crew of Fireball XL-5 are assigned to stop the missile reacing it's target.
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  2. S1 E2 - Flight To Danger

    February 23, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Tryingto gain his astronaut wings, Lieutenant 90 attempts a solo orbit of the Moon, but something goes wrong and his capsule explodes.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Doomed Planet

    November 4, 1962
    25min
    TV-PG
    When a flying saucer leads the crew of Fireball XL-5 to Membrono - a planet doomed to be destroyed by another planet which has come out of its orbit - Steve Zodiac and Robert the Robot help an old man to save the planet from destruction.
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  4. S1 E4 - The Day The Earth Froze

    June 8, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    A note found in the hand of an unconscious patrol crewman leads Zodiac and his crew to a distant planet.
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  5. S1 E5 - XL5 To H20

    December 9, 1962
    25min
    TV-PG
    Sent to give aid to two survivors of a planet who are being attacked by a fish man, the crew of Fireball XL5 arrive to find the glass city of the planet destroyed and that the survivors have disappeared.
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  6. S1 E6 - Dangerous Cargo

    March 23, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    After surveying a derelict planet, Steve and his crew return to Space City and are told to return to the planet with Vesium Nine
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  7. S1 E7 - Invasion Earth

    May 25, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    When two Fireball patrol ships, sent to investigate a strange cloud in space, explode, and strange alien spaceships emerge from the cloud and land at Space City, Zodiac and his crew face mortal danger.
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  8. S1 E8 - Drama At Space City

    April 6, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Looking after Zoonie, while Steve and Venus take a well-earned holiday, Commander Zero goes into the cabin of Fireball XL-5 with the Lazoon
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  9. S1 E9 - Space Monster

    January 6, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Trying to solve the disappearance of Fireball XL-2, Zodiac and his crew receive a distress call from the planet Monotane.
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  10. S1 E10 - Robert To The Rescue

    March 16, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Sent to investigate a new planet, which suddenly appears then disappears, Fireball XL-5 is brought down by unseen forces.
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  11. S1 E11 - Space City Special

    June 22, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Returning to Space City on one of the new supersonic airlines, Venus, in the company of General Rossiter, has no idea that the vehicle's pilot, Major Todd, has been brainwashed by the Subterraneans - and intends to crash the airliner.
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  12. S1 E12 - Trial By Robot

    May 11, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    The only clue to the disappearance of robots from several planets points to the fact that wherever Professor Himber - the world's greatest authority on robots - gave lectures, robots disappeared.
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  13. S1 E13 - The Triads

    January 26, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    The crew of Fireball XL-5 are sent to investigate why nuclear explasions have taken place on the planet Triad. Crashlanding on the planet, Steve and his crew find themselves under attack by a giant tiger, but rescue is on the way in the shape of two giants, Graff and Snaff.
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  14. S1 E14 - Whistle For Danger

    May 4, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Sent to the planet Floran, to launch a bomb in the atmosphere to destroy the plant disease Planetoid 3, the crew of Fireball XL-5 are taken prisoner by two Florans, drugged and imprisoned in a tall tower.
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  15. S1 E15 - Space Vacation

    February 17, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Zodiac, Venus and the Professor land on the planet Olympus for a holiday.
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  16. S1 E16 - Forbidden Planet

    March 9, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Having discovered the planet Nutopia by using an ultrascope which can look into deep sace, Zodiac and his crew are unaware that the Nutopians plan to use their transmission devie to kidnap Venus - as their eternal companion.
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  17. S1 E17 - The Last Of The Zanadus

    January 12, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Kudos, the last inhabitant of the planet Zanadu, plans to kill all Lazoons and gives Zoonie a deadly virus.
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  18. S1 E18 - Day In The Life Of A Space General

    May 18, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    When Leiutenant 90 becomes General 90, things begin to go wrong. Steve Zodiac falls into a swamp while on holiday and General 90 orders a red alert to intercept an alien invasion.
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  19. S1 E19 - The Fire Fighters

    June 15, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    When balls of fire begin to fall on Earth from a cloud in space, the crew of Fireball XL-5 are assigned the avert the threat - a mission that ends with Zodiac risking all to save Earth from total distruction.
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  20. S1 E20 - The Flying Zodiac

    December 22, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Over dinner at Venus' house, Steve explains his family's background in the circus and Venus dreams that a charity circus is being staged at Space City.
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  21. S1 E21 - Wings Of Danger

    February 2, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    Two Subterraneans plan to kill Zodiac by using a robot bird, fitted with deadly radium capsules.
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  22. S1 E22 - 1875

    April 14, 1963
    25min
    TV-PG
    As a joke, Steve, Venus and Commander Zero enter Professor Matic's time machine - and find themselves back in 1875, in a western town.
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  23. S1 E23 - The Space Pen

    December 29, 1962
    25min
    TV-PG
    After two crooks manage to steal some isotopes from the Space City vault, Zodiac and his crew chase them to the planet Conva, where Steve tricks the crooks into thinking he is a space pirate who has stolen Fireball XL-5.
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  24. S1 E24 - The Granatoid Tanks

    April 20, 1963
    26min
    TV-PG
    About to leave the glass-surfaced Planet 73, two scientists see Granatoid tanks (hostile robots) coming towards them.
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  25. S1 E25 - The Space Immigrants

    November 10, 1962
    25min
    TV-PG
    Minodor and Minotran, a pair of evil Lillispatians, capture XL7 pilot Ken Ross as he assesses New Earth for colonisation.
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Directors

John KellyAlan PattilloBill HarrisDavid ElliottGerry Anderson

Cast

David GrahamSylvia AndersonPaul MaxwellJohn BluthalGerry Anderson

Studio

ITV Global Entertainment Ltd
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