Joe 90
| Joe 90 | |
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| Also known as | 'The Adventures of Joe 90 (United Kingdom) |
| Genre | Action, adventure, children's, science fiction, spy-fi |
| Created by |
Gerry Anderson Sylvia Anderson |
| Written by |
Tony Barwick Donald James Shane Rimmer |
| Voices of |
Len Jones Rupert Davies Keith Alexander David Healy Sylvia Anderson Gary Files Martin King Jeremy Wilkin Shane Rimmer |
| Composer(s) | Barry Gray |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 30 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Reg Hill |
| Producer(s) | David Lane |
| Cinematography | Julien Lugrin and Paddy Seale |
| Camera setup | Single |
| Running time | 25 minutes approx. |
| Production company(s) | Century 21 Television |
| Distributor | ITC Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | ATV |
| Picture format | Film (35 mm) |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | 29 September 1968 – 20 April 1969 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons |
| Followed by | The Secret Service |
| Joe 90 (Original Television Soundtrack) |
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| Soundtrack album by Barry Gray | |
| Released | 15 May 2006 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 78:07 |
| Label | Silva Screen Records |
Joe 90 is a 1960s British science-fiction television series that follows the adventures of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine, who starts a double life as a schoolchild-turned-superspy after his scientist father invents a device capable of duplicating expert knowledge and experience and transferring it to a human brain. Equipped with the skills of the foremost academic and military minds, Joe is recruited by the World Intelligence Network (WIN) and, as its "Most Special Agent", pursues the objective of world peace and saving human life. Created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by Century 21 Productions, the 30-episode series followed Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
First broadcast in the UK between September 1968 and April 1969 on the ATV network, Joe 90 was the sixth and final of the Andersons' productions to be made exclusively using the form of marionette puppetry termed "Supermarionation". Their final puppet series, The Secret Service, used this process only in combination with extensive live-action filming. As in the case of its antecedent, Captain Scarlet, the puppets of Joe 90 are of natural proportions as opposed to the more caricatured design of the characters of Thunderbirds.
Although not as successful as Century 21's previous efforts, since its inception, Joe 90 has been praised, among other aspects, for the level of characterisation of its smaller puppet cast and the quality of its model sets and special effects. Critics have interpreted Joe 90's spy-fi theme and the choice of a child character as the protagonist as either a "kids play Bond" concept or an enshrinement of children's powers of imagination. Points of criticism range from the violence depicted in a number of episodes to the absence of female characters, which is interpreted either as the inevitable result of the series' composition as a "boy's own adventure" or as being tantamount to sexism.
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