Lavender Castle
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| Genre |
Adventure Children's Fantasy Science fiction |
| Created by |
Gerry Anderson Rodney Matthews |
| Written by | Gerry Anderson Chris Bowden Pauline Fisk Craig Hemmings Rodney Matthews Chris Trengove |
| Directed by | Chris Taylor |
| Voices of |
Kate Harbour Jimmy Hibbert David Holt Rob Rackstraw |
| Composer(s) | Crispin Merrell |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Brian Cosgrove Craig Hemmings |
| Producer(s) | Gerry Anderson |
| Camera setup | Single |
| Running time | 10 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Cosgrove Hall Films HIT Entertainment Gerry Anderson Productions Carrington Productions International |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | 7 January 1999 – 9 March 2000 |
Lavender Castle (also known as Gerry Anderson's Lavender Castle) is a British stop motion/CGI television series created by Rodney Matthews and produced by Gerry Anderson. It was produced in 1997 through a collaboration between Carrington Productions International, Cosgrove Hall Films and The Current UNNUFO Cartoons Company and was first broadcast on CITV between 1999 and 2000.
The series follows the story of Captain Thrice and his crew, on a quest to find the peaceful city of Lavender Castle before the evil Dr. Agon.
Lavender Castle is a place of mystery and legend, fabled throughout the universe, a floating city of light, a place of peace, harmony and all the things that have ever been dreamt of. It is the centre of the universe and the greatest source of power - should it be destroyed, the universe would be plunged into darkness forever. Evil scientist Dr Agon plans to do just that. A lonely megalomaniac with technology-assisted powers of transmutation, he yearns for darkness and has pledged to destroy Lavender Castle from his fortress spaceship, the Dark Station, the most destructive power in the universe, crewed by unseen slaves working deep in the bowels.
In order to prevent this, Captain Thrice has set out on a quest to find the elusive Lavender Castle before Dr Agon. A previous encounter with Lavender Castle gave life to Thrice's walking stick and left the Captain with a special knowledge of its power and abilities. Travelling in his cottage spaceship, the Paradox, Thrice assembles a crew of misfits to join him in his quest, combatting evil wherever they find it as they travel the universe searching for clues that will lead them to Lavender Castle. But Lavender Castle works in mysterious ways and lends its power to the Paradox crew to protect them when they most need help.
Captain Thrice: the wise, elderly three-eyed captain of the Paradox, always accompanied by his talking, sentient Walking Stick. Years before, he fortuitously came across Lavender Castle during his space travels, and is since that time bent on finding it anew to try to protect it from Dr. Agon's evil schemes.
Isambard: Captain Thrice's first mate and engineer, in charge of the Paradox 's engines. A brilliant mechanic, his methods are however rather unorthodox (for instance, whacking the central engine with his hammer to make it work is always a viable solution for him). He is very proud of his position and refers to the Paradox 's engine as his "baby". He also invented many gadgets in the past; "some of them even work", according to him.
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