JOE 90: LONE-HANDED 90

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe 90: Lone-Handed 90 - British title

 

A 1968 British film production [Century 21 Television, Incorporated Television Company (ITC)

     (London)]

Producers: David Lane, Gerry Anderson

Director: Ken Turner

Story: Desmond Saunders, Keith Wilson

Teleplay: Desmond Saunders, Keith Wilson

Cinematography: Paddy Seale [color]

Music: Barry Gray

Running time: 26 minutes

 

Story: When the BIG RAT breaks down, Joe ends up falling asleep and dreams of being a gun-slinging sheriff of the town of Joesville in the wild west where he must single-handedly take on the infamous WIN gang.

 

Cast:

Puppets: Joe McClaine, Sam Loover, Sylv, Professor Ian, Doc, bank teller, Joe McClaine, Shane Weston, Slim, barman

 

‘Joe 90’ was a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company, Century 21, for ITC Entertainment. It follows the exploits of nine-year-old schoolboy Joe McClaine, who becomes a spy after his adoptive father invents a device capable of recording expert knowledge and experience and transferring it to another human brain. Armed with the skills of the world's top academic and military minds, Joe is recruited by the World Intelligence Network (WIN) as its "Most Special Agent".

First broadcast on the ITV regional franchises between 1968 and 1969, the 30-episode series was the final Anderson production to be made primarily using Supermarionation, a form of electronic marionette puppetry. The following series,’ The Secret Service’, included extensive footage of live actors. As in the preceding series, ‘Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons’, the puppets of ‘Joe 90’ are of natural body proportions rather than the caricatured design used in Thunderbirds and its precursors.

"Lone-Handed 90" is the 24th episode of the 1968–1969 British Supermarionation sci-fi television series Joe 90, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. In the episode, nine-year-old Joe falls asleep while watching a Western and dreams he is the fast-shooting sheriff of Joesville fighting an outlaw gang

Film link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDUBFtgrvjQ

 

[Submitted by Michael Ferguson]