Have You Pulled Captain Stargood’s Strings yet?

Posted by Ewan on Jul 9th, 2009 in Fun & Games | 0 comments

Legendary puppet show/spoof surfaces on the web, along with pilot episode.

There’s a certain amount of backstory behind the backstory, but the premise that a small website has re-discovered a failed US attempt to capture the Thunderbrids / Fireball XL-5 market, and i s now airing the episodes, is golden.

In the words of the site:

Like most fanboy geeks of a certain age, I was familiar with at least the “legend” of the Captain Stargood TV show, which aired for a brief period in the fall of 1963, then was unceremoniously yanked by outraged network execs after a few weeks. “Yanked” isn’t even the right word. Nuked maybe. Obliterated, torched, slashed-and-burned. I mean this show was g-o-n-e gone, save for a few fuzzy publicity stills and vague memories of those who claimed to have seen it. Sort of like Bigfoot. Or Cher before surgery.

So believe what you will, but sit back and enjoy the adventures of Captain Stargood!