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Supercar

All Episodes 1961 - 1962

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  • 1961-01-28T00:00:00Z
  • 25m
  • 16h 14m (39 episodes)
  • Gerry Anderson
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis's AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. 39 episodes were produced between 1961 and 1962, and it was Anderson's first half-hour series. In the UK it was seen on ITV and in the US in syndication. The format uses puppets in a technique called supermarionation, a name that was first seen in the closing titles of the last 13 episodes. The plot of the show consisted of Supercar, a vertical takeoff and landing craft invented by Rudolph Popkiss and Horatio Beaker, and piloted by Mike Mercury. On land it rode on a cushion of air rather than wheels. Jets in the rear allowed it to fly like a jet and retractable wings were incorporated in the back of the car. Retrorockets on the side of the car slowed the vehicle. The car used "Clear-Vu", which included an inside television monitor allowing the occupant to see through fog and smoke. The vehicle was housed in a laboratory and living facility at Black Rock, Nevada, U.S.A. In the show's first episode, "Rescue", the Supercar crew's first mission is to save the passengers of a downed private plane. Two of the rescued, young Jimmy Gibson and his pet monkey, Mitch, are invited to live at the facility and share in the adventures.

39 episodes

Series Premiere

1961-01-28T00:00:00Z

1x01 Rescue

Series Premiere

1x01 Rescue

  • 1961-01-28T00:00:00Z25m

Jimmy Gibson and his older brother Bill are flying to America by plane with Mitch the monkey when their plane crashes. The Air Sea Rescue team can find no trace of their life raft through the dense fog, but at Black Rock Laboratory, the newly-completed Supercar is ready to be put to the test and Mike Mercury flies out to rescue the trio.

1961-02-04T00:00:00Z

1x02 False Alarm

1x02 False Alarm

  • 1961-02-04T00:00:00Z25m

Masterspy and Zarin use a phony distress call to lure Supercar to them, and after they have Mike captured and drugged, who will be able to stop them from making off with the super vehicle?

1961-02-11T00:00:00Z

1x03 The Talisman of Sargon

1x03 The Talisman of Sargon

  • 1961-02-11T00:00:00Z25m

With Dr. Beaker's unwitting help, Masterspy locates and steals the legendary lost talisman of Sargon, which supposedly has magical powers that will allow him to take over an oil sheik's riches.

1961-02-18T00:00:00Z

1x04 What Goes Up

1x04 What Goes Up

  • 1961-02-18T00:00:00Z25m

An Air Force test to explode a new rocket fuel in the upper atmosphere goes awry, and only Supercar has a chance of getting close enough to detonate it before it falls back to earth.

1961-02-25T00:00:00Z

1x05 Amazonian Adventure

1x05 Amazonian Adventure

  • 1961-02-25T00:00:00Z25m

When Mitch the monkey falls ill with sleeping sickness, Mike and Dr. Beaker head for the Amazon jungle to retrieve a special plant that can cure him, but they are captured by a tribe of headhunters.

1961-03-04T00:00:00Z

1x06 Grounded

1x06 Grounded

  • 1961-03-04T00:00:00Z25m

When sabotage keeps Mike from pursuing two thieves via the skies, he continues to follow them using his vehicle as an ordinary car.

1961-03-11T00:00:00Z

1x07 Keep It Cool

1x07 Keep It Cool

  • 1961-03-11T00:00:00Z25m

Bill Gibson and Beaker come under attack by Masterspy as they are transporting an experimental new fuel across the desert. Mike must rescue them before the volatile fuel warms up past its freezing point and explodes.

1961-03-18T00:00:00Z

1x08 Jungle Hazard

1x08 Jungle Hazard

  • 1961-03-18T00:00:00Z24m

Masterspy tries to take over an old rubber plantation in Malaysia, not realizing that the girl who now owns the estate is Beaker's cousin, and she has obtained the assistance of Mike and Supercar.

1961-03-25T00:00:00Z

1x09 High Tension

1x09 High Tension

  • 1961-03-25T00:00:00Z25m

Masterspy kidnaps Dr. Beaker and tries to make off with Supercar, but he gets a nasty shock when he finds out that Mike can take over part of the vehicle's operation by remote control.

1961-03-31T23:00:00Z

1x10 Island Incident

1x10 Island Incident

  • 1961-03-31T23:00:00Z25m

Supercar's underwater capabilities come in handy when Mike receives a call for help from the deposed president of the island nation of Pelota.

1961-04-07T23:00:00Z

1x11 Ice-Fall

1x11 Ice-Fall

  • 1961-04-07T23:00:00Z25m

Exploring a frozen waterfall in an underground mountain cavern, Beaker is trapped by an avalanche. Can Supercar's powerful engines melt the ice in time to save him?

1961-04-14T23:00:00Z

1x12 Phantom Piper

1x12 Phantom Piper

  • 1961-04-14T23:00:00Z25m

Mike and his friends go to Scotland to solve the mystery of a castle's phantom bagpiper and keep a woman from being swindled out of a valuable gem.

1961-04-21T23:00:00Z

1x13 Pirate Plunder

1x13 Pirate Plunder

  • 1961-04-21T23:00:00Z25m

Black Morgan, a descendant of the infamous pirate, has been plundering cruise ships in the Pacific, and Supercar is the only vessel that can match his speed. But then he threatens to blow up a group of hostages with a torpedo if Mike tries to stop him.

1961-04-28T23:00:00Z

1x14 A Little Art

1x14 A Little Art

  • 1961-04-28T23:00:00Z25m

When a painting he just bought is stolen from Dr. Beaker, he discovers that it contained a clue to the secret hiding place of a forger's plates for printing counterfeit money.

1961-05-05T23:00:00Z

1x15 Flight of Fancy

1x15 Flight of Fancy

  • 1961-05-05T23:00:00Z25m

Jimmy has a dream in which he and Mitch use Supercar to rescue a princess.

1961-05-12T23:00:00Z

1x16 Deep Seven

1x16 Deep Seven

  • 1961-05-12T23:00:00Z24m

On a test dive to the sea floor, Supercar has engine trouble and then becomes entangled in the cable of an unexploded mine.

1961-05-19T23:00:00Z

1x17 Hostage

1x17 Hostage

  • 1961-05-19T23:00:00Z25m

While Dr. Beaker is on vacation in Ireland, two men kidnap a girl and force him to call Mike Mercury for help.

1961-05-26T23:00:00Z

1x18 The Sunken Temple

1x18 The Sunken Temple

  • 1961-05-26T23:00:00Z25m

Mike and Beaker help a history professor excavate an underwater cavern, but they are unprepared to encounter a stolen safe full of money and a falling statue.

1961-06-02T23:00:00Z

1x19 The Lost City

1x19 The Lost City

  • 1961-06-02T23:00:00Z25m

Forced off course on its way to the South Pole, Supercar is forced to land in the ruins of an ancient city, where its passengers discover the secret hideout of a mad scientist who is planning to destroy Washington D.C. with a guided missile.

1961-06-09T23:00:00Z

1x20 Trapped in the Depths

1x20 Trapped in the Depths

  • 1961-06-09T23:00:00Z25m

Mike takes Supercar deep into the ocean to rescue scientists trapped in a bathyscaphe on the sea floor.

1961-06-16T23:00:00Z

1x21 Dragon of Ho Meng

1x21 Dragon of Ho Meng

  • 1961-06-16T23:00:00Z25m

When a typhoon forces Supercar down near an island temple guarded by Ho Meng, the man thinks it is some kind of dragon until his daughter is kidnapped and he gets to see Supercar in action.

1961-06-23T23:00:00Z

1x22 Magic Carpet

1x22 Magic Carpet

  • 1961-06-23T23:00:00Z25m

The Supercar team goes to Kirikan, an isolated kingdom in southern Asia, on a mission to deliver medical supplies to save a prince's life, but their efforts are thwarted by an attempted coup.

1961-06-30T23:00:00Z

1x23 Supercar "Take One"

1x23 Supercar "Take One"

  • 1961-06-30T23:00:00Z25m

When the team uses a newly-acquired movie camera to document Supercar's abilities, the film accidentally falls into the hands of some spies, so Mike and crew have to fly to New York to retrieve it.

1961-07-07T23:00:00Z

1x24 Crash Landing

1x24 Crash Landing

  • 1961-07-07T23:00:00Z25m

When engine trouble forces Supercar to land in the African jungle, the first night goes well until Mike and Dr. Beaker wake up to find Mitch missing.

1961-07-14T23:00:00Z

1x25 The Tracking of Masterspy

1x25 The Tracking of Masterspy

  • 1961-07-14T23:00:00Z25m

Pretending to be a reporter, Masterspy manages to steal the secret plans for Supercar, or so he thinks. Mike has actually allowed him to steal a tracking device that will allow Supercar to follow him back to his hideout.

Season Finale

1961-08-05T23:00:00Z

1x26 The White Line

Season Finale

1x26 The White Line

  • 1961-08-05T23:00:00Z25m

Baffled by a series of armored car robberies, Scotland Yard calls in he Supercar team, but when Dr. Beaker decides to take the wheel for the next delivery, he is unaware that he is headed for a deadly trap.

Season Premiere

1962-02-02T00:00:00Z

2x01 The Runaway Train

Season Premiere

2x01 The Runaway Train

  • 1962-02-02T00:00:00Z25m

When Masterspy sabotages an experimental nuclear powered train in an attempt to kill Dr. Beaker, Mike's only chance to save him is to use an untested magnet designed to grab small vehicles.

1962-02-11T00:00:00Z

2x02 Precious Cargo

2x02 Precious Cargo

  • 1962-02-11T00:00:00Z25m

Professor Popkiss orders a special cooking wine from France, but when the crate arrives everyone gets quite a surprise from its contents - there's a girl inside.

1962-02-18T00:00:00Z

2x03 Operation Superstork

2x03 Operation Superstork

  • 1962-02-18T00:00:00Z25m

When Mitch unties a rope that is securing the Professor's latest project, a gas-filled balloon, it takes off with Mike, Jimmy, and Dr. Beaker aboard. So it appars to be up to Professor Popkiss to fly Supercar to their rescue.

1962-02-25T00:00:00Z

2x04 Hi-Jack

2x04 Hi-Jack

  • 1962-02-25T00:00:00Z25m

What at first seems a simple job training airplane pilots turns into a situation where Supercar must stop Masterspy and Zarin from taking over an airliner in mid flight.

1962-03-04T00:00:00Z

2x05 Calling Charlie Queen

2x05 Calling Charlie Queen

  • 1962-03-04T00:00:00Z26m

Answering a distress call, Mike and Beaker find that a Professor Karloff plans to take over America by reducing all its citizens to miniature size, but then find themselves on the wrong end of his shrinking ray.

1962-03-11T00:00:00Z

2x06 Space for Mitch

2x06 Space for Mitch

  • 1962-03-11T00:00:00Z25m

Mike must take Supercar into oribt to rescue his pet monkey Mitch, who has accidentally launched himself in a rocket to outer space.

1962-03-18T00:00:00Z

2x07 Atomic Witch Hunt

2x07 Atomic Witch Hunt

  • 1962-03-18T00:00:00Z25m

On the hunt for the person who engineered the planting of atomic bombs all over the United States, the Supercar team find themselves captured by the culprit, a villainous sheriff.

1962-03-25T00:00:00Z

2x08 70-B-Lo

2x08 70-B-Lo

  • 1962-03-25T00:00:00Z25m

Professor Popkiss comes down with appendicitis. After the operation, Mike has to fly to the Arctic to get the closest blood donor who has Professor Popkiss's blood type.

1962-03-31T23:00:00Z

2x09 The Sky's the Limit

2x09 The Sky's the Limit

  • 1962-03-31T23:00:00Z25m

Masterspy's latest plan to gain possession of Supercar is to offer to buy it outright - using counterfeit money.

1962-04-07T23:00:00Z

2x10 Jail Break

2x10 Jail Break

  • 1962-04-07T23:00:00Z25m

A helicopter arrives at Black Rock carrying criminals who have broken out of prison and demand at gunpoint that Supercar fly them to a safe haven in Mexico.

2x11 The Day That Time Stood Still

  • 1962-04-14T23:00:00Z25m

In the middle of Mike's birthday party, a stranger from outer space arrives and freezes time for everyone but Mike.

1962-04-21T23:00:00Z

2x12 Transatlantic Cable

2x12 Transatlantic Cable

  • 1962-04-21T23:00:00Z25m

The Supercar team discovers that Masterspy has tapped a transatlantic cable, and is able to use this to track him back to his underwater lair.

Season Finale

1962-04-28T23:00:00Z

2x13 King Kool

Season Finale

2x13 King Kool

  • 1962-04-28T23:00:00Z25m

Mitch switchs places with a musical gorilla.

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