"Supercar" was a show that I watched in the early sixties. I believe it was on early Sunday evenings-though I could easily be wrong about that. It seems like pretty much every show I watched was either on Friday night, Saturday morning, or Sunday evening.
I remember three things about this show. First, the car was totally awesome. The astounding sequence at the beginning said it all. Who wouldn't want one of those?
Second, I remember the ATV symbol at the very end of the show. ATV, I gather, was the production company in Great Britain that hatched these shows. Why this stands out in my mind, I have no idea.
But the third and most important thing I remember about this show, was that everything in between those first two things, totally creeped me out. The "stars" of this show were a bunch of puppets- marionettes actually. The producers called this "supemarionation", which I believe is Latin for "puppets that scare the crap out of you".
Below is part of the first episode. Watch it and see if you don't keep your Dad awake with all those "bad thoughts" that haunt you at bedtime. I would say, "Enjoy", but I know better.
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