Y SF is 4 Children - Robin Bright - Bog

The World Space Patrol wasn¿t there to defend the World Trade Centre on 9/11. 2001. Of course, Colonel Steve Zodiac of the WSP¿s Fireball XL5 would have been there to defend the world if he could, but science fiction is for children, rather than against. In Episode 11 of the ¿Supermarionation¿ puppet TV series, Fireball XL5 (1962-3), created by English husband and wife team of animators, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and filmed by their Century 21 Productions for distribution by ITC Entertainment, Steve Zodiac, piloting XL5 in the year 2062, is an electronic marionette, called a ¿doll¿ in the United States of America, with mouth movements synchronized to voice actor Paul Maxwell¿s pre-recorded dialogue, was looking for the missing XL2 in ¿Space Monster¿, aired January 6th, 1963. As Century 21¿s was a style of production suited to ¿the events of 9/11¿, that is, large scale, small budget, disaster movies in which models were destroyed to provide the backdrop for a theatre of puppet actors speaking lines already written for them by forces they couldn¿t control, XL2¿s absence from the 9/11 picture, as production code # 9 of 11 episodes, that is, 9/11, was significant.