Joe 90

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Joe 90
Image:Joe90DVD1.jpg British DVD release
Format	Supermarionation Action Adventure
Run time	25 min.
Creator	Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
Starring	Len Jones Rupert Davies
Country	UK
Network	ITV
Original run	September 1, 1968 – March 23, 1969
No. of episodes	30

Joe 90 is a 1968 Sylvia and Gerry Anderson television show concerning the adventures of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine. A single season of thirty 25 minute episodes was completed, and it was the last show to be made exclusively using a form of puppetry called "Supermarionation". It was created by Gerry Anderson's Century 21 Productions for Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment company (Grade also owned part of Century 21), and was first broadcast on Grade's ATV.

Joe's adoptive father and computer expert, Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine, invented a large computer called BIGRAT (an acronym for Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer) that allowed skills to be copied from the minds of top experts in their fields to another person. Mac's friend, Sam Loover, a secret agent for the World Intelligence Network (WIN), persuaded Mac to let Joe use the machine to work for WIN. After the requisite skill was transferred, and provided Joe was wearing special spectacles containing hidden electrodes, he was able to fly jet airplanes, perform surgery, and so on.

Like Anderson's previous series, the show regularly features rescue operations, secret worldwide organizations, complicated gadgetry, terrorism, and threats to the entire world. Notably, it was the only one of his series to assume that the Cold War would continue into the 21st century. The show featured a distinctive theme tune composed by Barry Gray, who also composed music for other Anderson productions.

Episode List

• The Most Special Agent
• Hi-jacked
• Splashdown
• Operation McClaine
• Three's a Crowd
• International Concerto
• Big Fish
• The Unorthodox Shepherd
• Relative Danger
• Business Holiday
• King For a Day
• Double Agent
• Most Special Astronaut
• Arctic Adventure
• The Fortress
• Colonel McClaine
• Project 90
• The Race
• The Professional
• Lone Handed 90
• Attack of The Tiger
• Talkdown
• Breakout
• Mission X-41
• Test Flight
• Child of The Sun God
• Trial At Sea
• Viva Cordova
• See You Down There
• The Birthday

External links

• FANDERSON The official Gerry Anderson appreciation society site.
• http://www.bigrat.co.uk
• British Film Institute Screen Online