Fireball XL5 - Planets

Planets

Many episodes of Fireball XL5 were set on exotic planets:

• Amazonia – a planet mentioned in the episode Prisoner on the Lost Planet as being a member of the United Planets Organization alongside Earth and which had banished its mad queen to an unnamed planet of active volcanoes.
• Aridan - the desert planet that once had water but is now an arid wilderness seen in the episode "Space Pirates"
• Suventa – an ice-planet that is home to an unnamed brain-creature which hopes to use hypnotic satellites to take control of the universe.
• Conva – a regularly featured planet first introduced in the episode "Space Pen" as a planetwide prison for criminals and featured prominently in the episode "Convict in Space", in which one of its convicts escapes.
• Granatoid – home of the Granatoid robots who appear in "The Granatoid Tanks" and described (though not seen) as having a completely technocratic society, led by a robot voiced by an uncredited Gerry Anderson.
• Granvenia – a planet mentioned as the destination of fuel tankers that are being diverted to the planet Suventa in the episode "Hypnotic Sphere".
• Hedera – a planet rich in plant life that was visited in the episode "Plant Man from Space" and home of a rampant strain of Ivy called Hedera helixa.
• Herbos – a jungle planet seen briefly in the episode "Last of the Zanadus".
• Magneton – a planet visited in the episode "Space Magnet" and inhabited by the invisible Solars.
• Membrono – a planet that was destroyed in the episode "The Doomed Planet".
• Minerra - a planet rich in radioactive minerals needed for earth resources seen in the episode "Space Pirates"
• Mirana – a perpetually burning planet seen in the episode "Hypnotic Sphere".
• Monotane – a desert planet inhabited by a space monster in "Space Monster".
• New Earth – a planet with a thin atmosphere and little gravity that was to be colonised by the crew of the spaceship Mayflower-3 in the episode Space Immigrants until spaceship Fireball XL7, sent out to prepare for the arrival of the Mayflower-3, was captured by megalomaniacal aliens.
• Planet 46 – home of the Subterrains and a barren planet with an oxygen atmosphere; introduced in the pilot episode Planet 46 and appearing in numerous other episodes.
• Planet 73 – a planet colonised by Earth and attacked by the Granatoids in the episode The Granatoid Tanks.
• Planet 82 – a planet renamed Robotvia by Professor Al Himber.
• Platonia – a planet featured in the episode Planet of Platonia and revealed to be rich in Platinum and inhabited by silver-skinned aliens who eat 23-course meals. A trade agreement with Earth had created a power-struggle on the planet, which the XL5 crew was sent to calm.
• Rajusca - A desert planet featured in the episode Sun Temple, in which the Earth is attacked by sun worshipping Rajuscans living in the desert.
• Triad – a planet featured in the episode, The Triads, which is almost identical to earth in every way, except for being three times its size. Consequently, everything on it, plants, people, animals, etc. is three times the size it is on earth, also. The gigantic human inhabitants are friendly, but are at least 100 years behind earth technologically and were just attempting their fist space launches when the crew of the XL5 visited.
• Zanadu – a planet that featured a mysterious temple in the episode Last of the Zanadus
• Zofeit – a planet whose inhabitants, the Zofeits,were almost wiped out (only two males surviving) by a lone alien in the episode XL5 to H20. The crew of XL5 rescued the two survivors, who were evacuated to Earth.