Stingray (TV Series) - Re-appearances

Re-appearances

In 1980 and 1981 two compilation TV movies were made for the US market, airing on American television as part of an ITC Entertainment package of "movies" called Super Space Theater; this practice was common at the time for many of Gerry Anderson's series. The first one released in 1980, entitled The Incredible Voyage of Stingray was made up of the episodes "Stingray", "Plant Of Doom", "Count Down" and "The Master Plan". A year later in 1981 another compilation this time entitled Invaders from the Deep featured the episodes "Hostages of the Deep", "The Big Gun", "Emergency Marineville" and "Deep Heat".

On 24 November (Thanksgiving Day) 1988, Invaders of the Deep was featured as the first broadcast episode of movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

In the UK, ITV broadcast repeats of the entire series during 1988, from the original film prints. BBC2 subsequently repeated the series in 1992, having first obtained new prints from the master negatives. However, these had been re-edited by ITC to substitute new opening credits, identified by an incorrect copyright date of 1964 (instead of 1962, as on the original prints) in a wholesale substitution of the "red" version of the opening titles, originally used only in later episodes, on all the first season episodes from 1962. This error has since been perpetuated by repeating the error in the DVD releases. Stingray was also transmitted on Sky One from 2002 to 2003.

In the United States, the Sci-Fi Channel broadcast some episodes of Stingray in the early 1990s, as part of Sci-Fi Cartoon Quest.

On 2 January 2008, a new episode, called "The Reunion Party" (running time 30 minutes), was broadcast on BBC4 in the UK as part of "Thunderbirds Night". This episode was assembled by Gerry Anderson from recently discovered linking material shot in 1965, and takes the form of a new compilation episode (featuring footage from the episodes "Stingray", "An Echo of Danger" and "Emergency Marineville"). The linking material was originally filmed in order to showcase those episodes to potential overseas buyers of the series, but was never in fact used. The date of 1965 makes it the last footage ever filmed for Stingray, being shot after completion of filming on the 1964 series. The unassembled version of "The Reunion Party" appeared as an extra on the Stingray DVD boxset.