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Joe 90 is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company, Century 21, for ITC Entertainment.It follows the exploits of nine-year-old schoolboy Joe McClaine, who becomes a spy after his adoptive father invents a device capable of recording expert knowledge and experience and transferring it to another human brain.
Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine completes his work on the revolutionary BIG RAT, to the interest of his friend (and WIN agent) Sam Loover. Introducing the McClaines to WIN, commander-in-chief Shane Weston contrives a mission in which Joe 90 steals a new Russian fighter-bomber to prevent an arms race between the East and West.
The same year, footage from the episode was used in Joe 90-themed TV advertisements for Kellogg's Sugar Smacks breakfast cereal. [6] In 1981, ITC's New York offices combined "The Most Special Agent" and three other episodes to create The Amazing Adventures of Joe 90, a made-for-TV Joe 90 compilation film. [6]
Professor McClaine, Joe 90 and Sam Loover (voiced by Rupert Davies, Len Jones and Keith Alexander) are assigned to investigate and travel to the Reverend's village. Equipped with the brain pattern of a World Bank vice president, Joe determines that all of the bills have been printed recently even though the plates were destroyed in a fire many ...
"Hi-jacked" is the second episode of Joe 90, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 for ITC Entertainment. Written by Tony Barwick and directed by Alan Perry, it was first broadcast on 20 October 1968 on Associated Television and Tyne Tees Television .
This was the puppet's third outing in Joe 90, following appearances as Dr Loover in "Relative Danger" and Sir George Harris in "Trial at Sea". A prop comic book seen being read by Joe at the start of the episode features a miniature reproduction of the front cover of TV21 (issue 183, dated July 1968), published by Century 21 Productions' sister ...
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