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s last known position and makes visual contact with the galleon, which does not respond to Troy's hails. Shore and Phones board the ship and find its upper decks deserted. However, they fail to notice a platform built into one of the floors and are lowered into a watertight section in bowels of the
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The series follows the missions of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP), an organisation responsible for policing the Earth's oceans in the 2060s. Headquartered at the self-contained city of Marineville on the West Coast of North America, the WASP operates a fleet of vessels led by
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into the galleon. Idotee, Shore and Phones collapse into hysterics and pass out, while Troy, who has swallowed a pill to negate the gas's effects, kicks the cannon aside just before it shoots Shore and Phones.
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Law also praises the flute music that accompanies the first appearance of the galleon, describing the piece as "unforgettable" and arguing that it "perfectly encapsulates the whole series." Anthony Clark of
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ship, where they are met by an undersea pirate called Idotee. Holding them at gunpoint, Idotee explains that he converted the galleon into a submarine and used its cannons to sink
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Idotee tells Shore to radio Troy and instruct him to come aboard, but Shore disobeys and instead orders Troy to attack the galleon. Troy is unwilling to do either and submerges
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Although Idotee is named in the script, the character does not identify himself in dialogue, instead telling Shore and Phones that his name is "of no consequence".
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s adventures bring it into contact with undersea civilisations – some friendly, others hostile – as well as mysterious natural phenomena. In "The Ghost Ship", the
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crew take Idotee into custody and return to Marineville. Shore decides not to punish Troy for his insubordination, instead thanking him for his bravery.
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to evade the furious Idotee's cannon fire. Submerging the galleon, Idotee threatens to kill Shore and Phones unless Troy surrenders.
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in London with a 30-piece orchestra. Music for "The Golden Sea" was recorded in the same session.
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disappears at sea. Her last radio transmission – in which the crew reported seeing an old
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in 1992 and a comic strip in 1993. The strip was published over three issues of
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contained air, and that Troy has unsealed the other, which is now releasing
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Law, Vincent (2009). Farrell, Richard (ed.). "Bizarre Love Triangle".
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was composed from 16 to 22 October 1963 and recorded on 25 October at
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describes the episode's incidental music as "spine-tingling stuff".
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of Idotee, revealing him to be more than 200 "marine years" old.
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into them. However, he is unaware that only one of Troy's two
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The Complete Gerry Anderson: The Authorised Episode Guide
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while investigating the disappearance of an ocean liner.
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Forced to comply, Troy puts on a diving suit and exits
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department under the supervision of effects director
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Index

Stingray
Desmond Saunders
Alan Fennell
John Read
David Graham
Emergency Marineville
Subterranean Sea
List of episodes
Stingray
Supermarionation
Gerry
Sylvia Anderson
AP Films
ITC Entertainment
Alan Fennell
Desmond Saunders
Anglia
ATV London
Border
Grampian
Southern
ITV network
ATV Midlands
Channel
Westward
galleon
galleon
harpoons
diving cylinders
laughing gas

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