Charlie E. wrote:   
   > Doug Freyburger  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Lost in Space is fun and campy but was it really any more important than   
   >>Fireball XL-5 ...   
   >   
   > Well, Fireball was childrens TV, on saturday mornings IIRC. (Yes, I   
   > had a toy XL-5!)   
      
   Lost in Space was openly marketed to children when it was in first run.    
   I remember that their marketing worked on me when I was a kid.  Some   
   show in addition to Star Trek!  By their fourth season even I lost   
   interest.   
      
   The fact that Lost in Space led the way to the funding for other series   
   is something I had not looked at.   
      
   Fireball XL-5 (I had a lunchbox back in the day) was a poineer of puppet   
   shows.  Maybe Supercar came before it?  Stingray was okay.  Thunderbirds   
   was enough of a franchise that it even got a feature film about a decade   
   ago.  The poineers series is about US TV.  I first saw all of the puppet   
   series on Canadian TV.   
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