Aqua Marina Stingray

Rehearsal of Aqua Marina from Stingray performed by the Sopranos ukulele and soprano saxophone duo.

Titan's slave girl Marina (modelled on Sylvia Anderson but believed for years to have been modelled on Brigitte Bardot), is a beautiful mute young woman who can breathe underwater. Troy Tempest is immediately smitten with Marina, and Atlanta becomes jealous. Meanwhile Titan swears revenge for Marina's betrayal. Marina becomes a regular member of Stingray's crew, and later acquires a seal pup called Oink, who features in a number of episodes.

Stingray - children's television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced from 1964ñ65. Its 39 half-hour episodes were originally screened on ITV in the UK . Barry Gray composed the music, and Derek Meddings was the special effects director.

Stingray was the first Supermarionation show to be filmed in colour, and also the first in which marionettes had interchangeable heads with different facial expressions. It was also the first British television programme to be filmed entirely in colour although Independent Television in Britain did not begin colour transmission until November 1969.

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