Fireball XL5 Logo 'Flying Zodiac'
by Anthony Marriott
Fireball XL5 Crew

Steve Zodiac celebrates the two hundredth anniversary of his family’s first performance on a circus flying trapeze by having dinner with Venus and Matt. While Steve and Matt make coffee, Venus gazes into a crystal ball and falls asleep, dreaming of a plot devised by Mr and Mrs Space Spy and the nomadic Monadians to take over the Earth…

Paul Maxwell (Colonel Steve Zodiac / Tannoy), Sylvia Anderson (Doctor Venus / Griselda Space Spy), David Graham (Professor Matt Matic / Lieutenant 90 / Zoony the Lazoon / Boris Space Spy), John Bluthal (Commander Zero / Jock Campbell / Caravan Leader / Captain Ken Johnson), Gerry Anderson (Robert the Robot)

Directed by Bill Harris
Produced by Gerry Anderson
Associate Producer Reg Hill


TX (UK - ITV):
20th May 1963

Notes:
*Featuring Colonel Steve Zodiac, Venus, Professor Matt Matic, Commander Zero, Lieutenant 90 and Robert the Robot