Joe 90

Joe 90 is a late-1960s British science-fiction television series documenting the exploits of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine, who embarks on a double life as a schoolboy turned spy when his scientist father invents a pioneering machine capable of duplicating and transferring expert knowledge and experience to another human brain. Equipped with the skills of the foremost academic and military minds, Joe enlists in the World Intelligence Network , becoming its "Most Special Agent", pursuing the ideal of world peace and saving human life. Created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by... Century 21 Productions, the 30-episode series followed the earlier Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. First screened in the UK from September 1968 to April 1969 on the ATV network, Joe 90 was the sixth and final the Anderson production to have been made exclusively using the form of marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation". The final puppet series, The Secret Service used this process only in combination with extensive live-action filming.
more