Joe 90

According to Gerry Anderson, the plot of Joe 90 was based around Gerry's pre-Supermarionation days when he served as an assistant editor for such films as The Wicked Lady (1945), handling recording tape on a daily basis. While pondering on the blanking and re-use of such tape, Anderson made a connection to the human brain's electrical activities, as he would later explain, "I read somewhere that the human brain is controlled by electrical impulses and how thoughts are stored electronically. I started toying with the story potential of a process that would allow the recording of brain patterns and transferring them to another brain. I was really likening it to magnetic recording, where material could be stored or transferred to another tape."

Several episodes were later re-edited into the made-for-video "movie," The Amazing Adventures of Joe 90 (1981).

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