List of Stingray episodes
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This is an episode guide for the Gerry Anderson television series Stingray, which was made for the British production company ITC Entertainment and first aired between 1964 and 1965 on ATV Midlands. Episodes are listed in original ATV Midlands broadcast order. The home release was in order of production.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate | Production number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Stingray" | 4 October 1964 | 1 |
| When a World Navy submarine is mysteriously destroyed, Troy and Phones are assigned to investigate. However, they are soon captured by the Aquaphibians and sentenced to life imprisonment in the undersea penal complex of Aqautraz by Titan of Titanica. | |||
| 2 | "Emergency Marineville" | 11 October 1964 | 11 |
| A series of unsuccessful missile attacks against Marineville leads to the Stingray crew having to sabotage the culprits' attempt to evade WASP's interceptor rockets. | |||
| 3 | "The Ghost Ship" | 18 October 1964 | 8 |
| Commander Shore and Phones are held hostage by a plundering villain. Will Troy find a way to rescue to his friends before he is forced to destroy Idotee's antiquated Spanish galleon with them inside? | |||
| 4 | "Subterranean Sea" | 25 October 1964 | 12 |
| The Stingray crew brave the perils of a newly-discovered underground sea when their leave is cancelled. | |||
| 5 | "The Loch Ness Monster" | 1 November 1964 | 13 |
| Troy, Phones and Atlanta are sent to Scotland to solve the mystery of Nessie once and for all. | |||
| 6 | "Set Sail for Adventure" | 8 November 1964 | 30 |
| A storm injures an admiral on his sailing vessel, causing him to lose his memory and crazily turn his cannons on Stingray. | |||
| 7 | "The Man from the Navy" | 15 November 1964 | 19 |
| Agent X-2-Zero sabotages a Navy Captain's test missile by loading it with real explosives. Facing a court-martial at the hands of Commander Shore, it is up to Troy to prove the man's innocence. | |||
| 8 | "An Echo of Danger" | 22 November 1964 | 25 |
| Agent X-2-Zero plots to damage Phones's reliability by creating false underwater soundings. | |||
| 9 | "Raptures of the Deep" | 29 November 1964 | 16 |
| Troy's dwindling air supply causes him to black out while on a rescue mission. Delirious, he dreams about life in a fantasy world where his friends are his loyal servants. | |||
| 10 | "Titan Goes Pop" | 6 December 1964 | 29 |
| Agent X-2-Zero kidnaps a pop star visiting Marineville and brings him before Titan as hostage. | |||
| 11 | "In Search of the Tajmanon" | 13 December 1964 | 28 |
| Troy and Phones encounter an old enemy when they try to find the submerged temple of Tajmanon in Africa. | |||
| 12 | "A Christmas to Remember" | 20 December 1964 | 37 |
| While Troy decides to help the orphaned son of a dead WASP aquanaut at Christmas, Phones is captured by an enemy warrior and impelled to set up a trap for his comrade. | |||
| 13 | "Tune of Danger" | 27 December 1964 | 31 |
| Agent X-2-Zero makes plans to ruin a jazz group's performance in Marina's father's home undersea city with a bomb. | |||
| 14 | "The Ghost of the Sea" | 3 January 1965 | 10 |
| Commander Shore relives the ordeal that left him paralysed when construction on a new mining rig is completed. | |||
| 15 | "Rescue from the Skies" | 10 January 1965 | 32 |
| Troy must be lowered onto Stingray from the air after Agent X-2-Zero plants a bomb on the craft's hull while a lieutenant uses it for target practice. | |||
| 16 | "The Lighthouse Dwellers" | 17 January 1965 | 38 |
| Troy and Phones investigate after a light emitting from a disused lighthouse confuses a pilot and causes him to crash his aircraft. | |||
| 17 | "The Big Gun" | 24 January 1965 | 6 |
| After Stingray destroys two attacking submarines, Troy, Phones and Marina stumble across their source - the underwater city of Solarstar. Will they be able to foil the Solistans plot to obliterate the West Coast of America? | |||
| 18 | "The Cool Caveman" | 31 January 1965 | 33 |
| While asleep, Troy dreams of a meeting between him and a group of undersea cavemen who have looted the cargo of a vessel ferrying radioactive material. | |||
| 19 | "Deep Heat" | 7 February 1965 | 27 |
| Venturing into the base of a volcano to investigate the disappearance of a robotic probe, Troy and Phones are captured by two survivors of a ruined city. | |||
| 20 | "Star of the East" | 14 February 1965 | 24 |
| An Eastern dictator called El Hudat wishes to join the World Aquanaut Security Patrol - but kidnaps Marina after he is overthrown in his home country. | |||
| 21 | "Invisible Enemy" | 21 February 1965 | 26 |
| Troy and Phones save an unconscious man - unaware that he is trying to leave Marineville open to attack by subduing personnel with a self-induced hyptnotic trance. | |||
| 22 | "Tom Thumb Tempest" | 28 February 1965 | 21 |
| Troy falls asleep in the Stand-By Room and dreams about shrinking in size and witnessing a meeting between the undersea races in which they finalise their plans for destroying Marineville. | |||
| 23 | "Eastern Eclipse" | 7 March 1965 | 36 |
| Agent X-2-Zero frees the wicked former dictator El Hudat from the Marineville brig by replacing him with his twin brother. | |||
| 24 | "Treasure Down Below" | 14 March 1965 | 5 |
| Stingray becomes trapped in a whirlpool and the crew must face off against undersea pirates. | |||
| 25 | "Stand by for Action" | 21 March 1965 | 17 |
| Agent X-2-Zero poses as a film director in his latest scheme to eliminate Troy Tempest. | |||
| 26 | "Pink Ice" | 28 March 1965 | 22 |
| Stingray becomes ensnared in a patch of pink slush created by a unidentified vessel. | |||
| 27 | "The Disappearing Ships" | 4 April 1965 | 18 |
| Three disused freighters strangely disappear before they can be destroyed. | |||
| 28 | "Secret of the Giant Oyster" | 11 April 1965 | 15 |
| Troy is assigned to recover a beautiful pearl from the seabed, but the task is not as straightforward as it seems. | |||
| 29 | "The Invaders" | 18 April 1965 | 14 |
| The Stingray crew is captured by undersea villains and interrogated for information on Marineville's defence systems. | |||
| 30 | "A Nut for Marineville" | 25 April 1965 | 34 |
| An eccentric professor is brought in to develop a super missile which is Marineville's only hope of destroying a new type of indestructible undersea craft. | |||
| 31 | "Trapped in the Depths" | 2 May 1965 | 35 |
| An insane professor kidnaps Marina and steals Stingray with the intention of destroying Marineville. | |||
| 32 | "Countdown" | 9 May 1965 | 9 |
| Agent X-2-Zero masquerades as a teacher for mute people in a plot to destroy Marineville, leaving Marina in mortal danger. | |||
| 33 | "Sea of Oil" | 16 May 1965 | 3 |
| While probing the destruction of an oil rig with Troy and Phones, Atlanta is captured by undersea warriors. | |||
| 34 | "Plant of Doom" | 23 May 1965 | 2 |
| Outraged that his slave Marina assisted Troy and Phones in their escape from Aquatraz, Titan plots his revenge by ordering surface agent X-2-Zero to deliver a toxic plant to her father. | |||
| 35 | "The Master Plan" | 30 May 1965 | 23 |
| Troy is poisoned by Aquaphibians and the sole owner of the required antidote is Titan - who demands Marina in exchange for saving Troy's life. | |||
| 36 | "The Golden Sea" | 6 June 1965 | 7 |
| Titan hears of the work of scientists converting sea minerals to gold and plans to sabotage their efforts. | |||
| 37 | "Hostages of the Deep" | 13 June 1965 | 4 |
| An aquatic alien kidnaps a World Navy admiral and his wife. | |||
| 38 | "Marineville Traitor" | 20 June 1965 | 20 |
| All the signs point to Commander Shore after an essential component vanishes from Marineville Control. | |||
| 39 | "Aquanaut of the Year" | 27 June 1965 | 39 |
| Troy is amazed to receive the prestigious "Aquanaut of the Year" award and sits before an audience while a selection of his many adventures are recalled as flashbacks. | |||
