Episode
Stingray: Stand by for Action
Overview
A film crew arrives at Marineville to make a movie on Stingray. Everyone will play themselves except Troy, who is to be replaced by an actor. Even worse, the director is in fact Surface Agent X20 who has a plan to kill Troy.
Details
- Series
- Stingray
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 25
- Air date
- 1965-03-21
Episode context
Stand by for Action is Episode 25 in Season 1 of Stingray. It aired on 1965-03-21.
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Episode 24: Treasure Down Below
While the Stingray crew are on shore leave in Casablanca, a merchant sells Phones a map leading to ancient treasure. However, when Troy refuses to search for it, Marina secretly alters Stingray's course.
Episode 26: Pink Ice
Reports come in from all over the world about pink ice. Whilst investigating, the Stingray crew become trapped in the rapidly freezing pink water.
More episodes from this season
Episode 23: Eastern Eclipse
Having been dethroned by the people of his Eastern nation, El Hudats twin brother, Ali Khali, arrives in Marineville.
Episode 27: The Disappearing Ships
When three disused freighters that are to be blown up by remote control mysteriously vanish, Troy and Phones set off in Stingray to find them.
Episode 22: Tom Thumb Tempest
While waiting for the call to action in the Stand-By Lounge, Troy falls asleep. He dreams that he and the Stingray crew have all shrunk in size and are now trapped inside a giant fish-tank sitting in a banquet hall.
Episode 28: Secret of the Giant Oyster
After recovering a giant oyster, two explorers are captured by Troy in restricted waters. They persuade Commander Shore to let the Stingray crew help them collect its pearl. However, the crew are unaware of their real intentions.
Episode 21: Invisible Enemy
Troy and Phones rescue a comatose man and take him back to Marineville for treatment. Unknown to them, the man is actually in a controlled hypnotic trance as part of a plan to render everyone in Marineville unconscious and open to attack.
Episode 29: The Invaders
The Stingray crew fall into a trap set by aliens at a weather station.
Episode 20: Star of the East
An Eastern dictator named El Hudat arrives in Marineville, wishing to become a member of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol. However, just before his enrolment, he is deposed by a revolution back in his home country.
Episode 30: A Nut for Marineville
When a seemingly indestructible craft is sighted heading towards Marineville on a collision course, the eccentric Professor Burgoyne is called in to help develop a new super missile with which to destroy it.
Episode 19: Deep Heat
After a robot probe inexplicably disappears, the Stingray crew is ordered to investigate. Troy, Phones and Marine follow the trail to the base of a volcano, which is about to erupt.
Episode 31: Trapped in the Depths
When the insane Professor Cordo kidnaps Atlanta and takes her back to his undersea farm, Troy and Phones give chase in Stingray.