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Basic Concept

"Fireball XL5" is about a spacecraft of the same name, and its crew of Steve Zodiac, Venus, Mathew "Matt" Matic, and Robert the Robot, and Zoonie - a Lazoon - who patrol Sector 25, and their missions in space.

Fireball XL5 is just one of a fleet of 'XL' vehicles of the World Space Patrol, a world space agency of the 21st Century. The world of "Fireball XL5" is a world where man has not only explored space extensively, but also made contact with alien civilisations. Set around 2067, the series obviously has many futuristic craft, the main one being, of course, Fireball XL5 itself. Aside from this the series also shows such other space ships as Space Rescue Ships, Robot Supply Freighters, a Supply Freighter, and many alien spacecraft, together with space stations and hover cars and, in "Space City Special", a supersonic airliner.

The storylines of the 39 episodes were more advanced than those of "Supercar". You still had the occasional juvenile comic-strip episode, such as "1875", when the crew are accidentally sent back in time to a western town and Steve Zodiac becomes a sheriff, while Venus (mysteriously) a bandit but, in general, the stories were exciting, if not perhaps on a simple level.

Even so, the show became one of the more longer-running strips in "TV2l". Aside from the main ones, there were few regular characters. The only ones were Jock, the Scottish Space City engineer, and Jonathan Zero, Commander Zero's son. On the villains side, "Fireball XL5" had two sets of villains responsible for many of the dangers encountered by Fireball XL5 and its crew - the Green Men, the Subterraneans from Planet 46, and Mr & Mrs Space Spy. Continued.