Martin King

**Martin King** (10th March 1933 - 15 April 2019 was a British actor and continuity announcer. He is best known providing the voice of guest characters in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90.

## Working with Anderson

Andersons casting the new voice actor Martin King for the second episode Winged Assassin with co-star actor from Thunderbirds Are Go Neil McCallum in two episodes were Big Ben Strikes Again for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

Following the departure of Charles Tingwell and Paul Maxwell in after production of Shadow of Fear. The producers bring King, Gary Files and David Healy back to provide the guest characters in the next episodes, although both King and Files already working when they kept them in earlier episodes with Tingwell and Maxwell.

Martin King's final involvement with Supermarionation is Joe 90 episode Relative Danger, but he was later appeared in his second featured film appearance and only for Gerry Anderson's film Doppelgänger in 1968 and will be his final involvement with Gerry Anderson. After the film was completed, King was later become the continuity announcer for both ITV Southern Television and the BBC.

## Characters

* Puppet 3
* Puppet 5
* Puppet 7
* Puppet 10
* Puppet 12
* Puppet 13
* Puppet 14
* Puppet 15
* Puppet 16
* Puppet 21
* Puppet 22
* Puppet 23
* Puppet 24
* Puppet 26
* Puppet 27
* Puppet 28
* Puppet 34
* Puppet 35
* Puppet 36
* Puppet 39
* Puppet 40
* Puppet 43
* Puppet 47
* Puppet 49
* Doctor Fawn (due to the error of voice)
* Captain Ochre (Child Of The Sun God)

### Non-puppets

* SID (Lunarville 7)
* Airstrip Controller (Renegade Rocket)
* Hotspot Tower Controller (Noose of Ice)

## Trivia

* He and Shane Rimmer were only the actors to not in The Secret Service, although King was already left Century 21 Studios in during production of Joe 90.
* He and David Healy were only casts does not in Thunderbird 6. Unlike Healy, he is only appearing in Gerry Anderson's final feature film Doppelgänger.
* King have a lot of the characters in Captain Scarlet only.
* There was no explanation for the reasons why Martin King left Joe 90 for some reasons by the public. It would be possible that creator Gerry Anderson said that King attempted to speaking the American accent but he was sound more British like and that he was from New Zealand, although sometime King did do American accent of the words for the voice lines in Captain Scarlet.
* The fans of the series suggested that creator Gerry Anderson himself voice S.I.D. from Lunarville 7, although it was voiced by Martin King himself.
* King is only the New Zealand actor to working for Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation, although King later became a British citizen in late 1950s or 1960.
* King is one of the casts to never have regular roles since two series the other being Shane Rimmer, David Graham and Neil McCallum, although he did have a regular role is Doctor Fawn when Charles Tingwell didn't speaking the lines in Operation Time when Doctor Fawn tells Dr. Magnus that he has killed Captain Scarlet, the voice was Martin King said the lines not Tingwell, but Tingwell's voice line was later said "After him!".
* King is famously known portrayed as the Examiner in Doctor Who television story *The Power of the Daleks*, although the footage was also shot with him but BBC wiped the masters of the episode and only the pictures of him was existing by BBC, he is also appearing in the BBC programs but some of them were also lost from wiped by BBC again, including Dixon of Dock Green and The Troubleshooters (featured co-star Thunderbirds actor Ray Barrett).