Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson are most famous as the production team for several children's television shows involving puppetry in a process called supermarionation. Their most famous production is Thunderbirds.

Sylvia Anderson created the characters for most of the series, and voiced many of the female puppets, most notably Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds. The Andersons were divorced in the mid-1970s during the production of Space: 1999. (exact date to follow)

Gerry Anderson productions

TV series

• The Adventures of Twizzle (1957-1958)
• Torchy the Battery Boy (first season only) (1958-1959)
• Four Feather Falls (1959-1960) - first Supermarionation production.
• Supercar (1960-1961)
• Fireball XL5 (1962)
• Stingray (TV show) (1963-1964)
• Thunderbirds (1964-1966)
• Captain Scarlet (1967)
• Joe 90 (1967-1968)
• The Secret Service (TV show) (1968-1969)
• UFO (TV series) (1969-1970)
• The Protectors
• Space: 1999 (1975-1978)
• Into Infinity aka The Day After Tomorrow (one episode only) (1976)
• Terrahawks (1983)
• Dick Spanner, P.I. (1986)
• Space Police (pilot only)
• Space Precinct (1994)
• Firestorm (2003)
• The New Captain Scarlet (2004) - currently in production, this will be a continuation of the 1967 series, only rendered in CGI rather than puppetry.

Feature films

• Crossroads to Crime (1960)
• Thunderbirds Are Go! (1966)
• Thunderbird Six (1968)
• Doppelganger (1969) aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

(Please note. Gerry Anderson had no involvement in the 2004 live action film, Thunderbirds)

In addition, two UK comics featured strips that were closely based around Anderson's creations. These were TV21 during the 1960s and Countdown during the 1970s. There were also a number of tie-in annuals that were produced each year around Andersons creations.