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Encyclopedia: Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson (MBE), born 14 April 1929, is a British producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "Supermarionation".

His first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series The Adventures of Twizzle. His most famous and successful production in this genre came later: Thunderbirds, which was made in 1965. His production company was originally known as AP Films (later renamed Century 21 Productions) was in collaboration, with partners Reg Hill, John Read and his then-wife Sylvia Anderson.

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	(Japanese)	ジェリー・アンダーソン
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Joe 90

Joe 90 is a mid 1960s Sylvia and Gerry Anderson television show which used a form of puppetry called "Supermarionation", concerning the adventures of a young boy who could be programmed with any imaginable skill using a large computer called BIGRAT (an acronym for Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record...

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Doppelgänger (disambiguation)

produced by Gerry Anderson see Doppelgänger (film...

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Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Sylvia and Gerry Anderson, from an... impossible to assess its quality. After its cancellation Gerry Anderson was approached by Lew Grade to... episodes x 15 mins Producer: Gerry Anderson Voice Cast: Nicholas Parsons Denise Bryer Kenneth Connor...

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Sylvia and Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson are most famous as the production team for several children's... mid-1970s during the production of . (exact date to follow) Gerry Anderson productions TV series... production is Thunderbirds . Sylvia Anderson created the characters for most of the series, and voiced many...

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Barry Gray

Barry Gray (1925 in Lancashire, England - April 26, 1984) was a British musician and composer who worked with Vera Lynn after World War II. In the late 1950s he joined Gerry Anderson's AP Films... of Anderson's series up to the first season of . He is best known for his stirring Thunderbirds...

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Steve Zodiac

Gerry Anderson's astronaut in 60’s TV show Fireball XL5...

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Troy (disambiguation)

Brad Pitt) Troy Tempest is the hero of Gerry Anderson's puppet science fiction series Stingray...

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Mysteron

In Sylvia and Gerry Anderson's science fiction puppet television series Captain Scarlet, the Mysterons are the sworn enemies of planet Earth. This enmity begins when an expedition from Earth led by... ignore Earth's gestures of reconciliation? According to Gerry Anderson, the answer is that the...

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Captain Black

Captain Scarlet , produced by Gerry Anderson...

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Cloudbase

In Gerry Anderson's puppet science fiction series Captain Scarlet, Cloudbase is the skyborne headquarters of international security organisation Spectrum, resembling a large aircraft carrier, complete with flight deck, that hovers continuously at a height of several thousand feet and can be moved...

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