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  GERRY ANDERSON | PART 4 | A TELETRONIC CLASSIC TV BIOGRAPHY
Gerry turned him down because he felt that by accepting it his involvement in the film would come to an end and he desperately wanted to see the project through to conclusion.
Gerry’s next task was to find a US actor with a suitably high profile to attract the American networks where it was vital the series succeed.
Gerry allegedly told Sylvia that he wouldn’t attend if she were going and she apparently replied, “Okay, you go.” But some time after he arrived, Sylvia turned up.
www.teletronic.co.uk /gerryanderson4.htm   (2844 words)

  
  Sylvia and Gerry Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson were the British husband and wife production team behind several futuristic children's television shows involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "supermarionation".
Gerry initially wanted actress Fenella Fielding to perform the voice of Lady Penelope, but Sylvia convinced her husband to let her play the role.
Sylvia severed her ties with Group Three, and to alleviate his financial plight, Gerry Anderson signed away both his share of the profits from the APF/Century 21 shows and their holiday home in Portugal to Lew Grade in return for a one-off payment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sylvia_and_Gerry_Anderson   (4221 words)

  
 Gerry Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerry Anderson, born 14 April 1929, is a producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "supermarionation".
Gerry Anderson began his career in photography and after the war he secured a traineeship with the British Colonial Film Unit.
Anderson suspected that Sylvia was behind this, but there was little he could do, and he had no contact with his son for over twenty years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerry_Anderson   (4071 words)

  
 Four Feather Falls: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Supercar was a childrens tv show produced by gerry andersons ap films for atv and itc entertainment....
After its cancellation Gerry Anderson was approached by Lew Grade[For more, click on this link] to make puppet shows for ATV[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link].
Joe 90 is a 1968 sylvia and gerry anderson television show which used a form of puppetry called "supermarionation", concerning the adventures of a nine-year-old...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/four_feather_falls.htm   (1355 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lew Grade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 1962 he purchased independent production house AP Films, co-founded by Gerry Anderson, which produced a string of popular children's marionette adventure series including Supercar, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90, three feature films, and the live-action sci-fi series UFO and Space: 1999.
Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson are most famous as the production team for several futuristic childrens television shows involving specially modified marionettes, a process called supermarionation.
Joe 90 is a 1968 Sylvia and Gerry Anderson television show concerning the adventures of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lew-Grade   (1697 words)

  
 four feather falls - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Sylvia and Gerry Anderson, from an idea by Barry Gray.
To achieve the effect of the guns' muzzle flashes, small specks of fl paint were carefully applied to the 35 mm negatives, so that they would appear as white flashes on the prints.
After its cancellation Gerry Anderson was approached by Lew Grade to make puppet shows for ATV.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/four-feather-falls   (244 words)

  
 Television Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Gerry Anderson that we know today was in fact born Gerald Alexander Abrahams on 14th April 1929 at the Elizabeth Garrett Hospital in London to Jewish parents Joseph and Deborah.
Gerry first attended Kingsgate Infant's School, but in 1939 his family moved to Neasden and Gerry went on to be a pupil at Braincroft Junior School.
Gerry Anderson would have accepted the offer, but Arthur Provis was reluctant to invest in the property and as a result of this the two amicably parted company.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /hisanderson.htm   (1802 words)

  
 Producers: Gerry Anderson
Gerry was more introspective [than Sylvia], excepting when he had a couple of drinks after work, when he'd open up a bit.
Gerry's hard and fast in the sense that his brilliance is the technical side but when you come to story terms, Gerry has very simple ideas and all the better they are for it.
Anderson has attended many conventions, including the 1978 US convention and most of the Fanderson conventions (from 1981).
www.space1999.net /catacombs/main/crguide/vcpga.html   (658 words)

  
 Space: 1999 Catacombs: Gerry Anderson Productions
Gerry Anderson productions were distinctive: futuristic adventures with amazing technology and plenty of (literally) explosive action.
Screenplay by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and Donald James.
Anderson created the series but did not produce it; he removed his name from the episodes.
www.space1999.net /catacombs/main/crguide/vcpgap.html   (710 words)

  
 Television Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Gerry and Sylvia wrote the first episode of Fireball XL5 with the remaining thirty-eight episodes being written by Alan Fennell (who went on to edit the Anderson-based magazine TV21), Dennis Spooner and Anthony Marriott.
Gerry's first move was to invest £75,000 on leasing a larger studio on another part of the Slough Industrial Estate in Stirling Road.
It was around this time that Gerry and Sylvia were having problems with their marriage, despite this Sylvia fell pregnant and in 1967 gave birth to their first child Gerry Junior.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /hisanderson2.htm   (2104 words)

  
 Captain Scarlet -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson have claimed that they asked the puppet designers to give the puppets rough resemblances to specific celebrities of the day.
As in the Andersons' previous puppet series, the characters' eyes and mouths were operated electronically, but in Captain Scarlet the control mechanism was placed in the puppets' chests rather than their heads.
Upon meeting the staff of a building, a Spectrum agent would show his identification and the SPV would either be moved out for use, or the camouflage which had concealed it (a shack, or a goods container) would collapse to reveal it.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Captain_Scarlet   (1232 words)

  
 TV Century 21 - the Gerry Anderson home page - Sylvia Anderson interview (1992)
Sylvia's most obvious contribution to the visual impact of the Supermarionation shows was to character design where the Hollywood touch can again be seen, as many of the characters she developed were inspired by established Hollywood stars, including Troy Tempest (James Garner), Jeff Tracy (Lorne Greene) and Captain Scarlet (Cary Grant).
Sylvia was almost entirely responsible for the look of 'U.F.O.'s' characters as, apart from casting, she also took on the role of costume designer.
Sylvia was then offered a position with the Home Box Office cable channel, and since the mid-Eighties has been with the company as production consultant and British representative.
www.tvcentury21.com /content/view/63/43   (4210 words)

  
 Gerry Anderson FAQ
Gerry Anderson is a British producer who was to British TV in the 60's what Walt Disney was to U.S. TV in the 50's -- THE purveyor of children's television.
Most of Anderson's 60's and 70's shows were produced with his now-ex-wife, Sylvia Anderson (nee Thann); in recent years, Anderson has teamed with Christopher Burr, John Needham, and Roger Lefkon.
Gerry Anderson co-produced the video, using the THUNDERBIRDS puppets in non-speaking roles throughout the video--which, like most videos, has very little to do with the actual lyrics of the song.
www.ludd.luth.se /~kavli/Thunderbirds/gand.html   (3749 words)

  
 Thunderbirds (television)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Anderson was often asked what F. stood for, but in fact it simply stood for "fab" (short for "fabulous"), which was a 1960s catchphrase.
The effects supervisor, as on all of Anderson's shows from Supercar to UFO, was Derek Meddings, who went on to produce special effects for the James Bond and Superman movies.
Gerry Anderson, who had not received any royalties on the show since signing away the rights in the late 1960s, was employed as a "remastering consultant".
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Thunderbirds_(television).html   (1603 words)

  
 Sylvia and Gerry Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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.
Sylvia Anderson created the characters for most of the series, and voiced many of the female puppets, most notably Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds.
FANDERSON (http://www.fanderson.org.uk/fanderson.html) The official Gerry Anderson appreciation society site.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Gerry_Anderson   (187 words)

  
 Sylvia and Gerry Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson are most famous as the production for several children's television shows involving puppetry in a process called supermarionation.
Sylvia Anderson created the characters for most the series and voiced many of the puppets most notably Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds.
In addition two UK comics featured strips that were closely based Anderson's creations.
www.freeglossary.com /Gerry_Anderson   (259 words)

  
 Joe 90   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A single season of thirty 25 minute episodes was completed, and it was the last show to be made exclusively using a form of puppetry called "Supermarionation".
It was created by Gerry Anderson's Century 21 Productions for Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment company (Grade also owned part of Century 21), and was first broadcast on Grade's ATV.
The series assumed that the Cold War would not continue into the 21st century (the pilot episode is merely a senario), although the series clearly has Russian-like characters as spies and villains.
www.tocatch.info /en/Joe_90.htm   (461 words)

  
 Space1999.org - Thunderbirds are GO! - FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sylvia Anderson, responsible for Character Creation and Visualization on the series, developed the unique personalities of each of the main characters, even down to assigning them birthdays to coincide with their behavior patterns (ie.
Gerry Anderson commented, "(FAB1) was born out of necessity to provide Lady Penelope with transport that reflected her adventurous lifestyle.
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson once allowed Tom Jones, a big "Thunderbirds" fan, to stay at their villa in Albufeira, Portugal, while he recovered from surgery on his nose.
www.space1999.org /thunderbirds/faq   (18603 words)

  
 Sylvia Anderson - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
Sylvia Anderson Information - TV.com offers all of the latest Sylvia Anderson news as well as exclusive Sylvia Anderson photos.
Sylvia and Gerry Anderson For the radio and television presenter, see Gerry Anderson (broadcaster) Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson are most famous.
Sylvia Anderson - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/sylvia-anderson/1617/main   (134 words)

  
 Sylvia And Gerry Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Marilyn Rodgers, Jean Sandora; 2, Sylvia Tobin, Sara...
Evans, 235/842; Jason Crane, 210; Gerry Bonas, 227...
The Andersons were divorced in the mid-1970s during the production of.
www.wikiverse.org /sylvia-and-gerry-anderson   (235 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition 2-Pack Gift Set (Thunderbirds Are Go / Thunderbird 6): DVD: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sylvia Anderson and David Lane discuss all the trials and tribulations of pulling off high-tech science-fiction adventure with a cast of 18"-tall puppets.
Gerry & Sylvia like Gene Roddenbury in American were and continue to be VERY optimistic about human endeavor and the future of the human race.
Sadly, Gerry & Sylvia are not apart of the production but the original was so impactful for a new genreation of film-makers that they are fired up to translate it into the cutting-edge show of our time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00022PZ56?v=glance   (2687 words)

  
 Gerry Anderson Links
Gerry Anderson mentioned on a radio interview in September 2005 that he was planning a new series "Lightspeed".
Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet began to be shown in the UK in February 2005 for the first 13 episodes, the second 13 episides began in September 2005.
According to Gerry Anderson Dimensions from Kyndamagic, footage of a Concorde model taking off was made for use in a British Airways documentary.
www.aiai.ed.ac.uk /~bat/GA/ga-links.html   (2545 words)

  
 Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Gerry and Sylvia Anderson
With a cast of normal-looking humans mixed with colorfully unpersuasive latex-masked aliens, the series apparently took place in a space station of the far future; but the script seemed to have been transcribed, line by line, from a routine American cop show of the 1960s.
Perhaps Anderson has provided wholesome entertainment for young children, perhaps he has given jobs to some fine workers, and perhaps he has, by exporting his programs, helped to improve the balance of payments and all that.
Let us face the unvarnished truth: Gerry Anderson is a man who has no ideas, who is deathly afraid of ideas, who has consistently employed futuristic settings and special effects only as gaudy ornaments to the hoariest, most imbecilic, and most cliché-ridden stories imaginable.
www.sfsite.com /gary/ande01.htm   (610 words)

  
 Books at Fabgearusa.com
This is the place to shop for books about Gerry Anderson TV Shows!
Excellent book on the Anderson Puppets and how they were made.
Behind the Scenes of Gerry Anderson's TV Adventures in the 21st Century!
fabgearusa.com /books.html   (445 words)

  
 Sylvia and Gerry Anderson - TheBestLinks.com - CGI, Comic book, Four Feather Falls, United Kingdom, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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Gerry Anderson had no involvement in the 2004 live action film, Thunderbirds)
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 Cult TV - Reviews - Gerry Anderson Episode Guide
It could be too ‘specky fan boy obsessive’ if it wasn’t for the occasional gem, like finding out Anderson turned down the special effects work for Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” because ‘the AP Films team only produced special effects for their own productions’.
Although there have been some seriously suspect attempts to remove her significant contribution to the various series in a seemingly Stalinist rewriting of the AP Films history, the credits at least never lie, even if her name barely appears in the bodies of text.
As the chairman of Fanderson, the Official Gerry Anderson Appreciation Society since 1991, it’s clear which side of the fence Chris Bentley has to sit on.
www.cult.tv /index.php?cm_id=295&cm_type=article   (694 words)

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