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Gerry
Anderson Programmes - A Production History
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Born Gerald Alexander Abrahams on 14th
April 1929, Gerry Anderson has used his unique imagination,
perseverance and resolve to realise his dreams, giving us
some of the most wonderful programmes in the history of children's
TV and making world-wide household names of many shows including
Thunderbirds, Stingray and Fireball XL5, to name but three.
His productions are also responsible for many ingenious innovations,
widely used since, in the world of cinematography.
I had the pleasure of meeting him and some of his original
production staff on Saturday 18th April 1992 during his national
'Thunderbirds' tour and I would like to say that not only
is he a creative genius with genuine time for his fans and
an extremely entertaining narrator, but also a helluva nice
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Thunderbirds
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Gerry
Anderson
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I have found that many sites give conflicting information,
even Gerry's official biography!
The following production history is, as far as I can ascertain
from a fair bit of research, fairly accurate.
If you are aware of any documented omissions or inaccuracies,
please e-mail me.
Thanks!
Linked
programme guides are the creation of other authors - please
visit their main sites which are listed in the links section.
In most cases, where no direct link is indicated on a particular
production,
further information may be found on the excellent Fanderson
site listed in the links section.
For anything to do with Thunderbirds I cannot recommend
highly enough
'The Complete Book of Thunderbirds'
by Chris Bentley ( Carlton Books ISBN 1-84222-092-6 ) Every
Anderson fan should have a copy!
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The
Gerry Anderson  Production
History Guide
The beginning.... 1946 - 1955
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In 1946 Gerry
Anderson began as an Assistant Editor at Gainsborough Studios
where he worked on 'Caravan', 'Jassy' and 'Snowbound'. His
career was interrupted by National Service but in 1949 he
returned to the industry at Pinewood Studios where he worked
on 'So
Long At The Fair', 'The Clouded Yellow', 'Never Take No
For An Answer', 'South Of Algiers', 'Appointment In London',
'They Who Dare' and 'A Prize Of Gold' before leaving to
work briefly at Polytechnic Films. When this went into liquidation
in 1955 he co-founded Pentagon Films, later to become AP
Films, (Anderson Provis Films) with Arthur Provis and some
old Polytechnic colleagues.
Gerry Anderson Interviews
BBC
Online
Science
Fiction Weekly Underground
Online
DVD
Reviewer TotalDVD
Online TV
Zone Amazon
Other
Interviews
Arthur
Provis with Space Patrol Ray
Barrett with Thunderbirds Online
Fred
Freiberger with Space1999
 
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SixtiesCity 2008