 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
||||||
|
| Born
Gerald Alexander Abrahams on 14th April 1929, Gerry Anderson 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,
Supercar, Captain Scarlet, Joe90, Space 1999, UFO, Four Feather Falls,
Stingray and Fireball XL5, to name but a few. His productions have also
been responsible for many ingenious innovations, widely used since, in
the world of cinematography and marionation. I finally 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 was he a creative genius, a gentleman with genuine time
for his fans and an extremely entertaining narrator, but also a helluva
nice guy! In early 2010 Gerry was diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's disease and turned his attentions to promoting awareness of this extremely debilitating condition. His son, Jamie, announced that he had died peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday 26th December, 2012, aged 83, only 3 days after UFO star Dolores Mantez also died, following a short illness. 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. Linked programme guides are the creation of other authors - please visit their main sites, which are listed on my Links page, for further and more specific information. In most cases, where no direct link is indicated on a particular production, further information may be found on the excellent Fanderson site also listed in my links. 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! |
 |
 |
 |
 Thunderbirds is a trademark of  Carlton International Media Limited |
 |
 |
 |
The
Gerry Anderson
 Production
HistoryThe beginning.... 1946 - 1955
In 1946 Gerry Anderson
began as an Assistant Editor at Gainsborough Studios where he
worked on 'Caravan', 'Jassy' |
  |
|
1955 to 1966 |
1967 to 1977 |
1978 to 2000+ |
|
|
1963 - Lyons Maid 'Sea Jet', 'Super Sea Jet', 'FAB' & 'Zoom' |
|||
|
Note: There are additional items that may be of interest on the various pages which are not necessarily listed above. Some 'films' that are compilations of series episodes are not listed, e.g. Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
|||
|
All
Original Material
 SixtiesCity
2012 |