At the age of 83, Gerry Anderson has died.
The world of entertainment has lost the most consistently innovating and imaginative thinker that we have ever had on British TV. Quite frankly, the UK telly industry has lost about 75% of it's creativity now.
Tributes to Anderson now fill the web so I'm not going to try and fill in all the details here. From my personal point of view, I am a heretic in one respect - I don't think he could do plots. While the visuals on every single show are stunning, some of the stores are rubbish. Space 1999 suffered more than most in this respect with
No, the plots, even for Thunderbirds, might often have been a bit thin, maybe the model shots went on a bit long sometimes, but as shows they were brilliant. The imagination behind them was simply stunning. Why Anderson wasn't given the contract to design the whole 21st Century, I don't know. What we got was a bit rubbish in contrast.
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Yes, I have to confess here that as a small boy, I loved "Supercar", Fireball XL5 et al. "Thunderbirds" were just F.A.B....futuristic and yet so very much of their time, like the Avengers. He was a genius, and the way he inspired people to work for him building those huge sets was amazing. Incidentally, the sound effects, such as those depicting the mole and the large vehicles were music to the HGV ear, like a big US diesel truck going full bore.
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