Gerry Anderson Gerry Anderson Gerry Anderson (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He remains famous for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). Anderson's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series "The Adventures of Twizzle". "Supercar" (1961–62) and "Fireball XL5" (1962) followed later, both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, "Thunderbirds". Other television productions of the 1960s
Stingray (1964 TV series) Robert Sellers described "Stingray" as the "first truly classic Anderson show", whose special effects "have stood the test of time remarkably well." Daniel O'Brien, author of "SF:UK: How British Science Fiction Changed the World", considers it to be "perhaps the archetypal Gerry Anderson series". Reviewing the DVD box set in 2001, Mike Fillis of "TV Zone" magazine conceded that "Stingray" was less "ambitious" than its immediate follow-up, "Thunderbirds", but compared its "self-awareness" and "looseness" favourably to the "po-faced rigidity" of "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons". He also praised the series' "well-drawn" characters and described its water-based special effects sequences as