Gerry Anderson Associated Television (ATV) boss who offered to buy the show. This began a long friendship and a very successful professional association between the two men. The new series, "Supercar", (1960–61) was developed by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson and Reg Hill based on a story written by Sylvia Anderson and marked several important advances for APF. Sylvia Anderson took on a larger role and became a partner in the company. The series was also the official debut of Supermarionation, the electronic system that made the marionettes more lifelike and convincing on screen. The system used the audio signal from pre-recorded tapes
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