Supercar (TV series) series proposed to the BBC by Hugh Woodhouse that was never produced. Anderson would later claim that the whole point of having a series based on a vehicle was to minimize having to show the marionettes walking, an action which he felt never looked convincing. The plot of the show consisted of Supercar, a vertical takeoff and landing craft invented by Prof. Rudolph Popkiss and Dr. Horatio Beaker, and piloted by Mike Mercury. On land it rode on a cushion of air rather than wheels. Jets in the rear allowed it to fly like a jet and retractable wings were
Gerry Anderson Anderson hoped to continue his renewed success with a series called "Space Police", a new show mixing live action and puppets. The "Space Police" name had already been registered by another company, so Anderson's programme eventually emerged in 1995 as "Space Precinct". A pilot film had previously been made with Shane Rimmer, but it took almost ten years to get the concept to the screen. In the meantime, Anderson and Burr produced the cult stop-motion animated series "Dick Spanner", which enjoyed many showings on the British Channel 4 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was the final project