Supercar (TV series) Supercar (TV series) Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis' AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. Thirty-nine episodes were produced between 1961 and 1962, and it was Anderson's first half-hour series. In the UK it was seen on ITV and in the US in syndication (the first Anderson series to be shown overseas) debuting in January 1962. The series uses Supermarionation, based on the complex and difficult Czech style of marionette puppetry. The creation of the show was credited to Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill, but it incorporates elements of "Beaker's Bureau", a
Gerry Anderson his goal of making live-action film and TV drama. During the production of "The Adventures of Twizzle", Anderson started an affair with secretary Sylvia Thamm and ultimately left his wife and children. Following his divorce from his first wife, Anderson married Thamm in November 1960, while he was working on "Four Feather Falls". AP Films' third series was the children's western fantasy-adventure series "Four Feather Falls" (1959–60). Provis left the partnership, but the company retained the name AP Films for several more years. "Four Feather Falls" was the first Anderson series to use an early version of the so-called "Supermarionation"