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) everything which passed its periscope." Sangster and Condon argue that while elements such as the animal character, Oink, mean that "Stingray" is aimed primarily at children, it is the first Anderson series in which the "sophistication of the production" creates appeal for adults. They regard "Stingray" as "much less po-faced" than "Thunderbirds", with episodes that are "mercifully shorter, leading to tighter plotting and an engaging simplicity". Peel suggests that the "tongue-in-cheek humour that [Gerry] Anderson favoured probably reached its peak with "Stingray"." Media historian Nicholas J. Cull observes that through its depiction of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP), "Stingray"