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Anderson to the publishers to collect one of the first print run to present to Anderson, and the book later had to be withdrawn from sale and thousands of copies destroyed as a result of a copyright dispute with ITC America. The renewed interest enabled Anderson to return to television production, but several projects including "GFI" (an animated update of "Thunderbirds") did not make it into production. Finally, in 1994, Anderson was able to get "Space Precinct" into production. It was followed by "Lavender Castle", a children's sci-fi fantasy series combining stop-motion animation and computer-generated imagery. In the meantime, the biography,