Sylvia Anderson first episode of a series then sharing the work according to their strengths. Gerry tended to specialise in special effects and hardware, and Sylvia in character, voices, costume, dialogue, and plotlines. In this way, Anderson contributed plot development and voice work for a series of half-hour shows including "Supercar", "Stingray" and "Fireball XL5". However, she felt the half-hour format was insufficient to fully develop characters and stories, and she persuaded the team's TV producer Lew Grade to extend their shows to a full hour. In the early 1960s, the Andersons co-created the series "Thunderbirds", and Sylvia created the characters. She
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