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Anderson Puppets - British
puppeteers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson produced a number of puppet
series, often using a technique called Super-marionation.
Super-marionation is a combination of old fashioned marionettes
and modern technology. The process used a plastic marionette
equipped with an electronic brain which operated the characters
eyes and lips. Movements were coordinated by a prerecorded
soundtrack. Control lines the thickness of .005 inches were
sprayed with anti-glare paint, making them invisible to the TV
cameras.
Programs featuring super-marionation included:
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SUPERCAR (1962) about Mike Mercury, the driver of Super Car
owned by an international anti-crime organization
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FIREBALL XL5 (1963), based in the 21st century at Space
City, (the headquarters of the Galaxy Police) with Colonel Steve
Zodiac, pilot of the XL5 and Robert the Robot, the electronic
brain/navigator
- STINGRAY
(1965) set in the year A.D. 2000 about the World
Aquanaut Security Patrol that operated on the ocean floor in the
submarine Stingray
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THUNDERBIRDS (1966), about the Tracy family who operated
International Rescue, a global search and rescue organization
headquartered on a remote island in the Pacific
- CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE
MYSTERONS (1967) set in the 21st
century about the members of Spectrum, an international peacekeeping force that battled
the Mysterons, invading inhabitants from the planet Mars
- JOE 90 (1968), a sci-fi story about a nine-year-old secret
agent.
The Anderson's later produced the live-action sci-fi adventure
SPACE: 1999/SYN/1975-77 starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
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