Gerry * Sylvia Anderson Puppets  - British puppeteers who 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:

• SUPERCAR (1962) about Mike Mercury, the driver of Super Car owned by an international anti-crime organization;

• FIREBALL XL-5 (1963), based in the 21st century at Space City, (the headquarters of the Galaxy Police) with Colonel Steve Zodiac, pilot of the XL-5 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;

• 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.