your favourite Gerry&Sylvia Anderson series?

[Paaalaaace]

Do any of you remember Gerry Anderson's early productions?
Twizzle, Four Feather Falls and the decidedly film noire Torchy the Battery Boy?

Or was it Touchy the Batty Boy?

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Or was it Touchy the Batty Boy?

He was Ever Ready.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Sherlock's mum.

And Deborah’s mum in men behaving badly

 

[Teddy Eagle]

And Deborah’s mum in men behaving badly

She was previously married to a James Tabernacle. Wanda Tabernacle sounds like a mysterious ailment.

 

[Cucking Funt]

And Deborah’s mum in men behaving badly

But not her real mother, as she is Benedict Cuminyerpants's mum.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

But not her real mother, as she is Benedict Cuminyerpants's mum.

Oh really, you learn something new every day
Strange because she was so attractive in her prime and he’s an ugly bugger

 

[Eagleman13]

Oh really, you learn something new every day
Strange because she was so attractive in her prime and he’s an ugly bugger

Says you who he turned down ha ha 😉

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Says you who he turned down ha ha 😉

Maybe it wasn't a lemon entry.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Says you who he turned down ha ha 😉

They should Sherlock you up for a comment like that 😁

 

[CiderEagle]

Love everything Anderson, but my favourite is UFO.....hence my profile pic of a SHADO Mobile. Still have all my Anderson Dinkys too (Thunderbird 2 & 4 & Lady Penelopes Rolls Royce FAB 1, Captain Scarlet SPV SPC & MSV, Space 1999 Eagle Transporter & Freighter, Joe 90 Jet Car & Sam Loovers Car, UFO Interceptor SHADO Mobile & Ed Strakers Car, Secret Service Gabriels Model T Ford)

What is your address and when are you going on holiday?

 

[CiderEagle]

Thunderbirds for me. Really captured my imagination aged 5. And it went on for a full ITV hour, very long running time for a kids' show. Cinematic presentation, fantastic model work. Still put it on sometimes on itvx.


I've got a signed photo of Lady Penelope somewhere...

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Thunderbirds for me. Really captured my imagination aged 5. And it went on for a full ITV hour, very long running time for a kids' show. Cinematic presentation, fantastic model work. Still put it on sometimes on itvx.


I've got a signed photo of Lady Penelope somewhere...

Signed by auto-Penelope?

 

[mooro]

For many years I actually thought that Cary Grant provided the voice of Captain Scarlet then later read an article that Francis Matthews got the gig by doing a Cary Grant impression.......

 

[StrangerThing]

One of my favourite tracks....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA-NkjMgaeM&list=RDHA-NkjMgaeM&start_radio=1

That said a special mention for Secret Service - no memories of it at all except a vicar carrying a shrunken secret agent in a briefcase.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

For many years I actually thought that Cary Grant provided the voice of Captain Scarlet then later read an article that Francis Matthews got the gig by doing a Cary Grant impression.......

I called it when I was a kid that an American actor who popped up in the bond film the spy who loved me and other films was the voice of Scott Tracey in thunderbirds, such a distinctive voice.

 

[mooro]

I called it when I was a kid that an American actor who popped up in the bond film the spy who loved me and other films was the voice of Scott Tracey in thunderbirds, such a distinctive voice.

Yep, Canadian actor, Shane Rimmer who sadly passed in 2019.........

 

[ASCPFC]

Yep, Canadian actor, Shane Rimmer who sadly passed in 2019.........

He was in Red Dwarf.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

I always expected Gerry and Sylvia Anderson to be quite big-headed about their puppetry achievements. 🙂

 

[BromleyMonkey]

I always expected Gerry and Sylvia Anderson to be quite big-headed about their puppetry achievements. 🙂

I’ve been watching documentaries about them and the making of their stuff on YouTube recently, and when being interviewed, I keep looking for the strings

 

[Badger11]

I’ve been watching documentaries about them and the making of their stuff on YouTube recently, and when being interviewed, I keep looking for the strings

There was talk of digitally enhancing the old shows and visually removing the strings, but that was the whole joy of those shows.