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I grew up with this guys puppet shows, and later the live action series 'UFO' - they were the inspiration for the Team America puppets, if anyone on the planet DIDN'T know that

Gerry Anderson obit

Sad news. Without him, Team America probably would never have happened.

I enjoyed UFO and Space:1999 growing up when Star Trek was off the air and not yet into regular syndication in my area. Stupid in a lot of ways, but fun and a lot better than nothing.

In memory:

UFO

Space:1999

Lileks mentions Anderson's passing in his Bleat for today:

http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/12/1212/122712.html

It features clips of Supercar, and Fireball XL-5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... mSzySQdctw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... XMrLr44JDI

The twin brother and I cut our teeth on both shows, filling pages and pages with drawings of both vehicles. I never saw UFO, and didn't care for Space 1999.

I remember watching Thunderbirds as a kid. Wild stuff.

Hey, any puppet show with a six wheel drive, pink Rolls Royce had to have something going for it.

SoupOrMan wrote:I remember watching Thunderbirds as a kid. Wild stuff.

+1
We had the Fireball xl5 playset as children.
I bought some Thunderbirds episodes on vhs and dvd recently. They hold up pretty well as children's shows.
when my brother and I complained about the lack of blast marks from the rockets around the pool, his wife said, c'mon guys, it's a kids show! And she reminded us of that conversation MONTHS later!

8 episodes are available online at Crackle.com

I did some work for the (Brief) Firestorm series, which was a Japanese co-production.