Gerry Anderson obit
RIP Gerry Anderson
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Highspeed
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RIP Gerry Anderson
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
Gerry Anderson obit
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
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Dub_James
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
Sad news. Without him, Team America probably would never have happened.
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Make my back burn
And those heads that turn
Make my back, make my back burn
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
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
In memory:
UFO
Space:1999
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
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.
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.
Eppur si muove--Galileo
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SoupOrMan
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
I remember watching Thunderbirds as a kid. Wild stuff.
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
Hey, any puppet show with a six wheel drive, pink Rolls Royce had to have something going for it. 
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Windy Wilson
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
+1SoupOrMan wrote:I remember watching Thunderbirds as a kid. Wild stuff.
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!
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HTRN
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
HTRN, I would tell you that you are an evil fucker, but you probably get that a lot ~ Netpackrat
Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt
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Draven
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Re: RIP Gerry Anderson
I did some work for the (Brief) Firestorm series, which was a Japanese co-production.