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Commissioned by ITC financier Lew Grade in the autumn of 1967, with pre-production completed in October while the final episodes of Captain Scarlet were still being filmed, principal photography for Joe 90 ran from 13 November 1967 to mid-August 1968 using two puppet stages at the Century 21 Studios on the Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire.

The average shooting period for each episode was two weeks, as had been the case with the previous series.

Since he was occupied by post-production on the second Thunderbirds feature film, Thunderbird 6, and the development of his live-action film, Doppelgänger, Gerry Anderson was unable to take on a producer role as he had done for Captain Scarlet, instead passing the responsibility down to Reg Hill and David Lane.

Lane in particular recalls that in his role as producer, he was " responsible for looking at the scripts, the effects, the puppets, the whole thing really ", and found support in Anderson's long-serving collaborator Desmond Saunders, who directed the pilot episode and acted as production controller for the rest of the series.

Other directors for Joe 90 included Leo Eaton, Alan Perry and Ken Turner, all of whom had contributed to Captain Scarlet, and Peter Anderson, who was promoted from his earlier position as assistant director to replace the outgoing Brian Burgess and Robert Lynn.