* 1929 – Gerry Anderson, English publisher, producer, director, and writer

Following the resignation of Labor MP Alison Anderson in 2009 to become an independent which then resulted in 2011 to become a member of the CLP, this increased to CLP's margin to 12 in the Assembly, leaving the incumbent Henderson Government to govern in minority with the support of Independent MP Gerry Wood.

Some of this reputation was founded on the core of talent brought together for the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) who subsequently worked together on series and feature films for Gerry Anderson.

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

Other sketches included " Superthunderstingcar ", a parody of the Gerry Anderson marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentaries – satirised in a parodic TV segment on Greta Garbo.

Gerry Anderson made science fiction series for ITV using the puppet based ' Supermarionation ' technique including Fireball XL5 ( 1962 – 63 ), Thunderbirds ( 1965 – 66 ), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 & 68 ), and Stingray ( 1964 – 65 ) which all retain a following.

Gerry Anderson created a series of shows using puppets living in a universe of models and miniature sets, notably Thunderbirds.

The Seventies were an uncertain period for Pinewood and the film industry in general, with the studios being used more for television programmes, including Gerry Anderson ’ s UFO and The Persuaders!

The early 1960s Gerry Anderson all-marionette science fiction TV series Fireball XL5 contained a robot character called ' Robert the Robot '.

* Gerry Anderson ( producer, director and writer )

* Gerry Anderson and Jim Henson, television puppeteers, at different times leased the same workshop ( now demolished ) in Rotherwood Road, Putney

The term was coined by Gerry Anderson, possibly in imitation of " Dynamation ", Ray Harryhausen's stop motion technique.

Supermarionation, a technique created in 1960 by Gerry Anderson, in which the movement of marionette puppet mouths is electronically synchronised with the syllables of pre-recorded dialogue, produced oversized puppet heads because they contained a solenoid that was vital to a puppet's lip-synch mechanism, while the rest of the body could not be sized up to match otherwise the puppet would become hard to operate.

In 2004, Gerry Anderson produced Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, which was rendered using computer-generated imagery ( CGI ) and motion capture techniques.

* The Gerry Anderson Complete Comic History: Charlton's Space: 1999 magazines and comic books

: For complete histories of her work with Gerry Anderson, and of AP Films / Century 21 Productions see the linked articles.

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill.

Deciding to revive Captain Scarlet in the late 1990s, Gerry Anderson supervised the production of a computer-animated reboot series, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, which commenced broadcast in the United Kingdom in 2005.

Supermarionation, a technique in which the movement of the marionette puppet's mouth is electronically synchronised with character dialogue, had been formulated by Gerry Anderson for Four Feather Falls in 1960.

Since Gerry Anderson had expressed frustration with this caricatured design during the production of earlier Supermarionation series, and wished that the puppets would more accurately reflect human biology, before production commenced on Captain Scarlet the producer, Reg Hill, and his associate, John Read, designed a new type of puppet in which the solenoid was instead placed inside the chest, to permit a head of realistic proportion.

* Thunderbirds ( TV series ), a 1960s British series created by Gerry Anderson

The approach of this century inspired many forward-looking 20th century events and company and product names, such as the Century 21 Exposition ( another name for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair ), Century 21 Real Estate, and Century 21 Television ( producers of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson Supermarionation shows like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ).

His father, is of Russian descent, also had a connection to the works of Space: 1999 creator Gerry Anderson, being a secondary voice actor in Thunderbirds.

In the 2004 Starlog special Spider-Man and Other Amazing Comics Heroes ( Inside Comics Heroes # 3 ), Hammerhead's creator, Gerry Conway, noted that he wanted to introduce a Dick Tracy-style foe into the series.

During negotiations with creator and executive producer Gerry Anderson, Culp expressed himself to be not only an asset as an actor, but also as a director and producer for the proposed series.

As photography on the series was getting underway, creator Gerry Anderson wed production assistant and voice actress Sylvia Thamm.

Gerry Finley-Day was a prolific British comics writer from the 1960s to the 1980s, best known as the creator of Rogue Trooper.

Having overseen Gerry Anderson's work since the creation of Supercar in 1960 – and going on to buy his production company, AP Films, during the making of Fireball XL5 – Grade was enthusiastic for Anderson's programmes to be transmitted abroad, in the lucrative American market, and decided that a new concept would do more to attract potential bidders than a second season of Thunderbirds.

Space: 1999 is the last in a long line of science-fiction series that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson produced as a working partnership, beginning with Supercar in the early Sixties and including the famed marionette fantasy series Stingray, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as the live-action alien-invasion drama UFO.

Later in the 1960s, Gerry Anderson with his wife, Sylvia Anderson and colleagues made a number of hit series, Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds, which pioneered a technique combining marionettes and electronics.

Steve is thought to have taken his last name from either Sylvia and Gerry Anderson's astronaut in 1960s television show Fireball XL5, or his Selmer Zodiac 100-watt amplifier, which had to be used at full volume to get the distortion and sustain which was fundamental to his sound.

Leigh had previously worked with Gerry Anderson on children's puppet series, and there are some obvious similarities between Space Patrol and Anderson's Fireball XL5, although Space Patrol was made on a lower budget.

Whereas Gerry Anderson had a rocket ship in Fireball XL5 that could travel to planets around other stars as though they were just a few million miles away ( a rocket ship is limited in that it forms an explosive force which is contained and then sent off in one direction so the ship travels in another direction.

A similar program often confused with Fireball XL5 is Space Patrol ( known as Planet Patrol in the US ), produced by Gerry Anderson's ex business partner and co-founder of AP Films, Arthur Provis due to a number of similarities and settings.

* There is a homage to Fireball XL5 in an episode of Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, entitled " Mercury Falling ", which features a spaceship of similar design launching via a rail.

In 1964 Gerry Anderson's AP Films became part of ACC and produced Fireball XL-5, the hugely successful children's series Thunderbirds and, under its successor company Century 21 Productions, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

* In Gerry Anderson's TV series Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90, Feature the World Army, the World Navy and the World Air Force, also the World Aquanaut Security Patrol ( The W. A. S. P ' S ), the World Space Patrol ( W. S. P ) and Universal Secret Service ( U. S. S ).

He had roles in several other Gerry Anderson productions, including Four Feather Falls, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray and The Secret Service.

* Robert the Robot, co-pilot of XL5, a transparent robot invented by Professor Matic and Earth's most advanced mechanical man ( voiced by an uncredited Gerry Anderson using an artificial larynx and the only main character Gerry Anderson ever voiced in one of his series ).

Stingray is a children's marionette television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment from 1964 – 65.

This episode was assembled by Gerry Anderson from recently discovered linking material shot in 1965, and takes the form of a new compilation episode ( featuring footage from the episodes " Stingray ", " An Echo of Danger " and " Emergency Marineville ").

Later, he was heavily involved with Alan Fennell's Century 21 Publishing company, becoming associated with Gerry Anderson classics such as Stingray, Thunderbirds, etc.