Alex Gallafent

Alex Gallafent

Alex Gallafent is the New York-based correspondent for The World. His reporting has taken him to Swaziland, Turkey, Chile, and India, among other places.

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Remembering Thunderbirds Creator Gerry Anderson

December 27, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Gerry Anderson, the creator of the cult 1960's television series Thunderbirds, poses with the original Lady Penelope puppet. (Photo: Reuters)

Gerry Anderson, the creator of the cult 1960's television series Thunderbirds, poses with the original Lady Penelope puppet. (Photo: Reuters)

The British TV-producer, Gerry Anderson died recently.

Anderson created a series of shows for kids in the 1960s, including Thunderbirds.

He wasn’t that well-known in the US, but, as The World’s Alex Gallafent reports, his influence reached these shores in the form of the movie “Team America: World Police.”


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2 comments for “Remembering Thunderbirds Creator Gerry Anderson”

  • moloko_velocet

    Watched this, and Stingray….and Joe 90. It was a great time to be a kid!

    • http://profiles.google.com/gallafent Alex Gallafent

      Wasn’t Joe 90 the best? I watched the series (and all the others) when they were repeated on British TV in the 1980s. I guess I didn’t register that they were in any sense dated–all Gerry Anderson’s shows seemed to capture a kind of technological future perpetually out-of-reach. 

      And what kid couldn’t love the idea of stepping into a machine and stepping out with the knowledge, skills and experience of the world’s greatest scientists, thinkers and athletes?