Gerry Anderson
Name coined by Gerry Anderson for the puppetry technique that he used in his various series |
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Supermarionation |
Thunderbirds
The Tracy brothers – alphabetical order:
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Alan |
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Gordon |
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John |
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Scott |
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Virgil |
'Thunderbird' pilot order:
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Scott |
2 |
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Virgil |
3 |
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Alan |
4 |
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Gordon |
5 |
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John / Alan |
Alan's co–pilot in Thunderbird 3 |
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Scott |
Thunderbird that was a submarine, piloted by an 'Aquanaut' (Gordon) |
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Thunderbird 4 |
Thunderbird that was a space station in permanent geostationary orbit, manned alternately by John and Alan |
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Thunderbird 5 |
The Tracy brothers' father |
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Jeff |
NASA programme after whose astronauts all the Scott brothers were named |
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Mercury |
Registration number of Lady Penelope's Rolls Royce |
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FAB 1 |
Lady Penelope's surname |
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Creighton–Ward |
Lady Penelope's cockney butler and chauffeur – catchphrase "Yes, milady" |
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Aloysius 'Nosey' Parker |
Organisation that all the characters worked for |
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International Rescue |
Thunderbirds featured a recurring villain, who was not named in the series, but was known in books etc. as |
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The Hood |
The Tracy family's manservant: half–brother of The Hood, and father of the beautiful female character
Tin–Tin (later renamed Tanusha) |
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Kyrano |
Captain Scarlet
Paul Metcalf is |
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Captain Scarlet |
Voice of Captain Scarlet |
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Paul Matthews |
Captain Scarlet's arch–enemy |
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Captain Black |
Angels in Captain Scarlet:
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Symphony |
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Melody |
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Rhapsody |
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Harmony |
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Destiny |
Stingray
"Stand by for action … anything can happen in the next half hour." Intro to |
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Stingray |
Pilot of Stingray |
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Troy Tempest |
Stingray's navigator |
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Phones |
Troy and Phones's wheelchair–bound commander |
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Commander Sam Shore |
Rescues Troy and Phones in the pilot episode, and becomes a regular member of the crew; former slave girl, modelled on
Brigitte Bardot; she is mute, but can breathe under water |
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Marina |
Other
Title character was an agent for the World Intelligence Network |
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Joe 90 |
Vertical–takeoff–and–landing craft invented by Prof. Rudolph Popkiss and Dr. Horatio Beaker, and
piloted by Mike Mercury |
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Supercar |
Young Jimmy Gibson and his pet monkey, Mitch, become part of the team after being rescued in the first episode |
Sheriff of Four Feather Falls |
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Tex Tucker |
Pilot of Fireball XL5 |
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Steve Zodiac |
Robot companion of the above (voiced by Gerry Anderson) |
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Robert |
1970–3: the Andersons' first all–live–action series; all main characters, including Ed Straker
and Paul Foster, work for SHADO (Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation) |
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UFO |
1975–7: their last series; 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha are hurtled into space when a nuclear waste dump
explodes; starred American actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, who were married in real life but not in the series |
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Space: 1999 |
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