Re: Thunderbirds are Go - 1966 , Film 4

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:53:02 +0100, Sofa - Spud <comfysofas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The opening sequence with the Mars mission craft being assembled with lifting bodies and crew compartments must have take ages to build and film - such dedication . What were they thinking with Cliff Richard and the shadows is what I want to know!

For me it was always the cool hardware that made all of the Gerry
Anderson series worth watching, even if the rest of the shows were
sometimes a bit crap. Funnily enough I was watching Space 1999 this
afternoon and was thinking what a great piece of engineering design
the Eagle Transporters were. They looked fantastic, but believable
without any fanciful superfluous bits, unlike a lot of sci-fi
spacecraft. Also I think that Thunderbird 2 is an industrial design
classic and hasn't dated even though it is over 40 years old and the
same goes for a lot of the other vehicles in the other shows.

I've always wondered though, exactly who it was who designed the various
craft in the Anderson series, was it Gerry himself? Does anyone know?

Fred X
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