Gerry Anderson
(April 14, 1929 - December 26, 2012)

You Will Be Missed!!!

• The Adventures of Twizzle (1957–59)
• Torchy the Battery Boy (first series only) (1960)
• Four Feather Falls (1960)
• Supercar (1961–62) – first Supermarionation production
• Fireball XL5 (1962–63)
• Stingray (1964–65)
• Thunderbirds (1965–66)
• Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–68)
• Joe 90 (1968–69)
• The Secret Service (1969)
• UFO (1970–71)
• The Protectors (1972–74)
• Space: 1999 (1975–77)
• Terrahawks (1983–84, 1986)
• Dick Spanner, P.I. (1987)
• Space Precinct (1994–95)
• Lavender Castle (1999–2000)
• Firestorm (2003)

• Crossroads to Crime (1960)
• Thunderbirds Are Go (1966)
• Thunderbird 6 (1968)
• Doppelgänger (1969) a.k.a. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

RIP Gerry Anderson

Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee in Space 1999 (1975-1977)

joesgiantrobots:

Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet vehicles

Wicked-cool Captain Scarlet vehicles! I love replicas (ah, fuck it… TOYS, I love toys) that have small moving parts and doors that open to show tiny people or objects inside!

The wiki says:

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Well-trusted by the commander-in-chief of Spectrum, Colonel White, Captain Scarlet is the primary agent of the organisation and is assigned the most dangerous and crucial missions.

He is a close friend of Captain Blue, with whom he undertakes the majority of his missions, although he is on friendly terms with all other Spectrum agents. A close relationship with Destiny Angel is also hinted at several times in the series.

Death, Mysteronisation, and resurrection

Captain Scarlet was killed in the first episode of the series, “The Mysterons,” in a car crash brought about by the Mysterons, which also resulted in the death of Captain Brown. Both men were reconstructed by the aliens, who assigned their exact likenesses of both men to assassinate the World President. The Captain Brown likeness was turned into a walking bomb for this purpose. When this attempt failed, the Captain Scarlet likeness kidnapped the President from Cloudbase and flew him to England, taking him to the top of the London Car-Vu, a large car park tower. Cornered while holding the President at gunpoint over the city below, the Captain Scarlet likeness was shot by Captain Blue and fell 800 feet to his apparent destruction. However, at the end of the episode it was revealed that Captain Scarlet was returning to life and had become almost incapable of dying permanently due to the powers of the Mysterons, although the fall had broken the Mysteron programming and returned him to his original personality. This extraordinary ability heals Scarlet of physical injuries within hours, making him virtually indestructible.

Captain Scarlet’s Mysteronised body, like those of all Mysteron likenesses, is still vulnerable to electricity and impervious to X-rays. He also has a “sixth sense” when in the presence of a strong Mysteron influence - he becomes nauseated, sweats, and suffers a severe headache - but this sense sometimes does not indicate all Mysteron presences in an area. Though Captain Scarlet “dies” several times in the course of the series - usually quite violently - he always returns to life. In “Attack on Cloudbase,” Captain Scarlet is declared finally and permanently dead during the course of the battle for Cloudbase; however, this is later revealed to be Symphony Angel’s hallucination as she is stranded in a desert, waiting for Spectrum to rescue her following a plane crash.

~Joe

Space: 1999 (1975-1977)