Sunday, September 7, 2008

Some Rare Gerry Anderson Videos

MrJim over at YouTube disappoints me by disallowing embedding of his videos.

He has a great collection too! I'll have to content myself with providing the text links:

The Saturday Show - Terrahawks Special (Part One)
The Saturday Show Terrahawks special as shown on Central TV in 1984. Features an interview with Gerry Anderson & Kate Kestrel (Moya Griffiths), along with clips from Gerrys past productions & exclusive Terrahawks material made for the interview. Also includes the one & only complete showing of the SOS video.

The Saturday Show - Terrahawks Special (Part Two)
The Saturday Show - Terrahawks Special (Part Three)

Some custom footage from Terrahawks was made for this Saturday kids show. It's painful to watch as an adult. I guess kids would have liked it at the time.

Time of Your Life - Gerry Anderson & Thunderbirds (BBC 1983)
1983 interview with Gerry Anderson, Christine Glanville & David Graham. Also featuring members from Fanderson along for support.

OK, seeing grown adults dressed up as Anderson characters just creeps me out. A bit of sadness here. Gerry Anderson mentioning a new series of Thunderbirds hopefully appearing on TVs "next year" (that would have been 1984!). 1983 is now 2008!

Phillips Auction - APF/C21 Puppets (L!VE TV 1995) Thunderbirds
Coverage of the 1995 Phillips auction, selling the various puppets & heads from Supercar, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 & The Secret Service. All coming from the private collections of Sylvia Anderson, Mary Turner & John Read.

This is the controversial Sylvia Anderson puppet auction. Gerry was not at all happy about this. There's some rare footage of Sylvia Anderson -- who breaks into the voice of Lady Penelope on camera! The Lady Penelope puppet went for a whopping thirty-thousand Pounds. Who bought it? Where is it now?

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