Saturday, January 26, 2013

GERRY ANDERSON TRIBUTE - BBC ‘NEWSNIGHT’

Back on January 11th, the Beeb’s Newsnight program aired a six minute look at the career of Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson.

Great to see Shane Rimmer at the funeral. He is in error, however, when he speaks of Thunderbirds being the first Anderson show to crack the U.S. market. While there was no little bit of interest from all three major television networks, the anticipated deal went bust. It was actually the earlier Anderson series, Supercar (1961-62), that broke into the all-important American arena (syndication). And it was Fireball XL5 (1962-63) that became the first, and only one, of his programs to run on a U.S. network... NBC.

I like what Anderson says a couple of minutes into the program; advice that was given to him early in his career....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8uZrhziMA

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