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Favorite Gerry Anderson TV Series

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6.3

7.8

Thunderbirds (1965)

Creators & Producers: Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson
Starring (voices): Shane Rimmer, Sylvia Anderson, Peter Dyneley Ray Barrett, David Holliday, Christine Finn, Charles Tingwell, Paul Maxwell, David Graham, Matt Zimmerman, John Tate and Jeremy Wilkin

In the 21st century, the Tracy family operate a unique private mechanized emergency response service known as 'International Rescue' from their secret HQ on Tracy Island.

kathy's rating:

8.2

7.9

UFO (1970)

Creators & Producers: Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson and Reg Hill
Starring: Ed Bishop, George Sewell, Vladek Sheybal, Steven Berkoff, Michael Billington, Peter Gordeno, Anouska Hempel, Wanda Ventham, Gabrielle Drake and Ayshea Brough

British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth. Earth is being visited and attacked by aliens from a dying planet and humans are being covertly harvested for their organs by the aliens.

The show's main cast of characters are members of a secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO (an acronym for Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation) established to defend Earth and humanity against the mysterious aliens and learn more about them, while at the same time keeping the threat of an alien invasion hidden from the public.

kathy's rating:

7.3

7.8

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)

Creators & Producers: Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson
Starring (voices): Francis Matthews, Sylvia Anderson, Ed Bishop, Cy Grant and Jeremy Wilkin

A literally unkillable agent leads an international intelligence agency's fight against an extra-terrestrial terror campaign.

kathy's rating:

7.5

Stingray

Creators & Producers: Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson
Starring (voices): David Graham, Ray Barrett, Lois Maxwell, Robert Easton and Don Mason

Stingray, a highly-sophisticated combat submarine built for speed and manoeuvrability, is the flag vessel of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP), a security organisation based at Marineville in the year 2065. The pilot of Stingray is Captain Troy Tempest. He is paired with Dixie navigator Lieutenant George Lee Sheridan, nicknamed "Phones" for his role as Stingray's hydrophone operator.

During the course of the series, Stingray encounters a number of undersea races, both hostile and otherwise. The Aquaphibians, an aquatic warrior race, appear regularly—usually under the command of King Titan, who is the tyrannical ruler of the underwater city of Titanica. After once helping him to escape, Troy becomes infatuated with a Titan slave girl named Marina, a mute young woman who can breathe underwater.

kathy's rating:

7.5

6.8

Joe 90

Creators & Producers: Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson
Starring (voices): Len Jones, Rupert Davies, Keith Alexander, David Healy, Sylvia Anderson, Gary Files, Martin King, Jeremy Wilkin and Shane Rimmer

The adventures of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine, who starts a double life as a schoolchild-turned-superspy after his scientist father invents a device capable of duplicating expert knowledge and experience and transferring it to a different human brain. Equipped with the skills of the foremost academic and military minds, Joe is recruited by the World Intelligence Network (WIN) and, as its "Most Special Agent", pursues the objective of world peace and saving human life.

kathy's rating:

138

7.2

7.3

Space: 1999 (1975)

Creators & Producers: Gerry Anderson and and Sylvia Anderson
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Nick Tate and Catherine Schell

In 1999, Moonbase Alpha, nestled in the Lunar crater Plato, is a scientific research colony and watchdog over silos of atomic waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side. On September 13, 1999, magnetic energy builds to cause an explosive chain-reaction of the waste, blasting the Moon out of Earth orbit and off the plane of the ecliptic, out of the Solar System. The inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha are unable to return to Earth and must survive on their wandering Moon as it is displaced further into unknown space by freak space warps.

kathy's rating:

7.1

6.7

Space Precinct

Creator & Producer: Gerry Anderson
Starring: Ted Shackelford, Rob Youngblood, Simone Bendix and Nancy Paul

The extraterrestrial adventures of former NYPD detective Patrick Brogan, now a lieutenant with the Demeter City police force on the planet Altor. Brogan and his partner Jack Haldane must adjust to living in another solar system, and investigating crimes being committed by aliens as well as humans.

kathy's rating:

7.2

7.1

The Protectors

Creator & Producer: Gerry Anderson
Starring: Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt and Yasuko Nagazumi

Three freelance troubleshooters: Harry Rule, the Contessa di Contini and Paul Buchet run an international crime fighting agency known as The Protectors. Based in London, Harry is the leader of the group. The Contessa lives in Italy and, when she isn't working with Harry, runs her own detective agency that specialises in exposing art frauds and recovering stolen art. Paul Buchet works out of Paris and is the group's researcher and gadget specialist. Their adventures range from simple kidnapping to convoluted cases of international intrigue.

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