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RIP Gerry Anderson

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-12-27 02:57:47 UTC
The awesome TV shows I grew up with Sad

Sadly they just don't make that type of quality TV for kids anymore.
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-12-27 07:13:13 UTC
I grew up with Thunderbirds and Stingray. Quality shows.

He had a good innings though and luckily didnt suffer long through his altzheimers.

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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-12-27 09:00:31 UTC
Well, at least he lived past the presumed apocalypse on 21/12/12.

Good night, sweet prince.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#4 - 2012-12-27 14:49:59 UTC
Yeah. Found out last night from a tweet by William Gibson of all things.

His best show though, despite its hare-brained premise, was Space:1999. I had forgotten that at the time it was the most expensive series TV show ever made.

His puppet based shows were a bit before my time and concurrent till I was 2 years old, and were not in reruns in rural Arkansas, so I pretty much missed out until I was 13 and Starlog Magazine ran an episode guide of them all.

Great stuff. Sad day.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#5 - 2012-12-27 14:54:35 UTC
Gerry Anderson obit

Space: 1999 Opening credits

(I had forgotten about his other live-action show, "UFO")

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#6 - 2012-12-27 19:08:25 UTC
apparently peter stringfellow is going to his funeral
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#7 - 2012-12-27 21:40:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
jason hill wrote:
apparently peter stringfellow is going to his funeral



Who the heck is that ?



edit: well I found out. But it must be a British in- joke unknown to us Yanks.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Elias Greyhand
#8 - 2012-12-27 21:53:39 UTC
jason hill wrote:
apparently peter stringfellow is going to his funeral


I say there should be bouncers on the door to keep him out.

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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#9 - 2012-12-27 21:54:22 UTC
And let's not forget Fireball XL-5.

The music at 0:55 should kick in every time we enter warp. Lol

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-12-28 00:48:12 UTC
this definately needs to on the eve playlist :D

opening 1:04 are just awesome, and eerily scary Oops
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#11 - 2012-12-28 13:37:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Kitty Bear wrote:
this definately needs to on the eve playlist :D

opening 1:04 are just awesome, and eerily scary Oops



Amusing to think if the latter part after 1:04 were on the playlist Lol


edit: How did I ever survive the super-cheesy groovy 70's ?

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
CCP Falcon
#12 - 2012-12-28 14:35:44 UTC
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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#13 - 2012-12-28 20:44:14 UTC
New York Times obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/arts/television/gerry-anderson-animator-of-puppetry-dies-at-83.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&seid=auto&_r=0

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#14 - 2012-12-28 22:16:49 UTC
Yeah, saw this... Saw all those puppets in my mind's eye doing the 'missing man' formation over his memorial.
Sad

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#15 - 2012-12-29 00:40:11 UTC
This year we have lost so many icons and legendsCry
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#16 - 2012-12-29 00:51:21 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
This year we have lost so many icons and legendsCry


Maybe the mayans were right after all .....
Emiko P'eng
#17 - 2012-12-29 02:14:33 UTC
RIP Gerry!

Another of my Childhood heroes bits the dust! Sad

I loved Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds & Joe 90 as a kid

In later life I even enjoyed his off beat late night comedy **** Spanner PI from the early days of Channel 4

(Lol To save breaking the forum rules over the shortened version of Richard I've linked it straight to the wikipage)
Arkady Vachon
The Gold Angels
Sixth Empire
#18 - 2012-12-29 07:43:15 UTC
RIP

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