Anderson was born Gerald Alexander Abrahams on 14 April 1929 in Hampstead, London. The family name was changed by deed poll in 1939. When World War II broke out, Anderson's older brother Lionel volunteered for the RAF and was posted to the United States. He often wrote to his family and one of these letters described a USAF airbase called Thunderbird Field, a name that stuck in his brother's memory. Gerry Anderson began his career in photography and after the war he secured a traineeship with the British Colonial Film Unit. He developed an interest in film editing and moved on to Gai ...

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Sylvia and Gerry Anderson, Sylvia and Gerry Anderson - Biography, Sylvia and Gerry Anderson - Gerry Anderson productions, Sylvia and Gerry Anderson - TV series and broadcast dates, Sylvia and Gerry Anderson - Feature films

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In the year 2068, peace on Earth is maintained by the Spectrum organisation, a super efficient security organisation headquartered in the vast floating aircraft carrier Skybase, hovering on the edge of Earth's atmosphere and manned by agents recruited from various military services, each assigned colour codenames to protect their true identities. Under the command of Colonel White, Spectrum has become the supreme peace keeping force, maintaining a fleet of sophisticated vehicles for use by spectrum field agents including White Falcon Interce ...

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Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet - The Story, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet - Characters

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21 (twenty-one) is the natural number following 20 and preceding 22. << 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 >> List of numbers -- Integers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 >> 21 number - In sports. Great twenty-ones include Mike Eruzione of the 1980 Men's Gold Olympic Hockey Team, Roberto Clemente, Hall-of-Famer of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Peter Forsberg, a great hockey player for the Quebec Nordiques, Colora ...

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Captain Scarlet (Paul Metcalfe) Leading Spectrum field agent, a 32 year old dual-nationality (British/American) former USAF and Special Forces officer, replaced by a virtually indestructible replicant. Captain Blue (Adam Svenson) 32 year old American agent, a decorated former US Army officer and first class sportsman. Destiny Angel (Simmone Giraudoux) 29 year old dual nationality (American/British) White Falcon pilot, a former USAF pilot and ISA astronaut. Colonel White (Sir Charles Gray) Spectrum Commanding Officer, a 55 year old British f ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 first aired on local TV in the Twin Cities on KTMA-TV, a UHF station (not a cable access channel, as is sometimes reported) from November 24, 1988 to May 1989. The station's declining fortunes forced it to cancel MST3K, but just as its run was ending, the creators used a short "best-of" reel to pitch the concept to executives at the Comedy Channel, a national cable channel that was then being created. It became one of the first two shows picked up by it. After one season there, Comedy Channel and ri ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Premise, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - History, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - DVD, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The cast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The guys, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Mads, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Recurring guest characters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Quotes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The episodes

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The United States has seen almost every Godzilla and Gamera film, as well as many Japanese kaiju films up to the early 1970s, but mainstream America does not look at these films very favorably. Even only a handful of Japanese superhero shows such as Ultraman (the most recognized Japanese superhero in America, of course), The Space Giants and Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot made it here, as well as Spectreman, which was the last major superhero production to be seen in the States, whereas ironically, it was just the beginning (in that exact same period, Kamen RiderSee also:

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Great twenty-ones include Mike Eruzione of the 1980 Men's Gold Olympic Hockey Team, Roberto Clemente, Hall-of-Famer of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Peter Forsberg, a great hockey player for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche and now Philadelphia Flyers and a future Hall-of-Famer. 21 is also a variation of street basketball. ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 started with a short run on Minnesota UHF station KTMA channel 23 from November 24, 1988 to 1989. Just as it was ending this local broadcast, it became one of the first two shows picked up by the new Comedy Channel. Subsequent original episodes aired on the Comedy Channel, Comedy Central, and the Sci Fi Channel from 1989 to 1999. The show's run coincided with the growth of the Internet, and numerous fans (MSTies) devoted websites to the series. The Internet also facilitated tape-trading of previous ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Premise, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - History, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - DVD, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The cast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The guys, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Mads, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Recurring guest characters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Quotes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The episodes

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Space: 1999 was the first attempt since the demise of Star Trek in 1969 at producing a large-scale weekly science fiction series, and the show drew a great deal of visual inspiration (and technical expertise) from the Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The show's special effects director Brian Johnson had in fact previously worked on both Thunderbirds (as Brian Johncock) and 2001. It was the last in a long line of successful science-fiction series that the Andersons produced as a couple, ...

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Space: 1999, Space: 1999 - Series overview, Space: 1999 - The Basic Plot, Space: 1999 - Concepts And Plot Points, Space: 1999 - Series Flaws and Criticisms, Space: 1999 - The Rise and Fall Of Series 2, Space: 1999 - A Resolution Of Sorts, Space: 1999 - Space: 2024?, Space: 1999 - Episodes, Space: 1999 - Season 1 1975-1976, Space: 1999 - Season 2 1976-1977, Space: 1999 - Motion picture releases, Space: 1999 - Books comics and media, Space: 1999 - Trivia

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Great twenty-ones include Mike Eruzione of the 1980 Men's Gold Olympic Hockey Team, Roberto Clemente, Hall-of-Famer of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Peter Forsberg, a great hockey player for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche and now Philadelphia Flyers and a future Hall-of-Famer. Rising representatives of the great number of twenty-one include Bailey Buran (basketball, track & field, volleyball) and Liza Kane-Hartnett (volleyball, b ...

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21 number, 21 number - In sports, 21 number - In mathematics, 21 number - In science, 21 number - In human affairs: age 21, 21 number - In other fields

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Great number twenty-ones include Mike Eruzione of the 1980 Men's Gold Olympic Hockey Team, Roberto Clemente, Hall-of-Famer of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Peter Forsberg, a great hockey player for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche and now Philadelphia Flyers and a future Hall-of-Famer. 21 is also a variation of street basketball. ...

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The basic premise, played out over 32 episodes, was that a special International group, Spectrum, defends the Earth from the insidious plans of the alien Mysterons. On a mission to Mars in 2068, a Mysteron 'city' was destroyed by Captain Black, leading the Mysterons to declare a "War of Nerves" on Earth. The Mysterons have the ability to replicate and then control any person they kill or anything they destroy, through their power of retro-metabolism. They use this power to conduct a war of terror against Earth—primarily aimed at the ...

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Captain Scarlet, Captain Scarlet - The story, Captain Scarlet - Characters, Captain Scarlet - Puppets, Captain Scarlet - Episode List, Captain Scarlet - Later productions, Captain Scarlet - Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, Captain Scarlet - Original novels, Captain Scarlet - Trivia

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"Stand by for action! We are about to launch Stingray! Anything can happen in the next half-hour!" These words, accompanied by a montage of action scenes, get each episode off to a rousing start. Stingray, a highly sophisticated submarine built for speed and manouevrability, is the flagship of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol, a 21st century security organisation based at Marineville, located somewhere near the west coast of the United States. In case of an attack the entire city can be lowered into the ground on hydraulic jacks. Ma ...

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Fans were upset by the lack of narrative closure, particularly in that the ultimate fate of the Alphans was never resolved. Years later, at the Breakaway 1999 convention, a short film titled Message from Moonbase Alpha, and produced by fans and written by series scribe Johnny Byrne, was premiered on, appropriately enough, September 13th, 1999. Featuring a moving eulogy performed by series regular Zienia Merton (in character as Sandra Benes), it told of the Alphans finally colonizing the planet Terra Alpha and saying their final farewe ...

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Space: 1999, Space: 1999 - Series overview, Space: 1999 - The Basic Plot, Space: 1999 - Concepts And Plot Points, Space: 1999 - Series Flaws and Criticisms, Space: 1999 - The Rise and Fall Of Series 2, Space: 1999 - A Resolution Of Sorts, Space: 1999 - Space: 2024?, Space: 1999 - Episodes, Space: 1999 - Season 1 1975-1976, Space: 1999 - Season 2 1976-1977, Space: 1999 - Motion picture releases, Space: 1999 - Books comics and media, Space: 1999 - Trivia

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Johnny Byrne has since revealed that Message was intended as a back-door pilot in hopes of promoting enough interest in the series to convince both series creator Gerry Anderson and potential investors of the viability of a new series. According to Byrne's revival concept, the series would take place some 25 years after the events in Message, and feature the children of the Alphans who leave Terra Alpha when the Moon and its Moonbase mysteriously return. The revival series would have delved more into the metaphysical asp ...

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Space: 1999, Space: 1999 - Series overview, Space: 1999 - The Basic Plot, Space: 1999 - Concepts And Plot Points, Space: 1999 - Series Flaws and Criticisms, Space: 1999 - The Rise and Fall Of Series 2, Space: 1999 - A Resolution Of Sorts, Space: 1999 - Space: 2024?, Space: 1999 - Episodes, Space: 1999 - Season 1 1975-1976, Space: 1999 - Season 2 1976-1977, Space: 1999 - Motion picture releases, Space: 1999 - Books comics and media, Space: 1999 - Trivia

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Individual episodes were intended to be broadcast in almost any order. The only guidelines are that Breakaway should be the first episode, followed by Season 1 episodes, with Testament of Arkadia being the last episode for Season 1. The Metamorph should be the first of Season 2, followed by the remaining episodes (there is a two-part episode in the second series). The order shown below is for ATV, the UK regional station based in Birmingham. Other stations, and other countries, used very different orders. In some cases, this included mixing S ...

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Space: 1999, Space: 1999 - Series overview, Space: 1999 - The Basic Plot, Space: 1999 - Concepts And Plot Points, Space: 1999 - Series Flaws and Criticisms, Space: 1999 - The Rise and Fall Of Series 2, Space: 1999 - A Resolution Of Sorts, Space: 1999 - Space: 2024?, Space: 1999 - Episodes, Space: 1999 - Season 1 1975-1976, Space: 1999 - Season 2 1976-1977, Space: 1999 - Motion picture releases, Space: 1999 - Books comics and media, Space: 1999 - Trivia

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The second season was, putting it mildly, problematic. Following the departure of Sylvia Anderson following her separation and subsequent divorce from husband Gerry, Fred Freiberger was brought in to help guide the series as producer. Freiberger was best known (and, to a vast majority of fans, infamous) for producing the critically derided third season of Star Trek, as well as producing the first few seasons of The Wild Wild West before being dismissed from the series due to creative differences. By Anderson's own accounts, and those ...

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Space: 1999, Space: 1999 - Series overview, Space: 1999 - The Basic Plot, Space: 1999 - Concepts And Plot Points, Space: 1999 - Series Flaws and Criticisms, Space: 1999 - The Rise and Fall Of Series 2, Space: 1999 - A Resolution Of Sorts, Space: 1999 - Space: 2024?, Space: 1999 - Episodes, Space: 1999 - Season 1 1975-1976, Space: 1999 - Season 2 1976-1977, Space: 1999 - Motion picture releases, Space: 1999 - Books comics and media, Space: 1999 - Trivia

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Since the show has been off the air since 2004 (and there have been no signs of it coming back), much of MST3K's loyal fanbase rely on DVD releases by Rhino. There have been 10 various releases of single movies (one episode, featuring the movie Beginning of the End, was recently discontinued due to rights issues), along with 8 "Collection" sets of the show. Collection sets consist of 4 movies and/or "shorts" DVDs each, and each set contains movies from any era. There is also an Essentials collection, containing two movies (the ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Premise, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - History, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - DVD, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The cast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The guys, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Mads, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Recurring guest characters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Quotes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The episodes

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Since the show has been off the air since 2004 (and there have been no signs of it coming back), much of MST3K's loyal fanbase rely on DVD releases by Rhino. There have been 10 various releases of single movies (one episode, featuring the movie Beginning of the End was recently discontinued due to rights issues), along with 8 "Collection" sets of the show. Collection sets consist of 4 movies and/or "shorts" DVDs each, and each set contains movies from any era. There is also an Essentials collection, containing two movies (the p ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Premise, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - History, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - DVD, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The cast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The guys, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Mads, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Recurring guest characters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Quotes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The episodes

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The character of Marina is unique among Supermarionation characters in that she never speaks, with the exception of the episode 'Raptures of the Deep', when she speaks to Troy Tempest in a dream. However, the character's lips do not move, probably because the puppet had no speech mechanism. In addition to the 39 television episodes, three original "audio adventures" featuring the original voice cast were released on EPs during the show's British run. These were later reissued on tape, and are included on the British DVD box set of the ...

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Stingray TV show, Stingray TV show - Story and characters, Stingray TV show - Voice actors, Stingray TV show - Episode List, Stingray TV show - External link

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