Gerry Anderson, Thunderbirds creator, dies

[MindPilot]

9. "Anything can happen in the next half-hour!"

That was the intro to Stingray.

I recall an interview with Gerry wherein he described the early days of lo-tech, low-budget production in an unheated warehouse where it was difficult to keep the water from freezing and the puppeteers up on the catwalk would be overcome by the smoke from all the pyrotechnics. Anglia Television was going head to head with the BBC and Terry Nation's Dr Who.

Sometime between the first and second season of Stingray, Styrofoam became available. That represented a major developmental milestone in Gerry's life, and the show; they no longer had to use coal to simulate rocks.

I still have a mad preteen crush on Lady Penelope (and her car)

F-A-B Gerry, you were a good teacher.