I’m very sad to announce the death of my father, Thunderbirds creator, Gerry Anderson. He died peacefully in his sleep at midday today (26th December 2013), having suffered with mixed dementia for the past few years. He was 83.
Very, very sad. Gerry Anderson was responsible for assembling a team who created hundreds of individual programmes which captivated children spanning several generations. The success of his productions is pretty much incomparable to anybody else's before or since.
That's very sad news. His works inspired many children and kept them glued to his classic series for years, even after they had finished. A very talented man.
That is really sad. Wasn't he planning a new series of Thunderbirds before his dementia hit? What a guy though, creating fantastic series right until the end of his life.
When they show a classic TV clip, they normally credit either the original production company or whoever bought the TV company archive.
For example, 'Tiswas', after ATV ceased broadcasting, clips shown on TV were always credited to ITC Entertainment, while Thames TV clips were credited to Pearson Television(now Fremantle Media).
I noticed the Gerry Anderson clips weren't credited in this way tonight.
These days, what should be the correct copyright for various former ITV companies?
I'm guessing the former current ITV companies, plus ex ATV & ITC stuff should be credited as 'ITV Studios', while Thames should be 'Fremantle Media' & ABC should be 'Studio Canal' based on the recent ABC Public Eye episodes DVD release.
Noo not even close. He did the CGI Captain Scarlet in the 2000s, but he also did other series like Space Precinct. In fact I have to give kudos to the BBC who actually mentioned Space Precinct in his eulogy and got a decent quality clip too. It's by far the least remembered of Gerry Anderson's TV series. I think over here it was played on Sky One wasn't it back in the early 1990s.
:-(
A former member
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CGI Captain Scarlet in the 2000s
I remember that now, He hated what ITV did to it, cutting it in two, no credits or opening, and placing without promotion on MON. Sarbina had the same treatment on SMTM
When they show a classic TV clip, they normally credit either the original production company or whoever bought the TV company archive.
For example, 'Tiswas', after ATV ceased broadcasting, clips shown on TV were always credited to ITC Entertainment, while Thames TV clips were credited to Pearson Television(now Fremantle Media).
I noticed the Gerry Anderson clips weren't credited in this way tonight.
These days, what should be the correct copyright for various former ITV companies?
I'm guessing the former current ITV companies, plus ex ATV & ITC stuff should be credited as 'ITV Studios', while Thames should be 'Fremantle Media' & ABC should be 'Studio Canal' based on the recent ABC Public Eye episodes DVD release.
I thought Thames was formed by an ITA-forced merger between ABC and Rediffusion. Rediffusion had held the weekday franchise in London since 1955. ABC provided a weekend service for the then Midlands and Northern regions. Weekdays were provided by ATV and Granada respectively, and, in those days, until franchise renewal in '68, Yorkshire and the North-West of England were a single "North of England" franchise area.
Gerry Anderson did lots of things since Terrahawks. As well as Space Precinct and New Captain Scarlet, he also created Lavender Castle which I reckon should have been included in CITVs Old Skool weekend, and even a Japanese anime series in 2002 called Firestorm.
He was a big part of my childhood and I never get tired watching his Supermarionation shows over and over. Sad to hear the news and now he joins Peter Wragg (who worked on Captain Scarlet and Joe 90, and subsequently went on to do the special effects for Red Dwarf), two greats connected with each other from my childhood and adulthood who passed away this year.
When they show a classic TV clip, they normally credit either the original production company or whoever bought the TV company archive.
For example, 'Tiswas', after ATV ceased broadcasting, clips shown on TV were always credited to ITC Entertainment, while Thames TV clips were credited to Pearson Television(now Fremantle Media).
I noticed the Gerry Anderson clips weren't credited in this way tonight.
These days, what should be the correct copyright for various former ITV companies?
I'm guessing the former current ITV companies, plus ex ATV & ITC stuff should be credited as 'ITV Studios', while Thames should be 'Fremantle Media' & ABC should be 'Studio Canal' based on the recent ABC Public Eye episodes DVD release.
I thought Thames was formed by an ITA-forced merger between ABC and Rediffusion. Rediffusion had held the weekday franchise in London since 1955. ABC provided a weekend service for the then Midlands and Northern regions. Weekdays were provided by ATV and Granada respectively, and, in those days, until franchise renewal in '68, Yorkshire and the North-West of England were a single "North of England" franchise area.
Thames didn't automatically get the copyright on all old ABC/Rediffusion stuff, didn't they?
They might have had the right for one repeat post franchise changeover(According to 'Timescreen' magazine, the ABC version of 'The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe', got a repeat showing early in the Thames era. I think some ABC Callan episodes also got a Thames repeat(which accounts for those particular episodes now surviving!)).
Same with the ATV archive, which only had certain stuff transfer to Central, but Central did repeat some late period ATV stuff too.
(Mods - If this gets too far off topic(which I apologise for by the way!), can this be split off separately?)