A part of my childhood has faded away this week... might not be much to some of you guys but Gerry Anderson died on 26th December...
He was best known for creating a number of puppet based sci-fi programmes, including a series called Thunderbirds, which had its naming roots based on a US airbase known as Thunderbird Field, where his late brother trained during WWII...
In sequence, some of his best known programmes were: Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, UFO and Space 1999 - the last two being live-action based programmes...
RIP, Mr Anderson...