Today, I just found out from ANN and BBC News that yesterday, the British Film and T.V. industry had lost another great talent to fatal tragedy. This guy was Gerry Anderson, who died at age 83 after suffering two years of mixed dimentia, according to his son Jamie Anderson. Some of you may remember Gerry Anderson as the co-creator of a number of sci-fi T.V. classics, such as Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons, UFO (which I'm currently watching on YouTube), and Space: 1999.

Watching Space: 1999 on Canada's YTV during my childhood was what started my years of watching British Sci-Fi film and television, even though I ddin't yet know Space: 1999 was British during my first time watching it. And it was thanks to Thunderbirds that I got into watching several other Anderson sci-fi supermarionation shows, and so far, I've seen Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons, Fireball XL5 (one of the first shows I swa on teeltoon when the network became operational), and Stingray (though I only saw like its 1st episode). His marionate shows featured stories that feel like I can never outgrow so as long I value the imagination, and what amazing fictitious vehicles and machinery his sci-fi works in general featured. Gerry Anderson may be gone forever, but the memories of his science-fiction creativity will remain alive on this planet forever.

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