Book excerpt: For 50 years, producer Gerry Anderson has entertained television viewers with his own unique style of programs, presenting futuristic action-adventure stories in a variety of visual media ranging from Supermarionation puppetry and live action combined with state-of-the-art model effects to animatronics, stop-motion, and CGI animation. In this revised volume, Chris Bentley details all of Gerry Anderson's productions, including not only such cult television series such as Thunderbirds, UFO, and Space:1999, but also his feature films and unseen pilot episodes. The book also includes story synopses, production dates, broadcast details, full cast and crew lists, script changes, missing scenes, continuity errors and miscellaneous trivia from over 500 television episodes. This new edition also includes more than 60 color photographs as well as behind-the-scenes information from Gerry Anderson's 2005 series, Captain Scarlet.