#The adventures of twizzle dvd series#
#The adventures of twizzle dvd tv#

Despite APF's success with Four Feather Falls, Granada did not commission another series from them, so Anderson took up the offer to direct a film for Anglo Amalgamated Studios. During production Provis left the partnership (partly due to personal differences with Anderson) but the company retained the name 'AP Films' for several more years.

#The adventures of twizzle dvd tv#

Although the APF puppet productions made the Andersons world famous, Gerry Anderson was always unhappy about working with puppets, and made them primarily as a means of getting a foot in the door with TV networks, hoped to use them as a stepping stone to ihs desired goal - making live action film and TV drama.ĪP Films' third series was the children's western fantasy-adventure series Four Feather Falls (1959-60). The Adventures of Twizzle was followed by another another low budget puppet series with Leigh, Torchy the Battery Boy (1958-59). Following his divorce, Anderson and Thamm married, in November 1960. It was Anderson's first work with puppets, and the start of his long and successful collaborations with puppeteer Christine Glanville, special effects technician Derek Meddings and composer, arranger Barry Gray.ĭuring production of Twizzle, Anderson began an affair with Thamm, and eventually left his wife and children. Created by Roberta Leigh, The Adventures of Twizzle (1957-58) was a series for young children children about a doll with the ability to 'twizzle' his arms and legs to greater lengths. Anderson continued his freelance directing work to keep money coming in.ĪP Films' first television venture was produced for Granada TV. Pentagon was wound up soon after and Anderson and Provis formed a new company, AP Films, with Hill and Read as partners. After Polytechnic collapsed, Anderson, Provis, Reg Hill and John Read formed Pentagon Films in 1957 secretary Sylvia Thamm later became Anderson's second wife. In the mid-1950s Anderson joined independent television production company Polytechnic Studios, as a director, where he met cameraman Arthur Provis.

During this time he married Betty Wrightman and they had two children. He then worked freelance on a succession of feature films. After completing his military service, he returned to Gainsborough and remained there until the studio folded in 1950. In 1947, he was conscripted for national service with the RAF. He developed an interest in film editing and moved on to Gainsborough Pictures, where he gained further experience. Gerry Anderson began his career in photography and after the war he secured a traineeship with the British Colonial Film Unit. He often he wrote to his family and one of these letters described a USAF airbase called Thunderbird Field, a name that stuck in his brother's memory. When World War II broke out, Anderson's older brother Lionel volunteered for the RAF and was posted to the United States. The family name was changed by deed poll in 1939.

Anderson was born Gerald Alexander Abrahams on 14 April 1929 in Hampstead, London.