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Stingray: We Are About To Launch Stingray!

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Stand By For Action as Century 22 uncovers the production behind Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Stingray, one of classic television's best-loved series. Distinguished for pioneering filmmaking techniques in model shots, underwater visuals, and as an early TV series that was filmed in colour, Stingray remains one of the crowning jewels of the Gerry Anderson catalogue and is considered by some to be the finest of Gerry Anderson's programs. Massively successful in its 1960s merchandising, the series has enjoyed repeat exposure over the years to maintain the series' cult status.

Now, as Stingray celebrates its 60th Anniversary, Century 22 investigates into the making of this iconic series, produced by AP Films between 1963-1964. From the earliest recorded notes on the series, the sophisticated puppetry of SUPERMARIONATION, creating underwater effects shots, or the influences surrounding the making of filming a futuristic science-fiction series made in the 1960s, this new book will educate all of Stingray. There will be something for every aficionado in this publication. P.W.O.R! A CaptainThunderWho Century 22 Production.All Rights Reserved

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Bring The Magic Home!: The Story Of ITC's Carlton Video Home Entertainment

The Incorporated Television Company (ITC) produced some of the most groundbreaking and iconic television programs ever made. From gritty crime and espionages, exotic continental escapades, comedy misadventures, swashbucklers, charismatic philanthropists, outlandish alien adventure, life-saving SUPERMARIONATION heroics, to mind-boggling thrillers. It was Sir Lew Grade's incredible company that distributed many successful cult programs such as Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Space: 1999, UFO, Stingray, Joe 90, The Prisoner, The Saint, The Persuaders, Danger Man, Gideon's Way, The Muppet Show. Julie On Sesame Street, The Champions, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Baron, Man In A Suitcase, and many other cult series. Here, Century 22 Productions delves into the legends of these productions and their massive revival of interest in the early 2000s. Thanks to Carlton (who to all intents and purposes were ITV), these cult classics were launched into the new millennium in a new digitally remastered format that we are privileged to enjoy today. Some of these items are now highly praised and sought-after by collectors today. Take a trip down memory lane, and venture into the range of Carlton Video and to some of the programs which are regarded as some of the greatest television series ever made. A CaptainThunderWho Century 22 Production.