Gerry Anderson helping out The Prisoner?

Anne Onime

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Oct 6, 2010, 11:08:50 AM10/6/10

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The control room in Fallout has some similarities to that
in The Girl Who Was Death. I reckon they were both made
by Gerry Anderson. The lighthouse blowing up at the end
of TGWWD is surely a model on the large water tank which
the Andersons built for Stingray and Thunderbirds.

Brian Watson

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Oct 6, 2010, 5:54:28 PM10/6/10

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"Anne Onime" <anon...@rip.ax.lt> wrote in message
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That sounds likely.

SOMEONE had to do the SFX and the Anderson studio was very good at it (and
there was a connection through Lew Grade)
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roger

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Oct 6, 2010, 6:11:01 PM10/6/10

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"Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> > The lighthouse blowing up at the end
>> of TGWWD is surely a model on the large water tank which
>> the Andersons built for Stingray and Thunderbirds.
>
> That sounds likely.

Ah, but Gerry Anderson had four aquatic tanks. If they were filming on
borrowed water, which one was it?

Brian Watson

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Oct 8, 2010, 9:34:57 AM10/8/10

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"roger" <roadN...@prizSPAM.biz> wrote in message
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Possibly none. It MIGHT have been Gerry's bath.

Moor Larkin

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Oct 8, 2010, 11:51:10 AM10/8/10

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Gerry Anderson included McGoohan's name in the pilot script for
Captain Scarlet. McGoohan was pencilled in to voice the "World
President". There may be reason to think that some string-pulling was
going on.

Whilst the exploding lighthouse clip could easily be something
Anderson's team might crank out over lunch, I'm not so sure about the
control room in Fall-Out etc., because Anderson only made sests for
puppets at that time and I can't imagine Jack Shampan letting him do
so anyway, he must have been having a great time building those sets
himself.... :-))))

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Graeme

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Oct 8, 2010, 5:20:39 PM10/8/10

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Anderson's work may have inspired the lighthouse, but there's no
reason to think he actually built it himself.

Moor Larkin

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Oct 12, 2010, 11:09:49 AM10/12/10

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On 8 Oct, 22:20, Graeme <graemec...@aol.com> wrote:
> Anderson's work may have inspired the lighthouse, but there's no
> reason to think he actually built it himself.

Is there any reason to think Jack Shampan had the know-how to create
the sequence ? It looks to have been created specifically to be
passable as the Beachy Head lighthouse and so far as I know has never
been spotted as an out-take from some other show.

Moor Larkin

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Oct 20, 2010, 7:00:24 PM10/20/10

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John Lageau had recently finished working on Captain Scarlet, so the
links seem to be there.
http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/interviewslageu.htm

DJ: The next episode you worked on was "The Girl Who Was Death". One
of the sets was very much your work, wasn't it?

JL: Ah yes, the lighthouse interior. It was supposed to be a rocket
and I think that because I'd worked for De Havillands and Gerry
Anderson, Jack gave it to me to do. He said to me: "I don't know
anything about aircraft or spaceships - you do it." That was the only
set in that episode that was totally mine. It was interesting because
I had to make it look like a genuine lighthouse interior and rocket
interior at the same time.

DJ: One of the things that has puzzled us for a while now is the
destruction of the lighthouse at the end of the episode. This was a
model shot-one of very few such shots in "The Prisoner". Do you
remember if it was put out to a special effects company, or was it
done at MGM?

JL: I don't remember who actually did the shot - it may have been Les
Bowie - but it was done at MGM in the tank there. The model was about
four feet high and made of plaster. I actually went down to Beachy
Head to take photographs of the lighthouse.

Brian Watson

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Oct 21, 2010, 6:26:01 AM10/21/10

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"Moor Larkin" <moorl...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> On 6 Oct, 16:08, Anne Onime <anonym...@rip.ax.lt> wrote:
>> The control room in Fallout has some similarities to that
>> in The Girl Who Was Death. I reckon they were both made
>> by Gerry Anderson. The lighthouse blowing up at the end
>> of TGWWD is surely a model on the large water tank which
>> the Andersons built for Stingray and Thunderbirds.
>
>
> John Lageau had recently finished working on Captain Scarlet, so the
> links seem to be there.
> http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/interviewslageu.htm
>
> DJ: The next episode you worked on was "The Girl Who Was Death". One
> of the sets was very much your work, wasn't it?
>
> JL: Ah yes, the lighthouse interior. It was supposed to be a rocket
> and I think that because I'd worked for De Havillands and Gerry
> Anderson, Jack gave it to me to do.

Jack being Jack Shampan, I presume?

THOMAS CARNACKI

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Oct 19, 2017, 10:58:02 PM10/19/17

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Makes sense; Gerry & Co. had the skil and experience.