On a sadder note: Silvia Anderson Thunderbirds TV show co-creator and voice of Lady Penelope is dead

by | Mar 16, 2016 | History, On a Sadder Note | 0 comments

Sylvia Anderson, co-creator with her then husband Gerry Anderson of the futuristic puppet adventure series Thunderbirds, and voice of its Lady Penelope character as passed away at the age of 88. During the 1960s and 1970s, the creative team of Century 21 productions, led by the Andersons made several futuristic puppet animation series including Fireball XL5, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and of course Thunderbirds.  Many of today’s aerospace designers were inspired by the hypersonic flying machine creations of these series. For space cadets, in the 1970s the team also made the moon base-set live action science fiction series, UFO and Space 1999.

However, it was for her voice that Silvia Anderson will be most remembered. In Thunderbirds, she had the voice role of Lady Penelope, the upper class-accented English lady secret agent, who was ably assisted by her moaning butler and chauffeur of her futuristic pink Rolls Royce, Parker. Anderson also later played Lady Penelope’s elderly great aunt Sylvia in the new CGI animated television remake of Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds Are Go. We give Sylvia Anderson our salute and her family and her friends our condolences.

About Seradata

Seradata produce the renowned Seradata database. Trusted by over 100 of the world’s leading Space organisations, Seradata is a fully queryable database used for market analysis, failure/risk assessment, spectrum analysis and space situational awareness (SSA).

For more information go to https://www.seradata.com/product/

Related Articles

Categories

Archives

Tags

nasaspacexecoreviewsissesaArianespacevideochinaFalcon 9v1.2FT Block 525virgin galacticULAfalcon 9RoscosmosevaDGAspacewalkaviation weekaressoyuzIGTInternational Space StationRocket LabBeidouawardsBlue OriginStarlinkspaceSatellite broadcastingrussiamoonboeingAirbus DSISROCargo Return VehicleresearchOneWebmarsblogspaceshiptwojaxaorionmarsimpactdelayhyperbolaEutelsatdemocratrocketlunarhypertextobamagoogle lunar prizelaunchVegabarack obamaconstellationSEStourismnorthfiguresthales alenia spacespaceflightnode 2fundedIntelsatRaymond Lygo2009Lockheed MartinExpress MD-2Elon MuskAtlas Vromess2dassault aviationaviationLucy2008wk2sstlukradiomissilesuborbitaldocking portexplorationAriane 5 ECAVirgin OrbittestinternetLong March 2D/2sts-122Ariane 5Northrop GrummanSLSChina Manned Space EngineeringElectronflightspace tourism2010cotsnewspapermissile defensegalileospaceportExpress AMU 1Long March 4Cbuildspace stationaltairsoyuz 2-1aProton Minternational astronautical congressshuttlespace shuttleEuropean Space AgencyLauncherOneCosmosIntelsat 23scaled compositesnew yorkrulesAriane 6hanleybudgetatvVietnamshenzhoucongressMojaveboldenLong March 2COrbital ATKInmarsatcnesnew shepardiaclunar landerGuiana Space CenterkscApollolawsSpace Systems/LoralUK Space AgencyLong March 4BKuaizhou 1AILSprotonUS Air ForceTalulah RileydarpaElectron KSFalcon 9v1.2 Block 5Vega CeuAstriumSkylonpicturebaseusaastronautdragonlanderfiveeventTelesatNorth KoreaSSLAprilSNC50thinterviewLong MarchSea LaunchfalconWednesdaycustomerlinkatlantissuccessor