Terrahawks

Terrahawks Set in the year 2020, the series followed the adventures of the Terrahawks, a taskforce responsible for protecting Earth from invasion by a group of extraterrestrial androids and aliens led by Zelda. Like Anderson's previous puppet series, futuristic vehicles and technology featured prominently in each episode. Gerry Anderson was best known for his Supermarionation TV series of the 1960s, which made use of electronically augmented mari... more

Terrahawks Set in the year 2020, the series followed the adventures of the Terrahawks, a taskforce responsible for protecting Earth from invasion by a group of extraterrestrial androids and aliens led by Zelda. Like Anderson's previous puppet series, futuristic vehicles and technology featured prominently in each episode. Gerry Anderson was best known for his Supermarionation TV series of the 1960s, which made use of electronically augmented marionettes. Terrahawks was his first puppet series since The Secret Service in 1969, and used latex muppet-style hand puppets to animate the characters, in a process Anderson dubbed Supermacromation. The absence of strings allowed for much smoother movement of the puppets, and could be used to more easily produce the illusion of the puppets walking. The necessarily static puppets of previous series had been a source of frustration to Anderson during his Supermarionation days. The series is set in the year 2020, after an alien force has destroyed... less