Any Thunderbirds boffins awake?

[bossgriff]

My husband and I are watching the Thunderbirds programme on BBC 2 now and we were just wondering if anybody knew the road on Slough Trading Estate that AP Productions were based. My husband is convinced that the building is still there but I think it may have been knocked down.

[Glassman]

Stirling Road?




BTW, couple of my mates reckon I look like the villain in Thrunderbirds.

[DAVEVO9]

Stirling Rd. Slough Ind est.

Prior to being based in Slough production company AP films shot its films in the ballroom of a riverside mansion in Maidenhead.

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Edited by DAVEVO9 on Sunday 28th December 18:03

[bossgriff]

I said it was Stirling Road and the building is still there occupied by Flexible Hose Supplies.

Do you know if the riverside mansion was Skindles or was it Monkey Island Hotel?

[anonymous-user]

I saw Gerry Anderson on BBC news this morning, he was having a big dig at ITV for "not supporting him properly" or something.

Does anyone know what it was all about?

[DAVEVO9]

bossgriff said:

I said it was Stirling Road and the building is still there occupied by Flexible Hose Supplies.

Do you know if the riverside mansion was Skindles or was it Monkey Island Hotel?

Islet Park.

[bossgriff]

el stovey said:

I saw Gerry Anderson on BBC news this morning, he was having a big dig at ITV for "not supporting him properly" or something.

Does anyone know what it was all about?

Perhaps it was because Lew Grade didn't commission any more Thunderbirds series which was the nail in the coffin.

[Eric Mc]

I've read Anderson's autobiography and it does seem that he was very naieve back in the 1960s and not very good at arguing his own corner. He essentially gave in to whatever Grade said - being under the impression that Grade knew best. It was only afterwords that he could look back and realise that Grade hadn't always made the right decisions.

What really killed Anderson's original set up was the extremely acrimonious divorce from Sylvia. It was extremely bitter and I am pretty sure that he had what would be described as a complete breakdown after the divorce was finalised.

He never really returned to the heights of his Supermarionation days. The only series I can recall him being involved in after 1980 being the awful "Terrahawks" and the passable "Space Precinct".