Desmond Saunders

Directing

June 24, 1926 — April 2, 2018

Lewisham, London, England, UK

2 movies

Biography

Desmond "Des" Saunders (24 June 1926– 21 April 2018) was a British television director and film editor. He had a long association with producer Gerry Anderson, having served as a director for the series Supercar (1961–62), Stingray (1964–65), Thunderbirds (1965–66), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–68), Joe 90 (1968–69) and Terrahawks (1983–86). Saunders was also production controller for Joe 90 and co-wrote one of the episodes, "Lone-Handed 90". He briefly worked as a production supervi...

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Mined from the archives of Century 21 Films, this bumper collection of extended interviews and documentary shorts provides further insight into the worlds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the secrets of their classic productions revealed.

Century 21 Revisited

2025

7.3

The definitive documentary about the iconic television series developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their production companies (AP Films and Century 21 Pictures). Supermarionation was a revolutionary technique used in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and, most famously, Thunderbirds.

Filmed in Supermarionation

2014