Documentation producer Stephen La Riviere, the man behind the documentaries "Full Boost Vertical" and "Filmed in Supermarionation" is at it again. This time, its a project to produce filmed versions of the Thunderbird Century 21 EP stories from the 1960s. The basic idea is to retain the audio from the recordings, but film new Thunderbirds footage in the style of the original show. This means puppets and practical effects. Rather than try to fund it himself, or go to a distributor, he has taken the bold move to go directly to the fans and has created a Kickstarter project with the goal of funding the making of the first three EPs as mini-episodes.

From the kickstarter project page:

 

"To celebrate its 50th anniversary we want to make a new, classic style episode of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's legendary puppet series Thunderbirds using original audio-only stories recorded in the 1960s.

Technology has moved on in five decades, but our goal is to produce an unashamedly retro episode made with many of the same 'Supermarionation' techniques used to bring the puppets and models to life in the 1960s."

 

The project has the goal of reaching £ 75,000 ($115,000 USD) and is almost there. need an incentive to fund it? The only way you can get hold of the shows (for now) is to back the project on kickstarter. I fully expect this project to reach funding by August, if not the middle of July. Hopefully that will mean later episodes can be made from the later EPs.

Stephen even put together a short introductory video to explain the project.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1558089494/thunderbirds-1965-new-episodes-from-1960s-recordin

Read all about the project and then fund it. You know its the right thing to do.