A few years ago, Stephen La Riviere wrote an excellent book detailing the making of the Supermarionation-era TV shows. The level of detail as well as the newly discovered photos made it a must read for any Anderson fan. It has now been announced that Network Distributing will be releasing a documentary based on the contents of this book.

It will be released August-September of 2014 and promises to include a great many newly discovered gems. In addition, a lot of new material has been filmed which shows how the special effects and puppets were filmed. There are several teaser videos available, and personally, I can't wait to see this. 

It is likely that this will go straight to video with perhaps a few arthouse theatre showings in the UK.

The documentary is directed and produced by Stephen La Rivière (The Story Of Upstairs Downstairs, We Were ‘The Champions’), and will include a wealth of rare and newly discovered archive footage, new interviews with those involved, recrestions of special effects setups and of course clips from the shows themselves. However, as the documentary is in HD, all the original footage has been restored. We should be in for quite a treat. 

Here are a couple of video clips to whet your appetite: