Fireball XL5 was the second of legendary Gerry Anderson's to go out under the iconic banner "Filmed In SUPERMARIONATION". Set between the years 2062 and 2063, the series told the heroic adventures of Colonel Steve Zodiac and the crew of Fireball XL5...
Gerald Alexander Abrahams was born in Hampstead, London on Sunday 14th April 1929. He was born into a working class and unhappy family and atmosphere of accommodation. His parents Joe and Deborah, unhappily married, changed the name to Anderson as an act of rebellion against Joe's Jewish beliefs. Gerry's older brother Lionel was killed in the war on 27th April 1944 when he was an RAF Pilot and out on a mission. Gerry's misery was worsened when he was told by his mother that it should have been him who had died. In a course in architecture at his local polytechnic, Anderson studied plastering but always dreamed of putting his skills to producing moulding to film sets, when he discovered he was allergic to the plaster lime. Developing dermatitis, which took the skin off his arms up to his elbows, he had to quickly rethink his career. Anderson applied for a job at the Colonial Film Unit where he discovered he had talent in editing - at a branch of the Ministry of Information. He was able to find work at Gainsborough Pictures, one of the country's leading independent film-makers.
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