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Gerry Anderson
“Supercar” (1961-2)
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“Joe 90” (1968-9), Space Precinct (1994-5)
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Gerry Anderson has flung a fair few flying cars our way over the years. He started off with his first SF series, Supercar , the star of which could also be driven underwater (but it didn’t actually look at all like a car). FAB 1, Lady Penelope’s pink Rolls Royce, never actually flew in the TV series of Thunderbirds , but it did take off in the big screen version, Thunderbirds Are Go , although that was only in a dream sequence (in which Lady Penelope flies Alan to a nightclub called The Swinging Star where Cliff Richard Jr is performing). In the ghastly 2004 film version, FAB 1 did fly, but by that time it was a rather ugly, heavily-modified Ford Thunderbird, and fans are never going to accept that as canon. Anderson also gave us flying police cars in Space Precinct , but they were pretty ungainly-looking, and had nothing on the police spinners in Blade Runner .
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