The first 13 episodes were filmed on a budget of £3 million at Bray Studios with a crew of 65. Split into three series, Terrahawks ' 39 episodes were filmed between January 1983 and August 1984. The necessarily static puppets of previous series had been a source of frustration to Anderson during his Supermarionation days. This was partly dictated by the relatively low budget (latex hand puppets being much cheaper to produce than the sculpted wooden marionettes of previous series), but the absence of strings allowed for much smoother movement, and could be used to more easily produce the illusion of the puppets walking. In contrast, producers of Terrahawks made use of latex muppet-style hand puppets to animate the characters, in a process Anderson dubbed Supermacromation. Prior to Terrahawks and throughout the entirety of the 1960s, Anderson's series were noted for their use of his patented Supermarionation technique, which made use of electronically augmented marionettes (the final series to use this technique was the live action/Supermarionation hybrid The Secret Service in 1969 Anderson switched to live action production beginning with 1970's UFO). The ensemble cast, with each member assigned a vehicle, had many similarities with Anderson's Thunderbirds, whilst the alien invasion plot was reminiscent of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and the live action UFO. Terrahawks was less straight-laced than any of Anderson's previous series, featuring a wry, tongue-in-cheek humour as well as dramatic jeopardy. From Hawknest, their secret base in South America, they develop sophisticated weapons to prepare for the battles to come. A small organisation, The Terrahawks, is set up to defend the planet. The series is set in the year 2020, after an alien force has destroyed NASA's Mars base and Earth is under threat. Main article: List of Terrahawks episodes Like Anderson's previous puppet series, futuristic vehicles and technology featured prominently in each episode. Set in the year 2020, the series follows the adventures of the Terrahawks, a taskforce responsible for protecting Earth from invasion by a group of extraterrestrial androids and aliens led by Zelda. Anderson's previous puppet-centric TV series included Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. The show was Anderson's first in over a decade to use puppets for its characters, and also his last. Gerry Anderson & Christopher Burr's Terrahawks, usually referred to simply as Terrahawks, is a 1980s British science fiction television series produced by Anderson Burr Pictures for London Weekend Television and created by the production team of Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr.
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