Screenplay: Sylvia Anderson

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sylvia Anderson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Space: 1999 (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 48 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Anderson · Sylvia Anderson · Charles Crichton · Ray Austin

Cast Martin Landau · Barbara Bain · Nick Tate · Zienia Merton

Synopsis In the year 1999, Moonbase Alpha, nestled in the Lunar crater Plato, is a scientific research colony and watchdog over silos of atomic waste from Earth stored on the Moon's far side. On September 13, 1999, magnetic energy builds to...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

UFO (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Anderson · Sylvia Anderson · David Lane · Ken Turner

Cast Ed Bishop · Mel Oxley · Dolores Mantez · Michael Billington

Synopsis In the year 1980 the Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and use them for body parts. A highly secret military organization is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this...

6.3

98 votes

6.3

98 votes

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Roy Thinnes · Ian Hendry · Patrick Wymark · Lynn Loring

Synopsis One hundred years in the future two astronauts are sent to uncover the secrets of a "duplicate" Earth on the other side of the Sun. When they crash land three weeks earlier than they had planned they must embark on...

6.0

189 votes

6.0

189 votes

Thunderbirds Are GO

1966 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lane

Cast Sylvia Anderson · Ray Barrett · Alexander Davion · Peter Dyneley

Synopsis Zero-X, a manned exploration mission crashes during lift-off on its maiden flight. Two years later an investigative committee finally concludes sabotage, and decides to call on the services of International Rescue to oversee security at the impending second launch. The...

5.7

63 votes

5.7

63 votes

Stingray (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Anderson · Alan Pattillo · David Elliott · John Kelly

Synopsis TV Series (1964–1965). 39 episodes. The adventures of the WASPs (the World Aquanaut Security Patrol) as they explored the oceans and kept the world safe from a variety of perils. The WASP's main weapon was Stingray, a super-sub under the...

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Supercar (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Anderson · Alan Pattillo · David Elliott · Desmond Saunders

Synopsis TV Series (1961-1962). Gerry Anderson's first science fiction Supermarionation series. Super Car was a prototype vehicle that could travel in the air, on land or beneath the sea. Its test pilot was Mike Mercury, who traveled the world in search...

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The Secret Service (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leo Eaton · Alan Perry · Brian Heard · Ken Turner

Cast Stanley Unwin · Gary Files · Jeremy Wilkin · Keith Alexander

Synopsis The adventures of an elderly vicar and his gardener, secret agents for B.I.S.H.O.P, who combat criminals and terrorists from overseas.

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Thunderbirds Are Go! (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 22 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Scott · Theo Baynton · Andrew McCully · Chad Moffitt

Synopsis Remake of the hit 1960's television show. In the 21st century, Jeff Tracy, a former astronaut, amasses a colossal fortune and decides that he must use it to benefit others. His answer to this desire is to create International Rescue,...

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Direction David Elliott · John Kelly · David Lane · Desmond Saunders

Cast Don Mason · Robert Easton · Ray Barrett · Lois Maxwell

Synopsis When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.

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Alien Attack (TV)

1976 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton · Lee H. Katzin · Bill Lenny

Cast Martin Landau · Barbara Bain · Barry Morse · Roy Dotrice

Synopsis Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations center for several space expeditions. It is also a watchdog...

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Joe 90 (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Gerry Anderson · Sylvia Anderson · Leo Eaton · Peter Anderson

Synopsis TV Series (1968-1969). Joe McClaine is a 9-year-old boy whose adoptive father has developed a method of transferring specialist "brain patterns", and hence skills, into his son's mind. As a result, Joe is able to become a test pilot, brain...

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Thunderbird 6

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lane

Cast Peter Dyneley · Sylvia Anderson · Shane Rimmer · Jeremy Wilkin

Synopsis The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx,...

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Destination Moonbase Alpha

1978 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Martin Landau · Barbara Bain · Catherine Schell · Tony Anholt

Synopsis Lunar colonists of Moonbase Alpha are marooned in space after a nuclear explosion pushes the Moon out of its orbit and a rescue spaceship from the Earth is not what it seems to be.

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