David Lane is a British television and film director, best known for his association with series produced by Gerry Anderson's AP Films. Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson are most famous as the production team for several futuristic childrens television shows involving specially modified marionettes, a process called supermarionation. Their most famous production is Thunderbirds, which was produced by their production company, originally known as AP Films and later renamed Century 21... AP Films (APF) was a British independent film production company of the 1950s and 1960s. ...
Lane directed several episodes of the Thunderbirds television series, including Attack of the Alligators, as well as the two cinema films Thunderbirds are GO and Thunderbird 6. He also worked on Anderson's other series up to UFO (TV series) and Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet. Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed Supermarionation. The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced machinery. ... Dr Orchard a scientist lives at a house near Florida USA in the everglades next to his house is a swamp with Alligators one day a buisnessman Blackmer comes to visit but it thunderstorms which means he has to stay overnight. ... Thunderbirds Are GO (DVD cover) Thunderbirds Are GO! was the first feature film to be made from the highly successful Supermarionation series Thunderbirds. ... Thunderbird 6 (DVD cover) Thunderbird 6 was a spinoff film from the popular Thunderbirds supermarionation television series. ... UFO was a British television science fiction series created by Gerry Anderson and produced by Andersons and Lew Grades Century 21 Productions for Grades ITC Entertainment company. ... Gerry Andersons New Captain Scarlet (or more commonly New Captain Scarlet) is a United Kingdom-produced computer-generated imagery action-adventure TV series which debuted in February 2005 as part of the Ministry of Mayhem on ITV1. ...