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==Revival== In the 2010s, [[Stephen La Rivière]] and his production company Century 21 Films began a revival of Supermarionation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://networkonair.com/features/2021/01/28/supermarionation-at-60/|title=Supermarionation at 60|first1=Chris|last1=Dale|website=networkonair.com|publisher=Network Distributing|date=28 January 2021|access-date=27 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130094719/https://networkonair.com/features/2021/01/28/supermarionation-at-60/|archive-date=30 January 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Their productions are listed below. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Title !! Year !! Format !! Notes |- | style="text-align: center;" | ''[[Filmed in Supermarionation]]'' | style="text-align: center;" | 2014 | style="text-align: center;" | Documentary | Includes newly filmed Supermarionation puppet sequences featuring characters from ''Thunderbirds''.<ref>La Rivière 2014, p. 337.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Delightful ''Thunderbirds'' Documentary Goes Behind the Strings|last1=Trenholm|first1=Richard|date=30 September 2014|work=CNET|publisher=CBS Interactive|location=San Francisco, California|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/thunderbirds-documentary-goes-behind-the-strings/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218232917/https://www.cnet.com/news/thunderbirds-documentary-goes-behind-the-strings/|archive-date=18 December 2016|url-status=live|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="DigitalSpy">{{Cite web|title=''Thunderbirds'' Are Go Again – This Time With Puppets|last1=Fletcher|first1=Harry|date=15 July 2015|work=[[Digital Spy]]|publisher=[[Hearst UK]]|location=London, UK|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a658494/thunderbirds-are-go-again-this-time-with-puppets/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616172507/https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a658494/thunderbirds-are-go-again-this-time-with-puppets/|archive-date=16 June 2019|url-status=live|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ormiston-wire.co.uk/news/ormiston-supplies-wire-for-new-supermarionation-documentary-film/|title=Ormiston Supplies Wire for New Supermarionation Documentary Film|work=ormiston-wire.co.uk|publisher=Ormiston Wire|location=Isleworth, UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616014924/https://www.ormiston-wire.co.uk/news/ormiston-supplies-wire-for-new-supermarionation-documentary-film/|archive-date=16 June 2019|url-status=live|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref> |- | style="text-align: center;" | {{Nowrap|[[Works based on Thunderbirds#The Anniversary Episodes|''Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes'']]}} | style="text-align: center;" | 2015 | style="text-align: center;" | Mini-series | Screen adaptations of three ''Thunderbirds'' [[audio play]]s originally released in the 1960s. Made in celebration of the series' 50th anniversary and filmed using 1960s Supermarionation production methods.<ref name="DigitalSpy"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.century21films.co.uk/#/thunderbirds-50th-anniversary-specials/| title=''Thunderbirds'' – 50th Anniversary Specials|work=century21films.co.uk|publisher=Century 21 Films|access-date=5 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507172607/https://www.century21films.co.uk/|archive-date=7 May 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=''Thunderbirds 1965'' Blu-Ray Review|url=https://www.entertainment-focus.com/film-section/film-reviews/dvd-blu-ray/thunderbirds-1965-blu-ray-review/|last1=Payne|first1=Samuel|date=14 May 2016|work=entertainment-focus.com|publisher=Piñata Media|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916212608/https://www.entertainment-focus.com/film-section/film-reviews/dvd-blu-ray/thunderbirds-1965-blu-ray-review/|archive-date=16 September 2019|url-status=live|access-date=16 September 2019}}</ref> |- | style="text-align: center;" | ''[[Nebula-75]]'' | style="text-align: center;" | 2020 | style="text-align: center;" | Web series | Puppet [[web series]] made during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom|COVID-19 lockdown in the UK]]. Filmed in the spirit of APF's early-1960s productions and credited as being "filmed in Supermarionation and Superisolation".<ref>{{cite web|last=Braxton|first=Mark|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-04-27/nebula-75-watch-gerry-anderson-inspired/|title=Here's How a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-Inspired Puppet Show Was Created and Filmed in Lockdown|work=[[Radio Times]]|publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]]|location=London, UK|date=27 April 2020|access-date=5 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526011424/https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-04-27/nebula-75-watch-gerry-anderson-inspired/|archive-date=26 May 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> |} Century 21 Films also worked on "Apollo", a 2019 episode of ''[[Endeavour (TV series)|Endeavour]]'' that is set partly in a TV studio which is making a puppet series called ''Moon Rangers''. The episode features story-within-a-story marionette sequences that were written and filmed as a tribute to Supermarionation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=''Endeavour'' Episode 'Apollo' Is a Love Letter to the Supermarionation Style of ''Thunderbirds'' and ''Stingray''|last1=Braxton|first1=Mark|date=18 February 2019|work=Radio Times|publisher=Immediate Media Company|location=London, UK|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-02-18/endeavour-apollo-moon-rangers-studio-gerry-anderson-thunderbirds-stingray-supermarionation/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218184828/https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-02-18/endeavour-apollo-moon-rangers-studio-gerry-anderson-thunderbirds-stingray-supermarionation/|archive-date=18 February 2019|url-status=live|access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/endeavour-s6-supermarionation/|title=''Endeavour'', Season 6: Supermarionation|work=[[pbs.org]]|publisher=[[WGBH Educational Foundation]]|access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref> Supermarionation characters also appear briefly in the [[BBC Children in Need]] ''Puppet Aid'' music video, albeit with no speaking or singing role.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkShafEHZgU</ref>
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