Editing Gerry Anderson (section)

===1980s===
By December 1980, Gerry and Sylvia's marriage was officially over, and they divorced.<ref name="auto"/> In 1981, episodes of many of Anderson's Supermarionation series were edited together as films, aired as ''Super Space Theatre''. A number of similarly reedited feature-length productions were also syndicated and released on home video, such as ''Destination: Moonbase Alpha'', a reedited version of a two-part ''Space: 1999'' storyline. Some of these films were marketed in the US as part of a series of action-adventure videos featuring specially shot introductions by actress [[Sybil Danning]].

In the early 1980s, Anderson formed a new partnership, Anderson Burr Pictures Ltd, with businessman Christopher Burr. The new company's first production was based on an unrealised concept devised by Anderson in the late 1970s for a Japanese cartoon series. ''[[Terrahawks]]'' marked Anderson's return to working with puppets, but rather than marionettes this series used a new system dubbed 'Supermacromation' which used highly sophisticated glove puppets—an approach inspired by the advances in this form of marionation made by [[Jim Henson]] and his colleagues.

It featured another reuse of the ''Captain Scarlet''/''UFO'' formula of a secret organisation defending against aliens. ''Terrahawks'' ran successfully from 1983 to 1986 in the UK but fell short of a four-year American syndication deal by one season when the show was cancelled. ''Terrahawks'' retains a cult following to this day. Anderson had claimed on record that he would rather forget the show.

Anderson hoped to continue his renewed success with a series called ''Space Police'', a new show mixing live action and puppets. The ''Space Police'' name had already been registered by another company, so Anderson's programme eventually emerged in 1995 as ''[[Space Precinct]]''. A pilot film had previously been made with Shane Rimmer, but it took almost ten years to get the concept to the screen. In the meantime, Anderson and Burr produced the cult stop-motion animated series ''[[Dick Spanner]]'', which enjoyed many showings on the British [[Channel 4]] in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was the final project completed by Anderson Burr. Anderson then joined the Moving Picture Company as a commercials director, and provided special effects direction for the musical comedy ''[[Return to the Forbidden Planet]]''.