Iain Petrie | "Send For Dithers". 1966. Very Rare. Now AI enhanced to HD! Puppet show oddity by Roberta Leigh. @IKP1000 | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
After working with Gerry Anderson and AP Films on the puppet shows "The Adventures of Twizzle", and "Torchy the Battery Boy", Roberta Leigh went on to make several other shows with Arthur Provis of AP Films.
This partnership brought us - among others - "Sara & Hoppity", "Space Patrol" and ... "Send For Dithers". This mostly forgotten oddity lasted for 13 episodes.
I've seen its production date listed as 1966 and 1969, so take your pick! The show used marionette puppets, as well as scale "modelive" models and live action. As far as I'm aware, this is the only surviving episode, and I believe that it was discovered in Roberta Leigh's garage, along with the believed lost pilot episode of "The Adventures of Twizzle", and a complete run of all 39 episodes of "Space Patrol", most of which were also believed lost. All of these were on 16mm film.
This is the first time the show has been upscaled to HD using AI, and the software - Topaz Video Lab AI - has done a superb job, I'd say.
Further adjustments in PowerDirector 265.
Enjoy this weird and wonderful episode from a different time...
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After working with Gerry Anderson and AP Films on the puppet shows "The Adventures of Twizzle", and "Torchy the Battery Boy", Roberta Leigh went on to make several other shows with Arthur Provis of AP Films.
This partnership brought us - among others - "Sara & Hoppity", "Space Patrol" and ... "Send For Dithers". This mostly forgotten oddity lasted for 13 episodes.
I've seen its production date listed as 1966 and 1969, so take your pick! The show used marionette puppets, as well as scale "modelive" models and live action. As far as I'm aware, this is the only surviving episode, and I believe that it was discovered in Roberta Leigh's garage, along with the believed lost pilot episode of "The Adventures of Twizzle", and a complete run of all 39 episodes of "Space Patrol", most of which were also believed lost. All of these were on 16mm film.
This is the first time the show has been upscaled to HD using AI, and the software - Topaz Video Lab AI - has done a superb job, I'd say.
Further adjustments in PowerDirector 265.
Enjoy this weird and wonderful episode from a different time...
If you like this kind of content, please consider subscribing, as it really helps my channel when you do this.
Thanks for watching.
#Topaz #RobertaLeigh #GerryAnderson #modelive
