I've been going through the episodes of the old Thunderbirds TV show. I'm wondering if the puppetry that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson used to create The Thunderbirds TV show (not to mention many more) inspired Jim Henson and his company in their puppetry. The Andersons after all were making their puppets do things that no marionettes did before, just like Henson and company did with their hand and rod puppetry.