October 4, 1964 –
Supermarionation was used once again to freak out unsuspecting children when Gerry Anderson’s third series Stingray, premiered in the UK on this date. (It was the first British series to be filmed entirely in Colour: the extra U was particularly expensive.)
The total cost of the production for Stingray was approximately £1 million (£21 million in 2020). The budget per episode was £20,000, which enabled AP Films, whose earlier productions had been in black and white, to film in Eastmancolor. Though Stingray would debut in black and white in the UK, the switch to color filming was intended to increase the series’ chances of being bought by a network in the US, where color TV broadcasts were already common. During the production of Stingray, AP Films became the UK’s largest color film consumer.
The Haus of Dcaligari 