# Another icon of my childhood bites the dust. Gerry Anderson, dead at 83

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**Created:** [December 26, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-icon-of-my-childhood-bites-the-dust-gerry-anderson-dead-at-83/645220 "2012-12-26T21:18:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-icon-of-my-childhood-bites-the-dust-gerry-anderson-dead-at-83/645220/9 "2012-12-27T01:08:21Z")

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From the _UFO_ thread:

> [@I Watched Episode 1 Of "UFO" last night.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-episode-1-of-ufo-last-night/586738/27):
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> Is there a term for this sort of show, where there is such loving attention to the vehicles and technology? “Gadget porn” seems to apply more to real-world electronics than fictional space ships. Or do we not need a term, since Gerry and Sylvia Anderson seem to have the genre to themselves?

Any thoughts to share here? Did anyone else ever construct a science-fiction universe that paid such attention to the minutia of the hardware? (And _post hoc_ fanwanking doesn’t count.)

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