Mary Turner

Mary Turner (born 16 July 1933 ) was credited with puppetry supervision for most of the television series Thunderbirds. This included the first series episode The Man from MI.5, which crossed over into the Doctor Who universe by featuring an appearance by the Daleks. She also worked as a character operator on the film and a puppet coordinator on. She returned to the Thunderbirds franchise in 2015 by lending her services to the Thunderbirds 1965 project which produced visual adaptations of three audio stories from the 1960s.

Turner was also involved in several other creations of Gerry Anderson which shared crossovers with the DWU. She recieved credits for her varied work as a puppeteer or puppet maker on Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and Joe 90. She had previously worked on the Anderson puppet show and later contributed to, the final television series to be filmed in supermarionation.

Among Turner's credits as a puppeteer are the 1986 film and, most recently, the television series  in 2019. She has also been a director on such productions as. Turner was both director and producer for, Cloppa Castle and.