Desmond Saunders

Desmond Des Saunders 24 June 1926 21 April 2018 was a British television director and film editor He had a long association with producer Gerry Anderson having served as a director for the series Supercar 196162 Stingray 196465 Thunderbirds 196566 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 196768 Joe 90 196869 and Terrahawks 198386 Saunders was also production controller for Joe 90 and cowrote one of the episodes LoneHanded 90 He briefly worked as a production supervisor for The Secret Service 1969 Elsewhere in television Saunders had both production and postproduction roles for The Protectors 197273 His film editing credits are RX for Murder 1958 A Womans Temptation 1959 Escort for Hire 1960 Compelled 1960 Tarnished Heroes and So Evil So Young both 1961 and Voyage of the Damned 1976 He was sound editor for Floods of Fear 1959 While working on puppet series for Anderson the AP Films team received constant requests to make the puppets more real Once Saunders chose all of the male puppets and put little penises on them When the girls came in during the morning there was as Saunders describes the most terrible uproar In response he said Well you know you gotta bring them to life somehow havent you He died on 21 April 2018 at the age of 91