​Joy Laurey's connection with Gerry Anderson began in 1956, when she created puppets for a Noddy advertisement promoting Sugar Ricicles. The commercial was made by Pentagon Films, where Anderson was then working.
 
Soon afterwards, writer Roberta Leigh devised The Adventures of Twizzle, the story of a boy doll able to extend his arms and legs. The series was produced by AP Films, the company formed by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis, and consisted of 52 fifteen-minute episodes.
 
Joy joined the production through her agent, Pearl Beresford. Working to a demanding schedule, she designed and made the principal puppet characters in only a few weeks. She also helped perform them alongside Christine Glanville and Murray Clark.
 
The series was an important early step in the development of AP Films. Only the first episode is presently known to survive in full, making scripts, stills, puppets and production records especially valuable to the history of the programme.
 
Joy's work on Twizzle connected the traditions of theatre marionettes with a rapidly developing form of television puppetry. It also placed her at the beginning of the creative story that would later lead to Gerry Anderson's internationally recognised productions.