The Protectors ran for 52 episodes first broadcast across two seasons between 1972 and 1974, and was a decidedly atypical production from the Andersons and Group Three Productions. This contemporary detective series starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet, all agents of Harry Rule’s network of ‘Protectors’; …

International Rescue’s Earth-orbiting space station Thunderbird 5 is manned by both John and Alan Tracy throughout the course of the Thunderbirds television series. According to dialogue in both City of Fire and The Uninvited their spells of duty as the station’s ‘space monitor’ usually last one month at a time, with John and Alan taking turns manning the station on …

Although Masterspy and Zarin (and to a lesser extent Harper and Judd) could always be relied upon to be a consistent thorn in the side of the Supercar team, there were many other villains and antagonists who only had one appearance in the series! Here is a top five (ish) selection of our favourite one-off Supercar baddies! #5 – Professor …

In the universe of Captain Scarlet, humanity first reached the Moon in the early 1970s – and, unlike in our own world, lunar exploration continued to the point where a century later more than four thousand people were living and working on the Moon. The two episodes of the show that offered us a glimpse of how they lived (Lunarville …

It’s rare that I feel it appropriate to comment on my own personal experiences with Anderson shows when writing articles for this website, and yet on this anniversary of Gerry Anderson’s birth many fans understandably reflect on what his shows still mean to them. With that in mind, I find myself considering my own reasons for returning to them again …

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s original script for The Mysterons followed pretty much the same story as the final version that aired on television in 1967, albeit with several interesting notes that hint at a slightly different direction for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons than the series we would come to know. One of these has to do with the presentation …

When re-watching UFO in production order (or the similar ITC Recommended order) many established characters suddenly disappear without explanation after the seventeenth episode. The reason for so many departures among the regular cast following the episode Sub-Smash was that production on the series had been interrupted for nine months due to the closure of the MGM Studios in Borehamwood. Since …

From its fifteenth episode (The Trap) onwards, viewers of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons were treated to a new version of the show’s familiar end title theme; a track which now featured lyrics and which was performed by British group The Spectrum. However, although they would find themselves involved with the promotion of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, the Spectrum …

After a soft launch in 2021 as people were taking their first tentative steps outside the house, Gerry Anderson Day is back in 2022 to cement its position on the annual pop culture calendar! Taking place April 14th to commemorate the birth of the legendary children’s television pioneer (who would have been 93 this year), the day is set to …

In 1994, viewers of the Fox Kids network in the U.S.A. had been ‘treated’ to a new version of Thunderbirds; one that took the original television series and cut it down into thirteen twenty-five minute instalments featuring new voices and music. Created partly to introduce American children to a series that it was hoped would soon be gracing cinema screens …