In this week’s slightly tenuous FAB Fact, we learn that a company called Anderson Co provided the special effects for Star Trek, and later the puppet film Team America.
In this week’s slightly tenuous FAB Fact, we learn that a company called Anderson Co provided the special effects for Star Trek, and later the puppet film Team America.
In order to inform the cold and calculating nature seen in SHADO’s Commander Straker, Ed Bishop recalled a documentary about an American missile silo…
At the turn of the 1960s, before characters went to sculpting in Four Feather Falls and Supercar, they were first sketched by someone with an animation background. The identity of the exact individual is unknown, but we do know it was an ex-Disney artist…
This week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast takes a look at Thunderbirds: Danger Zone, a new cooperative card game where players perform heroic rescue missions taken straight from the original series! Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned gamer, prolific designer Andrew Harman explains how he put his years of experience to work on making Danger Zone a thrilling …
After Tom Scott’s backward driving test video, this FAB Fact looks into the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle and the influence it has on an unlikely technical object… the LaCie hard drive!
The 2004 Thunderbirds movie drew criticism from many sources, one of which was the popular American film critic Roger Ebert – but he went a step further, possibly too far, to criticise the original series and its fanbase!
You may be wondering how the number 90 cropped up in both Fireball XL5 and Joe 90. It turns out Gerry Anderson simply forgot, but there are other names that crop up more than once too…
Following the success of various Anderson shows in Japan, at one stage Gerry was approached to pitch a show to a Japanese network – the result would one day become Terrahawks, but the initial pitch has ended up in all kinds of places…
Japanese gameshow Takeshi’s Castle is a very popular show to this day, and often featured music from other areas of pop culture – including Barry Gray’s famous Thunderbirds march!
Many voice artists who leant their voices to the shows of Supermarionation also appeared later on down the line in the live action productions – including UFO and The Protectors…
Anderson Entertainment and the BKSTS are proud to announce the introduction of a new Award, …
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