Although the Anderson shows are well known for featuring organisations headed by single fathers working alongside their grown-up children, not all of the mothers were (conveniently) dead! Many of the shows also featured notable female characters who were mothers – and here are a few of our favourites! Eleanor Zero Wife of Space City Commander Wilbur Zero (and mother of …

This Friday, Space:1999 fans will be able to pre-order a new edition of a book that has been out of print for quite some time! First published in 2013 by BLAM! Ventures, To Everything That Was is a Space:1999 graphic novel collection with a difference – but what exactly is To Everything That Was? If you’re looking for a complete …

Between 1957’s The Adventures of Twizzle and 2005’s New Captain Scarlet Gerry Anderson produced 18 television shows, all of which still enjoy varying degrees of popularity to this day. Along the way however he also co-wrote several unproduced feature film scripts, devised television concepts that would go unrealised, and worked on various one-off television projects; some of which made to …

Valentine’s Day is here again, and the Gerry Anderson universe certainly offered viewers a wide variety of romantic relationships and dashing characters over the decades! But which of them is marriage material? Which of them deserves a bit of a snog? And which are best avoided altogether? It’s time for the first annual* (*maybe) Snog Marry Avoid – Gerry Anderson …

2022’s critically acclaimed documentary Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted gets a new lease of life in 2023 – beginning with a special livestream event next Monday (January 30th) at 6pm! Hosted by author and YouTuber David Munday, with special guests Jamie Anderson and A Life Uncharted’s award-winning director and producer Benjamin Field, this event will be your chance to ask …

Only five of the Anderson shows had what could be considered a ‘Christmas episode’ – and in the case of the New Captain Scarlet episode Enigma, one of those was more of a ‘Christmas scene’ than a full story! With more than a dozen series lacking Christmas episodes, here are five shows that might have been able to produce one …

You don’t need to have been an Anderson fan for long to start accumulating a merchandise collection, and Christmas brings the opportunity for family, friends – or even yourself – to add new and exciting items to that collection! If you’ve been an Anderson fan since childhood then your memories of favourite Anderson-related Christmas gifts are likely to be extremely …

First published in the December 1962 edition of the TV Times, we present a transcription and performance of Stanley Unwin’s unique adaptation of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol! And so deep joy to Charlie Dickens who wrote it, and for its moral. Because Ebeneezer Scrooge, so meanie mo, and since the pass of his partner-shivvers Jacob Marley long since deep …

Having picked some of our favourite winter-themed episodes from the Anderson television shows, it only seems logical to cast an eye over the various comics based on those shows and pick out five strip stories that also feature snowy and icey settings. From alien worlds to behind enemy lines, there were no shortage of stories with a seasonal flavour – …

Winter has well and truly arrived, and as we huddle in our homes for warmth we can at least enjoy some classic winter-themed episodes from around the Anderson universe – if only to remind ourselves that no matter how cold we might feel, some of our favourite Anderson heroes have had it worse! Here are five of our favourite winter-themed …