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  • 1 week ago Fireball XL5: Space S.O.S. – A Gerry Anderson A21 News Story
  • 1 week ago Stand by for Action – Gerry Anderson Day 2023 incoming!
  • 2 weeks ago “Gee, mom!” Mothers of the Anderson universe
  • 2 weeks ago This week in Gerry Anderson news! (March 18th 2023)
  • 2 weeks ago Thunderbirds: The Falling Star – A Gerry Anderson A21 News Story
  • 2 weeks ago UFO, Fireball XL5 and Stingray blast off with Big Finish!
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  • 3 weeks ago Supercar: Mission Redacted – A Gerry Anderson A21 News Story
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INTERVIEW: Andrew E.C. Gaska on Space:1999 To Everything That Was

By Chris Dale
February 22, 2023
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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 …

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INTERVIEW: author Richard James on Five Star Five – The Doomsday Device

By Chris Dale
February 16, 2023
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The Doomsday Device, the second Five Star Five novel, is now available to pre-order from the Official Gerry Anderson Store! Picking where the previous installment (John Lovell and the Zargon Threat) left off, the novel continues to explore the universe and characters first created in the late 1970s by Gerry Anderson and Tony Barwick for a feature film script that …

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Fireball XL5 60th Anniversary Comic Anthology – pre-orders open tomorrow!

By Chris Dale
October 17, 2022
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As Fireball XL5’s 60th anniversary gets nearer, more details have been announced regarding the upcoming comic anthology celebrating the show’s full colour life within the pages of the TV Century 21 comic! The Fireball XL5 60th Anniversary Comic Anthology is a 336-page hardback volume collecting every Fireball XL5 comic strip story from that legendary publication in one place for the …

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INTERVIEW: Ben Page & Chris Dale on adapting Thunderbirds versus the Hood

By Chris Dale
September 29, 2022
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Thunderbirds versus the Hood is a brand new full-cast audio drama release coming soon on CD and download, featuring adaptations of two classic Thunderbirds comic stories; the Lady Penelope adventure The Vanishing Ray (from issues 44 to 51 of TV Century 21) and the Thunderbirds epic Brains is Dead (from issues 162 to 169 of TV21). The same creative cast …

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INTERVIEW: Thunderbirds versus the Hood – Meet the cast!

By Chris Dale
September 23, 2022
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Thunderbirds versus the Hood is a brand new full-cast audio drama release coming soon on CD and download, featuring adaptations of two classic Thunderbirds comic stories; the Lady Penelope adventure The Vanishing Ray (from issues 44 to 51 of TV Century 21) and the Thunderbirds epic Brains is Dead (from issues 162 to 169 of TV21). The same creative cast …

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UFO SHADO Technical Operations Manual – what we know so far!

By Chris Dale
September 21, 2022
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Following the incredible success of 2021’s Space:1999 Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual, the same creative team that brought you that book returns to explore the world of UFO in equal depth and detail! Across 208 full colour pages, the SHADO Technical Operations Manual will immerse readers in the world of UFO like never before! Presented as an in-universe orientation book …

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INTERVIEW: David Hirsch & Robert E. Wood on Maybe There: The Lost Stories from Space:1999

By Chris Dale
September 15, 2022
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Now available to pre-order from the Official Gerry Anderson Store is Maybe There: The Lost Stories from Space:1999! This 290-page hardback book collects NINE lost stories from the original series of Space:1999, including un-produced and early drafts of scripts that never made it to screen, as newly novelised by writers and Space:1999 historians David Hirsch and Robert E. Wood. In …

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INTERVIEW: Chris Thompson on UFO SHADO Technical Operations Manual

By Chris Dale
September 12, 2022
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The vivid and imaginative world of Gerry Anderson’s 1970 British cult sci-fi series UFO will explode to life again with the October 2022 release of the UFO: S.H.A.D.O. Technical Operations Manual. Written by Chris Thompson and Andrew Clements, and published by Anderson Entertainment, the UFO: S.H.A.D.O. Technical Operations Manual immerses readers in the classic show, which followed the Supreme Headquarters …

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Interview with Thunderbirds: Danger Zone creator Andrew Harman (part 2)

By Chris Dale
August 20, 2022
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Based on the classic British sci-fi television series, Thunderbirds: Danger Zone is a fast-paced cooperative family card game! Using characters and missions from the original TV series, players work as a team to avert disasters worldwide and beyond. Players take turns as Jeff, deciding what resource needs to be deployed and where. Players might use their cards to help get the right …

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Pod 214: Conductor George Morton Gives You the Score

By Chris Dale
July 18, 2022
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In the latest edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, the talented and lovely George Morton is back and madly flipping through his scores trying to pick the best and worst of tunes from Stand by for Action: the Gerry Anderson concert conducted by himself and Richard Harvey in April. Plus, a very fond farewell to beloved Podsteron, Marina impersonator, and …

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Thunderbird 4 Spotted in the River Thames, London

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ITV gives a preview of the model sets from Thunderbirds Are Go!

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This week in Gerry Anderson news! (March 25th 2023)

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Fireball XL5: Space S.O.S. – A Gerry Anderson A21 News Story

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Stand by for Action – Gerry Anderson Day 2023 incoming!

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This week in Gerry Anderson news! (March 25th 2023)

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BKSTS Introduce the Gerry Anderson Award for VFX

Jamie Anderson
March 12, 2013

Anderson Entertainment and the BKSTS are proud to announce the introduction of a new Award, …

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Gerry Anderson was born on 14 April 1929, and through a combination of skill and an incredible level of determination earned his first credit as a producer when he was still in his 20s. Years before the word ‘brand’ was popularly applied to television, Gerry’s name came to represent an inimitable style of entertainment that proved hugely successful around the world. From Fireball XL5 to Space: 1999, Captain Scarlet to Space Precinct, Supercar to Thunderbirds - he has become the UK's equivalent of Walt Disney. During the 1960s Gerry used puppetry to realise epic science fiction scenarios that would have been impossible to achieve in anything other than miniature scale. The names of the shows he produced during this era are familiar to millions, and continue to entertain audiences today. An incredible feat unsurpassed by any other British TV and film producer. As the optimism of the 1960s faded, Gerry Anderson created darker scenarios for the new decade. Live-action series UFO and Space: 1999 anticipated the accomplishments of Star Wars and are still regarded by many as his finest work. He was never content to stand still, and his programmes became increasingly diverse in the 1980s. He made a welcome return to puppetry for Terrahawks and brought the animated private detective Dick Spanner to the screen, while developing a parallel career as an award-winning director of sophisticated television commercials. In the 1990s he created and produced the lavish live-action series Space Precinct, before returning to children’s entertainment with the enchanting Lavender Castle. In 2001 he was awarded an MBE for services to the British film industry. The astonishing New Captain Scarlet premièred in 2005, by which time Gerry (then 76) was long past the age when most people consider retiring. His enthusiasm for the next project, and his fascination for the latest technology, remained undimmed through much of his final illness. He passed away on 26 December 2012. Despite being relatively shy, and never really spending much time looking back and reminiscing over his achievements Gerry Anderson came to appreciate that for many people his shows represented a special time in their lives. And he was proud that the ingenuity and optimism of his characters galvanised some viewers who went on to distinguished careers within film, television and other fields. Thunderbirds has inspired movies, stage shows and a vast array of merchandise, all reflecting its phenomenal impact on our popular culture, and together with his other shows is cherished by many generations of viewers.

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Timeline

  • 6 days ago

    This week in Gerry Anderson news! (March 25th 2023)

  • 1 week ago

    Fireball XL5: Space S.O.S. – A Gerry Anderson A21 News Story

  • 1 week ago

    Stand by for Action – Gerry Anderson Day 2023 incoming!

  • 2 weeks ago

    “Gee, mom!” Mothers of the Anderson universe

  • 2 weeks ago

    This week in Gerry Anderson news! (March 18th 2023)

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