Feast your eyes on these FAB Thunderbirds 1965 publicity shots released for Thunderbirds’ 50th Anniversary!

A Yorkshire farmer has created a 300m long representation of THUNDERBIRD 2 from maize plants! Tom Pearcey has created the York Maze Thunderbird 2 from over 1,000,000 maize plants. Says Tom Pearcy, “As a kid I remember watching Gerry Anderson’s great TV shows like Stingray, Captain Scarlet, but Thunderbirds was my favourite. I wanted to do something big to mark …

It has been documented over the years during the production of the Supermarionation series, that Derek Meddings and Bob Bell would visit various shops like Woolworths to buy model kits, odd shaped Tupperware and any other household objects to turn into rockets and missile bases. Not documented before has been a department store in Slough called Suters. Suters, a family …

ITV Studios have released a new Thunderbirds Are Go image in License Global Magazine. The image appeared today ahead of ITV’s appearance at BLE, London 7-9 October 2014. The image shows the Tracy brothers standing in front of Tracy Island – images of which have been revealed over the last few months. One of the especially noteworthy things about this …

After Gerry Anderson’s funeral in January 2013 his family began the difficult task of sorting his possessions. They were expecting to find a small number of scripts, synopses, and other work related items. What they discovered truly shocked and surprised them! Full of Surprises Despite being well known for his lack of nostalgia, Mary and Jamie Anderson discovered hundreds of …

Just in case you didn’t see the plethora of photos on Twitter – it looks like Hartlepool FC fans have joined International Rescue in force! League Two club Hartlepool are on the road against Plymouth this afternoon and, as it’s their last away game of the season, Pools fans have gone dressed in Thunderbirds uniforms. In previous years, the tradition has seen …

At the Paris Air Show the Finmeccanica subsidiary showed off an exotic tiltrotor aircraft called Project Zero that’s powered by lithium batteries. It flies, but project manager Jianye Zhang wouldn’t say how far or how fast. The craft bears a striking resemblance to the UFO helicopter which inspired the designs for the Helicopters in James Cameron’s epic film Avatar. Cameron is a …

David Sisson is well known in fan circles as “that bloke that makes the amazing Gerry Anderson replica props!”. Want to know what inspired David and how he started? Well here’s his guest blog. All images featured below are David’s replicas – NOT the originals. “In the 1960s, when I was very young, television was rather more limited than the …

Here’s a nice pair of photos from the archives for you… The crew photos from the classic Captain Scarlet, and the New Captain Scarlet. It’s a lovely combination being able to compare and contrast the 1967 Supermarionation sci-fi classic Captain Scarlet with Gerry Anderson’s last “hypermarionation” production – The New Captain Scarlet from 2005.