How do you encapsulate a man’s life in a ninety-minute documentary? Then, how do you capture the spirit of that ninety minutes in a short title? Never one to shirk from a challenge, director Ben Field dived in full speed ahead for the new documentary Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted. In this week’s episode of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, Ben …
Benjamin Field’s long CV includes The Elf Who Saved Christmas, Alien Life and Where to Find It, and the upcoming Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted. A producer, writer, director, and editor, Ben joins Jamie Anderson to recount their discoveries during the recently wrapped filming of the new documentary premiering in April! PLUS Aquamarina played backwards, the connection between Gerry Anderson …
Space:1999‘s second season is infamous for its radical changes from the first season, as a big shake up amongst the cast was planned. When the second season novelisations were written, the author had little more than a few episodes to go off and ended up writing characters that were later renamed on-screen, thereby creating characters that only ever existed in …
Cartoonist and creative mastermind Nick Abadzis confesses his love affair with the design of the Eagle from Space:1999 in this week’s interview conducted by Jamie Anderson. Nick recounts his work on the Eaglemoss Eagles, both cheerleading the designs through the development phase and writing the booklets provided with the scale models. Can anyone have too many Eagles in their collection? …
Graphic novelist? Comic writer and artist? Cartoonist? Nick Abadzis checks all these boxes when listing his occupation! Under hobbies and interests, he ticks Gerry Anderson shows, which he observes only improve with age! A mastermind behind the new Eaglemoss Eagle releases, creator of a graphic novel about the space travelling dog Laika, and a contributor to the UFO Comics Anthology …
ZPG is a mostly forgotten dystopian sci-fi film, but the FAB Fact segment from this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast reveals that none other than Derek Meddings himself was involved, before he went on to the big time productions like Live and Let Die.
Space:1999 fans, rejoice! The latest episode of the Gerry Anderson Podcast features clips recorded during the Destination Moonbase Alpha convention held online in September, courtesy of the convention organisers. Convention guests represented here include Suzannne Peterson (Barbara Bain stand-in), Christopher Penfold (writer and story consultant), Gianni Garko (Tony Cellini in Dragon’s Domain), Sam Dastor (Dr. Ed Spencer), Martin Bower (model …
THIS WEEK: Jules de Jongh discusses the underrated New Captain Scarlet, playing Harmony Angel, and overcoming obstacles in the production process. Moving to the present day, she talks about filling Lois Maxwell’s shoes by voicing Atlanta in the new Stingray audio adventures Operation Icecap and (coming soon) Monster from the Deep! This episode is also packed with joyful and heartfelt …
During the 1960s Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 special effects team did a very short sequence for the film Crossplot, starring Roger Moore. Having missed out on 2001: A Space Odyssey, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to collaborate with the team behind The Saint…
Jules de Jongh joined the Anderson voice actor family in 2005 with New Captain Scarlet where she played Lieutenant Green! Recently, she’s returned to the fold with her amazing Atlanta Shore voice in Stingray: Operation Icecap. In this episode of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, Jules relates some stories from her early years of training in California, her voice-over career from …
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