Partworks are a curious beast of the publishing world. We’ve all seen the commercials; “build your own model of the Isle of Wight ferry, complete in 150 issues – issue 1 just £1.99! (Regular price £7.99).” Either that or you’re being encouraged to buy a television series episode by episode for ultimately five times the price you’d pay for the …

TV Century 21 (later just TV21) was first published in 1965 and quickly became one of the most successful British comics of all time, achieving record sales that remain unbroken to this day. One of the reasons for this success was in no small part down to an ingenious idea that reportedly came from Gerry Anderson himself; that of presenting …

Season two may have brought many drastic changes to Space:1999, but one thing that never changed was the fact that the Eagles were just as vulnerable as they had always been. Continuing our look at Space:1999 Eagle crashes and losses, we’ll be continuing the same format as we did for Year One. EAGLES CRASHED records the number of Eagles crashed, …

Over the course of the 48 episodes of Space:1999 the residents of Moonbase Alpha faced many dangers and threats on their journey into the unknown, but at least they could always rely on their primary mode of transportation, the Eagle! That is, when they actually worked properly. As cool as the Eagles were they were often easy targets and also …

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet television series produced by Gerry Anderson, and the first produced by his AP Films that wasn’t commissioned by author Roberta Leigh. Instead, the idea for the series (originally named Two Gun Tex Tucker) came from composer Barry Gray, who envisaged a show that capitalised on the popularity of television Westerns of the late …

Clip show; two words that are almost guaranteed to make a viewer roll their eyes. Building a framing device around recycled material from previous stories is a cheap, easy and largely infamous way to cobble a new episode together (usually near the end of a season when the money is running out) and the various Gerry Anderson series included clip …

When Fireball XL5 first aired in 1962 it was the biggest and most imaginative television series yet produced by AP Films, who had been going from strength to strength over the last few years. From their humble beginnings producing relatively simple children’s puppet shows in the late 1950s like The Adventures of Twizzle and Torchy the Battery Boy, and then …

Most of the classic Gerry Anderson series are well known for their use of breathtaking model effects sequences, and one storytelling field in which they could best be shown off was battle scenes! Here are five of our favourite moments featuring brave Anderson heroes and their classic vehicles locked in battle against the oncoming alien hordes! Honourable mention – UFO: …

Supercelebration – A Convention Report by AC Fanderson, the official Gerry and Sylvia Anderson appreciation society, hosted the Supercelebration convention in the Holiday Inn, Maidenhead from 20th to 22nd September. The event was a celebration of all things Anderson, but in particular the 50th Anniversary of The Secret Service and the 50th Anniversary of production starting on UFO. The event …

The Space 1999 reimagining from Big Finish Productions has been out for just over a week and we think it’s fair to say it’s been received incredibly well by fans (both old and new) from across the globe. Selected Reviews The new Space: 1999 is like Line of Duty on the moon Radio Times Big Finish have lovingly recreated the …