Continued from Part 3… 2002 Having failed to find a consistent timeslot for the series during 2001, could the BBC keep Stingray in one place long enough to show the rest of the episodes? Nope! Stingray was moved to a late Sunday morning slot for A Nut for Marineville on January 6th, before disappearing again for over a month. Returning …

Continued from part 2… 1998 On July 27th, the UFO episode The Cat With Ten Lives was among the programmes broadcast at very short notice in place of rained-off cricket coverage; specifically, the NatWestTrophy quarter-final match between Leicestershire and Warwickshire. UFO aired at 6.25pm, following the similarly unscheduled The Simpsons episode Bart’s Friend Gets a Girlfriend. Back in 1996, the …

Continued from Part 1… 1995 Continuing with weekday morning broadcasts, Joe 90 concluded its first run on BBC 1 with The Birthday on January 4th, with the only notable anomaly being Viva Cordova’s broadcast on BBC 2 on January 1st – as for some reason the entire BBC 1 early morning children’s schedule had been moved to BBC 2 to …

Although Thunderbirds had premiered on British television back in 1965 and would be repeated several times over the next two decades, the fragmented regional makeup of the British television landscape of the time meant that different regions would see different episodes airing at different times – with some regions receiving more broadcasts than others. When the BBC purchased the rights …

In a warm, nostalgia fest for viewers of all ages, the nation’s best loved puppets and classic children’s TV favourites will be making a big return for the ultimate supergroup music video parody – including Scott and Virgil Tracy, Captains Scarlet and Blue, and Zelda! The superstar cast of much loved household names that has assembled for this incredible collaboration …

UFO and Space:1999 were just two of the more prominent productions to grace the British science fiction television landscape in the 1970s. Over on the ‘other side’ the BBC’s Doctor Who was still going strong after many years, but the perennial runner-up for the title of their most popular sci-fi show will perhaps forever remain Blakes 7, which ran for …

One question we see crop up frequently in relation to the various Anderson series (although not quite as often as “what does F.A.B. mean?”) is why are there so many different broadcast and home video Gerry Anderson episode orders out there for each show? Most of the Anderson shows were produced in an era where it was common practice for …

As we have seen previously many of the props and fittings from UFO were reused throughout the 1970s in other productions, and one of the most notable reused elements were the SHADO spacesuits. Here are five television shows and films where you might have noticed elements of these familiar UFO spacesuits. Doppelgänger It’s easy to forget that even though UFO …