Series 2 of Space:1999 saw many changes made to the show, including among the regular cast. Although not initially dropped, Barry Morse’s much-loved Victor Bergman did not return to the show. In the FAB Fact on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, Jamie explains why that happened….

As a way of promoting Terrahawks, the show’s characters spent October 1984 hosting CITV, introduce other classic children’s shows..

As discussed in the FAB Facts section in this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, a simple trick to film pilots ejecting from craft in Gerry Anderson shows was very effective, apart from one exception in an episode of Joe 90…

There are various glimpses of the real world sneaking into Anderson shows, but in Thunderbirds, an easily missed one can be seen in the Thunderbird One launch sequence. The wonders of high definition reveal all…

There was a very simple secret to the success behind Lady Penelope’s varied wardrobe in Thunderbirds. In the FAB Fact from this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, Jamie talks us through some of the details behind the Supermarionation wardrobe department…

Barry Gray was the usual composer for many of the Anderson shows until the mid 1970s, but on one episode of Space:1999 the responsibility was passed to guitarist Vic Elmes. As discussed on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, the results were not successful…

In the 60s, captioning episodes of TV was an expensive business. As Captain Scarlet had so many characters, a larger cast was needed – but with so many actors coming and going so frequently, it was difficult to accurately credit everybody for each episode, as discussed in the FAB Fact on this week’s Gerry Anderson Podcast!

During filming of the Space:1999 episode Space Brain, with guest star Shane Rimmer, the climax shows Moonbase Alpha flooded with antibodies in the form of foamy soap. As discussed on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast the director, Charles Crichton had a particularly amusing mishap…

In the early 1970s some former Supermarionation puppeteers, now working as Stage Three Productions, created a Thunderbirds stage show. It’s not very widely known because the show did not perform well – and in the FAB Fact on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, Richard sheds some light on what went wrong…

Barbara Bain and Martin Landau, alongside Denise Bryer and Nicholas Parsons are often the most notable married couples who worked on Anderson shows, but in the FAB Fact from this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast Jamie reveals couples from other Anderson shows…