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This week in Gerry Anderson news! (February 18th 2023)
It’s been another busy week in our corner of the Anderson universe – here’s all the things you need to know! This week’s...
This week in Gerry Anderson news! (February 4th 2023)
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson news roundup! This week blasted off as usual with the latest episode of the...
FAB Facts: UFO’s Ed Bishop and his inspiration for Ed Straker
In order to inform the cold and calculating nature seen in SHADO’s Commander Straker, Ed Bishop recalled a documentary about an American missile...
FAB Facts: The Ex-Disney Artist that Sketched for Gerry Anderson Shows
At the turn of the 1960s, before characters went to sculpting in Four Feather Falls and Supercar, they were first sketched by someone...
FAB Facts: Gerry Anderson Forgot Lieutenant 90 when he created Joe 90
You may be wondering how the number 90 cropped up in both Fireball XL5 and Joe 90. It turns out Gerry Anderson simply...
FAB Facts: Terrahawks started life as an anime series?
Following the success of various Anderson shows in Japan, at one stage Gerry was approached to pitch a show to a Japanese network...
FAB Facts: Supermarionation voice artists in live action Anderson shows
Many voice artists who leant their voices to the shows of Supermarionation also appeared later on down the line in the live action...
FAB Facts: The time the Space:1999 set caught fire!
There are some stories of accidents or larger than expected explosions on Gerry Anderson productions, and on one episode of Space:1999 a fire went...
FAB Facts: Joe 90 was considered for a live action movie?
On the heels of the popular Spy Kids movie franchise of the early 2000s, a pair of producers secured the rights to make...
FAB Facts: When Scott Tracy stunt doubled for a guest character
In the Thunderbirds episode End of the Road, eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that Eddie Houseman, when jumping from the explosives truck, is...