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FAB Facts: The Gift of Longer Thunderbirds Episodes for Christmas
In this Christmas related FAB Fact, we learn that the extension of the length of Thunderbirds episodes ordered by Lew Grade was in...
FAB Facts: The Supercar & Fireball XL5 Little Golden Books
The Little Golden Books were a popular book series published in the 1940s onwards. During the 60s, Supercar and Fireball XL5 both had...
FAB Facts: The time that Thunderbirds broke the law!
In a rare occasion in Gerry Anderson history, this FAB Fact details the time that Century 21 production manager Norman Foster and pilot Joan...
FAB Facts: The Lost Personnel of Cloudbase
Cloudbase is supposedly home to some 600 staff, but in the Captain Scarlet television series we only see a handful of Captains and...
FAB Facts: The obscure film Derek Meddings worked on after leaving Century 21
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...
FAB Facts: The tragic fate of Derek Meddings’ models
During production of various A.P. Films and Century 21 shows, Derek Meddings would sometimes take models home for his children to play with....
FAB Facts: The Century 21 special effects contribution to Crossplot
During the 1960s Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 special effects team did a very short sequence for the film Crossplot, starring Roger Moore. Having...
FAB Facts: The evolution of gunshot effects in Supermarionation shows!
As discussed on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, multiple techniques were used to show puppet scale guns firing in Supermarionation...
FAB Facts: The Problems Caused by a Parrot on Space:1999
During production of the second episode of Space:1999, in which the Alphans land on the planet Meta, scenes were interrupted by a particularly...
FAB Facts: Supercar’s Dr. Beaker was created for a different TV show?
As discussed in this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, Four Feather Falls writer Hugh Woodhouse had an idea for a television...