The majority of the Anderson shows to feature family units often (although certainly not always) spotlighted the father – be it Jeff Tracy, Commander Zero, Lieutenant Brogan, Harry Rule and many more – exploring the difficulties in juggling his professional life with his personal life. In honour of Fathers Day (and presented in production order) here’s our pick for the …
You may be wondering how the number 90 cropped up in both Fireball XL5 and Joe 90. It turns out Gerry Anderson simply forgot, but there are other names that crop up more than once too…
Alert signals rang out across the control room of Space Tracking Station Galileo. Within moments a pair of operators had trained powerful scanner beams on the unidentified space object that had triggered the alert. A sophisticated auto-analyser rattled out the details on a strip of info-tape. Object classification: Alien missile armed with Neutomic Warhead Projected impact area: Western United States …
The Little Golden Books were a popular book series published in the 1940s onwards. During the 60s, Supercar and Fireball XL5 both had Little Golden Book stories, the artwork of the latter selling at auction for several thousand!
One of the most important aspects of any television production is a great theme tune, and the Anderson shows were blessed with some of the all-time greats! In anticipation of hearing many of them being performed live at the Stand by for Action! concert in Birmingham next April, we’re counting down our top ten favourite Anderson television show theme tunes! …
Undeterred by the fact that they live one hundred years apart, Dr. Beaker and Professor Matic have been getting their heads together. The results are, as you might expect, most satisfactory and real boss! Before you think we’ve gone completely tootie, may we suggest you join us and our friends at Network for a very special evening’s entertainment where you …
Natural phenomena do not think or feel or act with hostile intent, but that doesn’t make some of them any less deadly. “Matt! Venus! Back to Fireball Junior! Quickly!” Steve Zodiac’s words echoed urgently around the barren landscape. Mounting their jetmobiles and starting the small motors, the trio turned and made their way at full power towards the speck of …
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s much-loved Supermarionation series has been remastered in High Definition from original 35mm film elements for this special edition Blu-ray collection! The year is 2062, and World Space Patrol ship Fireball XL5 is assigned to Sector 25, where intrepid pilot Steve Zodiac, ably assisted by Doctor Venus and Professor Matthew Matic, faces such dangers as planetomic missiles, …
As discussed on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, multiple techniques were used to show puppet scale guns firing in Supermarionation shows! Gunshots started off in Four Feather Falls mostly as paint on negative film – and later evolved into miniature charges and even lights on the end of guns by Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet!
Across thirty-nine episodes, the crew of Fireball XL5 faced a variety of dangerous adversaries as they patrolled Sector 25. In addition to the show’s regular pair of villains, the Subterrains of Planet 46 and Boris and Griselda Space Spy, there was also an assortment of guest villains who each only ever made one appearance in the series. Some were renegade …
jellyphone: This is great, but you know you can vote Barry Gray as well?...