The flat was empty save for the lone man sitting in a dilapidated wooden chair by the window. No one else had lived there in months and the musty scent of disuse hung heavily in the air. The room was in darkness, except for a ray of sunlight creeping in through a small gap in the ragged curtains. Harry Rule …

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, Thunderbirds fans would have occasionally found themselves faced with another television series also claiming to be an iteration of Thunderbirds. While it certainly featured an organisation called International Rescue, a flotilla of futuristic rescue vehicles known as the Thunderbirds, and was even occasionally promoted using the same Thunderbirds logo as the original television …

Many classic Gerry Anderson shows of the 1960s and 1970s ended with a theme song that was usually completely different from the opening title theme at the beginning of the show! For this list, we’re celebrating the very best of these songs – and we’re keeping to a very strict definition of ‘song’ in that it must feature a vocalist …

When Fireball XL5 first aired in 1962 it was the biggest and most imaginative television series yet produced by AP Films, who had been going from strength to strength over the last few years. From their humble beginnings producing relatively simple children’s puppet shows in the late 1950s like The Adventures of Twizzle and Torchy the Battery Boy, and then …

The first episode of Space:1999, Breakaway, entered production in November 1973. While the episode was scheduled to be shot within ten days filming would eventually conclude after twenty-three, with the overrun also sending the show massively over-budget at a time when it could ill afford to waste money. While it’s tempting to be generous and say that this overrun was …

Doctor Who fans can argue for hours over who was the best Doctor. James Bond aficionados have similar debates over the best 007. Star Trek fans can debate at length whether the Next Generation or the original series is the best Trek – a waste of time, since obviously it’s Deep Space Nine. Space:1999 fans however are faced with a …

During his association with Lew Grade and ITC, Gerry Anderson’s productions followed a regular pattern of production; most ran for only one season, and then it was on to the next. In the case of Space:1999, however, the show’s true origins can actually be found in one of his previous productions. Despite phenomenal success in their country of origin the …

If you were a Gerry Anderson fan growing up in the 1980s or 1990s then chances are you were familiar with a range of videotapes that claimed to be feature film versions of various Gerry Anderson shows, with such exciting titles as Thunderbirds in Outer Space and Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars, yet when you put them into the …