Many Anderson productions originally included scenes that, for various reasons, were trimmed, reshot, or removed altogether. Although the film material for these deleted scenes is generally believed to be lost, surviving scripts, production stills and even audio recordings can still provide interesting insights into these lost moments from our favourite Anderson productions. The opening episode of UFO, Identified, went through …

The peaceful planet of Kestra is threatened by the warlike Zargon people. A base has been established on an impenetrable asteroid, but the beautiful Colonel Zana has a plan to prevent invasion without launching a full-scale war. Mercenary John Lovell and his lovable wise guy chimp co-pilot must assemble a crack team to launch a secret assault on the Zargons, …

The Gerry Anderson movie that never was finally comes to life this summer, as Five Star Five is now available from Anderson Entertainment. Five Star Five: John Lovell and the Zargon Threat is now available as a digital download at £16.99, exclusively from the Big Finish website. Adapted by Anderson stalwart Richard James (Space Precinct, Terrahawks) from an unmade 1978 …

Father’s Day is coming up, and we’ve curated an assortment of items from our online store to provide you with gift ideas if your Dad is an Anderson fan! Control panel mugs and coasters sets Inspired by the designs of control panels seen throughout the Anderson universe, these attractive mugs and coasters sets are the work of Gail Myerscough, and …

With the exciting news that Gerry Anderson and Tony Barwick’s long-forgotten 1970s space fantasy movie script Five Star Five is getting a new release of life with a new novelisation and accompanying audiobook, we caught up with author Richard James to discuss the challenges of adapting the original ‘lost’ work for a twenty-first century audience… My association with the worlds …

We’re delighted to announce that two complete episodes of the 1955 television series You’ve Never Seen This, as well as material from a third, have been discovered! You’ve Never Seen This was Gerry Anderson’s directorial debut, which came about in 1955 after theatrical agent Pete Collins approached his employers at Polytechnic Films (where Gerry was then serving as an editor) …

The Gerry Anderson universe was populated by dozens of memorable characters – but there are quite a few who never had the chance to make much of an impression! For this list we’ll be looking at characters who appeared prominently in a show’s earliest episodes, but soon disappeared altogether. Characters who faded into the background but still appeared until the …

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 …

Space Precinct’s journey from original concept to finished television series was a notably longer and more complicated one than any other Gerry Anderson show, and perhaps the most obvious symptom of the behind-the-scenes problems the production faced is the fact that it has no opening episode. While Double Duty was the first episode to enter production, and Protect and Survive …