Space:1999 fans rejoice! If you missed your chance to pick up the bestselling book release Maybe There – the Lost Stories from Space:1999 when it was released in hardback in 2022 (and quickly sold out) the book is now available in paperback and Kindle e-book editions from Amazon! In Maybe There, authors Robert E. Wood and David Hirsch have gathered …
An unproduced television series from legendary producer Gerry Anderson is finally set to materialise – as a novel! From the late 1950s through to the mid-2000s, Anderson created or co-created a string of iconic family adventure series including Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Space:1999. One planned project, Intergalactic Rescue 4, was pitched to US broadcaster NBC in the 1970s …
Known as ‘Breakaway Day’ to fans of Space:1999, September 13th marks the date of the show’s fictional cataclysmic event when, in the year 1999, the Moon was blown out of the Earth’s orbit. But this Breakaway Day, Space:1999 fans will want to strap into their Eagle spacecraft and prepare for a trip to an alternate universe with the release of …
The Day After Tomorrow, also known as Into Infinity, first aired on NBC in 1975, and then the BBC the following year. In this one off 50 minute television special, the crew of the lightship Altares consisting of pilots Captain Harry Masters and his daughter Jane, plus scientists Tom and Anna Bowen and their son David, make history as they …
The Investigator was a planned Supermarionation/live action hybrid that never got past a single pilot episode. Despite this, Dinky Toys were so enthusiastic about any Gerry Anderson projects that they were only too ready to produce a line of toys based on the ‘series’…
A general overview of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s joint television career sees them joining forces in the late 1950s to produce several successful puppet television series for young children, soaring to ever greater success with their family-oriented Supermarionation shows of the 1960s, before venturing into live action television production at the beginning of the 1970s. While largely an accurate summation …
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 …
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