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 …

Only five of the Anderson shows had what could be considered a ‘Christmas episode’ – and in the case of the New Captain Scarlet episode Enigma, one of those was more of a ‘Christmas scene’ than a full story! With more than a dozen series lacking Christmas episodes, here are five shows that might have been able to produce one …

You don’t need to have been an Anderson fan for long to start accumulating a merchandise collection, and Christmas brings the opportunity for family, friends – or even yourself – to add new and exciting items to that collection! If you’ve been an Anderson fan since childhood then your memories of favourite Anderson-related Christmas gifts are likely to be extremely …

The shows produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were consistently a showcase for some of the greatest artists and technicians to ever have worked in the British film industry, but every so often little mistakes slipped through here and there – and for fans, the fun comes in spotting them! Here’s a collection of ten of our favourite mistakes, accidents …

For as long as the Gerry Anderson shows have been merchandised, that merchandise has included audio releases – be they music collections or original audio dramas. From early vinyl releases of songs from The Adventures of Twizzle and Four Feather Falls, and an expanded version of the soundtrack to the Supercar episode Flight of Fancy, the audio medium has proven …

Now available to pre-order from the Official Gerry Anderson Store is Maybe There: The Lost Stories from Space:1999! This 290-page hardback book collects NINE lost stories from the original series of Space:1999, including un-produced and early drafts of scripts that never made it to screen, as newly novelised by writers and Space:1999 historians David Hirsch and Robert E. Wood. In …

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 …

“This is Eagle Five calling Eagle Three. Do you read me?” There was no response. Seated in the starboard chair of the command module, Paul Morrow shot Alan Carter a look of concern, “They’re now four hours overdue. We should have heard something by now.” Alan, focused on the distant speck of the planet ahead, nodded in response, “Yeah. I …

September 13th 1999 was, as Space:1999 itself reminded us during the opening titles of its first season, the date on which the Moon was blown out of the Earth’s orbit along with the 311 men and women of Moonbase Alpha – but over just how long a period of time does the rest of the show take place? With the …

As we’ve discussed previously, UFO was a big hit with Italian cinemagoers from 1973 onwards, in the form of five compilation feature films. Indeed, the success of these films was one of the reasons that Italian state broadcast RAI agreed to provide co-financing for the production of Space:1999. Unlike UFO however, Space:1999 would first be seen in Italy on the …