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! …
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!
Continued From Previous Report Troy and Phones fought with the controls as Stingray tore relentlessly through the water. The needle on the Rate Indicator touched Six Point Seven. Troy cuffed the sweat from his brow and addressed his crew-mates, “Looks like we’re in bad trouble. If we don’t slow Stingray somehow, and soon, we’re finished!” Phones was desperately trying to free …
The heavy ocean door at the end of the long tunnel slid aside with a dull clunk that echoed briefly around the underwater landscape. Then, with a whine of its Ratemaster turbine and boosters, Stingray shot from the mouth of the tunnel in a mass of bubbles like a shell from a cannon. Its sleek silver, blue and yellow shape …
Between 1957’s The Adventures of Twizzle and 1969’s The Secret Service, the puppets used in the television shows and films produced by A. P. Films and Century 21 Productions were continually refined and improved, ultimately resulting in the more lifelike correctly proportioned marionettes seen in Captain Scarlet and onwards. However, in those early days of the late 1950s, the human …
Hot on the heels of the collapse of the Gerry Anderson Comics Collection partwork came Egmont with Thunderbirds – The Comic Collection, a hardback volume of strips released in 2013 as part of their Classic Comics range. Sixteen Thunderbirds stories from the pages of TV21 representing an almost complete chronological run from late 1967 to early 1970 (albeit with six …
We are proud to present the new limited edition collection of Andrew Skilleter prints! These Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and Stingray prints are numbered and signed by Andrew Skilleter, and each one of them is limited to 100 prints worldwide! If you’re thinking of getting yourself an iconic print suitable for framing (and bragging about it to your friends), this is your …
Even with Stingray’s powerful searchlights and the constant bleep of the hydrophone apparatus, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The super sub cruised comfortably at Rate 1, holding a few fathoms off the sea bed as it combed the murky depths below. In the spacious control cabin, Captain Troy Tempest glanced at Lieutenant Phones. “Anything at …
Now available from our online store are a pair of framed prints by artist Lee Sullivan; each one featuring ten favourite ‘Goodies’ and ‘Baddies’ from the Gerry Anderson universe! Lee was kind enough to share with us some of his insights into the creation of these fantastic limited edition prints! These prints started life in another guise entirely, way back …
Anderson Entertainment are releasing two new audiobooks which will be distributed digitally by Big Finish. The first story, due at the end of July 2021, is Five Star Five: John Lovell and the Zargon Threat, adapted by Richard James from an unmade 1978 film script. Read by Robbie Stevens (New Captain Scarlet, Bernice Summerfield), this epic audiobook adventure takes place on the planet Kestra, where peace …
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