Puppets! Models! Miniatures! In the tradition of Shane Rimmer, Miikshi creators Justin and Lindsay Lee are Canadians who joined the ranks of the Anderverse extended family. In part one of this in-depth interview, Justin and Lindsay talk about meeting each other and discovering Thunderbirds and Supermarionation!

The wait is over – Supercar is now available to pre-order on Blu-ray, as part of the celebrations for the show’s 60th anniversary! First airing in 1961, Supercar followed the adventures of heroic test pilot Mike Mercury, scientists Doctor Beaker and Professor Popkiss, little Jimmy Gibson and his pet monkey Mitch as they put the Supercar (an experimental vehicle that …

Captain Scarlet fans watching in the ATV London region on December 23rd 1967 were in for a special treat when the title character himself appeared on the Christmas edition of popular game show The Golden Shot! Hosted for most of its life by comedian (and Thunderbirds are Go voice artist) Bob Monkhouse, this series invited members of the public to …

1983’s Terrahawks saw Gerry Anderson return to television puppetry with Supermacromation – his first style of puppet to be fully operated by hand, as opposed to the string marionettes he was most associated with. However, few people realise that several of those earlier Supermarionation puppets had also been worked by hand from below the frame from time to time! For …

Across the 39 episodes of Fireball XL5 we followed the daring Steve Zodiac and his crew as they patrolled the spacelanes of Sector 25, helping those in trouble and grappling with all sorts of intergalactic villainy. However, the XL5 was just one part of the larger Fireball XL fleet operated by other members of the World Space Patrol, and we …

The Official Gerry Anderson Store is excited to offer this unique collectors’ Supercar 60th Anniversary Treasury Box! This set is totally exclusive and is limited to just 300 units worldwide. The Supercar 60th anniversary treasury box contains a Supercar badge and individually numbered Supercar Pilots’ Licence (replicas of the 1960s Supercar club items), newly commissioned art cards from Lee Sullivan and Tim Keable, and a complete series DVD featuring a …

Over the course of his long television and film career, Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation television series inspired other creators to attempt similar puppet projects. For this list, we’re looking back at television and film productions that were brought to life using marionettes and rod-operated puppets and set in a similarly futuristic or high-tech world as many of his classic shows. Whether …

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 …