FAB Facts: What if Century 21 Did the Effects for Star Trek? | A Tenuous Connection
In this week’s slightly tenuous FAB Fact, we learn that a company called Anderson Co provided the special effects for Star Trek, and...
Fireball XL5 – The Steve Zodiac Diaries
The Fireball XL5 episode Drama at Space City opens with a short section of clips from previous episodes The Doomed Planet and The...
Pod 214: Conductor George Morton Gives You the Score
In the latest edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, the talented and lovely George Morton is back and madly flipping through his scores...
The Secret Service merchandise guide
Most of the Gerry Anderson series stretching as far back as 1957’s The Adventures of Twizzle had enjoyed great success in the field...
“Put it up on the big screen!” Spazio:1999 – Italy’s first taste of Space:1999!
As we’ve discussed previously, UFO was a big hit with Italian cinemagoers from 1973 onwards, in the form of five compilation feature films....
FAB Facts: UFO’s Ed Bishop and his inspiration for Ed Straker
In order to inform the cold and calculating nature seen in SHADO’s Commander Straker, Ed Bishop recalled a documentary about an American missile...
Pod 213: George Morton conducts Thunderbirds
Podsterons (AKA Listeners of the Gerry Anderson Podcast) know and love the music of Barry Gray, Richard Harvey, and Crispin Merrell – but...
Captain Scarlet: Four ways Spectrum were their own worst enemy
“The Mysterons – sworn enemies of Earth.” Standing between these Martian aggressors and the destruction of the human race is the Spectrum organisation,...
FAB Facts: The Ex-Disney Artist that Sketched for Gerry Anderson Shows
At the turn of the 1960s, before characters went to sculpting in Four Feather Falls and Supercar, they were first sketched by someone...
Why is July 10th so important in the Captain Scarlet universe?
Captain Scarlet Day is almost upon us! But just why was July 10th chosen in recent years as the date for this annual...