Whether you’re a regular podcast listener, or you’re thinking ‘what’s a podcast?’, if you’re a Gerry Anderson fan you really should be listening in to the weekly podcast. Here are 5 reasons why you should listen to the Gerry Anderson Podcast! Firstly – what is it? It’s a weekly podcast (think downloadable radio chat show) all about Gerry Anderson and …
Surprisingly for a body of work of more than five hundred television episodes, a substantial chunk of which dealt with science fiction concepts, there were very few occasions where a Gerry Anderson series explored time travel and associated concepts – but whenever they did, it was usually pretty good! Here are five Gerry Anderson time travel episodes that are well …
The Hood may be International Rescue’s infamous arch enemy, but he was by no means the only villain they had to contend with over the thirty-two episodes of Thunderbirds! A variety of crooked businessmen, mad scientists, imposters, saboteurs and scoundrels all made single-episode appearances – but which of these was the greatest? Let’s find out! #5 – Warren Grafton – …
The many television series and films produced by Gerry Anderson were blessed with some of the greatest creative talents of their time, and one of the names that most often appeared alongside his was Barry Gray. Gray composed and directed most of the music for Anderson’s shows and films from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, and as a …
When Space:1999’s second season premiered in 1976 with The Metamorph, fans were greeted with a substantially different series than the one that had originally captured their attention and imagination. Suddenly there was a new title sequence and theme tune, new sets, new main characters (displacing old ones), and a noticeably different shift in tone from what had gone before…and except …
As revealed exclusively last weekend at the FAB Worlds of Anderson, Thunderbird 3 has been to space! Photos of the Thunderbird 3 in space were revealed in FAB Live 24. Who needs Thunderbirds 5 when you’ve got friends in high places… like on the International Space Station! Thunderbird 3 has now been into space and returned safely! In his personal …
The Thunderbirds opening titles sequence is perfection. But what precisely makes it so? Let’s see… Okay, literally everything. Everything is perfect. The countdown! The music! The heroic shots of the Tracy boys and their vehicles! The exploding refinery that has nothing to do with anything! One element of the titles that varied with every episode however was what would later …
Jon Culshaw – the well-known and loved impressionist and actor – joined us for two recent episodes of the Gerry Anderson podcast. You can listen to these Jon Culshaw interviews in Pod 51 and 52! Plus we’ve still got the usual stuff – listeners emails, news, FABFacts and the Randomiser. And listen out for Jon’s incredible Jeff Tracy impression. F.A.B …
A charity Thunderbirds audio adventure Starring Shane Rimmer, David Graham and Matt Zimmerman not heard since the 1980s has been brought to life for the Gerry Anderson YouTube channel. We’ve called it ‘Parker in Need’. Originally written and directed by Dirk Maggs for the BBC’s Children in Need fundraiser in the late 1980s, the short story played out over one …
In 1993, Nintendo released the game Star Fox on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Renamed Starwing in Europe (for fear of confusion with the German company Starvox) the game was a first-person rail-shooter in which the player took control of an Arwing spacecraft piloted by Fox McCloud. Fox and his fellow space mercenaries Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare and Slippy Toad …
jellyphone: This is great, but you know you can vote Barry Gray as well?...