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 …
A wise man once said “Spin-off! Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?”, and while a spin-off series can sometimes be an utter disaster it often produces a show every bit as popular and successful as that which spawned it. Considering the relatively high number of television series and feature films carrying his name it’s perhaps surprising …
50 episodes! Wow! Well, here we are. 50 podcasts into the Gerry Anderson Podcast! To celebrate we’re answering 50 questions from you, our lovely Podsterons! We’re also joined by Terry Adlam who brings along his *unique* sense of humour and fun to this golden pod. But we’ve still got the usual stuff – listeners emails, news, FABFacts and the Randomiser. …
From the very first issue of Thunderbirds the Comic in 1991 to the premature end of the Thunderbirds are Go! comic several years later I was an avid reader of Fleetway Comics’ various Gerry Anderson titles, and while I don’t have a complete collection I probably own about 75% of them. Unfortunately, as can sometimes happen with comics, the cancellation …
Fancy enjoying some Gerry Anderson shows on film? Then if you can make it to Southend on Sea Film Festival for 26th May, then you can enjoy Terrahawks, Captain Scarlet, Supercar and Thunderbirds all presented on 16mm film! See the event poster below for details… The Gerry Anderson on Film programme consists of: Terrahawks – Expect the Unexpected Special Edition …
The first series of Century 21 Tech talk is now complete, but you can watch all of them right here! If you’d ever wanted to know more about some of the best-known vehicles of the 21st century, then this is the way to do it. Hosted by Brains from Thunderbirds, we find out the technical specs of some of the …
The Gerry Anderson universe is brimming with classic vehicles that everybody remembers and loves, but alongside these is a contingent of smaller single-occupant devices that could be used to reach areas these larger vehicles couldn’t; basically we’re thinking of any method of transportation primarily designed to be used by one person and which doesn’t feature wheels. Not quite a star …
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