by A21 Reporter Andy Clems Celebrations are in full swing at Space City, marking the safe return of Fireball XL5 after its encounter with a devastating space storm. The World Space Patrol vessel sustained critical damage in the dangerous phenomenon, with Professor Matic receiving serious injuries. However, thanks to the timely assistance of Doctor Venus, the Professor is expected to …

by A21 Reporter Andy Clems Fireball XL5, the pride of the World Space Patrol, has been left critically damaged by an encounter with a hyper-velocity space storm! XL5 was on routine patrol duty on the outer edges of Sector 25 when the navigation computer went haywire, detecting a ferocious space storm bearing down on the craft. Wasting no time, Colonel …

In a career spanning more than fifty years, the films and television series produced by Gerry Anderson have enjoyed a lasting popularity both in Britain and all around the world. From Supercar to Thunderbirds to Space:1999, each of his series were not only hugely popular but also generated vast amounts of merchandising in the form of books, games, and of …

Many classic Gerry Anderson shows of the 1960s and 1970s ended with a theme song that was usually completely different from the opening title theme at the beginning of the show! For this list, we’re celebrating the very best of these songs – and we’re keeping to a very strict definition of ‘song’ in that it must feature a vocalist …

Robert J Sawyer has joined Jamie Anderson and Richard James for the most recent edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast. Robert talks us through his earliest Gerry Anderson experiences and observations particularly focussed on Supercar and Fireball XL5, with parts 2 and 3 of his interview to follow in Pod 84 and 85. There are plenty of plugs for Richard’s …

Future Legend Records have released a brand new CD featuring themes from Fireball XL5 and Stingray, but just who are Future Legend and what else can you expect from the release? Who better to ask than the people themselves: Future Legend, you say? Future Legend Records is world famous & synonymous with doing great new versions of Cult TV & …

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 …

by A21 Reporter Andy Clems After years of speculation, Fireball XL5’s latest mission has yielded conclusive proof that there is life on Planet T14! T14, a small planet in a barren corner of Sector 25, was the destination of Fireball XL5’s most recent adventure. Commanding officer Colonel Steve Zodiac remarked, “We passed Planet T14 countless times on regular patrol duty, …

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 …

One of the defining characteristics of Gerry Anderson as a producer was his desire to create the very best work possible, with each production building upon and improving the successes of the last. This can be seen in his push to continually refine the puppets his team were working with, and the evolution in puppetry from 1957’s The Adventures of …