The Gerry Anderson news roundup; if only you knew its secrets! You would be the wealthiest* man in the world!
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This week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast launched on Sunday evening, and featured the second part of an interview with Space Precinct guest actress Natalie Roles – and she’s got a score to settle with Richard James! If you prefer to stick with traditional audio-only rather than our new and improved video format you can still catch it (and all other previous episodes) every week either through our website or via your podcast platform of choice.
Also new this week over on the Gerry Anderson Randomiser Podcast (also available on all podcast platforms) an Eastern Eclipse loomed as the Stingray crew grappled with the brothers El Hudat and Ali Khali!
We continued our countdown of Stingray’s top 10 episodes this week with the fantastic discovery of a subterranean ocean beneath the Earth’s crust, never before experienced by mankind – it’s Subterrainean Sea at #6!
The latest instalment of Marine Minutes, part of our 60th anniversary Stingray saga Deadly Uprising, also premiered this week, picking up from the cliffhanger ending of the first volume of the Stingray Comic Anthology! Haven’t ordered your copy yet? Head over to the Official Gerry Anderson Store right now to grab one!
This week’s Thunderbirds Thursday article examined how the retrofuture world of Thunderbirds showcased the excitement and danger that comes with its own take on the space race!
Celebrating birthdays this week were Thunderbirds are Go guest voice Cliff Richard (October 14th) and New Captain Scarlet voice actor William Roberts (October 18th), while October 13th marked the 101st anniversary of the 1923 birth of Supercar voice artist Cyril Shaps and October 17th the 88th anniversary of the 1936 birth of UFO actress Dolores Mantez. Popular Anderson episodes that first aired this week in years gone by include Captain Scarlet‘s Big Ben Strikes Again (October 13th 1967), Joe 90‘s Project 90 (October 13th 1968) Thunderbirds‘ The Perils of Penelope (October 14th 1965) and Alias Mr. Hackenbacker (October 16th 1966), UFO‘s A Question of Priorities (October 14th 1970), Terrahawks‘ Expect the Unexpected part 2 (October 15th 1983), New Captain Scarlet‘s Syrtis Major (October 15th 2005) Thunderbirds‘ Path of Destruction (October 9th 1966), Space:1999‘s Alpha Child (October 16th 1975) and The Mark of Archanon (October 16th 1976), Stingray‘s The Ghost Ship (October 18th 1964), and The Secret Service‘s Last Train to Bufflers Halt.
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