With so many television shows carrying the Gerry Anderson name, it can be hard to remember them all! Here’s a list of all 18 series produced by AP Films, Century 21 Productions, Group Three Productions, and more!
The Adventures of Twizzle
A runaway toy named Twizzle, who has the ability to extend his arms and legs, teams up with other toys and strays to form Stray Town, where toys can live safely and happily.
First aired: November 13th 1957
52 x 13-minute episodes (currently only 1 episode is known to survive)
Torchy the Battery Boy
After being created by Mr. Bumbledrop to rescue his dog Pom-Pom from the twinkling star, Torchy the Battery Boy bands together with sentient toys on Topsy Turvy Land to teach Earth’s naughty children a lesson.
First aired: January 11th 1959
Series 1: 26 x 13-minute episodes
Series 2: 26 x 13-minute episodes (not produced by AP Films)
Four Feather Falls
Tex Tucker is gifted four magic feathers by Indian chief Kallamakooya; two allow his dog Dusty and horse Rocky to speak, while the other two enable his guns to fire without him touching them. Tex becomes Sheriff of the small Western town Four Feather Falls, and protects the townsfolk from criminal goings-on.
First aired: February 25th 1960
39 x 13-minute episodes
Supercar
With fearless aeronaut Mike Mercury at the controls, Supercar, the ‘Marvel of the Age’, is launched to assist those in trouble all over the world – and even at the edge of space!
First aired: January 28th 1961
Series 1: 26 x 25-minute episodes
Series 2: 13 x 25-minute episodes
Fireball XL5
The pride of the World Space Patrol travels the starways of Sector 25, as Steve Zodiac takes the controls of the famous interplanetary rocketship Fireball XL5.
First aired: October 28th 1962
39 x 25-minute episodes
Stingray
The World Aquanaut Security Patrol’s flagship submarine Stingray explores the ocean depths and encounters undersea races both benign and aggressive!
First aired: October 4th 1964
39 x 25-minute episodes
Thunderbirds
The Tracy brothers of International Rescue take the controls of the five fabulous Thunderbird machines to assist those in peril anywhere in the world!
First aired: September 30th 1965
Series 1: 26 x 50-minute episodes
Series 2: 6 x 50-minute episodes
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
The agents of world security organisation Spectrum face weekly threats from alien aggressors the Mysterons, inhabitants of the planet Mars; can one man fate has made indestructible, Captain Scarlet, save the day?
First aired: September 29th 1967
32 x 25-minute episodes
Joe 90
Joe McClaine becomes the World Intelligence Network’s most special agent when his father invents a machine that can record the knowledge and experience of one mind and transfer it to another – enabling young Joe to become the nine-year-old superspy Joe 90!
First aired: September 29th 1968
30 x 25-minute episodes
The Secret Service
With the aid of the Minimiser, a top secret shrinking device, Father Stanley Unwin and agent Matthew Harding carry out a variety of unorthodox assignments for British Intelligence.
First aired: September 21st 1969
13 x 25-minute episodes
UFO
The SHADO organisation defends the Earth against visits from aliens from a dying planet, who seek to harvest human organs to keep their own failing bodies alive.
First aired: September 16th 1970
26 x 50-minute episodes
The Protectors
The Protectors, a worldwide detective organisation lead by Harry Rule, fights crime and protects the innocent throughout the UK and Europe.
First aired: July 7th 1972
Series 1: 26 x 25-minute episodes
Series 2: 26 x 25-minute episodes
Space:1999
The Moon is blown out of the Earth’s orbit by a massive nuclear explosion – and the 311 residents of Moonbase Alpha find themselves hurled into a terrifying voyage into the unknown!
First aired: September 4th 1975
Series 1: 24 x 50-minute episodes
Series 2: 24 x 50-minute episodes
Terrahawks
The Terrahawks defend the Earth from attacks by the evil Queen Zelda and her monstrous cohorts!
First aired: October 8th 1983
Series 1: 26 x 25-minute episodes
Series 2: 13 x 25-minute episodes
Dick Spanner
In a parallel universe not far from here, a robotic private detective takes on the strangest cases in the galaxy!
First aired: May 3rd 1987
22 x 6-minute episodes (or 4 25-minute episodes)
Space Precinct
Human and alien police officers work together to maintain law and order in Demeter City on the planet Altor!
First aired: October 3rd 1994
24 x 45-minute episodes
Lavender Castle
The crew of the spaceship Paradox search for the mythical city of Lavender Castle before it can be tracked down and destroyed by the sinister Dr. Agon!
First aired: January 7th 1999
26 x 10-minute episodes
New Captain Scarlet
In this CGI reimagining of the 1967 original, the Mysterons declare war on Earth following an attack on their Martian city by Spectrum agents Captain Scarlet and Captain Black – with the two friends now taking opposite sides in the ensuing conflict!
First aired: February 12th 2005
26 x 25-minute episodes
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