GFI

A small team with a vast territory to protect: G-Force Intergalactic brings Gerry Anderson's rescue-adventure tradition into a universe of planets, alien colleagues and extraordinary equipment. Professor James Gee leads a mobile unit ready to respond wherever help is needed within the United Planets.

GFI was developed in the early 1990s as a cel-animated series. One episode, Warming Warning, was completed before the project was abandoned. The surviving artwork, scripts and production history offer a glimpse of a world that never became a regular television series.

Professor Gee is joined by his students Wungee and Tugee, together with the aliens Argent and D’Or. The small group combines different backgrounds around a shared mission. A secret base within an asteroid gives its people and equipment a place from which to launch their operations.

That premise will feel familiar to Thunderbirds viewers: a specialised team attempts rescues beyond the reach of ordinary services. GFI moves the idea into animation and an interplanetary setting, opening the story to characters and locations that would have demanded a very different production approach in puppetry or live action.

The project grew from a 1991 meeting with Adam Shaw of Actis, while Gerry was seeking support for Space Police. Their discussion turned to making a cel-animated programme together. Gerry developed GFI with collaborators including script editor Tony Barwick and concept artist Steve Begg.

Tomcat Animation in London handled pre-production work such as character and vehicle designs, while Videofilm Corp in Moscow undertook the animation. By the end of 1992, thirteen stories had been outlined and work had progressed on further scripts and voice recordings. The completed episode was conceived as a sample adventure rather than a detailed introduction to the team.

On Zeta, rising seas have driven farmers onto boats. Tyran controls the remaining land, turning a planetary emergency into a confrontation with a powerful adversary. The episode provides a practical example of the kinds of crisis G-Force was intended to tackle.

Fanderson's production guide lists the episode and its credits. This hub is an archive introduction: there is no full-episode player here because we do not have an authorised public stream to offer.

The surviving D’Or sheet shows an artist working through a character from several angles. The drawing connects a name in a proposed cast to a physical presence: posture, proportions and facial design all help turn a written idea into someone an audience might recognise.

Read the original GFI archive feature to see the character artwork and frames from the completed episode. It follows the project from its beginnings to the production difficulties that brought it to an end.

GFI did not reach the planned series stage, but that does not make its development invisible. It records Gerry trying a different medium, bringing trusted collaborators into a new production arrangement and revisiting his belief in capable people helping others.

For another animated interpretation of an Anderson action team, explore Firestorm and distinguish its 2003 series from the later puppet minisode. Space Police offers a contrasting development story: its initial pilot eventually led to the completed series Space Precinct.