This week in Gerry Anderson news!

By - Chris Dale
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We've had the place redecorated since the last news roundup - do you like it?

This week's edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast launched on Sunday evening, and featured the first part of an interview with Christien Anholt in which he shared memories of his dad's work on The Protectors and Space:1999 - and his own work on Doctor Who, Relic Hunter and more!

This week's episode of the Anderson Audio Adventures podcast is the fourth part of Stingray: Operation Icecap!

Also new this week over on the Gerry Anderson Randomiser Podcast (also available on all podcast platforms) Joe 90 was on the hunt for the cure for a deadly virus, in the episode Mission X-41!

With 2025 now upon us it's time to look to the future, and some big anniversaries (and plans) coming your way this year! Read more in a new article here.

This week's big merchandise launch was the upcoming new and revised Corgi Thunderbirds collection! Read more in a new article here or pre-order yours here!

New on our YouTube channel this week was a playthrough of the upcoming Space:1999 roleplaying game! Join our team of Alphans Jamie, Annie, Ross, Chris and Games Master Andrew as they must stop a mysterious source of radiation emitting from a nearby planet - but what will they find?

Also new to the YouTube channel is this documentary about the making of UFO!

We were sad to hear this week of the passing of Christopher Benjamin, the prolific character actor whose long television and film career included a minor role in The Protectors episode The Quick Brown Fox. He was a familiar face to fans of British television, with notable appearances in The Avengers, Danger Man, The Prisoner, Poldark, Crown Court, Doctor Who, and many more. Our thoughts go out to all who knew him.

Anderson alumni born this week in years past include  Doppelgänger/Journey to the Far Side of the Sun star Ian Hendry (January 13th 1931) and legendary special effects director Derek Meddings (January 15th 1931). Premiering on British television this week in decades gone by were the Fireball XL5 episode The Last of the Zanadus (January 13th 1963), the Thunderbirds episode The Impostors (January 13th 1966) UFO's Mindbender (January 13th 1971) Lavender Castle's The Legend (January 13th 1971) and Flower Power (January 14th 1999), Captain Scarlet's Traitor (January 14th 1968), Space:1999's Ring Around the Moon (January 15th 1976), and Stingray's The Lighthouse Dwellers (January 17th 1965).

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