Ed Bishop
FAB Facts: UFO’s Ed Bishop and his inspiration for Ed Straker
In order to inform the cold and calculating nature seen in SHADO’s Commander Straker, Ed Bishop recalled a documentary about an American missile...
Anderson legends: The life and work of Ed Bishop
George Victor Bishop was born at the Shore Road Hospital in Brooklyn on June 11th 1932, and moved with his family to New...
“In the avenues and alleyways…” The Protectors top five best episodes!
The Protectors ran for 52 episodes first broadcast across two seasons between 1972 and 1974, and was a decidedly atypical production from the...
Disappearances at SHADO Control: the revolving cast of UFO
When re-watching UFO in production order (or the similar ITC Recommended order) many established characters suddenly disappear without explanation after the seventeenth episode....
NEW VIDEO: UFO 2 1999
An in-depth look at the aborted second season of UFO and the reasons for its cancellation, and how Gerry Anderson salvaged the vast...
UFO: The lost ending of A Question of Priorities
More than fifty years after it was first broadcast A Question of Priorities remains a popular and definitive episode of UFO – and one of...
FAB Facts: Ed Straker’s Second in Command Casting Choices
When production of UFO was temporarily halted after episode seventeen (Sub-Smash), many of the cast had taken on other work by the time...
FAB Facts: The Highs and Lows of Ed Bishop
Ed Bishop, though a renowned actor for many sci-fi productions (including Captain Scarlet and UFO) had hard times as all actors do, and...
UFO – The unexpected journey of Ed Straker
UFO had one of the largest regular and semi-regular casts of any Anderson series, but only one character appeared in all twenty-six episodes...
The Anderson actors of Big Finish
For more than two decades Big Finish Productions have been producing full-cast audio drama plays, and are undoubtedly best known for their Doctor...