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FAB Facts: The truth of how Five Star Five fell through
Five Star Five was Gerry Anderson’s answer to Star Wars, but the project never made it past pre-production – until this year with...
FAB Facts: Animals of the Gerry Anderson universe!
The FAB Fact on this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast concerns animal sidekicks! As a young boy, Gerry Anderson had always...
FAB Facts: The Anderson Spin-Off Shows That Never Were
There are numerous Gerry Anderson shows to choose from, but it seems there are surprisingly few spin off shows. In the FAB Facts...
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: Fireball XL5 Destroyed and Robot the Robot missing?
Anything went in the TV21 comic stories of the Anderverse, and Fireball XL5 was no exception. As discussed in this week’s edition of...
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...
FAB Facts: Joe 90’s 1990s BBC repeat run mishaps!
In the 1990s rerun of Joe 90 by the BBC, the original logo was thought to look too similar to that of the...
FAB Facts: Captain Scarlet was supposed to be a robot?
An earlier script for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons pitches the lead character, Captain Scarlet, as a robot working for Spectrum rather than...
FAB Facts: Sybil Danning’s Space:1999 tapes
In the 1980s, various Gerry Anderson shows had episodes bolted together to be sold on home video as ‘films’. One such show was...
FAB Facts: Thunderbirds props in Dr. Who
After production on Century 21 TV shows came to a halt, many props were sold off to the BBC and repurposed. A couple...