Turn off Operation Cover-up – it’s time for this week’s Gerry Anderson news roundup!
This week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast launched on Sunday evening, and featured the first part of an interview with Big Finish Space:1999 actress Maria Theresa Creasey! If you prefer to stick with traditional audio-only rather than our new and improved video format you can still catch it (and all other previous episodes) every week either through our website or via your podcast platform of choice.
Also new this week over on the Gerry Anderson Randomiser Podcast (also available on all podcast platforms) the Fireball XL5 crew faced a race against time to save Zoonie’s life (no hurry, chaps!) as they met The Last of the Zanadus!
This time last week we were gearing up for the Stand by for Action 2: Tunes of Danger concert at the Symphony Hall Birmingham, and we’d like to thank every single attendee for helping to make this such a very special celebration of Anderson music! In this new article we look back on the event in more detail – but what was your favourite moment of the night? Let us know in the comments below!
Even before the Stand by for Action 2 concert began fans were asking if it would be available on home media afterwards, and we’re delighted to announce that it will be! You can now pre-order the concert on CD, DVD and Blu-ray from the Official Gerry Anderson Store!
If you were at the concert you’ll have not only seen the first chapter of our 60th anniversary Stingray saga Deadly Uprising performed live by the cast of our Stingray audiobooks during the second half of the event, you may also have seen part of a new Stingray minisode at the end of the interval! The Sound of Sirens is the first of our new Marine Minutes series, short Stingray adventures that act as links between the larger sections of the Deadly Uprising story! Expect more as the saga unfolds over the next few months…
Anderson Entertainment are collaborating with Modiphius to launch the Space:1999 Roleplaying Game! With the new core rule book, you and your friends can join the crew of Moonbase Alpha on their missions of exploration. Join the waiting list to be first in line for all new Space:1999 RPG news and launch date here.
Celebrating birthdays this week were Space Precinct actress Mary Woodvine (July 14th), Lavender Castle voice actor Jimmy Hibbert (July 15th), Supermarionation puppeteer Mary Turner (July 16th), and Space:1999 star Catherine Schell (July 17th), while this week also saw the anniversaries of the births of Doppelganger actress Lynn Loring (July 14th 1943) and the legendary music composer Barry Gray (July 18th 1908). Popular Anderson episodes that first aired in the UK this week in years past include Supercar‘s The Tracking of Masterspy (July 15th 1961), Terrahawks‘ The Sporilla (July 19th 1986), and the first chapter of Dick Spanner‘s The Case of the Maltese Parrot part 1 (July 19th 1987).
Operation Cover-up is now in effect once again – until next weekend!
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