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...
Video: What do the letters F.A.B. stand for in Thunderbirds?
A term of acknowledgement used frequently in Thunderbirds, some fans think the three letters must stand for three particular words. In this video,...
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: Doppelganger’s Mistaken Double Version
While preparing a television print of the 1969 Anderson feature film Doppelgänger (aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) an engineer...
FAB Facts: Fireball XL5’s Influence on Rocketry, Aviation, and SpaceX?!
The shows of Gerry Anderson are known to have inspired all kinds of things in our real world culture, and Fireball XL5 is...
FAB Facts: When Tony Curtis was almost in the Protectors
In another sliding doors moment, the FAB Facts section of this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson Podcast features Tony Curtis’s near miss...
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...