Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s UFO is showing on Legend channel in the UK from 8th June.
You can see UFO on Legend:
Legend is available in the UK on Freeview/Youview/BT 41, Freesat 137, Sky 148 and Virgin Media 149.
Space:1999‘s Dr Bob Mathias, actor Anton Phillips, is a guest on today’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s culture and arts magazine show Front Row.
75 years since The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks from Jamaica on 22nd June 1948, Front Row marks the artistic and cultural contribution of a generation of people from the Caribbean, now characterised as the Windrush Generation, who arrived then, soon before or in the years following.
Presenter (and Space:1999 fan) Samira Ahmed talks with the Jamaican-born actor and director Anton Phillips about his career, including starring in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s cult classic and directing James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner in a landmark production on the London stage. The eagle-eared will also hear Alibe Parsons (Communications Officer Alibe in Year Two) in a clip from The Amen Corner.
Click here to hear the programme or search on the BBC Sounds app (the programme may not be available if you’re outside the UK).
UPDATE 22nd May :
Fanderson member Lee Elliott sent us these photos of the pre-production samples on display at the UK Slot Car Festival, held over the weekend at the National Motor Museum Warwickshire.
Hornby Hobbies has announced two new iconic craft from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s productions, for release in 2024.
Scalextric’s 1:32 scale (22cm long) FAB 1 will soon be racing around slot-car tracks, and can be pre-ordered now.
Corgi has released initial images of their upcoming die-cast Stingray, also for 2024, which includes a high metal content and will feature firing Sting missiles!
Ray Austin – stuntman, actor, director, producer, screenwriter and novelist – died on 17th May.
Ray worked on many cult British TV series, including The Avengers, Department S, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased), Return Of The Saint and The Saint.
To Fanderson members he will probably be best known for directing the Space:1999 episodes All That Glisters, Alpha Child, Collision Course, End Of Eternity, The Exiles, Missing Link, Mission Of The Darians, Ring Around The Moon, and The Troubled Spirit.
You can read more about Ray’s amazing career on his website, and we’ll have an obituary for him in FAB Express 104, due this summer.
John Brown, who sculpted puppets in Stingray and Thunderbirds (including The Hood, Jeff and Virgil Tracy), died on 18th April. You can read this tribute in John’s local newspaper.
We’ll have an obituary for John in FAB Express 104, due this summer, alongside one for his puppeteer wife Wanda (née Webb) who died just a few months earlier.
