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41 FAB Years

On Thursday, 20th August 1981, Gerry Anderson invited fans of his work to meet him at his office at Pinewood Studios, and together they formed Fanderson.

On Saturday, 20th August 2022, Fanderson members celebrated Gerry and Sylvia’s work, and the club itself at the 40th birthday bash (albeit one year late, due to Covid-19!).

Deliberately designed to be a social event rather than a convention, club members enjoyed music, models, puppets and lots of chat as it had been three years since they’d been able to get together (at our Supercelebration convention back in 2019). We were delighted that puppeteers Mary Turner and Judy Preece were available to celebrate with us too. It was a perfect day, weather-wise, and so we were able to enjoy the garden of the Pinewood Hotel much of the time, especially for the barbecue and cake (lots of cake!).

The event package included a birthday card, poster, badge and the first issue of our new club magazine, FAB Express.

Club secretary John Wilkinson also set a couple of quizzes for anyone with time on their hands:

  • a headlines quiz asked members to state the year for 40 Daily Mirror headlines
  • the particularly fiendish episode synopses quiz asked members to identify Anderson episodes from their TV Times listings

You can have a go now (just for fun) and the answers are below the photos.

Well done to our winners Lily Ride (31 out of 40 headlines correct) and Mark Castell (32 out of 40 episodes correct) who each win a lifetime Fanderson membership and Zavvi’s reissued Topps trading cards or vinyl EP boxset (respectively).

Well done to all who took part in the quizzes, and a big thank you to everyone who was able to attend and/or contribute to our 40 FAB Years!

Headlines quiz answers:

  1. 1987
  2. 2010
  3. 2006
  4. 1992
  5. 2011
  6. 2008
  7. 1988
  8. 1995
  9. 1998
  10. 2001
  11. 1984
  12. 2003
  13. 2007
  14. 1999
  15. 1982
  16. 1985
  17. 1994
  18. 1983
  19. 2020
  20. 1996
  21. 2009
  22. 2004
  23. 1989
  24. 1990
  25. 2017
  26. 2018
  27. 2002
  28. 1981
  29. 1991
  30. 2012
  31. 2016
  32. 2000
  33. 2005
  34. 2013
  35. 2014
  36. 2019
  37. 2015
  38. 1993
  39. 1986
  40. 1997

Episode synopses quiz answers:

  1. Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons Flight 104
  2. Thunderbirds Pit Of Peril
  3. Space:1999 The Full Circle
  4. UFO The Dalotek Affair
  5. Joe 90 Business Holiday
  6. Thunderbirds 30 Minutes After Noon
  7. Stingray The Master Plan
  8. The Protectors Petard
  9. Thunderbirds The Man From MI.5
  10. Joe 90 Hi-Jacked
  11. The Protectors Goodbye George
  12. Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons Fire At Rig 15
  13. Fireball XL5 Robert To The Rescue
  14. The Secret Service More Haste – Less Speed
  15. Supercar Keep It Cool
  16. Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons Codename Europa
  17. UFO Timelash
  18. Space:1999 A Matter Of Balance
  19. The Protectors Burning Bush
  20. Thunderbirds Martian Invasion
  21. Stingray The Big Gun
  22. Joe 90 The Fortress
  23. Space:1999 Earthbound
  24. UFO Destruction
  25. The Secret Service Recall To Service
  26. Stingray Sea Of Oil
  27. Thunderbirds End Of The Road
  28. Fireball XL5 Convict In Space
  29. UFO Flight Path
  30. Space:1999 Missing Link
  31. Thunderbirds The Cham-Cham
  32. Space:1999 Dragon’s Domain
  33. UFO Survival
  34. The Protectors A Case For The Right
  35. Thunderbirds Path Of Destruction
  36. Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons The Trap
  37. Space:1999 The Immunity Syndrome
  38. Joe 90 Relative Danger
  39. UFO The Long Sleep
  40. Thunderbirds Martian Invasion