Author: Parker

Celebrate Stingray’s TPTV launch with our exclusive soundtrack saver!

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To celebrate Talking Pictures TV’s launch of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s undersea puppet adventure Stingray tomorrow, we’re making our exclusive three-CD soundtrack boxset available at a very special price:

  • UK £36.50 £25
  • Europe £40.00 £28.50
  • rest of the world £43.00 £31.50

Having already broadcast Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds, we can only hope that Joe 90 will soon be on TPTV too, and you can can get ready with our exclusive Joe 90 four-CD soundtrack boxset now at the same great price:

  • UK £30.00 £25
  • Europe £33.50 £28.50
  • rest of the world £36.50 £31.50

These soundtracks are produced by Fanderson exclusively for club members, and they’re available at these great offer prices until 31st May 2024.

It’s FAB-U-LESS!

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The post-Christmas/January blues are over, and as we’re into FABruary we’re launching FAB-U-LESS!

Since 1991, we’ve published 100 issues of our club magazine FAB, packed with news, reviews, interviews, features, cutaways, members’ letters, comic strips, script-to-screen analysis and much, much more.

If you’ve missed any issues, now’s the time to catch up as all available FAB magazines (and its successor FAB Express) are now permanently reduced in price, to:

  • UK £3.50
  • Europe £6.00
  • rest of the world £7.60

Don’t hang about, though, as some issues are already on our ‘low stock’ listing – when they’re gone, they’re gone!

You can save even more by buying three or more FAB/FAB Express magazines in the same transaction. Apply the coupon code FABBackIssues when you checkout and you’ll get 25% off.

All available issues are here, so pop some reading matter bargains into your basket now.

NOTE: Prices are reviewed periodically to take into account the rising cost of packaging and postage etc.

[UK] Stingray coming to Talking Pictures TV on 2nd March!

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Talking Pictures TV is delighted to announce that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Stingray is coming to the channel from Saturday 2nd March at 15:00.

The acclaimed British children’s science fiction television was filmed in 1963, using a combination of electronic marionette puppetry and scale model special effects. The marionette adventure series about a futuristic submarine patrol that’s responsible for policing the Earth’s oceans.

Stingray follows the Talking Pictures TV’s acquisitions of Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5 last year and shows the channel’s proud and continued support of classic TV, and to bring these series to a new audience!

Talking Pictures TV is available on Freeview/Youview 82, Freesat 306, Sky channel 328 and Virgin 445, with the Encore catch-up service also available.

Talking Pictures TV’s Noel Cronin awarded BEM

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Film producer, editor and founder of Talking Pictures TV, Noel Cronin has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2024 New Year Honours, for services to Television Broadcasting.

Talking Pictures TV is a free vintage film and TV channel, and is currently the UK broadcast home of Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds. It’s available on Freeview/Youview 82, Freesat 306, Sky channel 328 and Virgin 445.

See more on this story at the Watford Observer.

Image: Talking Pictures TV

This is the sound of an Alien Attack!

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Now you can listen to the sound of an Alien Attack, with our new soundtrack CD!

Fanderson is delighted to announce the first in our series of soundtrack releases to the Super Space Theater compilation movies from 1978-82. The project is the brain-child of Fanderson member Kenji Rinoie, who says “As a fan of Barry Gray, I am really glad to have been involved in producing this new soundtrack album. I know many fans are not fond of the (many) additional music cues to the Super Space Theatre compilations, however, these upcoming releases will bring us to a deeper world of the maestro for they will contain some unreleased stuff and a lot of notes about music itself. I hope you all will enjoy them.”

Alien Attack is a limited edition release of just 500 copies – order your copy on the club website now!

Keep an eye out for Thunderbirds To The Rescue, coming soon.

[UK] The Noble Art of Fireball XL5 on TPTV

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Talking Pictures have added The Noble Art of Fireball XL5 to their free Encore streaming service.

In this fascinating 17-minute documentary by Fanderson member Jeff Smart, legendary TV Century 21 and Look-in artist Mike Noble talks about his work on Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet, Zero X and Space:1999 comic strips, among others.

The programme will also be broadcast on Talking Pictures at 14:40 on Saturday 20th January 2024. Talking Pictures TV is a free vintage film and TV channel available in the UK on Freeview/Youview 82, Freesat 306, Sky channel 328 and Virgin 445.

Don’t forget Jeff’s Talking Thunderbirds series on Encore too! Encore is a free service – watch via the red button on internet-connected Freeview TVs,  or register to gain access to a wealth of classic television and films.

UPDATED: Talking Thunderbirds

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UPDATED 26/11/23: Judith Shutt added

UPDATED 6/11/23: Wanda and John Brown episode being broadcast on TPTV, Thursday 30th November at 19:40

UPDATED 1/11/23: Richard Conway added

UPDATED 19/10: Wanda and John Brown added

Talking Pictures TV’s online catch-up streaming service – Encore – is featuring exclusive short interviews with people who worked on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s masterpiece series Thunderbirds.

Filmed by Fanderson member Jeff Smart, the Talking Thunderbirds series includes:

Puppet Operator Judith Shutt

Visual Effects Assistant Richard Conway

Puppeteers Wanda and John Brown

Art Director Bob Bell

Director and Writer Alan Pattillo

Voice Artist David Graham

Encore is a free service – watch via the red button on internet-connected Freeview TVs,  or register to gain access to a wealth of classic television and films.

Santa’s coming a little early…

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Santa’s sack is full to busting with FAB Annuals and FAB Express magazines for all Fanderson members! He’s having to start his rounds early!

Our winter mailing was completed today, so FAB Express 105 and FAB Annual 2024 should soon start landing in current members’ homes (we can now start putting them in packages for new members too). Hopefully most, if not all, club members will receive their packages in time for Christmas.

Of course, when we publish a new magazine the previous issue is added to Fanderson Sales to buy, so members can now get FAB Express 104, and those who want to buy a second (or more) copy of FAB Annual 2023 can get them now. As the mailing has been a little later than we planned, we’ve extended our Annual Affair promotion until the end of December too.

 

Please ensure you order in good time for Christmas, and see the various additional postage options available with merchandise orders.

 

[AUS] Thunderbirds on 9Gem

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Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Thunderbirds is showing on 9Gem in Australia from 18th November.

You can see Thunderbirds in 30-minute instalments on 9Gem:

  • Saturday 18th November at 06:00 AEST (when it’s followed by Adventures In Rainbow Country, starring Stingray‘s Lois Maxwell)
  • then daily from Sunday 19th November at 04:00 AEST

You can also watch 50-minute versions on the 9Now online service.

If you know about one of Gerry and Sylvia Andersons’ productions being broadcast, please let us know so we can share the news!

UPDATED: Captain Scarlet originals to be auctioned

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12/11/23: updated with hammer prices in red

Propstore will be auctioning over 1,800 unique and original items in one of the world’s largest auctions of film and television memorabilia between 9th and 12th November 2023, including original items from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s 1967 series Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons.

Headline lots in the Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction: London 2023 auction include:

  • A screen-matched light-up C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) head from Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), from the personal collection of the longest-serving star wars cast member, anthony daniels (estimated £500,000 – £1,000,000)
  • The largest collection of Blade Runner (1980) props, memorabilia and production ephemera to ever come to market – including Harrison Ford’s director’s chair (estimated £10,000 – £20,000)
  • The iconic black cowboy hat worn by Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) in the legendary western The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966) (estimated £50,000 – £100,000)
  • From the first bond girl to the last bond – Honey Ryder’s (Ursula Andress) bathrobe from Dr No (1962) (estimated £70,000 – £140,000) and James Bond’s (Daniel Craig) tuxedo from No Time To Die (2021) (estimated £20,000 – £40,000)
  • The hero screen-matched Freddy razor glove armature and schematic from the original A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984), (estimated £200,000 – £400,000)
  • Don Vito Corleone’s (Marlon Brando) coat from The Godfather (1972), (estimated £25,000 – £50,000)
  • Katniss Everdeen’s (Jennifer Lawrence) bow and quiver from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), (estimated £20,000 – £40,000)

But of particular interest to Fanderson members will be:

9th November:

    • Lot 98 Ken Turner’s personal annotated shooting script for The Mysterons (series pilot) – estimated between £1,500 and £3,000 (£2,125)
    • Lot 99 Pair of Derek Meddings’ hand-drawn sketches of mysteron rifle (£1,500 and £3,000 estimated) (£1,875)
    • Lot 100 Captain Black Head with Replica Body and Costume is estimated to fetch between £60,000 and £120,000 (£75,000)
    • Lot 101 Captain Blue Supermarionation Puppet Head (estimated £8,000 and £16,000) (£13,750)

12th November:

    • Lot 1692 Full-Size FAB 1 Rolls-Royce Bonnet “The Spirit of Ecstasy” ornament (£1,500 and £3,000 estimated) (£1,875)
    • Lot 1693 Replica Parker puppet – estimated between £800 and £1,600 (£1,125)

Propstore, one of the world’s leading entertainment memorabilia auctioneers, estimates the auction is expected to fetch over £12 million.

Global bids can be placed online, over the phone or via absentee bidding. Registration is now open online at https://propstore.com/liveauction. Online proxy bids can be submitted from October 10th 2023.

In-room bidding will be open to the public at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London on the 9th & 10th November 2023. Online and telephone bids can be placed across the whole event.