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.
Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the freebies and offers in our Easter Egg Hunt over the last couple of weeks, and to everyone who bid in the charity auction, or bought tickets in the charity raffle.
We’re delighted to report that Kouichi Miyazaki bid the highest for the Terrahawks soundtrack CD, and Mrs LM Jones has won the Thunderbirds ‘Hackenbacker’ watch.
Both prizes will be on their way to the lucky winners in the next few days.
Silva Screen’s Joe 90 soundtrack has jumped to the #1 spot on Amazon’s “TV Soundtracks” chart, and #4 in “Soundtracks & Musicals” – not bad for a 56-year-old television series!
The CD is also available via Fanderson Sales, as is our exclusive 4-CD boxset.
ITV Content Services has upscaled Gerry Anderson’s 1994 series Space Precinct to high definition for their ITVX Premium streaming service. The series will also be available to BritBox subscribers too.
Space Precinct was filmed on Super16 film, and a true remastering to high definition would be both time-consuming and quite costly, so a way of using artificial intelligence has been used to create detail that is not there in the Digital Betacam masters that are now available.
ITVX Premium is available for £5.99/month or £59.99/year, though a free 7-day trial is available.
Fanderson is the proud sponsor once again of the Anderson On Film presentation as part of the Southend Film Festival, enabling fans to enjoy Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s work with other fans this summer… on film!
In this digital world it’s easy to watch programmes on your phone, to stream, or even to watch from DVD or Blu-ray Disc. This year’s Southend Film Festival gives Anderson fans a chance to have that collective experience of watching with fellow fans, thanks to the beauty that is celluloid film!
This year’s programme of Anderson goodies on 11th June 2023 – all on the big screen and all shown from 16mm film – includes:
The popular Southend Film Festival has been running for fourteen years in two parts – as well as the main festival, the Film Festival Fringe encourages various venues around Southend to put on film screenings. The festival’s patrons are actors Ray Winstone, Vicki Michelle and Phil Davis, and you can see more at www.southendfilmfestival.com (the website is in the process of being updated for 2023).
Fanderson is delighted to be able to support fan-organised events such as this. If you need help or support with your Anderson event, please drop us a line at fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com.
Network are offering 35% off a selection of their high definition titles on Blu-ray Disc in their latest HD35 promotion.
The selection includes loads of classic British TV and film, and for Anderson fans the titles of most interest are likely to be Fireball XL5 A Day In The Life Of A Space General (colourised), Joe 90, UFO, Ultimate Space:1999, Terrahawks, and New Captain Scarlet,
The promotion ends at 16:00 on Tuesday 18th April, so go shopping now by clicking this link to see all titles in Network’s HD35 promotion.
