Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s UFO is showing on Horror Channel in the UK from 7th June.
You can see UFO on Horror:
- weekdays at 08:00
Horror Channel (+1) is available in the UK on Freeview 68, Freesat 138 (139), Sky 317 (318) andVirgin Media 149 (202).
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UK: Space:1999 on Horror Channel
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s second live action sci-fi series, Space:1999, returns to the UK’s Horror Channel from Monday 30th May.
Space:1999 will be shown each weeknight at 19:00, with a repeat screening at 09:00 the following morning.
Horror Channel (+1) is available in the UK on Freeview 68, Freesat 138 (139), Sky 317 (318) or Virgin Media 149 (202).
AUS: Stingray on DVD
Australia’s cult and classic film and television label Via Vision is releasing Stingray, albeit only on DVD, unlike Network’s recent Blu-ray Disc release.
For AU$69.95 (but currently on an introductory offer at AU59.95) this Complete Series set includes all 39 episodes across five discs, with special features:
- stills gallery
- character biographies
- Gerry Anderson commentaries on episodes Stingray and Stand By For Action.
Also unlike Network’s BR set, this is ViaVision’s fourth DVD release to proudly acknowledge the series’ co-creator on the front cover, as “Gerry And Sylvia Anderson’s Stingray″, following similar treatment on Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons and Joe 90.
Sold! Captain Scarlet end titles paintings up for auction (updated)
Two of Ron Embleton’s original end title paintings for Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons are included in Bonhams’ Rock, Pop & Film Online auction on 4th May 2022.
Both lots are around 54x38cm, painted in gouache and watercolour on paper, then mounted on board:
- Lot 78 – Artwork board No.1 shows Scarlet struggling in swamp, reaching for a creeper with his left hand. This item includes with acetate overlay sheet marked to show the close-up crop marks for the credits sequence. Sold for £16,575 inc. premium (sold for £3,055 in 2002)
- Lot 79 – Artwork Board No.7 depicts Captain Scarlet in a chamber bracing himself against advancing spiked walls. Sold for £21,675 inc. premium (sold for £3,995 in 2002)
Comic-strip artist Ron Embleton (1930-1988) is celebrated as a definitive portrayer of Captain Scarlet. In 1965 Embleton joined TV Century 21, where he illustrated 67 Stingray comic strips before producing work on Captain Scarlet. These paintings are part of a series of ten executed by Embleton, seen in the end title sequence at the end of each episode of Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons. Each scene shows Captain Scarlet seemingly in grave peril, with others depicting a giant cobra, sharks, and a tank. By 1968 Embleton had left the comic but continued to produce illustrations for Anderson merchandise.
Both items were previously sold in the TV Generation auction at Christie’s, London in 2002.
Network are about to launch Stingray!
Network are offering Stingray fans the chance to watch yet another episode in high definition – free of charge!
Although we’ve all got to wait a little longer than planned for the complete series on Blu-ray Disc, Network are teasing us with the episode Deep Heat (having already shown us Treasure Down Below and A Christmas To Remember late last year). Not only that, but Deep Heat will be shown alongside a new documentary We Are About To Launch Stingray.
Enjoying this free treat couldn’t be easier:
- Create a free account at watch.networkonair.com
- On Wednesday 6th April, login from 18:50 (BST), then go to the We Are About To Launch Stingray page to watch the special presentation in HD.
- The programme will be free to watch again and again until 07:00 on Thursday April 7th.
UK: 30% off UFO Blu-ray Disc boxset
This weekend is the third of Network’s March Madness Weekend Deals, and includes what is (so far) the only Anderson title on offer.
The UFO Blu-ray Disc boxset is available for just £30.10 (normal retail price £43.00) but hurry, the offer ends at 16:00 Monday, 21st March!
AUS: Fireball XL5 on DVD
Closely following their DVD releases of Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons, Australia’s cult and classic film and television label Via Vision is releasing the 1962 black and white series Fireball XL5.
For AU$59.95 (but currently on an introductory offer at AU$49.95) this Complete Series set includes all 39 episodes across five discs.
This is also the third of Via Vision’s releases to proudly acknowledge the series co-creator on the front cover, as “Gerry And Sylvia Anderson’s Fireball XL5″.
Will Network follow Via Vision’s lead and do the right thing when Stingray is released on Blu-ray Disc next month?
UK: Space:1999 on London Live
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s second live action sci-fi series, Space:1999, returns to the UK’s local London Live channel from Sunday 20th February 2022.
Space:1999 will be shown:
- Sundays at 19:00
- Fridays at 17:00
- Saturdays at 09:00
London Live is available in the UK on Freeview/YouView 8 (from London transmitters), Sky 117 or Virgin Media 159.
If you know of an Anderson production being broadcast, anywhere in the world, please email details to fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com so we can share the news!
UK: UFO on Forces TV
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s UFO is showing again on Forces TV in the UK from Saturday 26th February 2022.
The series is being shown as double-bills at 22:00 on both Saturdays and Sundays, with repeats as single episodes on weekdays around 22:00.
Forces TV is available in the UK on Freeview/Youview 96, Freesat 165, Sky 181 and Virgin 274.
If you know of an Anderson production being broadcast, anywhere in the world, please email details to fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com so we can share the news!
Another great new Space:1999 book? Really?
Hot on the heels of To Everything That Might Have Been and Space:1999 The Vault, Powys Media’s Earthfall is proving it’s a bumper time for Space:1999 books!
A hellbroth born of the Earth’s atomic waste and the Universe’s own fury propels the men and women of Moonbase Alpha into a dimension where the familiar is torn away and the unimaginable awaits. Newly-assigned Commander John Koenig must lead the orphaned colony as they seek to adapt and survive with little hope of ever finding a new home.
Originally published in 1977, then reprinted by Fanderson in 2002, Powys Media is adding E.C. Tubb’s re-imagining of the cataclysmic event of September 13, 1999 and its consequences to their extensive Space:1999 range of books.
Here, the Moon and its inhabitants not only leave Earth’s orbit, but time and space are shifted towards the fantastic. In the new dimension where they find themselves, a single flinch can cost a man his life, lunar caverns hold a secret as mysterious as the pyramids of ancient Egypt, and the Alphans must face the reality that the greatest threat to their continued existence may come from within.
And looming above, a great black void pulls them and a new generation of Alphans into the maw of what may be their very destruction.
Powys Media’s Earthfall can be ordered here.