Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons

Great offers with new merchandise!

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We’ve got great offers with our two new merchandise items, available to pre-order today (stock expected 13th October)!

Buy the new Captain Scarlet Vs The Mysterons double-CD in the same transaction as Super Space Theater book and art prints, apply coupon code ScarletSST at checkout before paying, and get 30% off the book.

Buy Doppelgänger picture cards in the same transaction as both of our Space:1999 Year Two and The Future Is Fantastic! picture cards sets, apply coupon code DoppCARDS at checkout before paying, and get 30% off the the latter two sets.

Buy Doppelgänger picture cards in the same transaction as our Doppelgänger soundtrack album, apply coupon code DoppCD at checkout before paying, and get 10% off the soundtrack.

All offers close on 31st October 2025.

OFFER TERMS AND CONDITIONS (in addition to our standing Ts&Cs)

  • This offer is for Fanderson members only.
  • Members must buy both all items detailed in the same transaction.
  • Apply the coupon code(s) before you pay to get the discount. You can use more than one code in the same transaction
  • Members must apply the coupon code themselves to get the discount. It cannot be applied after you have paid, and we cannot apply it retroactively.
  • This is an online-only offer. It cannot be redeemed via the post.
  • Offer ends 31st October 2025

A Celebration of Sci-fi Toys and Collectibles at Museum Of Brands

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Childhood memories return in major exhibition of Thunderbirds and Space:1999 collectables

The Museum of Brands is proud to announce the opening of “Thunderbirds & Space:1999 – a Celebration of Sci-fi Toys and Collectibles“. This special exhibition marking the anniversaries of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s seminal shows Thunderbirds and Space:1999. The displays celebrate the enduring legacy of the Andersons’ iconic television shows through the toys, games, comics and memorabilia that captured the imagination of generations. The exhibition is co-curated by acclaimed designer, Thunderbirds superfan and Fanderson member Malcolm Garrett MBE, and the Museum of Brands.

“These weren’t just toys,” explains exhibition co-curator Alice Kain “For children of the 60s and 70s, these objects were the connectors to the Andersons’ futuristic worlds. Each figure, board game and annual represents hours of imaginative play where ordinary bedrooms could be transformed into International Rescue headquarters or Moonbase Alpha.”

The exhibition features over 400 carefully preserved items, many on public display for the first time. Objects have been loaned from the Robert Opie collection and several private collectors who have treasured these pieces for decades. The exhibition showcases an unprecedented display of Anderson collectables from major TV shows including Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons, Supercar, Fireball XL5, UFO and Space:1999.

Highlights include die-cast Dinky Toys vehicles (still with their packaging), rare promotional items from confectionery tie-ins, original sets of cherished annuals and comics, vintage jigsaws and board games that brought the shows into family homes.

Malcolm Garrett, curator of The Malcolm Garrett Collection, said: “My earliest memory of Gerry Anderson’s remarkable TV shows is watching Supercar when I was just five or six years old. My first toy was a red plastic Supercar with clear roof and yellow pullout wings, which I played with endlessly. I was an avid follower of all things Anderson from then on, subscribing to TV21 comic when it was launched in 1965, just ahead of Thunderbirds first broadcast, and demanding my parents bought all the Dinky toys for me. It was perhaps inevitable that much later I began to collect all those toys, annuals and books that I had either owned as a child, or wished I had. To be able to loan them now to this very special exhibition is something I couldn’t have dreamed of.”

The Museum Of Brands is at 111 – 117 Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, London W11 1QT.

Updated: SIG – Scalextric is green!

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UPDATE 1/7/25 – Pre-order your SPV and SPC now!

Will Spectrum agents beat Parker around your race track?

The popularity of last year’s FAB 1 model has encouraged Scalextric to expand their range with two new slot-racing cars from Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons – the SPV and SPC.

Expected this autumn (but available to pre-order now) the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (SPV) and Spectrum Patrol Car (SPC) will be exciting additions to anyone’s Scalextric slot-car hobby. We’ve yet to even see pre-production versions but, if their work on FAB 1 is anything to go by, there will loads of happy Scarlet fans later this year. Let’s hope that at least some of the cars will come out of their boxes and take a spin around a track occasionally!

FAB Book Of Free Gifts… with a free gift!

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Lucky for some – our 13th FAB Book Of… comes with its own free gift – a reproduction Captain Scarlet file from TV21!

The FAB Book Of… series has been incredibly popular since the book of Dinky toys started it way back in 2010.

Now, we’re delighted that the 13th book is being added to the series – the FAB Book Of… Free Gifts And Promotions. This new 60-page book takes a look at all the wonderful gifts that were given away in comics such as TV21, Lady Penelope and Countdown. For many of us, this will be our only chance to see some of these items – as giveaways, many weren’t designed to last for long, or were simply thrown away after a short while. This book features not just the gifts themselves but also the comics they were offered in, as well as advertising in other publications.

Our new book comes with a free gift of its own – a reproduction of the Captain Scarlet file originally given away with TV21 issue 155.

Click here to order your copy now!

Don’t forget, although Sweet Cigarette Cards Volume 2 has sold out, we still have 11 other titles in the series available. Buy any three or more in the same transaction (excluding FAB Book Of Free Gift And Promotions) and you’ll get 20% off! And we still have stock of FAB Books binders to keep your books safely in.

Bonus Captain Scarlet 7″ vinyl with Electronic Sound magazine

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Accompanying issue 124 Of Electronic Sound magazine is a 7″ vinyl disc of Barry Gray Music

Captain Scarlet’s on the cover and inside the magazine there’s a deep dive into the music of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s sci-fi TV shows, much of it the work of cult British composer Barry Gray. Gerry and Sylvia produced some of the most exciting children’s television of the 1960s and 1970s, and Barry Gray’s music, which was initially orchestral but later increasingly electronic, was crucial to the success of them all. The former RAF pilot was responsible for the sonic magic of both the Andersons’ puppet shows and their live action dramas like UFO and Space:1999.

Accompanying the magazine is a cool white vinyl EP featuring six musical excerpts from three of the Andersons’ shows:

  • side A ‘Spectrum Of Sound’ is dedicated to Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons, starting with the footsteps and gunfire of the opening credits, before sliding into the eerie The Power Of The Mysterons and ending with the memorable main theme.
  • side B has the theme tunes of both Thunderbirds and UFO, plus a dramatic incidental segment from Thunderbirds called Heading For The Sun.

See more and order your magazine and/or disc here.

 

 

Get ready Canada – your FAB Annuals will soon be on their way!

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We’re getting FAB Annual 2025 ready to mail to club members in Canada

Fanderson members in Canada will be aware that we chose not to mail their FAB Annuals in December along with everyone else, due to the effects of the postal strike there. Although the strike was resolved a while ago, we were advised to wait until the huge backlog of post had been cleared and services were back to normal. Canada Post suggested that we should steer clear of January, so we’ll start mailing again to Canada in the next few days, and catch up with FAB Annuals to those who are owed them as part of their club membership.

FAB Annual 2025 on its way in time for Christmas, for most club members

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Finally! We can confirm that FAB Annual 2025 has been mailed to Fanderson members today!

Hopefully, this will give enough time for the majority of members to find their annual under the tree this Christmas – certainly those in the UK should and maybe those in parts of Europe too. Unfortunately, due to ongoing industrial action in Canada we’ve been advised not to mail to members there, but we’ll keep your FAB Annuals safe and post them as soon as the action is over and the backlog of mail has cleared.

Together with FAB Express 108, mailed recently, our winter mailing is complete and we can get on with welcoming all the new club members who have been waiting patiently for their membership packages!

[UK] “Can you hear us, Earthmen?” Captain Scarlet on Talking Pictures TV

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Talking Pictures TV is delighted to announce that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons is coming to the channel from Saturday 1st June at 15:00, taking Stingray‘s slot (that series’ current run ends with Tune Of Danger on 25th May). You can view TPTV’s trailer here.

The acclaimed British children’s science fiction television was filmed in 1967, using a combination of electronic marionette puppetry and scale model special effects. The adventure series features the officers of Spectrum, protecting Earth from the weekly threats from the Mysterons.

Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons follows the Talking Pictures TV’s acquisitions of Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds 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.

Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction: London 2024

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Propstore has released details of lots in their upcoming Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction that will be of interest to fans of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s productions.

In the Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction: London 2024, running 14th to 17 November you’ll find:

  • Lot 407: “Slim” puppet, from Thunderbirds Martian Invasion (starting bid £10,000, estimate £20,000 – £40,000)
  • Lot 408: Ambulance model miniature from Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons Winged Assassin (starting bid £10,000, estimate £20,000 – £40,000)
  • Lot 967: Three Derek Meddings drawings from Thunderbird 6 and Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons (starting bid £200, estimate £400 – £800)
  • Lot 1605: Light-up Luxorian Ice Power Source prop from Space Precinct The Power (starting bid £1,000, estimate £2,000 – £4,000)
  • Lot 1773: Thunderbird 4 model built by Martin Bower (starting bid £1,500, estimate £3,000 – £6,000)
  • Lot 1774: Thunderbird 1 model built by Martin Bower (starting bid £1,000, estimate £2,000 – £4,000)
  • Lot 1775: Sylvia Anderson’s Thunderbirds Are Go premiere dress (starting bid £1,000, estimate £2,000 – £4,000)
  • Lot 1799: S.H.A.D.O. Mobile 3 large-scale replica model built by Sean Robinson and Mike Trim (starting bid £1,500, final estimate £3,000 – £6,000)

See the full auction details and catalogue and register for online bidding here.