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45 FAB Years of charity fundraising

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Have you won in our 45 FAB Years charity fundraising event?

As part of our 45th birthday celebrations, throughout August we’ve been auctioning and raffling a selection of items, many from the club’s rich history, to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK.

Congratulations to everyone listed below. Your items will be posted shortly!

Thanks to Najmie Allette, Candace Brereton, Stephen Brown, Dave Clarke, Maggy Harris, Matt Jones, Anthony Proctor, Lynn Simpson and Nick Williams for their generous donations. If you have something that you’d like to donate for our future fundraising efforts, please get in touch at fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com with details.

In the meantime, you can add to the total raised so far by buying one of our charity donation items.

Finally, as Fanderson members choose our charity of the year, if you’d like to suggest a charity for us to support next year, write to us at fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com. Tell us about them and why you think we should support them.

20th August – AUCTION: Harlington-Straker hi-vis vest Paolo Malaguti

19th August – RAFFLE: Tracy Island News FAB2 special Keith Campbell

18th August – AUCTION: HD21 convention pack Brian Heywood

17th August – AUCTION: Space:1999 stationery Cathy Bone

16th August – AUCTION: SiG 11 Lyndsay Jones

15th August – RAFFLE: Supercelebration tote bag Lyndsay Jones

14th August – AUCTION: Edinburgh Exhibition brochure David Gardner

13th August – AUCTION: SiG 12 Lyndsay Jones

12th August – RAFFLE: Terrahawks soundtrack CD William Squires

11th August – AUCTION: Century 21 Script Book Mark Wrighton

10th August – AUCTION: SiG 13 Lyndsay Jones

9th August – AUCTION: Stingray stationery Lynda Pinfold

8th August – AUCTION: Thunderbirds and International Rescue book Keith Campbell

7th August – AUCTION: SiG 14 unsold

6th August – RAFFLE: Captain Scarlet art prints (un-numbered) Lynda Pinfold

5th August – AUCTION: UFO stationery unsold

4th August – AUCTION: SiG 15 Nigel Williams

3rd August – RAFFLE: Ghost Stands Budgie Supercar Brian Heywood

2nd August – AUCTION: Parker Mug William Dean

1st August – RAFFLE: Imprint Supercar BD boxset Brian Heywood

 

[UPDATED] FAB Book Of Activity Books volume 1

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UPDATE 29/8/26: A small number of the first books to be dispatched were mailed without the free specification guide, in error. The guide has been posted separately.

Our latest FAB Book Of…, available to pre-order on our 45th birthday!

45 years ago today Fanderson was formed by Gerry Anderson, ITC and representatives of various fans groups. As well as our 45 FAB Years special offers and charity fundraising (which are both running the entire month of August), today we’re launching the latest in our FAB Book Of… series.

This first volume of Fanderson’s guide book to Anderson activity books details the different ways we were encouraged to paint, colour in, dot-to-dot, dress up, complete puzzles, affix stickers and more to get our off-screen fix of Twizzle, Four Feather Falls, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, UFO, Space:1999, Terrahawks and Space Precinct. As there was just too much to fit into a single book, work is already underway on a follow-up volume to complete the story!

You can pre-order your copy now, and every order including the new book before 1st October will also be sent a free reproduction specification guide.

[UK] FAB road safety film on The Footage Detectives

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FAB road safety film on The Footage Detectives! 

As well as “…a trove of vintage cinema ads preserved by the projectionist at Manchester’s old Odeon, a reel of classic racing cars in Le Mans” and all the regular features, the 12th July 2026 edition of Talking Pictures TV’s The Footage Detectives promises “a FAB road safety reel from the Thunderbirds“.

TPTV is available, free to view, on Freeview/Youview 82, Freesat 306, Freely 36, Sky 324 or Virgin 445.

NEW and available in the Shop: Thunderbirds In Outer Space soundtrack

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Super Space Theater soundtrack available now to pre-order!

The fifth title in Fanderson’s exclusive series of soundtracks to the Super Space Theater compilation movies is now available to pre-order. Thunderbirds In Outer Space combines the episodes Sun Probe and Ricochet, with additional music from Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds and UFO.

As an introductory offer, buy Thunderbirds In Outer Space with either our Thunderbirds Close Up book and/or Super Space Theater book and cover art prints and get 50% off the books. Just put the items in your basket and apply the coupon code AllTheWayWithKLA before you pay.

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

  • This offer is for Fanderson members only.
  • Members must buy the soundtrack and either/both books 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 March 2026

Stingray Blu-ray Disc boxset from Via Vision

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Via Vision’s BD boxset includes new book

Hot on the heels of their impending Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons release, Via Vision’s new Stingray boxset adds several new commentaries to those previously on Network’s superb 2022 release, a 150-page hardcover book, and the Super Space Theatre movies The Incredible Voyage Of Stingray and Invaders From The Deep – all in one of their legendary hard boxes!

Due for release on 26th November, see full details and order here.

[UK] Fireball XL5 returns to Talking Pictures TV

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Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s 1962 series Fireball XL5 is returning to broadcast in the UK on Talking Pictures TV!

Talking Pictures TV will start another run of the black and white classic with Planet 46 on Saturday 23rd November at 14:25. See their full schedule for coming weeks here.

Talking Pictures TV is available in the UK on Freeview/Youview 82, Freesat 306, Sky channel 328 and Virgin 445, with a streaming service at www.tptvencore.co.uk

[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!

FAB 98: Winging its way to you!

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We’re delighted to report that FAB 98 is now winging its way to hundreds of Fanderson members around the world. Hopefully, for many it should arrive just in time for the club’s 40th anniversary – 20th August 2021.

In this issue:

  • Ian Fryer looks at the birth of ITV, and how Noddy led to The Adventures Of Twizzle (via The Woodentops)
  • club members give their views on UFO Kill Straker! in our regular Timelash column
  • Chris Drake looks back at Stingray The Cool Caveman
  • we return for a fourth visit to the UFO comic strips in Countdown and TV Action
  • Alistair McGown explains how FOMO (fear of missing out) isn’t a new phenomenon – he experienced it with Space:1999
  • Andrew Clements’ account of adapting the 60s Thunderbirds novel for a new audience
  • we celebrate 60 years of the first Supermarionation series – Supercar – including an exclusive cutaway of Black Rock Base by Graham Bleathman
  • the fourth part of our exclusive Thunderbirds Are Go photo-strip by Jonathan Baxter
  • enter our competition to win a UFO Visual Archives book
  • plus FAB news, FAB Mail and more

With this FAB we’ve mailed a second set of our 40 FAB Years picture cards. Stick with us and by the end of the year you should have a full set (and an album to put them all in)!

FAB 98 also sees the first deliveries of our 2021 membership gift. For this special year we wanted to revisit two of our most popular and oft-requested gifts – the 7″ Barry Gray EPs given to members in 1986 and 1988. We’ve given them a bit of a brush-up and they’re both on our exclusive new CD! We can only give this CD away as part of our membership package, so if you get a renewal notice with FAB 98 or 99, make sure you renew so that you don’t miss out!

If you missed out on last year’s membership gift (or just want a second copy), the fantastic Century 21 Complete Puppet Catalogue is now available in the Shop.

Note that we made a mistake with the competition closing date and ‘renew by’ date – they should both read 30th September 2021. Sorry!

Annoyingly, as we completed the mailing we also noticed the box of this year’s anniversary enamel club badges – one of each should have gone in the packages! We’ll keep them safe and mail them with FAB 99.

If you were late renewing your membership, and so haven’t been included in the FAB 98 mailing, we haven’t forgotten you! Your membership will re-start with FAB 99.

UPDATE 26th August 2021

Although FAB 98 was mailed last week, it seems that quite a few members still haven’t received their packages. There is a distribution problem in the UK caused by a shortage of HGV drivers, coupled with people in the logistics industry isolating due to covid. In some areas post only being delivered every third day. 

Overseas packages seem to be relatively unaffected. 

Thank you for your patience, and we hope all UK packages will be delivered by the end of the week.

If you’re ever worried something we’ve sent might have gone missing in the post, please check our Shipping And Returns page before contacting us.

Anyone who missed FAB 97 can now buy it as a back issue, and last year’s membership item – Century 21 Complete Puppet Catalogue – is also now available to buy in the Shop.

How to get FAB magazine? Join Fanderson!

FAB magazine is available exclusively to Fanderson club members – we publish three times a year, and we do our very best to make each issue a joy to read for every fan – regardless of your favourite series!