The 2015 edition of SFX maestro Steve Cage’s best-selling crime thriller, Now The Killing Starts, includes a 25-page interview with the author about how he started his career in  SFX on Terrahawks. “Part 1: Working for Gerry Anderson” includes digitally-restored, never-before-seen SFX photos from Terrahawks. Part 2 of the interview carries on in Cage’s To […]

Gerry Anderson’s official biographer Marcus Hearn has released a sumptuous new Thunderbirds book to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. Thunderbirds: The Vault is a beautifully packaged hardback bursting with design sketches, production memos and specially commissioned photographs of original costumes, studio artefacts and vintage merchandise. Compiled with the help of Fanderson’s own FAB […]

FAB 81 is on its way to all Fanderson club members!  As always, we have all the latest news from the Andrson universe. We profile the opening 13 episodes of ITV’s smash hit new series Thunderbirds Are Go, and chat to the voice artists about their involvement. We also have news of Vivid Imagination’s return […]

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thunderbirds, Octopus Publishing has published three special gift books in which Parker, Brains and Lady Penelope speak about their favourite topics! In Parker’s Cars, Parker gathers together a collection of facts and figures of the greatest motors from the past 50 years, with one car for every year since […]

As Fanderson’s first full-weekend convention in five years draws closer, we’d love to know what you would like to see screened during the event. We have received a few requests for a confirmed programme of events, but we know from past experience that attendees like to be surprised! Things may change right up to and […]

According to the ITV GE Kids July Newsletter, over 1.3m unique kids in the UK have so far watched Thunderbirds Are Go on ITV and CITV. More boys 6-11 have watched Thunderbirds Are Go than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars and Power Rangers for the same age group. In Australia and New Zealand, it […]

Specially recorded versions of 3 Captain Scarlet episodes Special narration from Captain Blue Around fifteen years ago Fanderson released two special mini albums containing four Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons episodes that had previously never been released. What made them unique was they had been given the ‘mini album treatment’, and contained specially recorded narration […]

An obituary covering the work of  AP Films and Century 21 puppeteer Judith Shutt will appear in the next issue of Fanderson’s FAB magazine, to be be released at the end of July. Judith passed away at the age of 74 in May. From the early days of AP Films at Islet Park, through the move to Ipswich […]

Fans have been delighted by news of a new Kickstarter campaign to raise £75,000 for a brand new episode classic Thunderbirds. Led by director Stephen La Riviere, Thunderbirds 1965 will see the creation of up to three new episodes based on the audio-only ‘mini albums’ released in the 1960s. The Thunderbirds 1965 project will launch on crowdfunding […]

Fanderson has teamed up with Jumbo Games to offer fans the chance to win one  of five de luxe Thunderbirds jigsaw sets. Released to mark the 50th anniversary of the original Thunderbirds series, this beautiful Collector’s Box Set contains three 500-piece jigsaws depicting craft, characters and famous scenes from the series. Measuring roughly 49cm x […]