All of his shows from Supercar onwards would be made on 35mm film, and featured American voice artists to help make the product as desirable as possible to US buyers.īut Gerry had spent much of the Sixties wanting to get out of the puppet rut he found himself in. In the early days of ITV, when most shows were being made on scratchy, 405-line blur-o-vision videotape, was canny enough to know the commercial benefits of celluloid.
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It was a show that could have been one of the TV greats, had he kept his nerve and not tried to be, in his own words, “Mr Nice Guy”.Īlong with his wife and creative comrade, Sylvia, Gerry had always lusted after the American TV market.
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But this would be the first show he didn’t have total creative control over, with a whip-cracking New York office micro-managing the series from across the pond. With a record-breaking budget (£3.5 million for the first series) and two major-league stars, in many ways this was Gerry Anderson’s greatest dream realised.
It seems strange, because Space: 1999was, at the time, the most expensive British TV series ever produced. It was the puppet (or ‘Supermarionation’) shows – Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the rest – that predictably dominated the column inches, with not much mention of his three live-action series: UFO, Space: 1999and Space Precinct. This was the catastrophe that, in 1975, kicked off Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Space: 1999, a series that barely got a mention in the obituaries of Gerry Anderson when he died on Boxing Day 2012. What didn’t happen was that the Moon was ripped from Earth’s orbit, hurtling the 311 men and women of Moonbase Alpha deep into space, unable to return home. Only one of the three really constitutes news (unless you’re a hardcore Oasis fan). Stay In TouchEmail Podcast AT GerryAnderson.On 13 September 1999, the following things took place: a terrorist bomb was set off in Moscow, Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit gave birth to a baby boy, and Benjamin Bloom, the American educational theorist, died. Tweet about it! Use the hashtag / / (Join the Anderson Insiders for Extra Content) Help The Show (Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts) (Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts) Never Miss An Episode (Join the Podsterons Facebook group) (Anderson Entertainment at Birmingham Comic-Con)
(Subscribe on YouTube!) Help us reach 50,000 subscribers! Links Mentioned (Destination Moonbase Alpha ) Helena Russell)Ġ1:07 Welcome to Pod 178 of the Gerry Anderson Podcast!ġ6:26 The Gerry Anderson News! See links belowĢ9:34 Destination Moonbase Alpha Virtual Convention Recapĥ4:00 Into Infinite Chris Dale: The Day After the Randomiser Bob Mathias), Nick Tate (Alan Carter), and Barbara Bain (Dr. Ed Spencer), Martin Bower (model maker), Yasuko Nagazumi (Yasko), Anton Phillips (Dr. You can find out more about the event and next year's in-person Destination Moonbase Alpha at their official website, Ĭonvention guests represented here include Suzannne Peterson (Barbara Bain stand-in), Christopher Penfold (writer and story consultant), Gianni Garko (Tony Cellini in Dragon’s Domain), Sam Dastor (Dr. Space: 1999 fans, rejoice! This episode features clips recorded during the Destination Moonbase Alpha convention held online in September! Out of all twenty-three scheduled guests, we have clips of nine to share with you courtesy of the convention organisers. About Ep 178: Destination Moonbase Alpha Episode
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