Gerry Anderson General Chat

[Bayleaf48]

This is a thread for peole to generally talk about Gerry Anderson, his shows, work etc.

 

[sarah2040]

don't like to see anyone beg so here i am! i was on holiday over in France and i saw this UFO magazine, um....not very interesting but something!

 

[Bayleaf48]

It sure is & probably was in French 2, rihgt?

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[sarah2040]

yep! someone was actually readin it too! seeing as i'm on about UFO i saw the first five minustes of an ep yesterday then i had to leave, it looked quite good so i'll guess i'll av to borrow some dvds!

 

[Bayleaf48]

Crickey!

It sounds like they have better magazines out there 4 shows of his than what we do

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[sarah2040]

they probably do, they have some really good magazines over there about general sci-fi with some good interviews in. i did try to translate them but i think what i read about one show in particular was just wishful thinking!

 

[Bayleaf48]

It's a shame that they don't do them in English aswell then

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[sarah2040]

yeah it is. come to think about it i don't think i have ever seen any magazines realted to Gerry Anderson in the UK, well apart from a kiddies Thunderbirds one. i know they had a space precinct mag which lasted for about 6 issues but i never saw that advertised.

 

[Bayleaf48]

It is a shame that we don't have many magazines 2 do with Gerry Anderson & his shows over here :crying:

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[ray gower]

In fairness all of the comic versions have tried to incorporate designs for some of the gadgets and interviews with Gerry Anderson and others of the cast and crew

 

[Bayleaf48]

True, but round where I live, there doesn't seem 2 be many magazines at all, just the 'Thunderbirds' comic

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[ray gower]

The life of 'Fan Rags' is always dependent upon the popularity of the show they track.
Stingray has never been hyped like Thunderbuckets. So I assume that the market for a comic dwindled quickly. It is the fate of all such narrow scope comic.

If the likes of TV21 were still running- How many of the Anderson series could they still be running in parallel?

 

[Bayleaf48]

A lot I suppose

Saw whilst in toem yesterday videos of 'U.F.O' & another 1 of his shows 4 sale

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[ray gower]

Okay let us rephrase this a little. If TV21 could not run Gerry Anderson shows, what could they replace them with?

 

[Bayleaf48]

Other classic shows, I suppose that aren't Gerry Anderson e.g 'Star Trek'

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[sarah2040]

um...whats TV21?

 

[ray gower]

Sorry Sarah.

TV21 was a British comic from the 60/70's that drew heavily from the Gerry Anderson stable, but also had strips from all the television shows at the time.

There is another thread on the board here http://www.ascifi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14602 if you want to go in more depth

 

[Bayleaf48]

I wonder why they stopped doing it when they did?

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[ray gower]

They merged and went bust

 

[Bayleaf48]

That is a shame as in a book on 'Thunmderbirds' that I've got, they show some of the covers from there & they look very good indeed

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