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Pod 164: Five Star Five - John Lovell and the Zargon Threat

Pod 164: Five Star Five – John Lovell and the Zargon Threat

The peaceful planet of Kestra is threatened by the warlike Zargon people. A base has been established on an impenetrable asteroid, but the beautiful Colonel Zana has a plan to prevent invasion without launching a full-scale war. Mercenary John Lovell and his lovable wise guy chimp co-pilot must assemble a crack team to launch a secret assault on the Zargons, but their plan goes awry when the…

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Unfilmed scripts & failed pilots - the lost worlds of Gerry Anderson!

Between 1957’s The Adventures of Twizzle and 2005’s New Captain Scarlet Gerry Anderson produced 18 television shows, all of which still enjoy varying degrees of popularity to this day. Along the way however he also co-wrote several unproduced feature film scripts, devised television concepts that would go unrealised, and worked on various one-off television projects; some of which made to screen,…

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INTERVIEW: author Richard James on Five Star Five - The Doomsday Device

The Doomsday Device, the second Five Star Five novel, is now available to pre-order from the Official Gerry Anderson Store! Picking where the previous installment (John Lovell and the Zargon Threat) left off, the novel continues to explore the universe and characters first created in the late 1970s by Gerry Anderson and Tony Barwick for a feature film script that ultimately was never made – until…

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This week in Gerry Anderson news! (February 4th 2023)

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Gerry Anderson news roundup! This week blasted off as usual with the latest episode of the Gerry Anderson Podcast, featuring a free Space Precinct audio adventure written and read by Richard James! If you missed this week’s episode you can catch it (and all other previous episodes) either through our website or via your podcast platform of choice! Also…

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Five Star Five is now available to download from Big Finish!

Five Star Five is now available to download from Big Finish!

The Gerry Anderson movie that never was finally comes to life this summer, as Five Star Five is now available from Anderson Entertainment. Five Star Five: John Lovell and the Zargon Threat is now available as a digital download at £16.99, exclusively from the Big Finish website. Adapted by Anderson stalwart Richard James (Space Precinct, Terrahawks) from an unmade 1978 film script, and read by…

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Anderson Entertainment trails "Stingray: Operation Icecap" audio book ahead of August release

Anderson Entertainment trails “Stingray: Operation Icecap” audio book ahead of August release

Anderson Entertainment has released a trailer for their latest audiobook, Stingray: Operation Icecap by John Theydon, presented as a brand new full-cast audiobook, available on an official and exclusive four-CD set, featuring a specially assembled brand-new cast. Due for release as a hardback book and audio book, the story is based on one of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s earliest Supermarionation…

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Stingray audio drama Operation Icecap now available to pre-order!

Stingray audio drama Operation Icecap now available to pre-order!

Anderson Entertainment are releasing two new audiobooks which will be distributed digitally by Big Finish. The first story, due at the end of July 2021, is Five Star Five: John Lovell and the Zargon Threat, adapted by Richard James from an unmade 1978 film script. Read by Robbie Stevens (New Captain Scarlet, Bernice Summerfield), this epic audiobook adventure takes place on the planet Kestra,…

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Gerry Anderson's Five Star Five | Audiobook Sample

Gerry Anderson’s Five Star Five | Audiobook Sample

Five Star Five was a Gerry Anderson feature film project that never made it into production in the 1970s, but an upcoming new novelisation by Richard James will soon be breathing new life into  his planned answer to Star Wars! Please enjoy this exciting five minute excerpt from the novelisation’s audiobook, read by Robbie Stevens – and don’t forget to pre-order both from our online store! Five…

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