CaptainThunderWho and Century 22 Productions would like to thank the sources to provide information and resources for this book. These are also wonderful forms of media (not just sources) to check out if you have not already had a chance to read up on them too! If I have missed out on any sources, then I must apologize and will do what I can to rectify them.
The Complete Book Of Thunderbirds 2086 (2022) - CaptainThunderWho Century 22 Productions
Bring The Magic Home!: The Story Of ITC's Carlton Video Home Entertainment (2021) - CaptainThunderWho Century 22 Productions
UFO: The Vault (2020) - CaptainThunderWho Century 22 Productions
The Secret Service: The Vault (2019) - CaptainThunderWho Century 22 Productions
Fireball XL5, http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-xl5.html
The Complete Book of Thunderbirds (2000) - Chris Bentley
The Worlds of Gerry Anderson (2016) - Ian Fryer
The Complete Book of Thunderbirds (2000) - Chris Bentley
The Complete Book of Captain Scarlet (2001) - Chris Bentley
Thunderbirds: The Vault (2015) - Marcus Hearn
Captain Scarlet: The Vault (2017) - Chris Bentley
Joe 90 Viewing Notes (2019) - Andrew Pixley
Thunderbirds Are Go!, www.thunderbirds.com
Captain Scarlet, www.spectrum-headquaters.com
New Captain Scarlet, http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/skybase_central/index.htm
Space: 1999, catacombs.space1999.net
UFO, http://ufoseries.com/index.html
Joe 90, www.bigrat.co.uk
Supercar, http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/supercar.html
Fanderson, fanderson.org.uk
The Official Gerry Anderson website, www.gerryanderson.co.uk
Andersonic, http://andersonic.co.uk/
Wikipedia + wiki + Imdb sites too - even if they're not the most reliable sources
Some other F.A.B works from other honourable and epic and great ITC program-related fan
(If there are any further fans I have missed out on, please enter them in the comment sections)
THE FIREFIGHTERS;
Written by Alan Fennell
Directed by John Kelly
Original UK Airdate: 16th June 1963 (ATV London and Ulster)
Additional Voice Cast:
Space Station 9 David Graham
Commander Zero's dialogue states that the WSP flagship has a fleet of over 30 Fireball crafts. The crashing aircraft at the start of the episode was the model of the modified airliner from Space City Special. The episode was intended to be the final story of the series, filmed as the last episode and is defiantly a cracking good one. The super fast pacing of this episode directs us immediately and quickly into the episode right from the end of the titles. The effects of the asteroids exploding and burning were terrific visuals, and we are saddened to see Venus upset when her house was destroyed. The final high stakes of the episode, reusing music from the first episode of the series (one of the best tracks from the show!), is when the Skyball is positioned and ready to blow. Steve hurriedly makes back to the XL5 before all is saved once again. We get one last final hurrah when the Commander humorously plays with his new radio communications equipment. This is the last scene of Fireball XL5 before the theme music plays "Fireball" one last time. I'm always sad when I reach the end of a series' run, and at the end of it I go "Oh, that's it then :( it's been fun whilst watching". An absolutely fantastic series nonetheless, reaching groundbreaking new records in television-filmmaking, and well, need I go on? All has been revealed in this latest research book, as has my opinion of each episode and my feelings towards this gem of a series. From the key developments made from Fireball XL5, the AP Films team would go onto make more series that would take their name to even greater heights...
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Fireball XL5: The Vault
Non-FictionFireball XL5 was the second of legendary Gerry Anderson's to go out under the iconic banner "Filmed In SUPERMARIONATION". Set between the years 2062 and 2063, the series told the heroic adventures of Colonel Steve Zodiac and the crew of Fireball XL5...
